Anyone in for Tampa Bay Saltwater order?

[eyebedam]

If you wait tillmonday ill be in. Leaving for flordia in 3 hours.

 

[Angela Short]

I couldn't get any real soon but maybe next month I would be in for about 10 lbs of the best, 15 of the base. Don't really need it just can help out if need be and can put it in a 29

 

[boodwah]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7012963#post7012963 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by eyebedam
If you wait tillmonday ill be in. Leaving for flordia in 3 hours.

I think I will wait a bit until you and Angela are ready. The more the merrier, or cheaper I should say.

Have fun in Florida!

 

[rcmike]

FWIW, if it is Florida rock it should not have aiptasia on it. There is another type of anemone that looks similar that is sometimes on it but it isn't nearly as invasive. I had some on my gulf view rock and they just died out eventually. I have a really cool occulina coral that came on a piece. From what I understand you can only get this coral on live rock since you can't collect it.

 

[Angela Short]

Here is a nice pic of a hitchicker I pulled out of some rock last year. Yes he was huge! He lives at wooglins house in a nano to himself now.

 

[boodwah]

Is that one of the infamous gorilla crabs?

 

[Angela Short]

I never got a definative ID on him but he did take stabs at passing fish and would crawl up and set ready for one to get close. SWFish.c.. sells what looks exactly like it as a teddy bear crab but they are not very cuddly looking to me. I have always read anything hairy is probably not safe. He was in a big QT and basically got so hungary he was easy enouph to get out cause I barley was feeding the fish and he was not getting scraps.

 

[wooglin]

I have Angela's HC in a Nano Cube with a Damsel. He is quite docile, but I keep him fed. He is about 2 1/2 inches in diameter. I also have about 10-15 hc's im my dispaly tank, 3-4 mantis shimp, 2 pistol shimp, and who knows what else. I have never lost a fish from the predatory crabs and shrimp, that being said I keep my tank well fed. I try to keep a more natural reef, and they are part of a natural reef. The only thing missing is a fish that eats corals, my corals dont grow fast enough to tolerate that, but in nature they keep coral from overgrowing and blocking to much light from itself killing out the base, natural fragging.