almost 35 year old reef pictures

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by conorwynne
Capn,

They look like platys to me, rather than mollies.
Platys won't tolerate SW although they do like slightly alkaline water -- which the rock shelp will do.

Your plants, on the other hand, will not appreciate alkaline water. The plastic ones will be fine though :-)

there are 4 mollies in there somewhere--I'm moving the platys out of there to one of the tanks I'm looking after(and stocking)

[conorwynne]

My sailfin mollies are doing great in the reef @ sg 1.026.

The female gave birth, and five babies are growing in the fuge. I don't feed them but they are eating algae and whatever food makes it down to them.

One thing which I have never witnessed with mollies in freshwater, is the male does not let the female eat. Whenever she tries, he attacks her. Has anyone seen his behaviour?

[Paul B]

If the clowns are doing the mating dance, they are old enough

[TheCoralNabber]

Originally posted by Paul B
I don't think so Capn. He would be more interested in a larger snail or crab so he can stela his shell.
I can't be positive though that he will not kill your other snails.

I have a pair of large 10 or 12 year old hermits and I also have a bunch of tiny ones along with a load of tiny mud snails. They don't seem to bother them at all.
These guys have shells over an inch long, not as large as the one you are talking about but they are many times larger than my other inverts.
They are also spawning.

Paul I've read that hermit crabs haven't been seen breading in aquariums, but yours are spawning. Is it just me, but I've never heard of any hermit crabs spawning in home aquariums. Do you think that this is due to their age or to using NSW, age of your aquarium, or all of the above.

[Paul B]

Do you think that this is due to their age or to using NSW, age of your aquarium, or all of the above.

I really don't know what it is but I think with hermit crabs, you have to be watching for the few seconds that they spawn.
You can't see the eggs on a hermit crab because they carry them inside their borrowed shell. Crabs can also only spawn right after the female sheds. Usually she hides during this time. They go shell to shell and it looks like a tangled dance. It is very hard to see and you have to be looking. Most of the time, when they do this they are fighting.
I have had all sorts of crabs spawn. As a matter of fact, I don't think I ever had other crabs that did not spawn. Fiddler crabs, green crabs and japanese Shore crabs spawn all the time.
Many people are surprised when an animal spawns but all healthy animals that we normally keep, especially crustaceans spawn every month or so. If they are not, they don't have a mate or they are not old enough or healthy enough.

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by Paul B
I really don't know what it is but I think with hermit crabs, you have to be watching for the few seconds that they spawn.
You can't see the eggs on a hermit crab because they carry them inside their borrowed shell. Crabs can also only spawn right after the female sheds. Usually she hides during this time. They go shell to shell and it looks like a tangled dance. It is very hard to see and you have to be looking. Most of the time, when they do this they are fighting.
I have had all sorts of crabs spawn. As a matter of fact, I don't think I ever had other crabs that did not spawn. Fiddler crabs, green crabs and japanese Shore crabs spawn all the time.
Many people are surprised when an animal spawns but all healthy animals that we normally keep, especially crustaceans spawn every month or so. If they are not, they don't have a mate or they are not old enough or healthy enough.

do they keep the young spawn with them as do fresh water crayfish who carry them with their swimmerettes (lower thorax)

[Paul B]

No I think they just swim away when they hatch. I have never witnessed this with hermit crabs. They are tiny and probably do it at night.

[Micki]

I happened to see my emerald crabs spawn one time. It was pretty cool! I have pictures somewhere...

[ddinox64]

Your fiddlers. Not you're fiddlers, the crabs. Are those the same as the ones sold as freshwater? I've thought about them, but that big ol' claw may put the clamp down on something that doesn't move, like a coral.

Capn, Paul. What's the chances of getting you guys to give a breakdown of what's inside? Inverts only, please.

Maybe I'll see if my nephew will come help me carry in the tank in the garage today.

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by ddinox64
Your fiddlers. Not you're fiddlers, the crabs. Are those the same as the ones sold as freshwater? I've thought about them, but that big ol' claw may put the clamp down on something that doesn't move, like a coral.

Capn, Paul. What's the chances of getting you guys to give a breakdown of what's inside? Inverts only, please.

Maybe I'll see if my nephew will come help me carry in the tank in the garage today.

I only eat cheese burgers and kraft dinner---Paul on the other hands eats anything marine--so he is better able to give you a break down on what inverts are in his insides

I have one huge brown brittle star, 5-6 hermits, 12 or so turbos, 12 or so necessarius snails, a tuxedo and pincushion urchin, 2 clams, peanut worms, fan worms, various copopods, ampipods and hydroids all over the glass.

[Aquarist007]

Paul can you have a look at this thread--very puzzling how a 5 inch blue tang could just disappear into thin air

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...4#post15419034

[ddinox64]

Bristles and crabs are the vultures and hyenas of the fish realm.

Wow. I expected more than that in a 110 Capn.

I just got done rinsing two(2) five gallon buckets of sand. One coarse one finer. Got to love that rotten egg smell. Now I have four half full buckets of sand and some nice smooth hands.

Sorry to say Paul. Looks like RUGF is out. Contemplating RDSB there Capn. but my fuge section is rather small. 12x10 with baffles 10" tall(5g) in a 30g standard. Enough? My skimmer took a big hunk of realestate along with the sock.

So I might be looking at a not so DSB. Currently running 3-4" in my 30 and I like the looks of it with the high and low spots and just the rolling terraine look.

I have a ten gallon running in the garage with sand(3-4lbs?) and about 15-20lbs. of rock in it. Got some critters in there too I will use to seed the tank. There's a striped damsel in there I might throw in the thirty while things do their thing, cycling that is. Or do you think it might aid the process? I don't want to put him/her in peril as I've grown fond of it after awhile.

[Paul B]

Your fiddlers. Not you're fiddlers, the crabs. Are those the same as the ones sold as freshwater? I've thought about them, but that big ol' claw may put the clamp down on something that doesn't move, like a coral.

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Capn, Paul. What's the chances of getting you guys to give a breakdown of what's inside? Inverts only, please.

I don't think I understand this post at all. I know I just got in from boating and we got caught in a huge storm after drinking a lot of good Merlot but what is this about inside? Inside what?
The fiddlers I collect are very common here in NY. They live in saltwater on tidal flats in the sand. They are not truely marine in that they need to be out of the water at low tide. If you keep them fully submerged all the time, they don't live long. I have kept them for years in a tank that is half wet sand and half water.

Capn, Paul. What's the chances of getting you guys to give a breakdown of what's inside? Inverts only, please.

Sorry to say Paul. Looks like RUGF is out.

This is good news, I want to keep on having the only old tank on here and I know DSBs just won't cut it

[Paul B]

I just removed a huge mat of sticky algae from my algae tray. There is absolutely none of it in my tank. I love that thing

[ddinox64]

Inside your display. Was wondering about the iverts you keep in it. What and how many.

Was it really a storm, or just good merlot that got that boat rocking?

Speaking of merlot. My wife and I went to Captain Jacks last night for dinner and shared some wine as well as I had a few beers. She had the Cajun black seabass and I had the 32oz. prime rib. Well 16oz. of it. Just finished the other 16oz. of it with some baby red potatoes.

That algae tray/scrubber. It works like Chaeto in a fuge, yes? No?

How'd that boat handle the water? Better than the old?

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by ddinox64
Bristles and crabs are the vultures and hyenas of the fish realm.

Wow. I expected more than that in a 110 Capn.

I needed the space for my fish

[otrlynn]

Originally posted by Paul B
I just removed a huge mat of sticky algae from my algae tray. There is absolutely none of it in my tank. I love that thing

Do you have a link to a pick of your algae tray by any chance? There is a discussion of them on my local reef club forum. Thanks!

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by otrlynn
Do you have a link to a pick of your algae tray by any chance? There is a discussion of them on my local reef club forum. Thanks!

on this page of the original thread

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...&pagenumber=17

[Paul B]

Inside your display. Was wondering about the iverts you keep in it. What and how many.

Thats tough, there are maybe 10 hermit crabs, a few shrimp, a thousand astrea stars, about 10 or 12 corals a few slugs.

Was it really a storm, or just good merlot that got that boat rocking?

Could have been either

Speaking of merlot. My wife and I went to Captain Jacks last night for dinner and shared some wine as well as I had a few beers. She had the Cajun black seabass and I had the 32oz. prime rib. Well 16oz. of it. Just finished the other 16oz. of it with some baby red potatoes.

I had Chilean SeaBass at the wedding on Saturday. They had prime ribs but I don't eat that. But I am a big wine drinker. I even made almost 70 bottles of wine this year. We buy the grapes upstate NY and crush them.

How'd that boat handle the water? Better than the old?

The boat has a much larger cabin that the last boat. We just anchor and go inside. It has heat, air conditioning, stove, fridge, microwave, hot water. What else do I need? I don't care how much it rains.

[otrlynn]

Originally posted by capn_hylinur
on this page of the original thread

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...&pagenumber=17

Thanks Scott, and Paul B. I knew I had seen that picture somewhere before.

[Paul B]

That algae trough has been on here many times.

[jadalewis]

And i haven't seen this pic before. So thank you for sharing it!

[eyesinthedrk]

Originally posted by Paul B
I had Chilean SeaBass at the wedding on Saturday. They had prime ribs but I don't eat that. But I am a big wine drinker. I even made almost 70 bottles of wine this year. We buy the grapes upstate NY and crush them.

am i the only one whos supprised Paul uses graps in his wine and not salmon eggs?

[Paul B]

UMMM Salmon eggs, delicious

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by Paul B
UMMM Salmon eggs, delicious

hamburger helper ===organismic

and a coors light