Two Fish or Not Two Fish? -- My second research paper

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Outline

I. Introduction
-Feeding Frenzy
-Thesis

II. Easy Fish
-Damsel Fish
-Clownfish
-Royal Grammas
-Tangs or Surgeon Fish

III. Difficult Fish
-Seahorses
-Angelfish
-Dragonets
-Boxfish

IV. Invertebrates
-Clean-Up Crew
-Starfish
-Anemone
-Giant Clams

V. Corals
-Hard Corals
-Soft Corals

VI. Nutrition
-Types of Food
-Vitamins
-Overfeeding

VII. Acclimation
-Float and Mix Method
-Drip Method

VII. Conclusion
-Restating Thesis

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Manna, it falls from the sky!" Scream the fish in their native language. The clowns dart out of their host anemone whose arms flail about reaching upward for the food. A damsel fish so big and bullying, rushes from hiding, the back fin up displaying aggression to anyone who dares cross his path. Peaceful pajama fish school about calmly, letting the water movement carry their food to them. Ignoring the meaty edibles completely, a tang looks about for algae on which to graze, disturbed by all the activity. The once stillness erupts. Corals clutch at the water above them as their fingers search the water column. Starfish scramble from hiding looking for a meal while large hermit crabs scuttle around a grotesque shrimp fighting them for chow. At least once a day this havoc is a normal sight for any saltwater hobbyist; feeding time.

There is more to the salty hobby than meets the eye. Many topics must be researched for one bad decision could wipe out your self-created bio-sphere. These topics broach around one thing specifically, what you add to your tank. There are many easy and popular fish that will bring anyone joy, but also attractive fish that should be left in the ocean or the hands of experienced aquarist. Many invertebrates seem easy enough to care for, but how many should you add, what types are considered part of the "clean up crew", which ones are safe for the other occupants? Living coral is also eye catching to the hobbyist. Do you know the difference between soft and hard, what about each coral

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Another interesting group for an aquarium is invertebrates. This class makes up nearly 95 percent of the over one million animals in the world. While taxonomically these creatures are

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Work Cited

About. World Wide Web. 19 April 2006. Available: http://saltaquarium.about.com

Aqua Hobby. Online posting. 5 April 2006. Available: http://www.aquahobby.com

Blasiola, George. The Saltwater Aquarium Handbook. Barron

[lReef lKeeper]

so what kind of grade did you get on it ?? you know we like details around here.

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SOME PICTURES

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SOME MORE PICTURES

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I don't know why the pictures don't look right, but I had alot more that I can't find on my computer anymore.

I got a 96%

[dakar]

Very informative and well written! Thank you for sharing your papers with us... it's really cool that you are able to incorporate your passion of reefing into your schoolwork, kinda like being rewarded for being obsessed with your hobby :) Bet you've got some very envious peers!

BTW when you post things like that there is a checkbox towards the botom of the form to *disable smiles in text* and that will prevent the board from converting normal text into smilies (I edited your posts to turn that on). No sense getting your work stored forever with the formatting hosed up...


Thanks again for sharing...

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thanks for fixing it darkar... being able to do this for school just allowed me to carrying my fish books around and not get laughed at... oh yeah and spend hours at a time on this site and others with out even an eye brow raised... glad you liked it, i hope it will help someone

[lReef lKeeper]

hey congrats on the A !! BTW ... glad to help with the pics.

[aquaman3680]

that is an awesome looking sun coral

[lReef lKeeper]

i just got time to read your paper. VERY nice work. now i am honored to have you use my tank pics for you papers. let me know if you need anything else, for upcoming papers.

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I will, Bobby, your tank made an great addition to my attention getter!

Thanks everyone for reading and again everyone who loaned me pics, everyone had nice things to say about them, and they were much better looking then they are here.

[carpenterwrasse]

Amanda....Great read...keep having fun with your hobby

[Fatman]

Awsome paper A++++