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Howdy. I need two--optionally three--pieces of acrylic: o One 8" x 9 3/4" o One 5" x 8 3/4" o One 5" x 9 3/4" (optional)

I use an 8W under-counter light from Walmart that's 12" long. My chaeto is dense as a star and getting bigger. I run it on a reverse photocycle. It lives in an area roughly 4"x4"x12".

I got certified in July. The realistic estimate, Mike, shocked me. In fact, I was totally pissed off when I took Scubaland's PADI certification for "$150". Well, you had to have your own snorkel, fins, and mask--another $140. You had to get the class materials--$70. You had to pay the open dive park fee--for us, Aquarina Springs $60 ($30/day). You had the option to rent a wetsuit, and at the springs you needed it--$36 ($18/day). The "Hey, I'll get certified just to be certified for $150" ended up costing me over $450!! I felt totally bait-and-switched and would have bailed if a friend hadn't taken a week's vacation and traveled to Austin so we could get certified together. You'll probably want your own wetsuit, BCD, regulator, and dive computer--anywhere from $700 to $2500 depending on quality.

I'll read on more detail later, but at first blush it looks like you don't have your heater hooked up to battery backup. Seems crazy to me, but then again my house is 65F at night.

Home. I am also able to telnet to it from work. For giggles (to rule out your work blocking outbound TCP dport 25): $ telnet smtp.google.com 25

I have road runner and can telnet to their smtp server (port 25) without issue. In fact, I have my own server that uses them as a relay host.

Here's my submission. Thanks for the encouragement. It weighs in at 5.49MB 189K. For future reference, is there a size preference?

He's still alive, but I don't know for how much longer. He has remained in the same position since the three went into the tank. After each 24h, I pull him out to smell if he is dead. He's not; I put him facing the glass and will see him move slightly from time to time. The other two have been voraciously scouring over my tank. I dropped a feeding pellet next to the hermit crab and nothing. About 15 minutes later, the mitrax had made his way to where the pellet was and gobbled it up. I have no idea if the crab is getting any sustenance at all.

Gallery of Pets also sells premixed saltwater for $1.00/gallon IIRC.

Thanks! It's a Canon XTI with a EF f/2.8 100mm macro lens. Depth of field is a bit tricky on macro lenses. Even at f/11, I focused on his near eye and his back eye and leg blurred out. Maybe I'll submit it to the photo contest. He's a cute-yet-freaky looking little bugger.

Howdy. I acclimated my electric blue hermit crabs as per the instructions on Vivid's site. After I put them in the tank, two went to town immediately feeding. One, however, walked along the bottom and the picked a spot next to a rock, feeded a little but not to vigorously and then crawled back into his shell and hasn't moved. Is this normal? I don't think there is anything I can do that wouldn't cause more stress to the little guy. Here's a picture of one of the active ones:

In my second chamber of my Solana, from top to bottom (water flows top to bottom) I have: Polyfil Top Drip Plate Chaeto Live Rubble (1 pieace) Chemi-pure Elite Bottom Drip Plate The chemi-pure elite prevents bits of broken chaeto from getting into the return pump area.

Where? I'm glad you made it through.

I'm pretty sure it is the Orange. Ball. Anemone. (Better?) I read a bit on Wet Web Media about it, and it had pictures that were pretty dang close. My observations of it matches the write-up, too--nocturnal, tentacles extended at night, fluoresces at club base, and folds in when it captures a tasty morsel. I need to start feeding these three every other night, apparently. The rock it is on will have a bit of competition--it's 1"x3" and has three orange-ball-anemones and several single-stalked polypy things.

What about pseudocorynactis anemone (or pseudocorynactis corallimorph)?

These were taken at night with the moonlights. It is about the size of a pencil eraser. The rock has three other smaller ones on it. They all fluoresce underneath the moonlights and actinics, which is observable in both pictures. As an aside, in the more natural lighting exposed picture, to the upper left, are those eggs of some sort? With the flash: With a long exposure:

Their FAQ states salt creep is dramatically reduced since you have constant flow of water. They explain salt creep and why it happens and why their system has less salt creep. I thought about the leveling bit, too. That and you would have to make sure that the flow was not too fast so that the water clings to the outside of the glass and doesn't splash about. Sounds finicky to say the least.

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Ahh, yeah. Not what I'm looking for. I'm going for a more natural look with some macro in the display area. But I don't want anything that spreads like wildfire. Flame algae is on the list. I need some good green.

Howdy. I was thinking about adding some mangroves to my DT. I know they grow pretty tall, so I would have to prune them to keep them well below the water level. Do they prune well? Or will it end up looking like I have sticks sticking out of my sand bed?

How could I refuse a hosting by my favorite t-sipping reefer?

Setup a Port A. "natural" tank then?

Doh. I didn't even consider searching. Thanks!

You would be hard-pressed to find someone that does not agree that the health care system needs some lovin'. However, I don't think government is the way to solve the problem. As for quoting Canadians or Europeans, many have second-hand anecdotal evidence that their system is either a) TEH AWESOME, or b) TEH SUCK. I have a contractor-turned-friend that's from Canada, and he won't be treated in Canada because of how abysmal it is. The Canadian healthcare system is falling down, and for specialist medical care, they contract with the United States. Wow. Fix medical malpractice lawsuits and doctor's insurance. Allow me to get insurance from another state. Yes, under federal law you cannot shop beyond your own state. Wow again. Competition drives prices down. Medicare and Social Security are bankrupt (government "humanitarian" policies). Do you believe the same will not happen with government health care? A quote from Thomas Jefferson that just seems very apropos: We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds...[we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers... And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for [another]... till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery... And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.

Yeah, you can mitigate that by lowering a bucket off a pier and getting water that way. A boat off-shore is even better.