G. Ternatensis Tank Build!

Hey Gary,

Get this... we just cranked up the heat two a whopping 70 degrees. I know, how decadent, right?

The 25 gallon mantis tank started to creep up to 80 degrees and the chiller came on. I suspect that chiller will get a lot of use this summer.

I've been preaching to the pico reef community about the need for chillers on tiny pico reef tanks for a while now, and I knew this tank would require one, but I didn't expect it would need it this much. So, there you are. Most AIO tanks should have chillers, IMO. I didn't expect it would come on at 70 degrees ambient though. Just goes to show you how effective evaporation is at cooling tanks. Either go topless/fan with an ATO or go with a chiller.

I find lower evaporation helps keep salinity more stable. For example my 10 gallon tank with the fan and an ATO requires that you monitor salinity regularly and make minor adjustments. You wouldn't think it should mater, but somehow, the salinity slowly drifts off course. But we're talking 2 gallons of evaporation per week in a 10 gallon tank. That's quite a lot per volume of water.

I feel like it's important to have a skimmer on a covered tank to keep the water properly oxygenated. I guess it's all a trade-off.
 
You know the sound it makes is a sound used in many trailers for movies already usually parts that have mechanical things moving one particular instance and trailer representing this is from the recent movie 'Battleship'.

I already have plans of making this trailer utilizing the music in it, you can hear throughout the trailer that there is almost a "Stomatopod sound" used for the effects throughout it, specially at the start.

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I have started to go into talks with a person on youtube famous for his own movies to see if he can help me recreate true motion pictures using stomatopods and other movies etc.
 
Kharn said:
I have started to go into talks with a person on youtube famous for his own movies to see if he can help me recreate true motion pictures using stomatopods and other movies etc.
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Wow, full motion? I have a hard enough time getting my mantis to sit still long enough to get a decent static photo. I've had the tripod and my camera with the big zoom lens trained on the tank all day and he's decided to just muck around in the back area behind the rocks.

I can't imagine getting any sort of moving shots of them and adding them into a trailer.

By the way, did you notice that Youtube took down you first trailer for "copyright infringement"? I was showing them all to my fiance last night in reverse order and the first one wouldn't come up.
 
Islandoftiki said:
Wow, full motion? I have a hard enough time getting my mantis to sit still long enough to get a decent static photo. I've had the tripod and my camera with the big zoom lens trained on the tank all day and he's decided to just muck around in the back area behind the rocks.

I can't imagine getting any sort of moving shots of them and adding them into a trailer.

By the way, did you notice that Youtube took down you first trailer for "copyright infringement"? I was showing them all to my fiance last night in reverse order and the first one wouldn't come up.
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I'm going to respond to this comment in my thread as I do not wish to derail the owner of this thread :), look to my thread for your response.
 
Chuck moved into the custom live rock home that I had drilled out just for him.

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Don't worry. If there is one fish that can survive with a smasher it would be a Damsel. I had one that would almost share the burrow with my O. Scyllarus. It would sit there and wait for scraps. I have a Domino Damsel now that also almost goes into the burrow. They are hardy.
 
Here's Chuck posturing for the camera. He got really interested in the big white cell phone being shoved in his face. Not sure if this was a little bit of threat posturing or not. I'm seen him to all-out threat posture and this isn't it.

 
Ok, funny observation:

I've tried showing Chuck videos of other mantis shrimp, emerald crabs, shrimp and other prey with my smartphone and he's never really shown any interest.

Until the other day. I showed him the above video of himself and that got a big reaction. He came out of his cave and straight up to the acrylic and did a full aggression posture at it. This lasted for a couple minutes before he gave up and went back into his cave.

Pretty interesting that he was able to identify what was on the screen.
 
New stuff in the the tank this week!

I removed the more aggressive azure damsel to make room for a local reefer friend's yellow clown goby that has a penchant for eating expensive LPS. Only the expensive ones, mind you. The goby and the non-aggressive damsel hit it off immediately and have been hanging out together.

The aggressive damsel went back to the LFS and was traded in for a clown fish. After three hours of being in the tank, all three fish were hanging out together and have been in a little group ever since. It's really cute!

Here's a new full tank picture:
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These are the fish:


Chuck is eating what I feed him again after his molt. Here are some pictures of his old dactyls and telson that he discarded:
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