Jennifer

My sentiments exactly.

(ROFL)

Clinically we have used levamisole baths of 2mg/L (2ppm) for 24 hours and followed it by a 100% water change. Then redosed in 2 weeks. The worms will become paralysed within 6 hours and believe it or not will eventually die (even if they remain visible for several days afterward). Using a higher dosage is safe (the LD 50 is around 250mg/L for most animals) but it is not more effective with camallanus worms.

Anybody interested in going to this talk with me? I thought it might be interesting University of Canterbury, School of Biological Sciences – Research Seminar "The tail of a death adder and a spider" This talk will centre on the mechanisms behind the evolution of visual signalling systems. Using a spider example, I will discuss how stimulus recognition can be based on perception of its motion characteristics. I will also discuss how the 'caudal lure' signal of death adders works to lure Jacky dragon lizards to their death, showing how movement-based stimulus recognition can be exploited by deceptive signallers. Speaker: Dr. Ximena Nelson from School of Biological Sciences and Centre for the Integrative Study of Animal Behaviour, Macquarie University, Sydney Venue: Biological Sciences Seminar Room: Room 456 von Haast Building Date: Thursday February 25th 2010 Time: 12.00 – 12.45 pm All Welcome

Sting

Very interesting!! BTW, those are some outstanding photos.

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/fa/fa09100.pdf Page 8

Yeah, that's waht I thought too...

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You're kidding! I didn't know that....can daphnia be the intermediate hosts?

Bicarbonate creates temporary hardness by reacting with calcium cations (if they are present) to form solid calcium carbonate but the reaction doesn't work as well in the presence of high CO2.

Now now boys, no fighting. I am sure you each have your own special skills. Take LA's nice piece of carved wood for example.... Plenty of tank to go around...must be nearing 2000L by now. :roll:

Aw come on, you need a break from the 300 women you work with every day. Some manly influence might do you a world of good. :lol:

All right boys, looks like I will have to have a tank set up party with all invited... :roll: Bring your tools. I can hear my credit card dancing with anticipation.

A good story, I hope.

Yes! That's the lighting setup I was telling you about! 8) Trouble is, I would need to knock out a wall to but the tank and all its guff behind it which would be a much bigger project.

Goodness me that was long...and a bit discouraging... corals seem pretty challenging. I am fairly convinced that I need a holding tank but I am getting more and more stumped with the pumping. Back to the drawing board.

Too cool for words I guess I am planning on a trip to the States this year to visit the family (and Monterey Bay Aquarium) so I might have to see if Steve would mind a visit. Now that would be very worthwhile.

Flourish comprehensive is $35/250mls from Animates although you can get it for $40/500mls if you look around. HTH

Yes, actually I have been drooling over Steve's tank for ages but have had no luck in trying to convince Nav to come build one like it for me... :roll:

omg, I cannot believe you just went there...although actually I am not all that surprised. Anyway....yes, I would really like a large reef that takes up the entire wall, but I can just see the rotting soup that would transpire as I got my inexperienced hands on it.... plus I can just see how comical it would be if I got stuck in there trying to scrub away algae.... smaller is better now...but not so small that it would be unstable. Perhaps just the bedroom wall instead of the lounge wall.

Or maybe I can use that tank as the sump and get a bigger tank for the livestock...of course then I would need new lights, and a new heater, and a new skimmer and....

I thought so too, but figured I could always upgrade. Thing is, I don't want to feel that I need to upgrade everything immediately! Too many 'ifs' for me and I don't think I am ready yet so I am going to pass on that one.