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Recent content by EDDIE MTI

  1. hermit crabs

    chief........you are 100% right...i should not post on this any more....eddie...
  2. hermit crabs

    sorry about this....but i just though of a nightmare..........what about the live bait shops....have you seen how they keep the live killes....so they are taking a local fish holding them in a way you cant beleave.......then sell them to fisher man...who hook them and throu them back into the...
  3. hermit crabs

    hi kathy c...........did i say school boys.....or college kids...i think there is a driffence..i would think a school boy is 6 to 12 years old...a person in college would be over 18.........these people are boys & girls that voluteer to work-- with out pay..very good people wanting to...
  4. hermit crabs

    HI ....WES... YOUR POST AND KATHYS IS VERY GOOD...I THINK I UNDERSTAND NOW...THANK YOU FOR YOUR ANSWERS...ALL WE CAN DO IS TRY OUR BEST....WES AS YOU POINTED OUT IN YOUR POST IT IS VERY HARD TO KILL ALOT OF THE PARASITES IN THE CYST STAGE..(EGG STAGE)...THIS TO WAS TOLLED TO ME BY...
  5. hermit crabs

    Discharge Water Hi Wes.......yes Wes ..you Are 100% Right.....if Every One Is Doing There Job 100% ...24-7-365....but This Is The Real World.... Ok If The Pacific Cold Water Displays Are On A Closed System , What Happens When They Make A Water Change ...wear Does The Discharge Water Go....and...
  6. hermit crabs

    Cold Water Pacific Tanks Hi ...wes Thanks For Your Answer.....but You May Have Missed One....i Have Seen Cold Water Pacific Displays On An Open Systems Here On The East Coast... But Thanks Again ..this Is A Very Good Subject.............................eddie............
  7. hermit crabs

    HI........ another thing i dont understand....how does a salt water wholesaler or large pet shop keep fish from all the tropical seas of the world on a central system ? ..atlantic -picific-red sea -indian ocean & and every other place... ? these fish in the wild would never be liveing in the...
  8. hermit crabs

    Hi.....I think I might be missing something here. I would just like to point out a few things that come to mind: 1.)What happens to all the water in the freshwater wholesale houses? They have fish that come from all over the world. So where do they dump their water? 2.)Large public aquariums...
  9. Can anyone recommend a collection site?

    hi eric.............check out beach 8 st. in rockaway....only thing this info is 30 years old.....sorry...it use to be very good....eddie
  10. collecting tropicals right here

    hi nypd Frogman (frank)......NO..we retired about 7 or 8 years ago....40 years was enought...when we were in brooklyn it was very good..thats wear we had the 28 foot filter....alot of things have changed in the hobby....how are you doing FRANK... i hope very well.... i am 68 and artie is 71...
  11. collecting tropicals right here

    hi..next month is one of the best month to collect tropicals.(late august) you should get.....butterflys....spot fin....4-eyed....painted...also red deep water big eye...snowy grouper...and if you are very lucky a black or french angel..also doctor tang..you might as well take them....because...
  12. Waste from water change

    hi.......why not run the cold water in the sink after you dump the sea water down the drain ? that should flush out the copper fittings.....just a thought..eddie mti
  13. hermit crabs

    HI I wonder what the large public aquariums do with there discharge water ? the ones that are on the oceans...some have open systems,with fish and other things from all over the world ????????? ...........eddie mti
  14. Newbe...just Joined

    Yes Masterswimmer....But i used beach sand instead of the under gravel ..also i used 2 out side filters.... i think they were called AQUA MASTERS with a metal sharft.. the only salt was RILER & NEPTUNE...Or get the water from the 69 street peir in brooklyn on a incomming...
  15. Newbe...just Joined

    NO I dont have the same tank any more.... I was married in 66 so i gave the tank away...I did keep the seahores for 3 years...sometimes they would try an breed...Back then there was no all glass tanks --no nothing eddie

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