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Hood Ornament posted:Mystery Coral #3, opened, hosted by anemone shrimp The mouth in the center says lps to me, it looks like a duncan without the long tentacles could be stressed or not grown out, does it have a stony skeleton at all? maybe a little big, but could be a single polyp from a turbinaria species but that would be pretty weird. Here is a shot of my 65g tank as of tonight. 
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Psimitry posted:That's pretty slick. LOVE the Ric's and the Alien-Eye paly's. I need to get more of those. No its a standard All Glass 65g 36" wide, the same as a 40 breeder but a lot taller. I am going to try and take some more pics to post later.
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Aug 22, 2008 05:39
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Hood Ornament posted:Yeah when it was closed up, it just looked and felt like a piece of bone, actually. yeah it almost has to be a duncan you will know as soon as it starts growing especially if the testicles get longer. They are really easy to keep and grow extremely fast if that is what it is.
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Aug 23, 2008 02:36
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csammis posted:This is either the best Freudian slip I've seen recently, or the most hilarious long-time misunderstanding of a word ever oh man i just got back from a trip to see these posts, i am going to blame this on my terrible spelling and Microsoft words ability to auto correct it into testicles...
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Aug 25, 2008 04:09
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I have had some take 4 or 5 days to open after fragging or other stress, I wouldn't worry until they start to shrink which could take weeks.
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Aug 30, 2008 22:40
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I am going to be entering a photo contest next month that is worth $100 in store credit at a lfs. It is going to be judged by the owner and employees none of which are photographers, so it needs a lot of pop. I can only enter three here is what I have so far. 1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6. 
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Sep 11, 2008 05:41
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Thanks for all of your comments. I was a little unsure about using number three and I was leaning towards six but its hard because i see these things everyday and my attachment to them seemed to be influencing me. so I am going to go with 2, 3 and 4. I may try and re-shoot 5 with more depth of field because I really like that Turbinaria the clown is in. And I am going look into focus bracketing, thanks for the suggestion. I will post some more rejects from the fish store I worked at too just for fun.Psimitry posted:I'd go with number 4, but I'm also a total Bluespot jawfish whore. Ya I know they are too blue that has always bothered me, but eventually I had to cave when putting them into contests because the picture that won last year was way over saturated and super blue it was total bullshit(I got second). I think I just post them that way now because it is what I am used to even though it is far from a natural look. I do try and replicate the look in my tank at least. 2x150w phoenix 14k...
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Sep 12, 2008 06:27
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The live sand probably will not help you to much. With one of my tanks I bought the rock local and it was only out of the water for minimum amount of time, when shipping the rock is out for a longer period of time. This will bring a stronger cycle(more die off), and I would say the right thing to do would be to find another temporary home for your inverts at least for a few weeks, they might survive but its going to be rough. I don't know how much a serpent star can take, I would bank on the shrimp not making it. After you add your rock some wait a few days run a few tests and then you will know where you are at with cycling. If you purchased your rock locally, not saying its better, your cycle would be less maybe this is what they were using as reference for the advice they gave you.
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Jan 20, 2009 21:29
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Whenever we get blue linckias into the fish store I work at we lose more then 50% of them. If they have any damage on them at all they die within the week, even some that dont have visible damage will die. I just think its very difficult to get a good one. We have customers that have had theirs long term in 75g+ tanks though so it is possible.
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Nov 5, 2009 22:31
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If something dies in your tank you are almost always going to see an algae bloom of some type, especially if you dont have a skimmer. I dont think it was the anemone that caused the problems. Regular water changes with ro/di water and it should be gone in a few months as long as nothing else dies. ^^these are good questions whenever I lose something in the tank I cut back my feeding to an absolute minimum until the algae is gone, since I tend to feed heavy in general.
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