Tank Pic Second Shipment

kp1917 · 03/23/2004, 07:37 PM

Thanks everyone for the support during my hellacious cycling process.

Here is the tank.

KP

kp1917 · 03/23/2004, 07:40 PM

That was my first attempt at sending a picture. It looks kinda small, I'll retry later.

KP

jeffbrig · 03/23/2004, 07:46 PM

That's in a 50 gal tank, right? Is that a complete 50g package, or less?

kp1917 · 03/23/2004, 07:47 PM

That's a 50 with one large rock in the octopus tank.

KP

kp1917 · 03/23/2004, 07:51 PM

OK. here goes a larger image.

kp1917 · 03/23/2004, 08:07 PM

Another

Slatts · 03/23/2004, 09:59 PM

Looks great KP, now its time to enjoy.

Bax · 03/24/2004, 12:14 PM

KP

Looks great. How's the octo doing? I have read they can be hard to keep and really hard to keep in the tank.

kp1917 · 03/24/2004, 02:03 PM

The Octopus is not eating, but he's not been in for even a week yet. He has 5lbs of sand and a very nice rock (home). I have a feeder goldfish ready to go and I've thrown in 2 blue legg hermits in and he just hangs in his tank.

I moved the rock around last night and will have a much better picture tomorrow.

hdtran · 03/28/2004, 07:29 PM

Very nice job, Kyle! Beautiful shot!

Sad news, our hitchhiking octopus finally expired. It had stopped eating about 1 month ago, and floated up a couple of days ago. I was traveling, but my wife gave me the news. According to Richard & other various folks, octopi are pretty short-lived (1-2 year life span from egg to old age), so you never know how old the one you've got hitchhiking is.

I'm going to tear down the 5g nano now (home to 1 mantis, destined for the Great Toilet Bowl In The Sky. My wife is not at all squeamish about sending the bad crabs to the GTBITS).

If you can find a hitchhiking red emerald crab, toss it in the octopus tank. The octopus won't go for your goldfish. (Shouldn't feed freshwater fish to salwater animals anyway). You might try skewering a garbanzo-sized piece of raw shrimp or fish on a bamboo kabob skewer, and waving it in front of the octopus, in a dimly lit room. That's about the only way we could get our octopus to eat if he didn't hunt the emerald crabs.

docklink · 03/28/2004, 08:55 PM

Great pics, KP. Looking good. Thank you for sharing and good luck with the Octo.

Hy, sorry to hear about your Octo.

kp1917 · 03/29/2004, 01:20 AM

Hy,

I think that I have two hitchiking porc. crabs. Good catch but I'll try the shrmp waving technique. I moved around rock in the big tank last week and was away this weekend. I have more pictures but I will have to send them from work this week.

03/23/2004, 07:37 PM	#1
kp1917 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Chugiak, Alaska Posts: 192	Tank Pic Second Shipment Thanks everyone for the support during my hellacious cycling process. Here is the tank. KP

03/23/2004, 07:46 PM	#3
jeffbrig Premium Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Ft. Lauderdale, FL Posts: 5,548	That's in a 50 gal tank, right? Is that a complete 50g package, or less? __________________ Beware the power of stupid people in large groups..... Current Tank Info: formerly 250g room divider

03/23/2004, 09:59 PM	#7
Slatts Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Long Island, NY Posts: 286	Looks great KP, now its time to enjoy. __________________ Slatts "I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it... Felt I owed it to them..." Current Tank Info: 44 gl pentagon - 24" deep, 250w HQI 20k, remora, TBS package

03/24/2004, 12:14 PM	#8
Bax Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 5,619	KP Looks great. How's the octo doing? I have read they can be hard to keep and really hard to keep in the tank. __________________ 150 gallon Perfecto with 1500 gph GH overflow / DIY stand-wine bar / Dart Return / SRO XP3000 Ext skimmer / 75 g frag / 40 g fuge / 40 g DIY sump / Orphek P156 & Kessil 150A Current Tank Info: 150 DT/ 40B fuge/ 75g frag/ 40 g sump/ SRO XP 3000 Ext/ TUNZEs & VorTechs circulation/Dart return/ MTC Pro Cal/ UV & Oz

03/28/2004, 07:29 PM	#10
hdtran Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Albuquerque, NM Posts: 846	Very nice job, Kyle! Beautiful shot! Sad news, our hitchhiking octopus finally expired. It had stopped eating about 1 month ago, and floated up a couple of days ago. I was traveling, but my wife gave me the news. According to Richard & other various folks, octopi are pretty short-lived (1-2 year life span from egg to old age), so you never know how old the one you've got hitchhiking is. I'm going to tear down the 5g nano now (home to 1 mantis, destined for the Great Toilet Bowl In The Sky. My wife is not at all squeamish about sending the bad crabs to the GTBITS). If you can find a hitchhiking red emerald crab, toss it in the octopus tank. The octopus won't go for your goldfish. (Shouldn't feed freshwater fish to salwater animals anyway). You might try skewering a garbanzo-sized piece of raw shrimp or fish on a bamboo kabob skewer, and waving it in front of the octopus, in a dimly lit room. That's about the only way we could get our octopus to eat if he didn't hunt the emerald crabs. __________________ Hy D. Tran Required reading: John Tullock's books; Bob Fenner's books. Current Tank Info: 120g with 145# TBS LR, 700W VHO lighting, 5g (24") hang-on Aquafuge, AquaC Remora Pro skimmer, all sumpless

03/23/2004, 07:40 PM	#2
kp1917 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Chugiak, Alaska Posts: 192	That was my first attempt at sending a picture. It looks kinda small, I'll retry later. KP

03/23/2004, 07:47 PM	#4
kp1917 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Chugiak, Alaska Posts: 192	That's a 50 with one large rock in the octopus tank. KP

03/23/2004, 07:51 PM	#5
kp1917 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Chugiak, Alaska Posts: 192	OK. here goes a larger image.

03/23/2004, 08:07 PM	#6
kp1917 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Chugiak, Alaska Posts: 192	Another

03/24/2004, 02:03 PM	#9
kp1917 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Chugiak, Alaska Posts: 192	The Octopus is not eating, but he's not been in for even a week yet. He has 5lbs of sand and a very nice rock (home). I have a feeder goldfish ready to go and I've thrown in 2 blue legg hermits in and he just hangs in his tank. I moved the rock around last night and will have a much better picture tomorrow.

03/28/2004, 08:55 PM	#11
docklink Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Oroville, CA. Posts: 518	Great pics, KP. Looking good. Thank you for sharing and good luck with the Octo. Hy, sorry to hear about your Octo. __________________ Jeff "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." Carl Sagan "It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." Samuel Clemens Current Tank Info: 50G RR Acrylic / DIY 20 gal sump-fuge, Home brew lights (2-175w 10K MH mogul with 2-54w T5 actinic+, ES5-2, mag 9.5, SCWD, TBS "package", true Perculas, RBTA, assorted zoo's, SPS

03/29/2004, 01:20 AM	#12
kp1917 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Chugiak, Alaska Posts: 192	Hy, I think that I have two hitchiking porc. crabs. Good catch but I'll try the shrmp waving technique. I moved around rock in the big tank last week and was away this weekend. I have more pictures but I will have to send them from work this week.