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| Thought seriously about a Regal for a while, but I hear they're pretty hard on zoo's and I kind of like my zoo's. So I'll just give it more thought. By the way, suggestions are always welcomed, preferably based on FIRST HAND experience.
Oh, before I forget, Marc (my webguy) changed my hosts or servers or something and there were a few problems having to do with my Guestbook. Well, I'm told the problems have been solved now so everything should be back in working order. Please continue to write and if you find any problems (technical, incorrect content, insensitivity to bowling, etc.) please get in touch with me so I can have it corrected. Improvement suggestions are also appreciated, though Marc may take it personally and you never want to p***off a guy who's into computers.
P.S.: Check the Photography Section. Lotsa new images!
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 I've got red bugs. Or rather I should say, I HAD red bugs though at this writing, we seemed to have taken care of them. Still, it was a depressing ordeal |
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nonetheless and one of the last things I needed at a time when I was really getting into sitting back and enjoying the tank. But then, part of enjoying means observing and observing is how I noticed I had the little so-n-so's in the first place. Actually, I had been taking pictures, some extreme close-ups of coral polyps and such when I focused on Acro #37 and saw THIS !
Needless to say, this was the end of that days' photography. But, after a few hours of anger and wallowing in a bit of self pity, it also marked the beginning of gathering as much information on the pests as I could. My thanks go out to both Reef Central and Reefs.org for providing most of this information through their threads, etc., but my undying gratitude goes out to ORA's Dustin Dorton for apparently leading the research in the discovery of what it takes to eradicate them.His thread regarding this treatment is here:www.reefs.org, but I would advise you to do as much reading as you can before embarking on any medications. The bugs aren't going anywhere so take your time
In a nutshell, although these critters have been known to science for quite sometime, it seems that their presence in many of our tanks has only been fairly recently discovered. This may be due to their extremely small size (just barely visible with the |
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