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05-23-2004, 09:24 PM
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Nucular Hermit
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Takoma Pk, MD
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Are MI's really rare or something?
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65g acrylic tank with 520W PC
Basement Sump w/ EuroReef CS6-1
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05-23-2004, 09:30 PM
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Future reefer (my boy)
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Wray, Colorado
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I hear MI's are hard to keep alive, but thats just what I read.
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05-23-2004, 10:23 PM
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BRW member
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: austin texas
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they are very sensitive mainly because they are such finicky eaters. the main problem seems to be from what I read, that they go without being fed for too long a duration from collection to buyer and by that time they simply wont eat. if you can get them eating (oysters or black mussels on the half shell apparently are what people have luck with initiating a feeding response) and acclimated to your tank, they arent so bad, but unfortunately many dont make it. they are such a beautiful fish and so many die that many people are opposed to the collection of them. similar to how people feel about anemone collection (rare cases of long term--more than one year--survival in captivity for an otherwise extremely long lived animal...into the hundreds of years. for anemones that is.)
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05-23-2004, 10:28 PM
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Eat more PIE
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Florida Panhandle
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They like to eat sponges which is 95 percent of there diet.
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05-23-2004, 10:33 PM
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BRW member
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: austin texas
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sponges, eh? is that why their mouths are so funny shaped??
ah hah, right there in the scott w michael book, sponges!! thanks casey!
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Had marine tanks from 2003-2007, starting up a 30g fowlr, and other hobby is horses!
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05-23-2004, 11:09 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Southern Oregon, Way West of Dimples ;)
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well heres mine 
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05-23-2004, 11:17 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Walnut Grove, SC, USA
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05-23-2004, 11:28 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Southern Oregon, Way West of Dimples ;)
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I cant help it Tom, its al the kid meals I ate to get the whole set 
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When considering courage in battle, one should remember that there are 2 sides to every conflict.
The heroism of the losing side rarely gets remembered
but we were all husbands and fathers, sons and bros
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05-24-2004, 06:08 AM
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Admin/ Super mod
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: New Castle, Delaware
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Erin you are soo bad.... 
cute doug cute 
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