lduncan

Looks nice! Reminds me a little of this http://www.leonardosreef.com/formosa-forest/ Layton

So i'm guessing a lot of tanks here in ChCh haven't faired so well over the last few months?

Jet setting too much to deal with a tank right now, but been itching to set it up again :-)

Nice suharsonoi there!

SPS = small polyp stony coral (Acropora spp, Monitpora spp, Porities spp ...) Layton

With all the time i've been spending in the US, i've been wanting to visit the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta for a while. It's the worlds largest aquarium, and houses 4 whale sharks in a 22.7 Million litre exhibit. It's unbelievable. The viewing window is 2 foot thick acrylic. Definitely the best aquarium i've visited, closely followed by the California Academy of Science. Anyway, here's some pictures: http://gallery.me.com/lduncan#100029 (If you wanna checkout some other cool photos from this trip, there's some from the Red Bull Air Race in San Diego: http://gallery.me.com/lduncan#100008 and STS-125 Space Shuttle Atlantis launch from the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida here: http://gallery.me.com/lduncan#100025 ) Layton

No surprise there. It always did just seem to be an excuse to keep some govt department jobs, more than anything else.

New bubble king?

Great. Glad to see absolutely nothing's changed then.

Yeah, really busy with iPhone madness, it's been life for the last year basically! A few changes around the place basically mean it's time to spend a little more time elsewhere now. So i'm back :-) Not setting up the tank just yet though. I'm still traveling a lot, but the itch is definitely there ;-) So what did I miss? Anything change? Layton

So what did I miss?

Moving over for a few months. Gotta be in the Valley at this stage of the business.

I keep an eye on things here ;-). Things have only got busier. Ditching NZ for a bit and moving business to San Francisco / Palo Alto in a week, so things are going awesome.

I'm sure some are unforgettable ;-)

I was talking in general, not specifically in this thread. Some people value different aspects more than others, which is why those other manufactures still exist.

Compatibility issues? Such as? There are often very good reasons for limiting features on their products. They have a very different philosophy to other companies when it comes to that. They focus of user experience, rather than focussing on generating a product with a long list of features, which are implemented half arse, or people just never use. So depends what you prefer, a typical consumer elec company which focuses on including every little unused, and poorly implemented feature into a device, vs a company which thinks about what people actually use, think about how it's best accessed and used, and packages it all in a well designed product. Funny how you can see typical market responses and trends with the iPod. People now bash them for fear of having something popular ;-) Not unique enough for some people anymore.

Apple's loosing that battle, and likely always will. I hear the guy in ChCh is still offering the service to people around NZ. ;-) There are hundreds, if not thousands of iPhones running on Vodafone's network here in NZ. Used by very high profile business people right down to poor students :-) Look out for an official iPhone launch by Orcon in February. Oh, and it makes a great iPod too. You could play with coverflow all day.

The iPhone box was the closest thing I could find to sit it on. (I've got one or two of them lying around)

so close, (but on the back-burner for now)...

Nice cracker. Time for a holiday I think...

In 101 documented cases of captive lion fish envenomations (Gallagher, 2001) 92% of patients experienced local pain 60% of patients experienced edema 13% of patients experienced systematic symptoms 1% of patients experienced tissue necrosis 0% of patients experienced death So they hardly pose a substantial risk.

I know that feeling. My anemone below suffered the same fate a few months back: Looks to be the same type as Fay just got. Layton

Those fish are in NZ Destined to join the one at Butterfly Creek, who hold the appropriate permits to keep them. There are a couple of genus, with a handful of species in each, which means there are different colourations. And there are colour morphs within species, from different geographic areas. But I don't think they change colour, like say octopus do.

Nice. It's a shame getting the permits is near impossible for hobbyists. I like the purple montipora there too.

The last one looks like a platygyra of some sort. Def. not favities. But I like them!