"Exotic Coral" 3600g Personal Aquarium

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12566025#post12566025 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chrismunn
stienbeck or stienhart? i had tried to go to stienhart when i was in S.F. a couple of weeks ago, but it was closed down untill they get the new academy of science up and running in goldengate park. its supposed to re-open in september. unfortunatly im not going to be back in CA untill at least march '09... :(

I think you are correct:) Never been to the place, only heard from others.

This is a picture taken from my breakfast area(inside my house) with 70-230mm lens. It has lots reflections
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Edward,
Eddie is an incredible person; he has no fears. He goes to places and doing things that lots people would love to do but didn't/couldn't.
He, Tyree, Hunter, Ming, Dr Le were the people that I got my sps fever in the late 1990's and early 2000.

Here, looking from right to left.
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Last one, and thanks all for the encouragements, info, e-mails/pm's, and suggestions. I hope you are enjoying my reef as much as I do:)
Sorry for taken so long to post new pics, just got a little lazy.

I got this ritteri in late last summer, and here is a picture of it after it has been in my refugium for a few wee
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Here it is tonight, the one on the left
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Years ago, I saw a rainbow colored ritteri on a field dive trip. I have been looking for one like it ever since. This one turned out to have the spectrum of a rainbow but am not able to capture all its colors.
What I wanted to share is that an anemone/coral kind of like people, give them good environment, most will thrive and become some thing of spectacular. For the anemones lovers, don't worry about getting a brown anemone, as long as its healthy. You may be surprised how it will thrived and become some thing awesome and magnificent:)
 
Just out of curiosity, do you use quality marine as a supplier? Or do you have a good friend on the inside? Great system and I completely agree with the analogy you made above.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12570395#post12570395 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by AQUA DAVE
Just out of curiosity, do you use quality marine as a supplier? Or do you have a good friend on the inside? Great system and I completely agree with the analogy you made above.

Thanks.
No I don't know any one at Quality Marine, but would not mind if they would contact me:)j/k

I do get direct shipments from family, friends, and some contacts in Bali and other Indo Pacific Regions. Dr Le at the Aquatic Gallery in Milpetas, Ming at the Atlantis, Hunter at the Lucky Gold Fish in Oakland, and Tyler at the Dolphin Pets are some of my favor places for sps and anemones locally. I also have gotten some quality anemones /corals from Jimmy at The Fish Collection in Placentia Ca recently.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12573073#post12573073 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chrismunn
very, very beutifull shu tin! :) hopefully we can see monthy progress pics? ;)

I'll do my best:) I was a little over whelmed by some recent issues, but your guys' support and enthusiasm has motivated me not to give up and to do more. I set up a new breeding area for 2 pairs clowns in the refugiums today and am thinking of getting a pair of A.chrysogaster when things are more stable in the coming months.
Thanks, you all!
 
I am having a horrible time getting mags that haven't been torn and then shipped in a gallon of stagnant water for a couple days. I have a 215G with another 200 for refuge and sump/frag system at my office that I am making a clown mag. tank. I also order from Ming at Atlantis for some frags and have gotten one of two mags that were healthy. How exactly do you acclimate your mags? I drip them and add a drop of lugols to the water.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12575682#post12575682 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by AQUA DAVE
I am having a horrible time getting mags that haven't been torn and then shipped in a gallon of stagnant water for a couple days. I have a 215G with another 200 for refuge and sump/frag system at my office that I am making a clown mag. tank. I also order from Ming at Atlantis for some frags and have gotten one of two mags that were healthy. How exactly do you acclimate your mags? I drip them and add a drop of lugols to the water.

There was a guy"just joe" on RC, and he had posts that he advocates antibiotic treatment for mags. I tried it but have not seen significant changes in survival rate and that may be just me or my specimen. In the majority of cases, the anemone has gone to a point of no return so antibiotics will not help. I can't find the thread for you at the moment but it is here some where on RC.
Any ways, I think a healthy specimen is the key. You may have to be patient(difficult to do), and wait for the right one. If you see a brown but other wise healthy one, go ahead and get it. If your tank condition is right, the colors will surprise you once it established. This has happened to me several times. In my personal experiences, it is lot easier to color up a mag than an acropora colony. HTH
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12573315#post12573315 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by shutiny
I also have gotten some quality anemones /corals from Jimmy at The Fish Collection in Placentia Ca recently.

you live that close to me? sweetness. jimmy sells huge nems. maybe i will meet you sometime when i come every monday ;) nice tank shu.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12579420#post12579420 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by abereefur
you live that close to me? sweetness. jimmy sells huge nems. maybe i will meet you sometime when i come every monday ;) nice tank shu.

No, I just go to Jimmys/SO Cal, but I don't live any where near Placentia. I am in Monterey, South of San Jose.
 
Shu Tin, your tank is absolutely stunning, and a demonstration of what a hobbyist can do with a lot of time and money, and some serious dedication. Congradulations indeed on this stunning tank!

I have one serious reservation about your collecting of Ritteri's(not on IUCN list yet) I have read quite of number or articles where Ritteri's are frowned upon for collecting for this hobby. Quite a few state that their extremly difficult to keep and shouldnt be attempted by hobbyists within the confines of a home aquairum. Obviously your home aquairum rivals most public aquairums not just in size, but livestock, and having a dedicated reefkeeper to maintain the huge responsibility in lifeforms you have taken on, but my question gets back to something I read in a few articles pertaining to Riteri's.

I read that Ritteri's in the wild do not reproduce sexually frequently, and that often an outcroping of a Riteri's in the wild is a collective colony of clones and not sexually reproduced offspring. So while your out scoring the seas for new colorful Riteri's do you think your robbing the ocean's of future outcroppings and homes to clowns? I'm directly quoting a document I have listed in reference below"In the wild this fish will die if it does not have a host anemone.

I see on your website that your opening page that you post all the benefits of coral reefs, but more importantly the importance of preserving them. I have to ask what role do you think your playing in all of this? I know all of us play a role, but your tank being of such a large size and containing some very rare anenmones is in someway an example, but what example is it?

My meaning is this; I know public aquairums contain large volumes of water and tremendous livestock, but they also offer this to the public, so that people can be aw inspired and educated to help protect these places. Your tank being at home in your residence, what role is this large display playing in this education and protection? or is it just the exaggeration of what we all do on a small basis which is keeping a small piece of ocean to either enjoy looking at, watching it grow, perform husbandry, or just noodle around with DIY projects ( I tend to fall into all these categories)

I also would be curious if you've though of contingency plans, what if your not around to care for these precious creatures? Most aquariums have a trust or an ongoing source of revenue to maintain their creatures as well as mutual benefit programs with other aquairums. I read in one of your posts you were thinking of moving and leaving the tank. What of the livestock? What of the responsibility to the livestock?

I know we all take these risks, I have myself lost fish and corals through impulse purchases or just natural predation in my home aquairum and I feel the loss whenever I buy new items. I think to myself what impact on the worlds oceans does my end play? I have to ask on such a large scale, how much greater is the impact we play?

I don't want you to think I don't love your tank or admire your dedication to your creatures, but these questions I am asking keep comming to mind, every time I see bigger and bigger home aquairums. I wonder what benefit they play for that same aw inspiring effect that public aquairums play with regards to what they consume and take away from our oceans and the natural habbitat of these creatures.

Cheers
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here are some links

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/marine/inverts/cnidaria/anthozoa/hetmagnifica.htm

http://www.ci.manhattan.ks.us/DocumentView.asp?DID=1557
 
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DV0920 you did catch the fact that shu tin has successfully propagated these anemones in her tank her intention is to be able understand them and their requirements better in hopes that one day we can farm them commercially without the need for collection in the wild.

Also she has a Guy who does the maintenance and upkeep, she is not at her home enough to do it all herself.
 
BASED ON THE BEHAVIOR OF ALL THE CLOWNS i HAVE EVER SEEN, THEY WILL HOST IN AN OLD SHOE, A CLAM, TUNICATE, OR ANY OTHER SEEMINGLY UNSUITABLE PLACE. I DOUBT HIGHLY THAT CLOWNS ARE DYING BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO ANEMONE TO LIVE IN.
 
I did Nick, but I saw she stated she planned on propgating the carpet anenmones, but I was refering to the Ritteri's particularly. If I missed that aspect I truly apologize, but some of my questions are still valid ones for a tank this size. I apologize if in anyway my questions seem rude, that was not my intetion. I was trying to get at the nature of very large aquairums, as opposed to public ones, and research ones.


Jnarowe, Ha I agree with you 100% mine have host in everything from xenia to their current clay pot, but this is because there is hardly any clown predation in our mild tanks, in the wild, clowns would cease to exsist without host anenmones. You can't unvalidate thousands of years of evolution with a hobby sorry.

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