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11-18-2003, 10:49 PM
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Master of Perplexity
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: panama city beach FL
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Caught at Last!!!!!
Hhhhhhhoooooaaaaaa!!!!!!!
After many different approaches and attempts, I finally caught that #$@^%#$# blue damsel this evening. It involved not feeding all day, a darkened house, net in one hand and some flake food pinched between two fingers and a red flashlight in the other, standing on one foot while the other had my big toe on the tank light switch. As he rose to the food, I flipped off the light and plunged the net into the tank as I turned on the redlight to adjust my aim. First Try!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Last edited by yardboy; 01-29-2006 at 08:39 PM.
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11-18-2003, 10:51 PM
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lazy reefer
Join Date: Jul 2003
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 wow i just tear my rocks up or use a clear glass jar and put it in front of where they like to hide W/ food but i am glad u cough that thing 
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11-18-2003, 10:51 PM
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That Biker Looking Guy
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Ahhhhhhhhh the sweet smell of success
Congrats now ya wanna come catch mine?
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11-18-2003, 10:58 PM
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Master of Perplexity
Join Date: Jun 2003
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Guilty as charged.
Harassed to death: 2 firefish, 1 rainfordi goby, 1 sailfin blenny,
buried a pocillipora frag
major sand pits which undermined shroom rock, crushing 2.
buried Fungia several times
had to constantly blow off brain coral with baster to prevent damage. constantly putting head against rock to brace himself for sandstorms, killed fluorescent green zoanthids.
Anybody got anything to contribute from THEIR favorite fish to hate?
Last edited by yardboy; 01-29-2006 at 08:39 PM.
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11-18-2003, 11:11 PM
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lazy reefer
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: MI, clarkston
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i consider that a crash wow that is a lot of dammage oh yeah i hate my blue velvet he/she is a !@#$ or a !@#$ all the time to my royal gramma
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11-18-2003, 11:13 PM
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It can be rebuilt.
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Pittsboro, NC
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ROTFL!
where is the video?!
ah, the yardboy damsel crane position, works everytime.
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11-19-2003, 06:47 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Tucson, AZ
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LOL congrats Yardboy! I had a Beau Gregory once that got fairly large and man oh man was that dude mean! I finally caught him when I moved the tank!
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11-19-2003, 06:49 AM
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Eat more PIE
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11-19-2003, 07:37 AM
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Blacktip Shark
Join Date: Aug 2003
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Sweet! Are we having fried fish or grilled fish tonight?
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11-19-2003, 07:51 AM
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Super Moderator
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Congratulations on the capture!!! That shot of you making the grab is a classic!!! 
This thread ought to be required reading for everyone contemplating setting up a reef; before they go to the LFS who will tell them: "Use some Damsels to cycle the tank"!!! 
Now, you can have peace and tranquility on the reef!!
Dick 
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11-19-2003, 08:58 AM
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Super Moderator
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Ya'll didn't know that reef keeping involved perfecting martial arts techniques  now when you can tell specific gravity and calcium level by taste and nitrate level by smell, and catch the ****sel with a pair of chopsticks while blindfolded then young yard hopper you will earn your red sash and can leave the monastery. Oh yah you get to hold a basketball sized frag of fire coral between your forearms and walk across a pool filled with southdown without disturbing the DSB
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11-19-2003, 09:05 AM
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Better yet get all that on video and this can be yours
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11-19-2003, 12:31 PM
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Little Fishy
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11-19-2003, 04:55 PM
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Blacktip Shark
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Middleburg, VA
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I'll try that Doug!
Howabout you supply the fire coral and the southdown, only three catches, I get full arm gloves, get to put a plank across the pool, and get to keep the coral and the southdown, only you get to put the southdown in the new tank that your getting me! Sound like a deal? 
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11-19-2003, 04:56 PM
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Blacktip Shark
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Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want
He who fears the thorn, should never crave the rose.
-favorite TRT quote
Forecast for tonight: dark, continued dark overnight, widely scattered light by morning
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