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[JustDavidP]

Da Crib

One of da boyz


One of da gurlz

[mutts]

really pretty!

[Whoyah]

I like it. I like it allot. I have always admired planted fresh water tanks. Yours is kind of a marriage between the reef and fw planted.

[JustDavidP]

Yeah...it's truly "lagoonal". A nice divide between the lagoon itself and the inner reef edge.

The grasses and other macro algae are from the Atlantic. Yeah.. not very reef like, but it helped me kick the hair algae away. I've got just a few tufts left to conquer.

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[seahorsedreams]

Very nice David! I especially like the red jacket the girl is wearing... it must be the in thing because my juvies are wearing the same at the moment. Where did you get them from?

[JustDavidP]

Renee'

I have to laugh at my girls. They get covered in dictyota, cyano, you name it. the boys do not. I think it has to do with the fact that the males "claim" their turf in and around the tonga branch where they hitch and hunt. The females are not often allowed into their "zones" for any length of time. They end up having to stay out front, hitched to the grasses etc. and exposed to the full lighting. From time to time, the gurls will hitch to the return nozzles and wriggle their backs to and fro and let it blow off of them. Amazingly, they tend to have a much brighter color beneath the algae as they shed it. Personally, I think it is their own little "sun screen" that they put on.

I got one pair from a local friend with the Boston Reefers Society. The second pair I purchased from an LFS in New Hampshire who gets locally raised, tank raised, H. Reidi.

Dave

Very nice David! I especially like the red jacket the girl is wearing... it must be the in thing because my juvies are wearing the same at the moment. Where did you get them from?