An early birthday from my awesome wife and kids :love!:

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must be nice !! i had to go bday shopping on my own !!

sweet copperband though.

And a very happy b-day to you Pearson! Nice addition!

Thanks.

Happy belated B-Day to you too Bobby :)

thanks buddy

happy early b-day to you

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wow, ive missed 2 b'days it seems, sorry guys, happy belated.
i hope you were both feeling special for a day, so your wifes were called bob for a night:tongue2:

Thanks V. Nice to see you back amongst the living every once in a while ;)

thanks V ... mine was out of town, but ...

yeah phursty, trying to create the "illusion" im here! lol


Bobby, i dont even want to know whats after the But- cause if your anything like me we wont go there! :rolleyes:

they say "great minds think alike" !!

i guess we have "great minds".

sorry about the mini high jack, Pearson. we will return your thread now.

:hb: Phurst!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lucky boy with a new toy. :tongue2: Awe, just another member of the family to be a slave to. J/K!!!!!!! Great gift. Wow, 2 of my favs having birthdays a few days apart. Wowsers.

V you are still the same pot sturring boyo as always. :rotfl: Bet you hope your birthday is around the corner. Cut and splice V, cut and splice. :up:

Good luck with the CBB. Hopefully you fare better than my woeful track record with 'em.

Thanks everybody!

Jon, I've been telling myself this is a one shot deal. If this one doesn't make it, I'm not even going to try another. Of course I'm lying to myself, but life can get boring if you don't delude yourself every once in a while ;)

Lori, Bobby is my "brother from a different mother", stands to reason we'd have close birthdays. It's funny though, we both keep turning 29 too :)

Twins are you?

Yep, identical ;)

Well, they always say great minds think alike. It's good to have access to a think tank. :D

my brother from another mother !! hows that new fish doing ??

Still alive :)

He picked at some BBS, but ignored the bloodworms. He's out and active though, and not being harrassed by anyone in the tank.

CBB did not make it :(

dang...I know that feeling.

I have adored the CBB since I got into this hobby, but I have yet to figure out how to keep one long term. I have enough aipstasia to keep one happy for a long time, but I'm afraid to kill another one. I may try a Raccoon, and see if I am more successful. I have read that Raccoons can be trained to eat aiptasia also.... we'll see.

Yeah, I was bummed :(

LFS has offered me a replacement, but I'm nervous about trying again...

how to kill a fish in 12hrs - by Phursty Jack, catchy title, just not real pleasant to experience id say. Sorry to here it bud, possible causes?

i wish that i could pinpoint anything that i do to keep them alive for years for you. i know one thing NOT to do ... buy a pistol shrimp with unstable rocks that will pin the CBB between them when the slide a little.

LOL, sounds like you're spealing from experience there Bobby :)

I did a 3 hour drip acclimation, and he seemed OK and active once in the tank, buthe would not eat. I don't think that's quick enoug to starve, but I'm not sure if he was eating at the LFS. Yeah, I know, one of Dick's rules ;)

They've offered one replacement, and that's all I'm going to try.

Bummer, I'm sorry. :cry:

I think most CBBs are WELL into starvation when they get to our tanks. I have read that a lot of wholesalers intentionally starve fish to keep them from "polluting" the shipping water. My theory is that this CBBs just dont tolerate this?

That may well be. I think they don't tollerate stress very well either. The owner of the LFS (who is a great guy) said he' let me kknow when they got one in he knew was eating for my replacement.

Sorry to hear that.