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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2013 15:20:52 GMT -5
ash, I think for Jim coral is his Vitamin "C". He needs to make a couple trips a year and bring another ton or two home so he can get his fix cooking it into natural works of art. His health and demeanor seemed to have imporoved with the new coral oven. This all seems very healthy for him.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 4, 2013 15:22:50 GMT -5
3. WHAT IS A CORAL POLYP? Most corals consist of many small polyps living together in a large group or a colony. A single polyp has a tube-shaped body with a mouth which is surrounded by tentacles. The polyp of hard corals produces a stony skeleton of calcium carbonate (limestone or chalk) beneath and around its base. Often the skeleton forms a cup-like structure in which the polyp lives. The CORAL POLYP shown at the right is cut away to show the gut and the skeleton beneath the polyp. A skeleton without its polyp is shown at the right. When feeding, particularly at night, the polyps stretch out their tentacles to gather food. During the day, or when threatened, the polyps withdraw into their protective cups. Part of a coral branch is shown here.... The tentacles have small stinging cells called nematocysts, which can shoot poison spears into small animals drifting by. These animals (called zooplankton) are used as food and are passed to the mouth by the tentacles. The drawing at the left shows an enlargement of part of a tentacle. Two stinging cells are shown. The top cell has not fired its poison spear. The bottom cell has fired its poison spear into a small floating animal. Only a few corals, such as the fire corals (actually hydroids), have stinging cells which are powerful enough to affect humans.  Besides capturing food drifting in the water currents, coral polyps get food from small plant cells (called zooxanthellae) which live inside their tissue. The plant cells use sunlight and nutrients in the sea water to produce food which is shared with the coral. The plants gain shelter and the corals gain food from this relationship which is call symbiosis. Corals therefore, like plants, require sunlight for photosynthesis and can only live in clear, brightly lit waters
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Post by panamark on Oct 4, 2013 16:16:55 GMT -5
Good catch on the polyps vs corrallites. I should have known better, but I was being lazy/careless. Plus everyone knew what we meant (almost everyone) and that is the point right? (cringing professors). James, are any of your critters missing an eye? Or is this just some lunch you missed, LOL.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 4, 2013 16:43:34 GMT -5
Amy corrected me on the polyp/corallite def. I need to know that but i need to use polyps as that is the laylanguage around here. You will laugh Mark if you know what that round thing is. First of all congrats on the eagle eye sight. It is all of a hole in the stainless restaurant pan. Look to the right to see more holes. Another at the top-center and a bit to right. Great imagination again Mark. Whilst we are hallucinating, some of those rocks are chunks of salmon meat.....
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Post by jamesp on Oct 4, 2013 16:58:35 GMT -5
ash, I think for Jim coral is his Vitamin "C". He needs to make a couple trips a year and bring another ton or two home so he can get his fix cooking it into natural works of art. His health and demeanor seemed to have imporoved with the new coral oven. This all seems very healthy for him. I am lucky to have thousands of nursery pots. i have samples and before/after heat stuff all over. I heat a batch and then can not figure which dang rock was the show stopper. Out of 30 - 5 gallon buckets of rock. I am very happy w/the results. It looks like a painters palette. I like playing with colors. They had to take the spirograph away from me. I collect prisms and had built a polarizing box to see color stratifications in clear styrene plastic and all kinds of other stuff. This can be done with 2 lenses of polarized sunglasses one above and one below styrene subject. When one lense is rotated the stress patterns run all over. It is like your lizards Scott. The color mesmerizes .
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Post by Fossilman on Oct 4, 2013 17:30:07 GMT -5
Holy "polyps" Batman!!!!!!! That is freakin' totally awesome Dude!!!!!! Thats a two-Thumbs up James!
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Post by carloscinco on Oct 4, 2013 17:32:09 GMT -5
That pretty much gilds the lily! Sweet coral made sweeter!
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Post by jamesp on Oct 4, 2013 19:39:16 GMT -5
Thank you two. Gilded lily is exceptional.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2013 18:21:13 GMT -5
ash, I think for Jim coral is his Vitamin "C". He needs to make a couple trips a year and bring another ton or two home so he can get his fix cooking it into natural works of art. His health and demeanor seemed to have imporoved with the new coral oven. This all seems very healthy for him. I am lucky to have thousands of nursery pots. i have samples and before/after heat stuff all over. I heat a batch and then can not figure which dang rock was the show stopper. Out of 30 - 5 gallon buckets of rock. I am very happy w/the results. It looks like a painters palette. I like playing with colors. They had to take the spirograph away from me. I collect prisms and had built a polarizing box to see color stratifications in clear styrene plastic and all kinds of other stuff. This can be done with 2 lenses of polarized sunglasses one above and one below styrene subject. When one lense is rotated the stress patterns run all over. It is like your lizards Scott. The color mesmerizes . I need to find a source of nursery pots locally. Jim, you need to build you one of these:
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Post by jamesp on Oct 5, 2013 20:26:18 GMT -5
A rectangular spirograph-yo. They came up with a super spirograph. Linear + round. Not like this device though. It has a brain.
You can try growers. They have piles of used ones and often like to give them away.
Look up Dillon and Nursery Supplies. They are big guys. I special order pots w/out holes. But have changed that practice due to cost.
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Post by snuffy on Oct 5, 2013 22:16:59 GMT -5
Fine looking coral you got there!! snuffy
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Post by quartz on Oct 5, 2013 22:45:01 GMT -5
That slab is really 'sumpin. Enjoyed all the explanatory reading too. Thanks all. Larry
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Post by jamesp on Oct 6, 2013 0:10:30 GMT -5
I guess i need to hunt for corallites on future trips Larry.
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Post by ash on Oct 6, 2013 12:24:55 GMT -5
ash, I think for Jim coral is his Vitamin "C". He needs to make a couple trips a year and bring another ton or two home so he can get his fix cooking it into natural works of art. His health and demeanor seemed to have imporoved with the new coral oven. This all seems very healthy for him. LOL at this...more rocks for healthy living? I'd buy that for a dollar
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Post by jamesp on Oct 6, 2013 13:40:01 GMT -5
Scott could make a stump laugh. He owns the forum(in his own way).
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Post by ash on Oct 6, 2013 15:31:14 GMT -5
That Avatar he has now does freak me out a bit...my subconscious is like, what the hell is going on in that pic YO? Then I always look lol
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Post by jamesp on Oct 6, 2013 16:05:21 GMT -5
Scott has always had a fetish for eye ware. I think he has lived in California too long or LA smog has got to him.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2013 18:22:44 GMT -5
we have lots of growers but I will try Dillons & NS, thanks for the lead. I need them here to classify cutoffs.
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I found local dillens supplier - what size ya think? I need no holes for my use. #3 ? #5 ?
you da man!
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Post by snuffy on Oct 6, 2013 18:36:09 GMT -5
we have lots of growers but I will try Dillons & NS, thanks for the lead. I need them here to classify cutoffs. Do you know any landscapers?Many pots after planting trees and bushes. snuffy
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Post by jamesp on Oct 6, 2013 18:37:50 GMT -5
10-4. I am generating a ton of categories. From a single location and small area. Aspergers syndrome is taking my mind over. The graphite pencils stays on for 63 years. Great for marking the rocks.
They make graphite rod about 16 inches in diameter and 15 feet long in N. Carolina. They are used as contact electrodes to melt a crucible of steel scraps to a liquid in a hurry.
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