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What happened to the other posts? Were they deleted?

Is it a new store or existing store?

The LFS had the wrong label on that one for sure. It's Merulina ampliata.

Did you see the coral the same guy listed with a $1400 reserve? $1400??? The auction ended without meeting the reserve, - the high bid was $395.

One of my "other duties as needed" for my job is to drive a large pick-up truck to the coast (135 miles away) and collect seawater from our marine lab. The seawater is collected in the estuary and continually pumped to the lab. They do have some in-line mechanical filtration (which requires a...

Tackett, Assuming you are using cast acrylic, .35 should be fine for the 12" high tank even without top bracing. There's a calculator on the Cyro website Click on the "TechKnowlogy Center" and you'll see the link for the Aquarium Thickness Calculation. Of course, there's nothing wrong with...

Thanks Guy, I just hope that it turns out well enough not to have any points deducted for my DIY tank :lol:

I'll play. When does it start?

It's been a few years, but I used to culture harpacticoids in a previous job. The life cycle of the bugs I cultured depended on the species - 1 or 2 months was typical. One particular species that we worked with had a 14 day naupliar stage, and I don't remember how long the copepodite was...

My guess is a solitary tunicate. Sponges don't contract as you described, but tunicates will. HTH, Teresa

It looks like somebody was busy this weekend... Good job Louey! Teresa

They are most likely a weird harpacticoid copepod - genus is Tegastes, species is unknown, but a good guess would be acroporanus. There are very few copepods that are laterally compressed (i.e. shaped like amphipods). There are some huge threads on Reef Central about this bug - just search for...

It looks like Scolymia to me. Just curiuos: John, what characteristic makes you think it's not? Teresa

I had a bright yellow watchman goby with a pistol shrimp. The guy at the LFS told me that the silvery-colored ones were females and the bright yellow ones were males. I don't know if that's true or not, but I bought the silvery-colored one in hopes of getting a happy pair. They stayed on...

John, I'm curious as to which 7 years... '95-2002, '80-'87? Thanks! Teresa