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11-05-2003, 10:54 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Minnetonka, MN
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SO when people ask you what a coral is......
....what to you tell them?
My first expereince with this was in dealing w/ a fedex claim agent on a missing box of acropora....and I was at a total loss for words when it cam to describing the contents...plant? animal?, etc...gotta keep it simple 
Curious to hear how you would describe it:-) ..and how you answer determines how it mighty fly?
- scott -
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Last edited by uryy4me; 11-05-2003 at 11:08 PM.
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11-05-2003, 10:59 PM
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Ghost of reefers past
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Southern Oregon, Way West of Dimples ;)
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No matter what you tell civilians they wont get it, unless they are staring int the tank
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11-05-2003, 11:09 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Minnetonka, MN
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Doug - I tried that one and she got a bit perturbed with me |
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11-06-2003, 01:42 AM
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Got Fish? HUH? DO YA??
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Australia
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Submersed extremely fragile plant life?
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11-06-2003, 07:15 AM
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The Border Collie Mod
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: right now? in my chair
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A animal that grows like a weed.
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11-06-2003, 07:16 AM
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Admin/ Super mod
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: New Castle, Delaware
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one could strech it as a bio haz if it should die if they lost it.
i end up showing pictures on my computer of what i have to the people i work with in the lab so they know what i am talking about.
one girl said she is now going to start a SW tank now!!!
i would mark it as live animal.. pay the extra price for it.
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11-06-2003, 10:13 AM
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Ghost of reefers past
Join Date: Jan 1999
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Why is it that so many adults can't get past the idea that corals are pretty sea plants? Then again I know a 10 yr old that can pronounce cnidarian 
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11-06-2003, 05:39 PM
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Got Fish? HUH? DO YA??
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Location: Australia
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Quote:
Originally posted by Doug1
Why is it that so many adults can't get past the idea that corals are pretty sea plants? Then again I know a 10 yr old that can pronounce cnidarian
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Thats what i reckon!
They are just submersed plants, but a whole lot prettier.
Ikeep my gardens in my house, and they are inhabited by these great looking critters, who have really bright colours, and swim instead of fly or crawl...
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11-06-2003, 10:01 PM
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senior member
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Walnut Grove, SC, USA
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little steps...
I am going to my 8 y/o step-daughter's class once every few weeks to talk about cnidarians (one of their spelling words this week!). They know they are bags with an inner skin and an outer skin, mouth and tentacles, that some make skeletons and sit right side up, and some don't make skeletons and float upside down (jellyfishes), and that little plant cells live in their bodies to make dinner for the colony...
They have seen skeletons from each representative of the different morphologies of hermatypic corals, and know that sea stars are not fishes.
Starting kids at this age should be the goal of each of us as reef keepers, not only does it spur their curiosity, but it gives them a sense of responsibility when they learn that some pollutants and rising temps account for bleaching events (they know what bleaching is as well...)
Great little class, we always have fun.
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11-06-2003, 11:30 PM
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Ghost of reefers past
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Southern Oregon, Way West of Dimples ;)
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Kewl Tom, hook em when they are little.
Hey kid wanna bag of aragonite, I got shrooms, xenia, frags, i can hook ya up dood
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12-05-2003, 05:13 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: austin texas
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LOL Doug! if only it were really like that! but then again, drugs probably ARE cheaper than keeping a reef tank....sadly....
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12-05-2003, 11:35 PM
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Ghost of reefers past
Join Date: Jan 1999
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only if you are addicted and have a bad jones, if you look at a punchbowl as a future clam tank, its time for a program
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