ahhh yeah i can see how a clump of them would quickly mess with water quality if they die from malnutrition or something. In the lab i work at, the giant barnacles sometimes die. WHen you take the shell out of the water, it smells like hell on fire. whoooo. thank god for flow through systems. if not for the constant water changing, im sure we would have already crashed quite a few tanks.

if over fed im sure barnacle could quickly take over a tank... Ill have to be careful about that.

yeahhhh that's the one. white spotted rose anemone. I love those

Holy crap. At the beach by my house there is one of those white spotted rose anemones that has been there for like two and a half years now. I can only get to it when the tide is really low. The thing is sooooo cool.

Matt

You guys are getting me pumped to start my local tank.

This just reminded of a funny story. When I was a kid, I thought I would start a local tank. No chiller or fancy gear. First I packed home aprox 33 gallons of seawater. I lived about 5 blocks from Rocky Point Park. Quite a task. Then I started packing home shiner pearch, staghorn skulpins, crabs, ect...Everything was living for the next day.so I went for some more livestock. I couldn't resist a huge ball of mussels, likely several hundred of them. Next day.....WOW did it stink. Major death. Then my mom made me pack everthing right back where I got it.
Shaun.:mrgreen:

Shaun when you say rocky point park do you mean in Port Moody?! i live about five minutes from there! hehehe tank o death. nice. ah well we all learn. some just choose to do so the hard way :mrgreen:

sounds like there used to be a lot of life there. recetly though i think there's been too much pollution and crap for that much life to thrive. Not much alive in there that ive seen but a few moon jellies, shore crabs and a nice rainbow coloured slick. Nothing i would put in my tank at any rate.

matt, two and a half years? nice! how big is that bad boy?

Port Moody all the way!!!!Lived on Henry Street at the bottom of Gatensbury hill for 20years. There was a fair amount of life down there when I was growing up...not really that long ago. You'll find alot more life around say Balcarrra or even Barnett beach. I used to fish off the all the docks within a good bikeride. Rockypoint fills up with spawning shiner pearch in the summer and we used to catch searun cutthroat, starry flounder, asst skulpins, ect... down there too. I used to catch 3 spined stickle back off the rocky point dock and dump them into a freshwater tank. They'd be spawning within a week! Pretty cool. I think that success may have been what lead to the Tank o death!!!!
Shaun.

ahahahahaa awesome yet sadly true I had my first tank like that. Just without the smell. As for the anemone its about the size of a grapefruit. In like two days I set up the chiller!

Matt

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...umpsuckers.jpg

words.....cant.......express.........awesomeness.. ....YAY

Matt

yay lumpsuckers! my fave fish at the aquarium. actually, my fave bony fish ever lol. I showed my mum one of those to convine her to let me have a coldwater tank and this was her reply "why would you want to keep leeches?" ... wth. took a while to explain that it wasn't a bloodsucking slug.

can we get some pics of the chiller set up and a current fts? what kind of pump do you use for the chiller?