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Sitting here at the pool at the resort... In Hawaii. Sitting at the pool maybe 100 feet from the ocean. What is wrong with my kids?

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Thinking back on this . It’s the same reason why you take the kids to a campground right next to a mountain, suggest “hey kids let’s go hike the mountain. It’s a beautiful perfect day for it”. And you get a response or lack thereof of them on their phones and tablets….
 
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I don't know that I've ever seen a full grown Berghia. I was moving a couple of rocks trying to finish this tear down and found 2 Berghia that were over an inch. I also found 2 smaller Berghia. Beautiful colors when they're not just plain dull grey.

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The colors don't really show up here but the cerata really fluoresce a neat yellow/green under blue lights.
 

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I don't know that I've ever seen a full grown Berghia. I was moving a couple of rocks trying to finish this tear down and found 2 Berghia that were over an inch. I also found 2 smaller Berghia. Beautiful colors when they're not just plain dull grey.

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The colors don't really show up here but the cerata really fluoresce a neat yellow/green under blue lights.
I need to get some of those. I'm having trouble keeping up nuking them.
 

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I don't know that I've ever seen a full grown Berghia. I was moving a couple of rocks trying to finish this tear down and found 2 Berghia that were over an inch. I also found 2 smaller Berghia. Beautiful colors when they're not just plain dull grey.

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The colors don't really show up here but the cerata really fluoresce a neat yellow/green under blue lights.
I need to get some also. My Peppermints are turning out to be troublesome. While they are taking out smaller aiptasia, they also took out a gold hammer after I feed it. I can't feed the LPS now until I design and print some shrimp-proof LPS feeding domes.
 
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I need to get some also. My Peppermints are turning out to be troublesome. While they are taking out smaller aiptasia, they also took out a gold hammer after I feed it. I can't feed the LPS now until I design and print some shrimp-proof LPS feeding domes.
These are those ones the guy in Goodyear gave me for free. They've bred a couple of times I think. I'm going to drop one or two of them in the 70. Not sure if it's worth it to you to drive up here for 2 or 3 of these guys but I'd gladly give them to you. Once I tear down the 125 they're just going to die.
 

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These are those ones the guy in Goodyear gave me for free. They've bred a couple of times I think. I'm going to drop one or two of them in the 70. Not sure if it's worth it to you to drive up here for 2 or 3 of these guys but I'd gladly give them to you. Once I tear down the 125 they're just going to die.
If you want to try breeding them for fun and profit I'm sure a couple of LFS here have spare aptasia in their tanks
 
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If you want to try breeding them for fun and profit I'm sure a couple of LFS here have spare aptasia in their tanks
I've got plenty of that! I don't have room. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:
 

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These are those ones the guy in Goodyear gave me for free. They've bred a couple of times I think. I'm going to drop one or two of them in the 70. Not sure if it's worth it to you to drive up here for 2 or 3 of these guys but I'd gladly give them to you. Once I tear down the 125 they're just going to die.
Tim, that is a generous offer. It actually would be worth it except that I don't think I can be ready for them soon enough. It seems you need to move them on fairly quickly.

My understanding is that the Peppermints will probably hunt and kill the nudis so I would need to get the three Peppermints out before I could add them. I think I would need to basically de-rock the tank to catch them at this point. That is certainly not out of the question and I will probably end up doing it sooner, rather than later. I have some translucent pink PETG that I bought for a non-reef product that I thought I would try to make little domes to put over the LPS corals when I feed them to keep the Peppermints at bay. Come to think of it maybe I could rig them s traps somehow to catch the little blighters. I'm sure my LFS would welcome them.
 
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Tim, that is a generous offer. It actually would be worth it except that I don't think I can be ready for them soon enough. It seems you need to move them on fairly quickly.

My understanding is that the Peppermints will probably hunt and kill the nudis so I would need to get the three Peppermints out before I could add them. I think I would need to basically de-rock the tank to catch them at this point. That is certainly not out of the question and I will probably end up doing it sooner, rather than later. I have some translucent pink PETG that I bought for a non-reef product that I thought I would try to make little domes to put over the LPS corals when I feed them to keep the Peppermints at bay. Come to think of it maybe I could rig them s traps somehow to catch the little blighters. I'm sure my LFS would welcome them.
I have enough Aiptasia in the tank I'm tearing down I could probably set up a small tank with rock and sand with plenty of Aiptasia to hold them for a while.

Let me know.
 

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I have enough Aiptasia in the tank I'm tearing down I could probably set up a small tank with rock and sand with plenty of Aiptasia to hold them for a while.

Let me know.
Will do. I just wound up some work that is going to free up some tank time, hopefully. I'll go on the hunt soon.
 

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