Anyone have a local fauna tank?

[thebanker]

Just that. Any socal tanks?

 

[thebanker]

Guess not! Maybe I'll start the first one.

 

[RandyFolds]

There are a fair number of people doing it. The big names all seem to be in the northwest though. Look up Steve Weast's stuff. He seems to be the man when it comes to coldwater.

I have a local tank that has been running for maybe five or six months now, but I still wouldn't trust it with a real bioload. The cold slows everything's growth by a shocking amount, and I still wouldn't say that the tank is 'cycled'. Once this portion is online and healthy, I plan on expanding the system with a couple isolated displays plumbed in and housing some fish. I need a sarcastic fringehead pretty badly.

 

[GTR]

I kept a coldwater tank for about a year. That was 10 years ago. I couldn't deal with the condensation or the chiller expense.

 

[thebanker]

I was thinking of running one with no chiller, and just leaving it room temperature. No fish, just some live rocks and inverts. Maybe an anemone that is fed sparingly.

Is that at all possible? I know a guy keeping a 3G picotope with a Catalina goby and some coral, no heater.

 

[marfuerte]

I kept a couple tanks years ago (decades ago actually) before chillers were around in the hobby and it worked. I had nem's, urchins, very small fish from the tidepools. 1 tank was in the window and one had a NO flourescent 40 watt shop lite. I kept an octopus for about 2 months, fed it goldfish and tidepool snails. I figured the tidepools get warmer in the summer sun. Water temp is prolly in the low 60's during summer but really don't know.

 

[thebanker]

I'm really excited about doing something like this. If you see a tall skinny guy with a cooler on a local beach near you, looking geeky and/or suspicious near the tidepools, just move along.

Nothing to see here.

 

[gemini aquarius(t)]

Haha if you want me to catch you stuff legally let me know. Don't risk it from the tidepool. I can get some stuff with a wetsuit and a fishing permit haha. Every once in a while I see a octo too.

 

[RandyFolds]

Haha if you want me to catch you stuff legally let me know. Don't risk it from the tidepool. I can get some stuff with a wetsuit and a fishing permit haha. Every once in a while I see a octo too.

You'd be surprised...a residential fishing permit doesn't go very far, and it rarely allows live harvest, save for snakes and lizards.

 

[gemini aquarius(t)]

Yea, I don't see where it only allows you to kill the stuff.. But I believe it