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Gregcoyote
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The bluff off the end of Cayman Brac. Took one of my trusty drones with me.
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The bluff off the end of Cayman Brac. Took one of my trusty drones with me.
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Dary421
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Don't worry , we covered you on the drinking part .. 
I think you said it was many many years since you were diving down there ., did it change much or was it as you remembered ?
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This is a place where time moves in slow motion, that's why I love it. Hardly anything changed in 16 years.
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redsea
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So very cool! Looks like a fun time.
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Saved that pic, probably print it and put it on the wall of the fish cave
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Cool. I'm posting a "under and over" video of the Brac as soon as I edit it. Shot everything in 4K.
I took one of my less expensive drones as I knew I would be flying in areas where any problem meant the total loss of the aircraft. Still a pretty nice camera on board.
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Cool. I'm posting a "under and over" video of the Brac as soon as I edit it. Shot everything in 4K.
I took one of my less expensive drones as I knew I would be flying in areas where any problem meant the total loss of the aircraft. Still a pretty nice camera on board.
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Beautiful video! Did you use a GoPro with the drone or something different?
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Autel Robotics X-Star. It has its own camera system. It's one of several drones I sell.
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Dary421
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Omg !!! Gregory that was outstanding !!! Beautifully executed... My hat is off to you and your drone flying .
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Thanks Dary.
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Was researching clown fish and saw this. Interesting.
Other sea life that are known to change their gender include wrasses, which is a type of fish, and moray eels. Unlike clownfish, wrasses switch from female to male with the largest female switching to male and taking over a group of females.
As mentioned, clownfish form a symbiotic relationship with the sea anemone they live in. The clownfish eat various small invertebrates and algae that could harm the anemone. Their feces also serves to help fertilize the anemone. The sea anemone offers a great deal of protection for the clownfish from predators. The clownfish also gets food in the way of scraps from the anemone’s food. The clownfish return the favor by using their bright coloring to lure fish into the anemone, which are then killed by the anemone’s poison and eaten, with the scraps going to the clownfish. Finally, it is thought that the clownfish’s frequent activity in and around the anemone provides better water circulation, which helps the health of the anemone.
It isn’t exactly known how the clownfish survive the anemone’s very potent poison. It is thought that the mucus coating their skin must be made up of some sort of sugar compound, rather than of proteins, which perhaps makes it so the anemone doesn’t recognize the clownfish as a potential food source and so doesn’t sting them. Clownfish are also somewhat resistant to the toxins in the anemone, but not wholly. When directly exposed to the toxins, when it penetrates their mucus layer, they will die like any other fish.
Clownfish live in warmer water regions in the Indian and Pacific oceans. They can particularly be found in the Great Barrier Reef and in the Red Sea.
Because clownfish breed so easily in captivity and exhibit near constant, quirky activity while awake, they have become extremely popular aquarium fish.
Occasionally, humans can also change sex naturally, at least in terms of changing external body parts. In the vast majority of these cases where the change occurs naturally, a human born with female genitalia, will turn male after puberty. This is usually due to a 5-alpha-reductase deficiency (5alpha-RD-2) or 17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency (17beta-HSD-3). Even more rarely, a person born with male parts will naturally turn female after puberty. How this occurs from a genetic standpoint isn’t currently well understood. It can also occasionally happen that a male or female human can be born with the opposite body parts and general physical appearance than their chromosome pairs indicate.
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Other sea life that are known to change their gender include wrasses, which is a type of fish, and moray eels. Unlike clownfish, wrasses switch from female to male with the largest female switching to male and taking over a group of females.
As mentioned, clownfish form a symbiotic relationship with the sea anemone they live in. The clownfish eat various small invertebrates and algae that could harm the anemone. Their feces also serves to help fertilize the anemone. The sea anemone offers a great deal of protection for the clownfish from predators. The clownfish also gets food in the way of scraps from the anemone’s food. The clownfish return the favor by using their bright coloring to lure fish into the anemone, which are then killed by the anemone’s poison and eaten, with the scraps going to the clownfish. Finally, it is thought that the clownfish’s frequent activity in and around the anemone provides better water circulation, which helps the health of the anemone.
It isn’t exactly known how the clownfish survive the anemone’s very potent poison. It is thought that the mucus coating their skin must be made up of some sort of sugar compound, rather than of proteins, which perhaps makes it so the anemone doesn’t recognize the clownfish as a potential food source and so doesn’t sting them. Clownfish are also somewhat resistant to the toxins in the anemone, but not wholly. When directly exposed to the toxins, when it penetrates their mucus layer, they will die like any other fish.
Clownfish live in warmer water regions in the Indian and Pacific oceans. They can particularly be found in the Great Barrier Reef and in the Red Sea.
Because clownfish breed so easily in captivity and exhibit near constant, quirky activity while awake, they have become extremely popular aquarium fish.
Occasionally, humans can also change sex naturally, at least in terms of changing external body parts. In the vast majority of these cases where the change occurs naturally, a human born with female genitalia, will turn male after puberty. This is usually due to a 5-alpha-reductase deficiency (5alpha-RD-2) or 17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency (17beta-HSD-3). Even more rarely, a person born with male parts will naturally turn female after puberty. How this occurs from a genetic standpoint isn’t currently well understood. It can also occasionally happen that a male or female human can be born with the opposite body parts and general physical appearance than their chromosome pairs indicate.
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guppygourami
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I remember learning that as a kid. Didn't believe it then, since they also told us that all fish lay eggs and pretty fish only live in saltwater.
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Lots of stuff broke this week. One of the Red Dragon pumps on the big Vertex skimmer crapped out. Motor got crazy. New pump $400 at Bulk Reef, but found on a forum that the exact same motor came in a pond pump available on Amazon for $150. Sure enough, after 2 minutes of disassembly I had the exact motor in my hands. Took minutes to get the skimmer on line, then found the Octopus collection system had broken, the electronic cutoff box stays cut off permanently. So have to fix that. One of the LED fixtures on the ATS quit. Joe had to get me a new one under warranty. My moving light over the frag tank broke, had to fix that. Yikes. I'm crusty with salt.
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Lots of stuff broke this week. One of the Red Dragon pumps on the big Vertex skimmer crapped out. Motor got crazy. New pump $400 at Bulk Reef, but found on a forum that the exact same motor came in a pond pump available on Amazon for $150. Sure enough, after 2 minutes of disassembly I had the exact motor in my hands. Took minutes to get the skimmer on line, then found the Octopus collection system had broken, the electronic cutoff box stays cut off permanently. So have to fix that. One of the LED fixtures on the ATS quit. Joe had to get me a new one under warranty. My moving light over the frag tank broke, had to fix that. Yikes. I'm crusty with salt.
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Sniperhank
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Go on vacation and come home to a mess. And some people say vacations aren't long enough lol. It's a good thing you know how to tinker your way around most of these things Greg.
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I would be seriously hosed if I didn't. I know I'm lucky I have the engineering and science background, as doing a reef on a larger scale without some skills would require you be very rich.
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Dary421
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Kinda sounds like what I came home to last year from Hawaii ,... No worries you'll get everything back to snuff in no time
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Still plugging along. Modified my ATS. It came with 4 Chinese floodlights that all failed within 3 months. I added my own lights that consist of 480 1 watt LEDs that both illuminate the algae surface better and panels last years. Not suitable for the reef, but for this application they work great. Also looks more compact.
Anybody still out there?
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Still plugging along. Modified my ATS. It came with 4 Chinese floodlights that all failed within 3 months. I added my own lights that consist of 480 1 watt LEDs that both illuminate the algae surface better and panels last years. Not suitable for the reef, but for this application they work great. Also looks more compact.
Anybody still out there?
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Sniperhank
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Pretty daily, but the economic recovery doesn't help much. This was the waterfall ats you got?
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