Prepare for the most epic tank ever!!!

justinl · #1 04-05-2007, 02:29 AM

lol don't encourage me! ... actually naw i take that back. i really do wan to do this. and i WILL... eventually. if not this summer, then the next. barnacle are hard to keep alive? huh. didn't know that. I thought they would be very hardy... especially if collected from the intertidal.

well i play by the rules, i guess ill get a permit. lol fishmaster, i work at vanaqua. Yeah i know about the strawberries, and i do plan on having some of them too. they are not what im talking about though. these anemones get quite large and are a darker pink with white speckles on the stalk. not colonial. Ill figure it out on saturday when i go back to work. and then of course there's the giant green anemone which would set a nice contrat to the pink/red.

fishmaster · #2 04-05-2007, 02:57 AM

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Originally Posted by justinl

lol don't encourage me! ... actually naw i take that back. i really do wan to do this. and i WILL... eventually. if not this summer, then the next. barnacle are hard to keep alive? huh. didn't know that. I thought they would be very hardy... especially if collected from the intertidal.

well i play by the rules, i guess ill get a permit. lol fishmaster, i work at vanaqua. Yeah i know about the strawberries, and i do plan on having some of them too. they are not what im talking about though. these anemones get quite large and are a darker pink with white speckles on the stalk. not colonial. Ill figure it out on saturday when i go back to work. and then of course there's the giant green anemone which would set a nice contrat to the pink/red.

Too funny, how does a guy get a tour of the back room???nudge, nudge, wink, wink. There's a few amnones like you describe, sounds like the white spotted. Could be the fish eating, but it's foot is solid red with no spots??? The green's are cool too. So many choices.................
As for the barnacles, I bought some used gear off a girl who had a tide pool tank and everything was covered in tiny barnacles. They were doing very well. I think they could be the aptasia of cold water if you wern't carfull. They probably came in as plankton when she introduced fish or spawned in the tank. Who knows?????
Shaun.

Coldwater · #3 04-05-2007, 03:00 AM

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As for the barnacles, I bought some used gear off a girl who had a tide pool tank and everything was covered in tiny barnacles. They were doing very well. I think they could be the aptasia of cold water if you wern't carfull. They probably came in as plankton when she introduced fish or spawned in the tank. Who knows?????

I have those tiny barnacles over everything. They wont go away. What I was saying was that some people will go and get giant clumps of them and they usually die and then mess with the tanks healthiness,

Matt

justinl · #4 04-05-2007, 03:33 AM

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.

justinl · #5 04-05-2007, 04:04 AM

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

Coldwater · #6 04-05-2007, 04:49 AM

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

fishmaster · #7 04-05-2007, 05:05 AM

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

fishmaster · #8 04-05-2007, 05:35 AM

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Originally Posted by The Moray Guy

I have those tiny barnacles over everything. They wont go away. What I was saying was that some people will go and get giant clumps of them and they usually die and then mess with the tanks healthiness,

Matt

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.

justinl · #9 04-05-2007, 06:19 AM

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

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?

fishmaster · #10 04-05-2007, 06:35 AM

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.