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Very nice. -Ben-

Thank you Ben Without you the tide pool would not be possible!

My pleasure. Glad to see it going to be put to such awesome use.

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Very nice.

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Prrrrr...what is with the gorgeous carpets popping up on this forum of late? This is putting dangerous thoughts in my head...

Your not the only one!

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Moly...

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Thanks for that link! I also posted it on MAAST. This firmly pushes me to go back to school for a phd in marine biology.

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Looking good, Lucky!

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Maybe 4 months. I let it grow out about an inch on the side glass and cut it back with a kent scraper blade. Super easy to trim. Just cut it before it gets to your overflow teeth! Lol. I learned the hard way.

I should add that I started with a piece that was nearly 6"X8", though.

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An older side profile pic of my 28g nanocube.

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That's it! It's all coming back to me now.

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One of my faves!

Also the orange Bambams.

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I've reused with no issue

Hey Chris, what was the name of that sand you had the other day? I can't for the life of me remember!

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Awaiting with baited breath!

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I've been curious as well. Did you ever find the Lil guy?

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I'm down. I think we should start with a 6 month time then allow the contest to continue after judging. It'll narrow the field and test the hardy!

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I doubt the calcium had anything to do with it. It may have been hurt during transport.

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Do you plan to add another Sol to it? It looks good but the dark corners would bother me.

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As much as I respect your wisdom and experience. The question wasn't "should I run a skimmer". I have three tanks. 2 of them are without skimmers. That is an entirely different debate. I'm simply curious as to whether the skimmate is worth using or is there too much unusable waste to worry about.

Tim, I haven't had a chance to read the links yet. I'm at work and limited on time allowed to peruse these articles. I will, however, read them extensively when I get free time at lunch.

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I may be showing the green in my gills here but, I had an idea. Filter feeders pull nutrients from the water. We use foam fractioning to pull nutrients from the water. We spend money on power foods to feed our coral. Our skimmers pull some/most of it back out.

Why can't we use skimmate to taget feeds things like clams? Specifically when we are rehabbing them and do the I'm gonna enclose you in a bottle" feeding.

I'm also not talking about just dumping our cups out into the DT. That would just be ignorant.

While most of us try to run a low nutrient system we like to keep things that would thrive on a higher nutrient system.

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You should see the new fish I bought, heard about it someplace... so I ran down to purchase it before anyone else could!

Now how to care for it?

Lmao!! Too funny.

They actually had two of the same species and they didn't know it. One had sold that night I originally posted and the other sold at apparently 11:01a when I was on the phone asking them to hold it.

It is what it is...

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That's awesome.

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Just left the dome. They've got 3 more on their next order.

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Lol! I'm not mad at anyone. Don't worry. The thing that worries me is their funky availability. Just called back to make sure they got in the exact same species and I was told that they couldn't remember the last time they had one of those. I will add that even though this purchase hadn't worked out, I'm still quite pleased by aquadome. It was a good first impression.

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I appreciate it, everyone. I'm presumably the only person on the list for this fish. When I get the call, I'll start networking if I need to.

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Well, one great thing about the Dome is that they get fish in almost every week. If you tell them what you're looking for they're great about finding it for you.

Yeah. They immediately asked if they could hold the next one that came in for me. That was pretty cool. Unfortunately I reside in San Antonio and am only up here for an extended job. He's worth the drive though.

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oh snap! a lurker took it! etannnnerrrrrttt

I was told it was a regular...

Is this a lesson to jump on instinct? I think not. I'm still rather aggravated nonetheless.

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