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Seems like lot of the guys have gone out of Business. Has bob imports closed the doors?

Killer skimmers, One of the best i have had. http://jnsaquaria.com/2007html/products/view.php?CatId=17&Model=SK-5&lang=eng

Excellent post, so true, in a price war everyone is a loser. I personally think life stock is too cheap and many hobbyists treat them like disposable items.

the new fees are a real ripoff ,

Here is a good magazine Ultramarine www.ultramarinemagazine.co.uk

Found leopard wrasses are not easy to keep alive for long. Imported many and they keep dying after a few weeks.

Collection should be stopped as they are being collected by the thousand and most of them die due to some disease, I have imported over a 1000 from various exporters and generally I get then same result that they die within a few weeks with some disease. I say stop the collect as it is...

Hobbyist should boycott ventralis as they are pretty hard to keep alive anyway.

Here is a video that shows guys using crossbars to get live rock in Fiji Part.1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fCeK8fU ... re=related part.2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVGH2TI6 ... re=related part.3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIVvmZBp ... re=related

My experience on packing is that shipments are over packed from LA/Hawaii compared to shipments from Indonesia. So far most shipments have a very low DOA rate, almost zero even when packing is tight. The tighter shipments do take longer to acclimatize. I also found that shipping anemoes with...

The book was a let down in some ways as there are far better tanks than what was in the book, some were pretty average.

I am looking for a Marine fish exporter in San Francisco. Can someone please PM if you can recommend any good exporters?

Do you have a link to the proposed changes?

Good information. explains why i lost 70% of my clams from vietnam, which were wild and not cultured. Most clams from vietnam are wild . Its a bad disease. Clams were fine for a week and then started to die off. also killed of some of my clams that i had for over 3 years.

I beleive a good t5s unit will give you more than enough light for many hard corals. Metal halides are bright under the bulb, however on the sides they are about the same as a t5. check out Iwans tank. uses only t5s and he has hard corals down low...