430gal., L-shaped display

[jnarowe]

you may see a drop-off in egg production going forward as they seem to go crazy when introduced to new water. Sort of a surviavl thing I assume. Those ceriths are going to get wack dude...start lining up breeders you can send them to. Plus, Brian Plankis is always looking for more for the network, so stay in touch with him. Based on what I have seen of your systems and husbandry, you will be taking over my position as the main supplier into the network.

 

["Umm fish?"]

These aren't the ceriths that you sent me, actually. These are the cerith sp. #3 that I used to have thousands of, but whose population crashed right before we moved back in. I literally only found three or four still alive. They are much smaller than the ceriths you sent. Your ceriths were laying a bunch of eggs in there, though.



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Oh, it's time for another FTS update. Sorry for the algae on the glass, I need to get a razor out because that stuff is not responding to the magfloat.

Last time I posted a FTS, people asked if I could also post a large version. I don't want to waste a lot of bandwidth, so here's an URL. It's about 400k.

http://www.ummfish.com/FTS_6-15-09_large.jpg

As you can see, the nasty algae is finally giving up and is wasting away. I did a nitrate check this morning and I'm still at 0, so that's where it's going. Still at zero and I feed the tanks 3-5 times/day. Go figure.

 

[legndairywon]

Everything looks great! Very Jealous of all the room you have to spread out!

 

["Umm fish?"]

Thanks! I hope the corals grow into big colonies. I like that look.

 

[dtech]

I bet they will get huge in there that will look great, The fts is great too it's a ton of room in there.

 

["Umm fish?"]

I like lots of swimming room. If I don't plan for it early everything grows up too quickly and the fish wind up with no room. So ... it looks empty for a little while. I keep telling myself, "Patience, grasshopper."

 

[murfman]

One of our members, down here in the Springs, built a 14' long acrylic tank. His new powder blue loves swimming in that thing!!!!

 

["Umm fish?"]

Oh, yeah. Calvin's thread rocks. I actually have one of his old tanks (the 40 cube).

 

["Umm fish?"]

Starter cultures came in today.

Here's a comparison photo between (left) Acartia tonsa (a pelagic copepod and, unfortunately, really too fast to get a good photo of), (center) a sixline prolarva, and (right) the markings on a millimeter scale.

And here's a short video of small strain rotifers (4x magnification):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFSNujomB8Y

 

["Umm fish?"]

Here's another little video:

Acartia tonsa, in culture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZswCr3vrf0

 

[rEd86]

Andy, are you sure you're not a biologist/chemist? These images and videos are incredible. We're able to see/learn so much from what you are documenting.

--Ed

 

[dtech]

I think you may have missed your calling Ed is spot on Amazing as usual!

 

[jnarowe]

typsetter my butt. he probably works for the CDC. :lol:

 

["Umm fish?"]

I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV.

I admit, I took a lot of philosophy of biology classes (mostly arguing with creationists, I'm from the south). Does that count?

Wow! As I was writing the above, I looked up at another window on my moniter and there are the harlequin filefish spawning!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8K8bCiy92w

I've now been taking care of them for 170 days, just shy of six months.

 

["Umm fish?"]

And.... Harlequin filefish eggs!

 

["Umm fish?"]

And one more round, this time with microscope shots.

4x

10x

 

[dtech]

Congrats! Must be keeping them super happy.

 

["Umm fish?"]

Thanks!

Hey, I don't know if you all are interested, but here's a comparison of large strain and small strain rotifers.

These are all shot at 10x magnification.

 

[melev]

I just keep coming back for all your updates. It's very interesting.

 

[graveyardworm]

Excellent photos Andy as always, and congrats on the Filefish spawn. Are you ready to attempt to raise this batch. Sorry if I missed it in an earlier post.