BIGMIKE13
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nice thread seamaiden !!! check out this one.. ~ ~ Fish Tanks ~ ~
Fish Geeks--UNITE!
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Seamaiden
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Awesome C. managuense! I love those fishes, they're really beautiful. I've got a few pages of that thread to read, and it looks like Bamm Bamm speaks my language (yeah, I know what SPS corals are), s/he's got some awesome tridacnids goin' on there, too.. damn, too bad we can't just merge the threads, huh?
Seamaiden
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Passking, you have a Coral Beauty (Centropyge spp.) dwarf angel fish, and the little yellow one is a citron goby. Looks like the clown is Amphiprion occellaris, though it could be A. percula. Nice, although my arms don't miss contact with the salt creep (spending years being exposed, now they get rashed out pretty badly if the salt creep touches them).
No, I've not been stung by a lionfish, but I did come close to being stung by a coral catfish. I was also bitten by a rattlesnake several years ago, but that's understandable because I had him by the tail.
No, I've not been stung by a lionfish, but I did come close to being stung by a coral catfish. I was also bitten by a rattlesnake several years ago, but that's understandable because I had him by the tail.
Some of you are going a little overboard. It's just a little, harmless prank. And it doesn't "take over" your computer. If you simply click the x's it will eventually ask you if you want to leave that site. Or you can do ctrl+ald+delete, task manager, applications, and then just end it. Lighten up a little. I wasn't trying to do it to piss people off, I thought it was funny when it happened to me. 
Another one, eh?
Unless you want your browser hosed, don't click this guy's link.
Seamaiden
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Some of you are going a little overboard. It's just a little, harmless prank. And it doesn't "take over" your computer. If you simply click the x's it will eventually ask you if you want to leave that site. Or you can do ctrl+ald+delete, task manager, applications, and then just end it. Lighten up a little. I wasn't trying to do it to piss people off, I thought it was funny when it happened to me.
You quoted me, you saw what I wrote. Reading comprehension isn't quite there, is it? It hosed my browser. I couldn't click fast enough or enough times, not to mention the HUGE pain in the ass factor. I don't come here for that kind of bullshit.
I don't just keep one browser open, and I happen to conduct business via the internet (that means using my browser). You may not have been trying to piss anyone off, but you succeeded, anyway. Doing that is fucked, especially for people who don't know what to do about it.
Go delete the other one, now. For fuck's sake.
What thread is it in??
Seamaiden
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You got it, and I'm over it. Hug & make up now?
Careful! My back.
Edit: Wait, the pets thread, didja get that one?
Man, you fucking POLLUTED the place with that shit!You got it, and I'm over it. Hug & make up now?
Careful! My back.
And what's wrong with your back? Back problems are the worst to have. I pray I don't get a horrible back. My Dad was just out of work for a good 3 weeks because of a back injury, I felt bad for him
metagrower
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So I promised I'd chime in... and I am! 
I was trying to get pics of my guys up here. (I am fairly certian they are both male)
Anyhow, I'm a fish geek myself. It kind of happened upon me. In my last (and only) marriage about a year or so before we split my sister-in-law was moving away and couldn't bring her fish. He was a calm Jewel Cichlid. I had killed many a goldfish and tetra when I was little, and had a brown thumb to boot, so I wasn't terribly enthused about this new aquisition. Well, she and I learned all we could about cichlids in order to take care of the guy. We are both huge geeks and are eager to learn as much as we can, so we both took to the new hobby pretty quick. Really, I think it was when Pete got sick that we really started to learn about him. We got so worried.
One day she came home with more fish. We were worried about how they would get along. We went through many fish, and before we realized it we had a hospital tank, a community cichlid tank, and an agressive tank.
Now I live with my girlfriend and we have a blind Albino Oscar that I rescued from her, and we also have my poor lonely Albino Peacock Cichlid. The oscar is in this HUGE 55 gal tank (huge for the room anyways!) while CPT Red Eye is in a 35 gal tank. I'll post pics in a sec. Man that tank is awesome! the good CPT really should get some tank mates soon tho.
I was trying to get pics of my guys up here. (I am fairly certian they are both male)
Anyhow, I'm a fish geek myself. It kind of happened upon me. In my last (and only) marriage about a year or so before we split my sister-in-law was moving away and couldn't bring her fish. He was a calm Jewel Cichlid. I had killed many a goldfish and tetra when I was little, and had a brown thumb to boot, so I wasn't terribly enthused about this new aquisition. Well, she and I learned all we could about cichlids in order to take care of the guy. We are both huge geeks and are eager to learn as much as we can, so we both took to the new hobby pretty quick. Really, I think it was when Pete got sick that we really started to learn about him. We got so worried.
One day she came home with more fish. We were worried about how they would get along. We went through many fish, and before we realized it we had a hospital tank, a community cichlid tank, and an agressive tank.
Now I live with my girlfriend and we have a blind Albino Oscar that I rescued from her, and we also have my poor lonely Albino Peacock Cichlid. The oscar is in this HUGE 55 gal tank (huge for the room anyways!) while CPT Red Eye is in a 35 gal tank. I'll post pics in a sec. Man that tank is awesome! the good CPT really should get some tank mates soon tho.
metagrower
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He comes up to the surface when he gets hungry. He is not entirely blind, but I don't think he can distinguish more than than extreme changes in luminosity. So when I turn his light on he knows it's time to feed. Additionally, I have helped him develop his sense of smell and he can smell when I drop food into the water.
He has a pretty acute tactile sense, as well. This might sound strange, but he can definitely sense the current and he knows if I am trying to get food to him. When he comes up near the surface I chuck the food at his mouth and he almost always nabs it right away. He'll eat out of my fingers, too, but it's not gentle -- he'll snap for it. He doesn't always get his food and I kind of have to play water polo with his food pellets sometimes. It's actually pretty fun with all the various currents I've created in his tank through bubblers and power filters.
Oh we used to move stuff around more often. My girl gets mad at me tho. She says it's cruel. I call it cleaning the tank.
But for real, you have to move stuff around when you clean the tank.But Oscars are fairly intelligent creatures, and thus get bored easily. So he'll move stuff around to entertain himself. And I tell you what, it scares the hell out of him when stuff isn't where he expects it. And then he gets ANGRY. Of course, sometimes he just goes apeshit and I think he tries to either commit suicide or escape, I haven't figured out which. I also take that as a time to feed him.
He also lets me pet him on occasion.
Garden Knowm
The Love Doctor
I was injured on the job several years ago, yeah, ended up with a few herniated discs. Back injuries are fucked. Life goes on, just don't squeeze too hard.
Man, I really popped a gasket over that RickRolled shit.
do it in the shower.. the hot water will help loosen you up...
Lacy
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Gosh. Beautiful pic.
I love the aquariums also. Those african cichlids are amazing fish but too aggressive for our tank. We have a couple of tri coloured sharks a ghost tiger babs catfish pleucostemous in a 55 gallon set up.
I've never had marine fish but we have friends who have huge marine aquariums built into some of their walls. They look awesome but are very expensive to run including the lights. He has s x's 600 watt canopies. I am always thinking of how much weed they could grow.
I have another aquarium downstairs but it is yet to be set up.
I also love swimming and wish I had gone for my diving licence. We have friends that also travel all over to go diving and they have all kinds of incredible phtos of their journeys.
I find the live corals fascinating.
I love the aquariums also. Those african cichlids are amazing fish but too aggressive for our tank. We have a couple of tri coloured sharks a ghost tiger babs catfish pleucostemous in a 55 gallon set up.
I've never had marine fish but we have friends who have huge marine aquariums built into some of their walls. They look awesome but are very expensive to run including the lights. He has s x's 600 watt canopies. I am always thinking of how much weed they could grow.
I have another aquarium downstairs but it is yet to be set up.
I also love swimming and wish I had gone for my diving licence. We have friends that also travel all over to go diving and they have all kinds of incredible phtos of their journeys.
I find the live corals fascinating.
Hey you guys, this thread is useless without pix.
Pictured below is the only live coral display at the LBAOP. Continue towards the left and right around that corner is the coral lab, where the baby bamboo sharks and other specimens are displayed.
If I had had just a few more dives under my belt I would have been qualified to dive the larger display tanks.
