My Pearl Goby just died ☹

Here is a picture of him:

If you like Apple Machintosh computers like I do, and you have recently purchased a MacBook Pro you'd also be frustrated at the increased delay (20-30 seconds) when trying to sleep the notebook. My G4 usually went to bed in 2 seconds. Since I very regularly need to take my notebook with me to meetings and clients, I use sleep intensively. The reason for the increased delay is NOT due to the Intel architecture. It has everything to do with a feature called SafeSleep. The idea is basically to save a snapshot of RAM just before sleeping, but instead of turning off the notebook it goes to sleep. If you turn it back on before the battery goes out, it will resume from volatile memory. Otherwise, if it dies due to battery running out then when turning it back on, it will resume from the saved RAM image - just like hibernate in the Windows world. In my scenario, my notebook is never suspended for longer than a couple of hours. This means the likelyhood that the battery will run out whilst suspended is very close to 0. So I did the following to reset the system to the behaviour prior to MacBook Pro's and whichever vesion of Mac OS X that introduced this feature:

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
sudo  rm /var/vm/sleepimage    # Optional but reclaims disk space

My Feather Star lost the center piece of it’s body - I assume this is where the mouth is located. This means it will die shortly since it cannot feed anymore. Lesson learnt - if the literature says an animal is IMPOSSIBLE to keep alive, trust them. You are not more special than the guy next door. Stop buying these animals then hopefully they will be left on the reefs where they belong.

At the end of September I started a new tank - a predator fish only tank. The idea originally was to use the QT tank for this purpose once I had a fully stocked main reef aquarium, but then a couple of things happened that made this unpractical.

Firstly, the QT tank is too small for the fish I actually wanted - the Volitans Lionfish. That fish can grow up to 38cm, and need a turning area of the same width. The QT tank is only about 32cm wide...

Secondly, if I convert the QT tank and one of my fish become ill? And what will happen to the new members of the FOWLR tank since they cannot be quarantined?