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  1. sorry man, I left town for 2 weeks after I wrote you, but my financial situation isn't quite where I thought it was, sorry about that.
  2. oo... I've been looking for a new place to live, you've got an email.
  3. the bluespotted variety are a morph only found on a few reefs in the Indian Ocean, as such they command a higher price. I can ask bruce if he's seen them on our lists, we've had them in before.
  4. looks like a real sweety, but I literally just took in a stray last month and she has made it very clear to me that she doesn't like other 4 legged critters. Maybe ask one of the local rescue groups if they could put her picture and story up on one of their websites? You'd have the best shot finding her a good home through an organization that screens adopting families before turning animals over to them, I know shadowcats does a very thurough job in that respect, but they work primarily with freshly rescued ferals, so I'm not sure they're the best people to talk to for this cat, but they may have some good advice to point you in the right direction.
  5. I think I know which store you're talking about with the purple tang... He was just put up for sale yesterday having completely recovered his dorsal. He is marked at $100, but remember your 10% discount, he's still available. for the record though, the tank isn't a hospital tank so much as a maintenance tank, we house damaged fish in it that have a chance at recovery so that they can be sold to good homes, but it's primary purpose is housing fish and corals en route to one of our maintenance clients. The blue tang in that tank is recovering from HLLE and the wounds on her face aren't contagious or dangerous to its tankmates, in fact her condition has improved substantially since we've been treating her, in another month or two she'll be back up to 100% also. I also want to point out that we can't make deals on our "repaired" fish, reason being they don't come to us any cheaper, and we have to put a lot of effort into getting them healthy again, look at that purple tang today, you'd have no idea he didn't have a dorsal fin 6 months ago.
  6. if you don't mind using glass lowes can cut you a piece to size, I think a 16"x16" cut is like 6 bucks they can do acrylic also but it's a little more expensive
  7. if you need to get it out of your place right away bring it up to the tek and we'll sell it for you, that'd be an easy sale for us.
  8. sorry, you wouldn't be the first to ask us to part out that package, it is being sold on consignment and the seller has very clearly told us they want it all sold at once. If you want a full setup, the system is a steal at 3700, halfcircle tank, cherry stand and canopy, 250W halide with PC actinics, chiller, skimmer, sump, I can't recall what models or brands any of it is off the top of my head, but it's all nice stuff I wouldn't mind owning myself if I had the space and cash.
  9. agreed, the latin name is Cryptocentrus pavoninoides if you want to do some more research
  10. no, but I know the game. the concept is a lot like poker, you're aiming to get pairs, 2 pair, three of a kind, a straight, or 4 of a kind, you roll 4 dice, and can reroll as many as you like trying to roll for one of the conditions I already mentioned
  11. I'm in... the exploration and gambing features hate me though, for every good thing I find I wind up smashing my boat up on at least 3 different reefs... and the generala game doesn't like giving me anything but paired 4's... so I don't do very well in that either *edit* LOL I just plundered Jesus I'm easily amused at 7 in the morning.
  12. which is exactly why I ended my post suggesting she go with a wrasse
  13. A lot of this post is going to sound angry, that's because I am, as I rightly should be. The cow that was slaughtered so I could have topnotch for lunch today wasn't killed as a novelty for wannabe socialites, and the domestic cattle population isn't what I'd call threatened, they're born to eat, eat to grow, grow to die, and die to be grilled and delicious, I have no delusions about that . The strips of farm raised salmon and mysis shrimp my predators ate today were purchased after being raised and killed in captivity in a sustainable manner. I don't have a bleeding heart for the hundreds of copepods my pipefish eats every day because I know they're reproducing here, not being taken from the sea. My wildcaught fish are the closest thing I have to Qua's sharks, and even then I don't feel bad because my tank at home is set up to accomodate them, not to passively amuse people with more money to burn than they have firing neurons in their brains, want to know what's wrong with their system? Ask them about cooling equipment and elecrical grounding, you'll get a spiel about how they get fresh fish from wholefoods every day. If they genuinely had a marvel of modern aquaria, they'd be talking about it to no end in gratuitous detail, rather than repeatedly droning on about captive origins and shrimp from wholefoods. That's the kind of thing people are proud of and like to talk about, Qua has something to hide, and that should set off all kinds of red flags in everybody's heads right away. You may think we sound like liberal, commie, pinko, tree hugging, vegetarians, but I've got a sneaking suspicion that you haven't thought too hard on this subject and haven't even considered the reasons why a lot of us here are upset about this whole debacle. Unless you honestly buy into his claim that the adult leopard and blacktip sharks he was were "of captive origin" which is a halfheartedly masked lie unless you happen to be living in the same happy fantasy world where 1000 dollar bottles of booze grow on magic trees where these club entrepeneurs seem to hail from, but back here on planet earth no one has bred sharks in captivity much less these species... Just for kicks google "captive bred shark", you won't find anything that has to do with sharks completing a lifecycle in an even vaugely captive environment. You're not making any points here other than making it abundantly clear that you don't know what you're talking about. Now here's the fun part, looking at the big picture. Just because neither of the species Qua have are on CITES redlists yet doesn't mean we as humans have any right or reason to help them get there, and it's a pretty well known fact that all sharks are well on their way to endangered status from commercial and sportfishing along with flat out human ignorance. Watch sharkweek next time it comes around and try listening to what the narrator is saying rather than just gawking at the gore, I know it's a hard concept to wrap your head around, but you might learn something. I know, LEARN?! From TV? SCARY! I'd even go so far as to suggest you pick up one of those archaic devices known in some circles as "books" on the subject. But first and foremost I'm a hobbiest, not a conservationist. We in the hobby of aquaculture don't need a stain like this on our collective record. There's already a million and one people trying to keep us from having our hobby because of sketchy practices like stripmining liverock and cyanide collecting, if you're too shortsighted to see where this is headed, you need a pretty serious reality check. Is this going to be the straw that breaks the camels back? Probably not, but there's some kind of adage about the best cure having to do with prevention or somesuch thing. I don't know much about adages, but I do know that if everyone stayed apathetic and this were to be accepted as a common practice then we'd be handing our opponents in PETA and other sociopathic organizations a whole truckload of ammunition on a silver platter to sling back at all of us not just the bleeding hearts. Consider Scleropages formosus, Asian arowanas, they hit the CITES redlists and now we can't even import certified farm raised microchipped specimens, and people getting busted importing them are getting 15,000 dollar fines up to 15 years in prison. Do you feel like having explain to your grandkids that you can't have wildcaught marine fish or else they'll lose their college money and you'll be sent to jail? If enough of the wrong people get their way we're not going to be too terribly far away from that. If you like your hobby, think actively for a fraction of a second and try to see why this is such a bad thing, get mad and discourage other people from following Qua's suit, unfortunately short of something that'd be construed as terrorism that's all we as citizens can do, and I'm not ready to suggest we start blowing up nightclubs. I'm done on this subject, it's bad for my blood pressure to care this much. But if apathy's your thing, keep on keeping on, this'll all be illegal soon.
  14. 4' is a little on the short end, but you definitely could keep a 12" adult blue tang in there provided it was given a good open area to swim in. In a perfect world a 6' tank would definitely be better, no questions there, but you definitely could keep a blue tang healthy in a 48"x24" tank, especially if the rockwork was set up in such a way that the entire perimeter of the tank was open like a sort of raceway where the fish could circle. By no means am I saying the setup would be ideal, or that a typically constructed 120G reef would facilitate this fish, but I'd be misleading you if I said it couldn't be done. The tang police generally mean well, but they're often people who don't consider all the factors of a setup, the most important one being aquascape, as I already suggested with a sort of raceway layout, this effectively negates tank length as a swimming space factor provided there is enough room on either end of the tank for the fish to turn around comfortably and there is enough room above the rockwork for the tang to swim up and over the reef. I'm not going to lie it'd be a tight fit, but it can be done with proper planning and accomodations made for such a large fish in your tank. That all being said I'm going to restate my first suggestion on the matter and recommend wrasses over tangs
  15. if you've got any big open swimming areas in your tank you could probably keep a blue/regal/hippo tang for life in a 120, just make sure it's getting an appropriate algae based diet and you should do fine with it. I've never actually met anyone who's had a well fed foxface or rabbitfish eat any of their corals, but in tanks where they aren't provided any meaty foods, it's common for them to go after zoos and fleshy LPS if they're starving to death, but take care of them and they'll leave your corals alone. a dwarf lion would be very cool and the only at risk fish would be the neon goby, the rest of your selections would be safe with any of the dwarf lion species. I'd definitely look into wrasses before tangs though, I'm a big fan of the reef safe "coris" in the genus Halichoeres, they are generally inexpensive, peaceful, easy to care for provided a deep sand bed, and as a rule eat bristleworms and flatworms like there's no tomorrow.
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