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bigmac · #1 01-11-2009, 09:44 PM

Here is a thread I'd like to start to show the most often asked about item(s) in our tanks. Here are three items that my friends ask about the most when they visit (with some of the questions they ask).

Elephant Ear - "Is that an anenome?" Or my personal favorite "so then it must be related to a venus flytrap?"

Starfish - "Is that thing going to shoot poison darts out of it's spikes?"

Goby - "How much nutritional value does he get from just eating sand?"

bigmac · #2 01-22-2009, 02:41 AM

I now have larger pictures posted! Photobucket is a wonderful thing.

danny zubot · #3 01-23-2009, 02:49 AM

I can only answer #1 and #3. Elephant ears are in fact a species of mushroom, but all mushrooms are distant cousins of anemones. So you could say that they it is an anemone, but to acurate, call it a "shroom".

The nutrition a goby can acquire from a sandbed can support it quite well in my opinion. I hardly ever feed my tank and my gobyis nice and fat, and I don't even have a sandbed. It feeds on detritus from the bottom of the tank.

Hope this answers some of you questions.

Danny

fooser · #4 01-23-2009, 03:11 AM

This is the one I get asked most often about since it sits right on my sand in the front. Hairy Blue mushrooms with green base. There is 3 of them in this picture, each opens to about 4" diameter across. Never seen another one around ever.

Keri · #5 01-23-2009, 03:36 AM

My candy cane. "Wow, that's really neat, it's fake, right?"

fishoholic · #6 01-23-2009, 04:11 AM

For some reason I can't think right now of what my non reef friends say. However the first comment I usually get from a fellow reefer seeing my tank for the first time is "Holly biggest Salfin ever!" He's 10" long and about 2" fat

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Boomboy · #7 01-23-2009, 07:36 AM

well it was one big fish.

bigmac · #8 01-23-2009, 02:46 PM

I hope my sailfin gets that big someday; however then I'll need a much bigger tank than my 100.

Danny-Thanks for the answers; however those questions were the most asked by my non reefer friends.

Keep em coming!

MikeP · #9 01-23-2009, 04:19 PM

Here's the Carpet Nem I used to have (unfortunately he ate to many fish so he had to go).

People would ask,

So you feed him prawns, really?

How would he ever 'catch' a fish?

and

How come he doesn't eat that crab who lives on him?

Marlin65 · #10 01-23-2009, 06:57 PM

I alway get a kick out of "you don't have very many fish"
Even though your tank is loaded up with corals.