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Steve, When you head to Sulawesi let me know. I have a biologist contact there that has a soft coral farm. He also has a few species of shrimp that I have been tring to get back in to the US alive.

Living on soft money tends to drive one to socialism, you get use to the government check.

Not intended to advertise Jim, just thought that ASAP was retail for some reason. Was looking for a yes/no answer. Do they have a website Steve? Nice to see some pictures and such from that area.

Steve, what wholesalers can we buy these fish from? andy

Yea steve, they are making a killing taking people to see the lion fish on the wrecks, its the #1 dive site off cape lookout, Morehead city. Where i dive in NC we are after Civil War and older wrecks, not lionfish. I think the same wrecks that have the lionfish use to be very popular with...

Kalk, Now don't show your ignorance on this issue. They find more in the deep waters off NC because they have looked in deepwater off North Carolina. Additionally it makes perfect since for a population to invade in South Florida and use the Gulf Stream to transport up North. This is why on...

You have to love Kalk, so dive industry just put them their and they stayed on the wrecks and swam south to Florida. No, nice try. Population started in Florida and uses the Gulf stream to go north as larvae. They live well in the waters at the edge of the gulf stream in NC and settle out on...

Mitch, I normally see about a dozen yellow tangs with a few purples in the mix. Its not really a problem and will never be on like lion fish but just an interesting place for all these animals to keep showing up. andy

Good point Nanocat, I always think of our students to get them some experence. Anyway they would need to be stationed near by the facilities or in them so they could be their at all times when shipments arrived. I have a feeling that the critics will claim that we fudged the data somehow...

Peter I completely agree that mortality needs to be looked at in the export facilities. However I think the best way to test survival of shipments is to ship them and see what lives after acclimation. I ship fish for well over 48 hours and we have great success. Our success is partly due to...

Eric, I would also like to see a real world study done on shipments received to pet stores and also a more in depth study where 5-10 species of the top traded groups are looked at as far as survival over a 4-6 week period once they have reached the store. I know that most fish have a very...

I someone wants real numbers on this, I would be more than happy to test it out on say 20-30 fish per from the top 5 groups traded; survival over 4-6 week period. We could do a real study, with real results, statistically backed, under controlled condtitions. All this BS, or "first hand"...

They get to talk for sometime, but their should be time for questions as well. Wonder how many NE guys will be showing up late. andy

Race, Do you need my Fequent Flyer # when booking my tickets? Or do we have to pay ;) Also most LFS get fish/corals that have been shipped with the same number of shipments as hobbyist getting fish from you. Exporter--importer/wholesaler---store/hobbyist...

Very nice, I caught a 20-25 cm fish in 15 meters of water out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida about 3 years ago. Took him back to the wholesaler that let him go ;) Sure wan't that nice looking, just an INDO fish.

I grew up in North Carolina, about 55 mintues north of MB. Florida is for sure not the south, unless your west of I-95, then sometimes you run into some natives. I've not been to Ripleys in a long time, when they first opened they just dumped the fish in with the water and everything. Fish...

No problem, When you get your data you can send me an excel file of it and I'll run it on one of my stats programs for you and email you the analysis. It's finally nice to see some data come out looking at these products.

Well you have to drop treatments out or increase tank numbers, only 10 bucks for a 10 gallon tank :) If you set up a nested ANOVA then you could look at more xenia fragments per tank. This would allow you to use two tanks per treatment, with at least 3 frags per tank (use 5). We have to look...

Chip, I didn't know you were a red neck, MB is red neck country hope you can bring your accent. Let me know if you need help speaking southern, Mitch and I can offer you classes. I also speak hill billy. Brush up on your NASCAR Ripey's SUCKS, fish are always sick, they don't pay their...

Steve, Please make sure if you can to increase your replicate size (at least 3 better to have 5), sure would nice to see some stats on the data. I would be happy to help out with any number crunching as well. andy