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I'm in Essex County - a little south of I-80...

You really can't blame a Lemon Peel, or any other fish for that matter, for being hungry. If a fish can look under something movable for a tasty amphipod, it will go ahead and move that something. Fish aren't fools...

I hit them this afternoon with my "Golden Ticket". Much to my surprise, I was actually rather unimpressed. My shopping list included (1) a half-dozen Carib Blue Reef Chromis (for a school). There were none to be had. (2) A Fowleri or Dussumieri* Tang, but none were to be had. (2) A medium...

Anyone seen any odd nudibranchs lately in any NJ LFSes? I don't want berghia or lettuce nudis. Any others shouldn't be imported, but some of us don't do out homework when buying fauna. There are lots of nudibranchs that actually eat hydroids. I'd like to try to find one. I'd also like to...

For those of you who have/had hydroids, what color are/were they? I've had two previous infestations, and they looked like a fuzzy white film on my rock. This time they're green. They also have an odd reaction when I touch them - the polyps of those in a 1" radius of the touched ones all very...

Yeah, Fenbendazole does work, but it also takes out gorgonians, worms, snails and who knows what else. I'm in the middle a long thread on the subject on R2R. I think the weirdest observation is the claim that you can't get it out of your tank, even with carbon and WCs, and it will continue to...

For the Jellyfish afectionados among us, here's a specimen for those of you with a larger than average Kreisel tank:

I find it a little hard to believe that hydroids can come in with decapsulated brine shrimp eggs. You need to soak brine shrimp eggs in a bleach solution to remove their capsules, and I doubt hydroids could survive that regimen. (Here's a decapsulated DIY from Brine Shrimp Direct: What are...

Mark, Have any interest in a Tunze Aquawind fan that is used for "evaporative cooling"? (Here's a link to the current version ~ https://www.amazon.com/Tunze-USA-7028-900-Evaporative-Aquariums/dp/B001DC827C.) Mine is the original version, not the current one. I turned it on to test it when I...

I think "biofilm" is the term used in early Blue Linkia descriptions. (Curiously enough, an example of biofilm is your very own dental plaque!) Here's some anecdotal data for you: Twenty-odd years back I had a friend who ran a part-time importing and wholesale business. (Pick up a...

I give up, what's their "known" diet?

What's a "meeting point"?

Why are there two prices on the Green Nepthea? Or, is the next entry missing an asterisk? I need two Green Nepthea frags if you're coming to the July Meet...

I think the last meet we had in Northern NJ had more than a dozen members attend. And most were from Northern NJ - I was surprised by how many of them said Sea Level Aquarium was their LFS. Go for it!

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AWC Eureka! WooHoo! I've finally gotten a daily 5 gallon automatic water change working on my system! Wish I could say the code was all mine, but I stumbled upon the logic and sample code on page 157 of the Apex Comprehensive Guide. I didn't use the Apex DOS pumps - I used three Danner...

You might consider covering the inlets to your power heads with some material that a nem won't get past. I think a thin sponge material is commercially sold for Vortechs, as well as 3D printed "guards". Note that the sponge solution will require you to remove them and clean them once every...

Mark, Street address please. And, any chance you can get some ground-up generic horse instead of ground-up generic dog? I like mine uncooked with a raw egg broken over the top. It goes well with a nice French Cabernet Franc, which I'll bring. Thanks, Bob

I actually managed to forget hitting an ATM on the way to the show. When I found out I'd have to cross the street for the closest ATM, I passed... The following, however, did make my day: (1) Chatting with mnat and NikkiT (2) Getting Roger, from Tunze, to help me with a skimmer top I that...

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