Your Humble opinion please??
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Topic: Your Humble opinion please??
Posted By: scubadave
Subject: Your Humble opinion please??
Date Posted: January 08 2005 at 2:08pm
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I have a huge green carpet anemone about 18 " round when happy, He's been with me around 7 years and sort of the mascot of my tank ( Guest love to watch him eat ) The Problem is lately I've been adding some small fish that seem to be doing fine, never sick and eating well, But they seem to disappear into thin air (Water) So far 6 green chromes,1 Mandarin goby, 1 lawn mower blenny,and 1 dart fish. I have a lot of rock work and not sure if the anemone is the culprit but they usually show up when I feed and recently there seems to be more and more vacancies at the dinner table. I've only seen the Carpet catch one fish and that was a Naso Tang that I considered suicidal. I hate to part with this beauty but I do want to have a reef Tank with lots of coral and fish. Such a dilemma What should I do ??? ------------- My Tank 220 Reef 4-400 watt metal halides 2- 72� V.H.O. 2- 1200 GPH Pumps My Pride & Joy Tremonton,Utah |
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Posted By: pmpt
Date Posted: January 08 2005 at 2:10pm
| Get bigger fish |
Posted By: reptoreef
Date Posted: January 08 2005 at 2:18pm
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Yep... and concentrate to build up your invert population(corals, etc)... adding the fish(SLOWLY) as a final touch(like icing on the cake). ------------- www.captivereefing.com |
Posted By: Adam Haycock
Date Posted: January 08 2005 at 3:25pm
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I added a green carpet a month ago and it has already eaten two of my chromis. It is only about 8-10" in diameter, but can easily eat a 3-4" goldfish. Dave, what do you feed yours? im having a bit of trouble getting mine to eat. It likes mussle and goldfish, but nothing else ive tried. ------------- 
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Posted By: Adam Haycock
Date Posted: January 08 2005 at 3:26pm
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Oh, i was told to avoid small fish or ones that like to perch on rocks. -------------
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Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: January 08 2005 at 3:29pm
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Get a second tank. Adam ------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |
Posted By: j's55
Date Posted: January 08 2005 at 4:03pm
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I agree w/Adam just get another tank and plum it to your
system you have now just a thaught ------------- Josh Zorn 45G reef lots of tropical plants Cell it 910 3924 |
Posted By: Simple
Date Posted: January 08 2005 at 5:46pm
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Hello everyone,
Which do you like more? Personally I think an 18" carpet is cooler than any fish you could replace it with. Hope that helps, Chris ------------- Ascult� tot, dar nu crede tot. Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see. |
Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: January 08 2005 at 5:54pm
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I agree with Chris on that as well. Adam ------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |
Posted By: pmpt
Date Posted: January 08 2005 at 6:05pm
| If your looking for some fish. Try some Clarkii clowns. I've seen them in a carpet anenome before. They look so cool in them also. |
Posted By: scubadave
Date Posted: January 08 2005 at 6:28pm
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BananaTropics I feed him Krill and Goldfish. I have a turtle tank (55Gal) Upstairs that in my kids room that I keep goldfish in between the Red Eared Slider & the carpet they eat 20+ goldfish a week. As far as another tank goes I just sold a 90Gal & 180Gal and I'm not about to go down that road again! I want to put all my extra cash in my 220 Reef. So I think I'm going to go with Jason on this one and concentrate on corals and not fish. I guess I can't say I won't go down that road again, as my wife has got me putting up a seahorse tank as we speak, But I'm justifying that as also am gaining a refugium with it. Thanks for your Input, I got to admit that I'm surprised that you all didn't want me to rid the carpet. I do have 2- Clarki's,2 Tomato,1 True Pecula that love him ton's Thanks again my friends Dave ------------- My Tank 220 Reef 4-400 watt metal halides 2- 72� V.H.O. 2- 1200 GPH Pumps My Pride & Joy Tremonton,Utah |
Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: January 08 2005 at 7:15pm
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my wife has got me putting up a seahorse tank as we speak... What is it about women and seahorses? I've had tanks for years and my wife has never showed a bit of interest, but when she sees seahorses in other people's tanks or at the LFS she begs me to buy one. I don't get it I got to admit that I'm surprised that you all didn't want me to rid the carpet. I think you really should get that carpet out of your tank as soon as possible, before any more damage occurs. Being the kind person I am, I would be willing to offer him a home ------------- Jon https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6y_EzjI_ljbIwf2n5uNzTw" rel="nofollow - What I've been doing... |
Posted By: j's55
Date Posted: January 08 2005 at 7:29pm
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I am interested in watching him eat. Hey out of curiosity
how do you place your corals in a 220 ------------- Josh Zorn 45G reef lots of tropical plants Cell it 910 3924 |
Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: January 08 2005 at 9:02pm
See Suzy's post below. Adam ------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |
jfinch wrote:Posted By: scubadave
Date Posted: January 08 2005 at 9:16pm
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Josh, You generally get wet to your arm pits If things go bad you brake out your mask and snorkel HeHeHe Adam, It's all Suzy's fault that I'm going into the Seahorse B.S. (Business) Thanks Suzy ------------- My Tank 220 Reef 4-400 watt metal halides 2- 72� V.H.O. 2- 1200 GPH Pumps My Pride & Joy Tremonton,Utah |
Posted By: scubadave
Date Posted: January 08 2005 at 10:50pm
My Anemone thanks you ------------- My Tank 220 Reef 4-400 watt metal halides 2- 72� V.H.O. 2- 1200 GPH Pumps My Pride & Joy Tremonton,Utah |
Posted By: Suzy
Date Posted: January 09 2005 at 7:22am
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You guys need to rid of all that other stuff and get some really
cool things in your tanks! Dave, where are you getting your aquatic equines from? |
Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: January 09 2005 at 11:51am
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Suzy is having trouble uploading a pic, so she asked me to do it....
------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |
Posted By: Suzy
Date Posted: January 09 2005 at 12:06pm
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Tell me they are not the coolest fish on this planet?!
Ozzy is such a flirt! He flashes his pouch all the time!
He is such a stud!
Thanks, Adam! |
Posted By: scubadave
Date Posted: January 09 2005 at 3:31pm
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Suzy: I was hoping that the wife and I would be able to take you out to dinner some evening and pick your brain and take notes That is if you could think of something other than the male species He is such a stud! ------------- My Tank 220 Reef 4-400 watt metal halides 2- 72� V.H.O. 2- 1200 GPH Pumps My Pride & Joy Tremonton,Utah |
Posted By: Weimers
Date Posted: January 09 2005 at 4:10pm
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I'm glad you're keeping the carpet! It is really gorgeous. Looks well-fed, too. (I couldn't resist.) Suzy's photo is fantastic!! Wow - those colors. What a cute couple! ------------- Renee and Damon Weimer Tankless in Hawaii |
Posted By: scubadave
Date Posted: January 09 2005 at 4:49pm
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They are a cute couple aren't they How's Renee, Is Damon coming home soon? I've not seen Diana on the MB lately ( The girl with the Britney Spears belly The frags you gave me are doing AWESOME Thank You! Your the coolest giving up lunch and making a friend My Tank is coming to life big time since I've meet all you wonderful people. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, ------------- My Tank 220 Reef 4-400 watt metal halides 2- 72� V.H.O. 2- 1200 GPH Pumps My Pride & Joy Tremonton,Utah |
Posted By: Weimers
Date Posted: January 09 2005 at 5:41pm
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Well, you're awfully cool too! When is our first Northern WMAS HotTub Party??!!??
You're quite welcome!! Your mushrooms are multiplying in my tank, I think. Oop... am I allowed to say that on a message board...? ------------- Renee and Damon Weimer Tankless in Hawaii |
Posted By: Suzy
Date Posted: January 10 2005 at 7:04am
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Yahoo! Damon is coming home! be sure to let us know, after
you are done welcome home smoochin! Dave, we could have Pizza in the fish room! Let me know when you are free! |
Posted By: Suzy
Date Posted: January 12 2005 at 11:07am
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Surprise! Ozzy delivered last night!
A stud and a baby machine! You gotta love a fish like that! Mark, I need my rots back! |
Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: January 12 2005 at 11:48am
Yes I would like to know as well. Adam ------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: January 13 2005 at 11:09am
 
But I also remember you let them go saying that the little horses eat BBS anyway, so rotifers weren't that important.  Do I remember wrong?------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member 
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Posted By: Weimers
Date Posted: January 13 2005 at 12:32pm
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Okay, I'll try again.... so Dave & Kym.... when can we have a Northern WMAS HotTub Party? But guess what? I ordered a hot tub. So maybe we can have it at my house! Sometime after the 20th, which is when Damon should be back. ------------- Renee and Damon Weimer Tankless in Hawaii |
Posted By: jglover
Date Posted: January 13 2005 at 12:34pm
| Nice to know that hardship duty pay is being well invested. Enjoy the nice tax return as well. Tell Damon we're proud of him. |
Posted By: Suzy
Date Posted: January 13 2005 at 3:22pm
| Just teasing, Mark! I fed the other bottle and we're cool! |
Posted By: Weimers
Date Posted: January 13 2005 at 9:14pm
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I hope it's a nice tax return. Certainly was a shock last year. I thought a hot tub might have a positive return on investment value. I'll tell Damon what you said, but he might read it here, anyway. ------------- Renee and Damon Weimer Tankless in Hawaii |
Posted By: faviasteve
Date Posted: January 18 2005 at 12:07pm
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Dave, Do you have any moonlights? I've read that most fish get eaten at night because they accidently swim/drift into the anemone when they are asleep or groggy. I suppose fish adapted to bright reef light have poor night vision. Try a few blue christmas lights at night and see if the eating continues. Steve ------------- Steve Burton Logan, Utah |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: January 18 2005 at 6:31pm
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A bed of anemones would be hard to crawl out of in the morning!
Hey let's do a separate thread of sealife jokes and sayings. ------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member
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Posted By: scubadave
Date Posted: January 18 2005 at 11:52pm
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Renee: Sorry we haven't been following this thread and just seen what you wrote Kym and I would love to get together for a hot tub party when Damon returns your place or ours don't matter. Will we be able to drink Margaritas and Pucker in your tub Hot tub breaking in party with fish geeks what could be better Suzy: We'll get together soon sometime around meeting time or first of the month sounds good to us or maybe we will meet in Renees new tub and share Puckers Hot tubers, Bikers, & Fish geeks what a wonderful world this is.
------------- My Tank 220 Reef 4-400 watt metal halides 2- 72� V.H.O. 2- 1200 GPH Pumps My Pride & Joy Tremonton,Utah |
Posted By: scubadave
Date Posted: January 18 2005 at 11:57pm
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Steve: I haven't tried moon lights but I seen a thread that Bruce started and I think I'm going to try that. P.S. Keep them eyes open for the biggest baddest clam out there "K" Thanks Kym & Dave ------------- My Tank 220 Reef 4-400 watt metal halides 2- 72� V.H.O. 2- 1200 GPH Pumps My Pride & Joy Tremonton,Utah |