Is this the exciting future of Live Rock? Must See!!!

I was in your neighborhood today. Visited Honeymoon Island. I showed my family your harvesting video in St. John's Bay(?). They were impressed. They live in Trinity and I think I've convince do them to do a tank. How do you handle local purchases?
 
RG Rude said:
I was in your neighborhood today. Visited Honeymoon Island. I showed my family your harvesting video in St. John's Bay(?). They were impressed. They live in Trinity and I think I've convince do them to do a tank. How do you handle local purchases?
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Nice islands huh? St. Joseph Sound is the name of the water way in that area. You were probably at Hurricane pass which in 1920 a storm split the one big island into two seperate islands, Honeymoon Island and Caladesi Island. Both are beautiful islands with clear visibility, sugar white sand and excellent fishing.

I suggest pointing your family to The Tampa Bay Reef Club on here, but definitely get your rock from Richard. Diving tomorrow. :cool:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=72
 
You're welcome. I hear you. Crazy times we live in. Fortunately most of Florida is still the slow life along the coast.
 
Okay I still don't have pics but here is my review a little over a month in. This rock is AWESOME, really just amazing. It has the color, the diversity, the shape...really...it has everything going for it. I went through no cycle, no die off, and have experienced basically no symptoms of a new tank. I can not recommend this enough to anyone. I have several friends who will definitely be using this 2.1 rock on there next setup.
 
I transferred several pistol shrimp to my fuge but I have at least two left in the display. They are not to bothersome though.
 
Mine clicks constantly. I have not found a mantis yet, only pistol shrimp. Lots of crabs, removed most of them, still 3-4 left. Still well worth it.
 
so what's making the clicking sound the crags or the mantis?
any trip and tricks for dealing with them?

I was thinking of setting up a 20L for the rock as a temp. holding tank to try to catch the lil buggers...
 
I dipped the rocks and shook em around a bit before adding them to the tank and found a few but still have some. I doubt I have mantis shrimp, they would peak out. I did catch a couple in the display right after adding the rock. My clicking is coming from pistol shrimp.
 
Devaji108 said:
so what's making the clicking sound the crags or the mantis?
any trip and tricks for dealing with them?

I was thinking of setting up a 20L for the rock as a temp. holding tank to try to catch the lil buggers...
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I did the exact same thing as the gentleman above me. I put about 5 gallons of SW in a bucket, dipped each rock in, then shook and banged it's guts out. Then I visually inspected everything as much as possible with a bright flashlight. (Actually my sure fire light from my pistol.)

After that I was kind of able to pick through the critters and decide their fates.

Even after all that, I still have a lot of loud clicking. I can't find the culprit, which to me means pistol shrimp. Most of the time you can catch a mantis out for a hunting stroll whereas pistols are much more reclusive. Plus IME size for size pistol shrimp are much louder than a mantis. The sheer volume of the clicks coming from my tank would have to come from a pretty decent sized mantis. Probably big enough that it would not evade a months worth of scrutiny.

Not that it's impossible, I've heard some alarmingly loud mantis (mantises? Mantisi?) in the past.

But as the old saying goes. "If I was a bettin man"...
 
I can say only great things on Richard and TBSW, my rock is great my tank cycled after a week I have a clicking noise but its very dim and cant find where is located. Some pictures of my tank yo can see the diffrenece between others live rock and TBSW:




 
Unless your tank is in the bedroom or something, no need to remove pistols. They don't hurt anything. I actually like hearing that sound once in a while. :)
 
d2mini said:
Unless your tank is in the bedroom or something, no need to remove pistols. They don't hurt anything. I actually like hearing that sound once in a while. :)
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Yup, them purchase a goby to form that symbiotic relationship and have some fun.
 
d2mini said:
Unless your tank is in the bedroom or something, no need to remove pistols. They don't hurt anything. I actually like hearing that sound once in a while. :)
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saf1 said:
Yup, them purchase a goby to form that symbiotic relationship and have some fun.
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yup it is in my bedroom... :(
the tank is already load the GH over is a noisy and if I add a few clicking postal shrimps to the mix I might not get any sleep...
booo
 
Mine is out in the living room around the corner and the little SOB wakes me up at least once every night.

SNAPSNAPSNAP!!!
 
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