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you assume its not needed, any hard facts? you sell it!!! salifert boron! aren't you the importer for it? if it is no use then why did you bring it in? $? sure give it try if you use ASW if you use NSW it would be no use.

no

what's white spot again? plus you would be adding a constant supply of new white spot to your qt tank unless you use copper, unless your tank is WS free.

same shape but total different in colour, like i said the ones i saw were white as an egg (and size wise too) with black mantle eating sacrophyton leathers. we only ever found them within large clusters of those leathers. perhaps they eat only a peticular kind of coral and will easily substitute with something else if the preferred food source isn't available (like algae for example)

depends what kind of cowrie it is. egg cowrie (white shell, hence the name with black flesh) are active leather coral eaters. they live between leather corals and munch away part of the corals. i observed it many times whilst diving in tonga. can't say much about tigers as i have never observed them in the wild. but they do look cool.

sure do let me know how to send them!

i do nd mine are breeding!!

just got back from a short holiday in Fiji (nananu-i-ra island). great diving, but the snorkling was absolutly awesome. large table acro's and stags in less then a meter water at low tide and very close to the beach. pastel colours in all forms (blue, purple-blue, orange, green! and purple. corals colour at the dive site's where as expected (darker full colours) at 18 to 25 meters. but the colours on all the sps on the snorkling sites were a lot different. way lighter in colour, but with nice tips. but all of them looked pale in comparision. as there is no agriculture, villages or anything else that could pollute the beach and the dive sites are only 1km away one could assume that its exactly the same water. (it gets a very strong food rich current that run past those islands, had 2 meters max visibility one morning but crystal clear in the afternoon). so the only really obvious difference would be the light. it was very strong at 1 meter (i am still peeling like crazy even with heaps of sunblock) :oops:

highly unlikely to get 1.018 unless you collect next to a stream running into the ocean. steve is spot on with his advise. i get 1.028 with my refractometer as well, but have never bothered much with thinning it down.

i am talking about an iwaki 100. :roll: and no you can't have my skimmers! that would give you 4 in total. that would put you into the record book with so many berlins.

got one!

that because you went to great lenght to buy quality breeding stock from your LFS first!

if you have halides run them during the cooler part of the day. like early in the morning and late in the evening.

thats called a ful syphon. put a valve in and it works a bit better

bigger? or smaller? heck just get a full syphon.

i have noticed the opposite when down grading. colour decreased but growth just went nuts. read in one of my books that corals can't do both (having awsome colour and grow fast) as energy is needed to either protect them from the extra UV in the form of pigmentation or it is used in growth.

only the best. hollywood has the reef dip nomaly in stock. its pretty cheap too considering how long it last's. my bottle is now well over 2 years old and still a bit in it. but then again may be i should get some of those ndi's to remove some monti! its a real pain to scrape of the monti's to stop them overgrowing and killing my acro's.

its pretty old as it was advertised in marine world over a year ago.

i am sure i showed you that bottle at my place (as i show it to everyone that comes over)

thats normally it. they will settle soon and start a new colony. i used to have heaps of them but i suspect that my CBB eats them

thats ok you are not the first who done it! well not really as it does not harm your normal stock, it may harm eggs or larvae of corals and fish but then so do other corals. the mother stock apparently harms sessile inverts in some books but i never had any probs. as the colony died out soon after the hatching started! :-?

how thick are you? did you read the start?

:roll: i can see that none of you has any clue!

looks like a hydroid medusa to me.

well if thats the case ill have some before you chuck them down the drain.