just picked up a peacock!!!

[BALISTIK]

great success!!! hes about 3 inches, very nice i will have pics up soon!


my hydrometer is reading at 1.027 at 75 degrees. Is this an addaquet range for this guy before i acclimate? on roys list it said 33 or so psu. i tried looking for the conversion but no luck. can any1 help me out?

ps, one of my buddies says peacocks like a higher salinity but i want to be sure. thanks yall!

 

[abrahamcho]

wow thats high. THat is no bueno bro... it was to be around 1.023~1.024. MIne was about to die when i put it in ar 1.027...

 

[Gonodactylus]

I am to keep my animals at 1.024 to 1.025. 1.027 is high, but animals could live in it. The problem is the osmotic shock they would suffer in transferring them to the hypersaline water. The easiest solution is to add enough deionized water to bring down the tank two parts per thousand.

I'm not sure where the information comes from that O. scyllarus does best in hypersaline water, but in my experience keeping them and collecting them at many locations, there is nothing that suggests this.

Roy

 

[Jeff]

35 ppm=1.025 if I remember correctly. I am not sure how a mantis would like high salinity. Oceans dont raise/lower that much.

 

[BALISTIK]

thanks for all the help yall. i did some more researching and before i acclimated him, i got it to just under 1.025

hes very active already moving things around, so fascinating!!


i will have some pics up very soon!!

 

[ArgonDreams]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11301733#post11301733 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Engine 7
35 ppm=1.025 if I remember correctly. I am not sure how a mantis would like high salinity. Oceans dont raise/lower that much.

This isn't the complete truth here. Work into the Salinity and ocean changes is still very much in the works. In fact SSS measurements worldwide (and specific to the indo-pacfic) show it varies wildly from 32-37 ppt. Including rapid changes from some studies to the next.

So in short, collection aream is the best measure of where a specific species will survive best in. Find out where it was roughly collected and compare to the salinity of that area. However as a general rule 1.023-1.025 is probably the safest without hard knowledge of your animal.

 

[Mr31415]

35ppt = SG of 1.0269

 

[BALISTIK]

pics!!

pics!!

 

[HookedOnReefing]

Nice find! Congrats
How is she doing?

 

[justinl]

Re: just picked up a peacock!!!

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11300981#post11300981 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by BALISTIK
great success!!! hes about 3 inches, very nice i will have pics up soon!


my hydrometer is reading at 1.027 at 75 degrees. Is this an addaquet range for this guy before i acclimate? on roys list it said 33 or so psu. i tried looking for the conversion but no luck. can any1 help me out?

ps, one of my buddies says peacocks like a higher salinity but i want to be sure. thanks yall!

hydrometers suck. This is not an uncommon problem. for example my hydrometer reads an actual salinity of 1.025 as 1.018. so dont trust it, get a refractometer. or do what i do and calibrate the hydrometer once a month so you know what number on the scale to aim for.

 

[BALISTIK]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11747310#post11747310 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by justinl
hydrometers suck. This is not an uncommon problem. for example my hydrometer reads an actual salinity of 1.025 as 1.018. so dont trust it, get a refractometer. or do what i do and calibrate the hydrometer once a month so you know what number on the scale to aim for.

i have the red sea one that also tells me the temperature. how would i go about calibrating it?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11744808#post11744808 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by HookedOnReefing
Nice find! Congrats
How is she doing?

he is doing great. He successfully molted around the new year and hes very active. last night he caught the blue damsel that was in my tank for well over two months. I was shocked because i thought they were best friends and he never really seemed interested in her but wow, he just came out of no where and pop pop pop. very exciting!!

 

[justinl]

you actually got to see the mantis attack the fish? so cool. My O.s. killed a chromis a while ago... didnt get to see it though.

it's real simple to calibrate a hydrometer actually. the idea is that hydrometers are not accurate, but they are consistent (consistenly off by the same amount if that makes sense). So just get a sample of sea water of the salinity you want (NSW or by a good refractometer) and take a reading (you might want to take a couple readings just to be sure it's consistent). You know the actual salinity, and now you can see what the hydrometer interprets that value as.

for example, my tank is at a salinity of 1.025. My hydrometer reads that as 1.018, so when I make water or mess with my tank, I aim for a reading of 1.018 (ie actual salinity of 1.025).

it's cheaper and easier than using a refractometer all the time. I recalibrate once a month because hydrometers can change what they read over time.

 

[BALISTIK]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11804140#post11804140 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by justinl
you actually got to see the mantis attack the fish? so cool. My O.s. killed a chromis a while ago... didnt get to see it though.

it's real simple to calibrate a hydrometer actually. the idea is that hydrometers are not accurate, but they are consistent (consistenly off by the same amount if that makes sense). So just get a sample of sea water of the salinity you want (NSW or by a good refractometer) and take a reading (you might want to take a couple readings just to be sure it's consistent). You know the actual salinity, and now you can see what the hydrometer interprets that value as.

for example, my tank is at a salinity of 1.025. My hydrometer reads that as 1.018, so when I make water or mess with my tank, I aim for a reading of 1.018 (ie actual salinity of 1.025).

it's cheaper and easier than using a refractometer all the time. I recalibrate once a month because hydrometers can change what they read over time.

YES! it was sooo coool! I had soaked some krill in selcon and i was feeding the loose bits to the damsel. As I was doing this, Curtis, came out and about since he could taste/sense the food in the water. He looks around a bit, swims up towards the glass fluttering his swimmerettes and just going crazy. Next thing i know he zips towards the damsel and gave her a good smack in mid flight. Damsel gets dazed but before she knew what hit her Curtis pounced on her (like in the ufc) and gave her 3-4 more cracks and thats all she wrote. I was shocked yet at the same so excited. It was truly amazing. :eek1:

 

[BALISTIK]

Updated Pic of Currtttiiiiiissssss

Updated Pic of Currtttiiiiiissssss

Curtis getting up close and personal. This picture was taken just after he molted (around the new year) Notice the color changes from the other picture i posted to this one.

it's also cool to see the hairs and detail of his antennae. so amazing!

 

[VaderWS6]

Re: Updated Pic of Currtttiiiiiissssss

Re: Updated Pic of Currtttiiiiiissssss

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11804278#post11804278 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by BALISTIK
Curtis getting up close and personal. This picture was taken just after he molted (around the new year) Notice the color changes from the other picture i posted to this one.

it's also cool to see the hairs and detail of his antennae. so amazing!

Thats great! One of the few creatures that were just recently added to our planet by aliens. :strooper: