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10-02-2010, 03:24 AM
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sandbed flora and fauna
if it's diversity you're looking for you should really go to your local saltwater stores and ask them to give you a bit of their sands every once in a while. they have all those corals and things that come to them every so often from everywhere that their tanks and sandbeds are probably full of diverse lifeforms.
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10-02-2010, 05:02 AM
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Hi Ken,
To give you an idea how specific some of the sand requirements are, the amphipod that I mentioned before requires a grain particle size of 0.113 mm. Not 0.110 mm, not 0.115 mm, but 0.113 mm. Unless a local saltwater store has a dsb with varying sand grain sizes and zero sand sifting creatures, I doubt that they will have some of the animals that I am looking for. What I am looking for is a source where I can obtain more sand bed animals that would typically not be found on live rock.  Thanks, Mitch
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10-02-2010, 05:12 AM
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Hey Mitch, I'm not sure I'm reading the page right .. the stuff IA is listing there seems reasonably common hitchhikers? Spagetti worms, mini-brittle stars .. bristleworms, stomatella, all seem reasonably common enough to find amongst hobbyists? (You could have any number of those out of one of my tanks if you wanted. Not so sure about peppermint shrimp or microstars though - unless he means asterina..)
Not that I would want to talk you out of getting some from Morgan, the guy's been in business a long time selling those "kits" so I assume he's onto something.. I was just curious if there was something I wasn't seeing..
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