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Live Rock & Sand
  Presented by Charles & Linda RaabeMactan Island, The Philippines© 2009 All Rights Reserved   Besides acting as a major component of our filtration, Live rock, Base rock and sand also provides...
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A Hitch Hikers Guide to the Reefs - Worms
 By Charles & Linda RaabeMactan Island, The Philippines © 2009  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED   The vast majority of worms will prove to be harmless or at the least, a predator of other small worms and...
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A Hitch Hikers Guide to the Reefs - The Zooplankton
By Charles & Linda RaabeMactan Island, The Philippines© 2009  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED   At one time or another, usualy just after the addition of live rock or live sand, every one of us has noticed...
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A Hitch Hikers Guide to the Reefs - Starfish & Sea Urchins
 By Charles & Linda RaabeMactan Island, The Philippines© 2009  All Rights Reserved    While it is not usualy important to identify a starfish or sea urchin down to the species level, it is...
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A Hitch Hikers Guide to the Reefs - Snails, Slugs & Nudibranch
By Charles & Linda RaabeMactan Island, The Philippines © 2009  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED   Most of us think of snails and slugs as being harmless grazers of algae but the vast majority of those found...
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A Hitch Hikers Guide to the Reefs - Odds & Ends
 By Charles & Linda RaabeMactan Island, The Philippines© 2009  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED        Cephalochordata -  Known as lancelets or as amphioxus (from the Greek for "both [ends] pointed....
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A Hitch Hikers Guide to the Reefs - Crabs
By Charles & Linda RaabeMactan Island, The Philippines © 2009  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED   I have never found a crab yet that has hitchhiked into my tank that I would consider reef safe. The only crabs...
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A Hitch Hikers Guide to the Reefs - Corals / Polyps
By Charles & Linda RaabeMactan Island, The Philippines © 2009  All Rights Reserved   As with the numerous other types of life that can be found on and within live rock, it is also common to find...
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A Hitch Hikers Guide to the Reefs - Anemone
By Charles & Linda RaabeMactan Island, The Philippines © 2010  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED   I have yet to find a hitch hiking anemone that was not considered to be either a pest or dangerous to fish,...
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A Hitch Hikers Guide to the Reefs - Algae & Bacteria
  By Charles & Linda Raabe Mactan Island, The Philippines ©2009  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED   There are of course, many other organisms that may arrive within our systems as hitch hikers within and...
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