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new leaves on the paddleweed... fabulous to see. Kudos 
.Anthony Calfo
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| Posted 7/2/2006 2:12:24 PM |
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Englmannii, not paddleweed. Yesterday I saw the tip of some leaves peeking out of the sand, so it looks like the roots are taking off. The star grass is doing much better than the wrightii.
I'm sitting on the sofa cracking up. The sinularia has acclimated to having some pushy clowns around. It's open nicely, despite the fact the male is trying to "clean" the sinularia and rearrange branches.  Inside their old frogspawn, I could never see the male, so I don't know if it's new or not, but he likes to tuck himself in the branches and rest.
Got an offer on a lemonpeel angel for the lagoon - I'm just waiting to hear how exactly it's misbehaving. And I'm picking up two baby banggai cardinals next week. The cardinals will likely be too small for the display tank for a while yet. They may need to spend some time in the goby tank.
Oh yes, the goby tank isn't blowing the fish and shrimp around anymore. I gave up on recharging the chiller; it's plumbed back in. It may not work great, but it still works, and I don't plan to let the tank temp rise enough to need the chiller anyway; it's just a safety measure. Unfortunately, I am having issues with the goby tank again. Somehow all the nutrients in the tank seem to end up in the side tank where it grows prodigious amounts of hair algae. I am trying to grow some competition on the rock, but the hair is winning.
Still got bubbles and more bubbles, plus a leaky pump now. It's not leaking too bad, but I have that on the calendar for my Tuesday off, or maybe tomorrow night. Hopefully the leaking seal is causing the bubbles.
Don't count your gobies before they've metamorphosized.
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| Posted 7/2/2006 2:29:39 PM |
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Englmannii, not paddleweed a generalized term for more than a few species of Halophila - all having that paddle like leaf. Ovalis, Englmannii, Stipulacea, et cetera
. Anthony Calfo
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| Posted 7/2/2006 3:01:52 PM |
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I'll remember that next time I hear you talk about the dangers of using common names. 
Don't count your gobies before they've metamorphosized.
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| Posted 7/2/2006 10:22:09 PM |
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funny thing is that I felt the irony even as I wrote those very words 
.Anthony Calfo
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| Posted 5/8/2007 7:25:06 PM |
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Fantastic ... love the seagrass.
Wondering if there is a down side to seagrass ...
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| Posted 5/9/2007 10:19:12 AM |
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not many downsides beyond the need, as with other featured organisms, to keep a biotope display that inalienably prevents you from adding the majority of (unnatural) garden reef species that folks all to casually mix. Keeping seagrasses IMO is about better aquarium husbandry: recognizing the needs of an organisms from a unique and interesting biotope and then providing for it. The deeper sands for example may not allow you to have large, messy feeding fishes. Nor brutes that like to perch or squat (like some basslets, larger hawkfishes, etc... imposing exceedingly repetitive contact/squashing of the plants in the confines of an aquarium). On the flip side... you will need more resping molluscs and fishes in the absence of reef strength water flow to keep the blades from getting overgrown or stifled by algae or other growths. Just a few examples.
.Anthony Calfo
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