430gal., L-shaped display

[jnarowe]

Oh, I have been to the dark side and back Andy! :lol: And don't think I don't consider all sorts of specialty breeder projects, specimen tanks, etc. every damn day. My mind is cluttered with that carp.

 

["Umm fish?"]

Thanks, y'all! I finally managed to vote, too. Looks like it might have been my screen name that screwed up the elections before (all those apostrophes and question marks). Sorry....

I hate it when I'm cluttered with carp, BTW. Even just a little sexy shrimp nano tank is mighty cool....

 

[jnarowe]

KNOCK THAT OFF.

 

["Umm fish?"]

Freakin' double post. Well, I might as well do something good with it. More horse shots:

 

["Umm fish?"]

This is just a short video from this morning to commemorate that the filefish are at day 183 in my care, seven months and two days. They've also now been five months today with no access to live coral.

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

 

["Umm fish?"]

Ooops. I meant six months and two days. Dang math....

 

[robexcoral]

how much do one of those fish run

 

[michika]

How about a photo of your microscope set up?

I hate that I have to wait to get home to come check your thread. Blackberry won't place youtube videos reliably, and I hate missing out on the updates!

 

[dtech]

That s great Andy, Keep them going, although I think they will since they are looking great!

 

["Umm fish?"]

how much do one of those fish run

Not very far, but they swim all day long.... They aren't very expensive to buy. Upkeep is really involved time-wise and expensive. Finding something that they are willing to eat is problematic. They eat pretty much nothing but acropora polyps in the wild, so if yours decide to never take to alternative foods then you have to be prepared to feed them acros for the rest of their lives. Mine wouldn't take acros _or_ frozen food 'til they were nearly dead. Then for a long time, they would only eat tiny food out of the water column. So, I had to feed them a lot of really expensive foods many times per day to get them enough to eat so they could put some weight back on. That meant _lots_ of water changes, so lots of labor and lots of money on salt. So, they've already cost me far more than their purchase price. But, they have tons of personality and it's very rewarding to see them spawning and thriving. That's what keeps me going.

How about a photo of your microscope set up?

Sure, Catherine. It looks a whole lot like this bad boy: http://www.celestron.com/c3/product.php?CatID=31&ProdID=516

I also have an old B&L stereo compound and a no-name Russian dissecting scope (tons of working distance under that one) but they both need a good cleaning before I can use them again and it's much harder to take photos with either of them. The optics on the Bausch & Lomb are really nice though.

That s great Andy, Keep them going, although I think they will since they are looking great!

Thanks, dtech! The video was before the first feeding and they were looking all mad at me. "Where's the food?" The male's been displaying all day, though. I don't think the female looks ready tonight, though. Maybe tomorrow.

 

[dtech]

I've been catching my clowns displaying every few days, they did spawn 1 time on the rock below my hairy mushroom. They weren't there the next morning though.

 

["Umm fish?"]

What kind of clowns? My B&Ws have looked like they're just about to spawn for a month now. Nothing. I've heard that B&Ws can do this for years before they settle down (if they ever do).

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Another bunch of horse photos, perhaps? I know you all hate seeing pictures, but I still can't help showing this guy off. His mate doesn't spend nearly as much time near the front glass, but I hope to get some of her soon.

Here's a closer crop of that one:

And a pouch shot:

And one of his tankmates:

 

[melev]

It looks like he's (the Bengaii) holding eggs?

 

[dtech]

They are Occelarus(spelling)Clowns. really really bright colored, they have gotten brighter in the last week or so.
Also great pics of the ponies. My daughter loves horses I keep trying to talk her in to swimmin ponies instead of hayburner ponies

 

["Umm fish?"]

Marc--I think both of 'em might be. I don't hold out a lot of hope for the Banggai making it to term--he's still young and small and these are his first batch of eggs--but he looks nice and fat, so maybe. I need to get a new mate in with my old Papa Banggai. He's huge!

dtech--Good luck with those clowns. I can never seem to get them to spawn, probably because I _really_ want them to spawn. But I've heard of others having trouble with clowns, too. I always seem to have some sort of accident that costs me the pair or one of the pair. No matter what I do, it's always one of the clownfish. I've pretty much decided to just give up on them (as soon as I do, of course, the B&Ws will give me a nest).

And you are right, the swimming ones are much, much cheaper.

 

[dtech]

Yeah I can't get her to grasp the cost part yet, since my aunt has hay burners I take her there to get a pony fix

 

["Umm fish?"]

Hey, maybe your aunt would put another one up? That's the expensive part, after all.

 

[dtech]

Don't let the kid hear that she'll have the place packed with'em.

 

["Umm fish?"]

Sixline wrasse embryonic development series.

 

[finfans]

cool pic of the spit, I enjoyed that!