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Up at the top it says "freshly fragged" corals will be rejected -- what is an appropriate lead time for swap frags?

Oops, sorry if I wasn't clear but my Mimic didn't recover from the infection. Whatever it was, it hit him fast and hard and he was gone the next day. Thanks very much for your generosity though. I really appreciate your advice and your offers to help.

I rotate through mysis, Formula One pellets, and Cyclopeeze -- all of which he seemed interested in so I assumed that between those and algae grazing he was getting enough to eat.

The CB has been a model citizen as far as I can tell. My female clown can be a little ornery but she doesn't bother anyone as long as they steer clear of her hangout.

Rats, whatever it was, it was fast acting. I didn't get a chance to get a good look at him yesterday morning because I left for work before the lights came on, but he didn't make it through the day. A real bummer. I'd had him for about 2 months and he was a real champ at eradicating some...

I'm seeing an odd discoloration on my mimic tang -- wondering if anyone can recognize what's up with him. He seems to be maybe a little bit lower energy than usual but is still eating. It's only showing up on the one side. And the right profile, business as usual:

My fist kid -- Kirby, Australian shepherd, just turned 11.

It looks like it's any thread that gets the "Updated" tag on it. After some of the DBTC updates there are now two full pages of old threads that show up on the "New Posts" page. Same symptom -- you can click into the posts to get them off of there, but the 'Mark All Read' button resurrects them.

I just found out I can make it to the meeting today, so this is very late notice. I have another nice frag of this one available if anyone tunes in in time to see it. PM or post here and I'll check in before I take off this afternoon.

Hmm, now I'm kind of confused as to what happened because the impeller looks like it's in very good shape. But when I plug it in, nothing happens at all. Just dead. I was thinking of trying to find another pump body to use this same impeller in. What kind of things can go wrong with the actual pump?

I've lost a couple of pumps in the last year, probably at least due in part to the fact that I don't do much preventative maintenance on them and they eventually seize up on me. I do a vinegar bath thing about once every six months for my return pump and maybe a little more often for powerheads...

Right, the triangle edge goes right against the glass. BTW, I'm using the Algae Dozer pad with an AlgaeFree Piranha and it still works very well. The MM pads are larger than the AF magnets so you have to deal with that a little bit but it's so cool to see this thing scrape coralline without...

I have the AWI Typhooon 3 and like it a lot. Never had any issues with it. I haven't tried out any others to compare against but this unit is very well-built. The filter casings are a thick plastic and everything is mounted on a heavy metal frame. But if that Spectrapure does a 1:1 waste ratio...

Interesting, my SureFlow mods don't chatter at all on startup. I have a pair of modded MJ1200s and they start up clean every time. I also have a pair of Koralia 3 and they do knock around for a second or two about half the time.

So much for that spending limit. :) Are you going with a single 40 or a pair?

I've actually been running a pair of Koralia 3s on a timer for a week or so. I haven't noticed any problems with the impeller stopping but they do knock a little bit at startup as it figures out which way to spin. I tried to put a small piece of air tubing on the shaft to cushion the knocking...

My best suggestion is to make sure you have good containment on the top of your tank. I love wrasses but both of mine jumped so I've accepted that I can't have them anymore. (The second one jumped through a 1/4" netting even though I thought he was too big to get through it. Unfortunately the...

I like the tidepools at Pigeon Point lighthouse down in Pescadero. For whatever reason I felt like there was more to see there than I have found at Fitzgerald in HMB.

Is there any place to dive around here that is remotely interesting, say between Tomales Bay and Santa Cruz? It seems like all of the certifications happen in Monterey so maybe not, but I'd rather not go all the way down there. I'd like to dive more often to keep from getting too rusty between...

Flickr sort of has editing -- they partner with picnik.com to let you edit the pictures in your account. It's nice for some basic cropping / redeye kind of stuff but not a good option if you want to do a lot of editing (the data interchange between the two sites is one picture at a time a little...