Thanks Emerald Bay

[DMBillies]

Thanks EBay for hosting the meeting. The frags and everything are still acclimating, but the fish and shrimps seem to have made it home safe at the least. Thanks Gary for doing all of the hard work (I look forward to seeing those acro crabs in action). It was nice seeing the new faces and I hope you all had a good time.

 

[turboex901]

ditto, thanks gary for doin all the work while did all the playing also thanks for getting my wife involved in cutting the frags, she had a great time and usually isnt too excited about the tank's maintenance and propogation. she just likes to see the finished product but tonight she experienced a whole different side of the hobby and is more interested than ever. thanks for the brownie points, now frags arent quite as expensive in her eyes BONUS!!!<~~steve

 

[Angela Short]

Thanks a ton for hosting Emerald Bay! I ended up with a cool bright red crab in my table top frag! I hope this is the acro crab previously mentioned! Pretty cool. What do they eat? Can I plop him in my huge table top instead? I can't belive I didn't see him, he is as big as the frag almost.

 

[gflat65]

Thanks Sean and EBay for hosting and donating the corals for fragging (and the extended discount, etc.). I hope everyone got something they wanted. My hands are sore. I never realized Pocillopora have such hard skeletons... Acros seem much easier.

Steve, your wife did a great job getting it to snap the bone. That wasn't easy. I think I'd take that as a warning. She's a strong one, so I wouldn't mess with her too much. It was a pleasure meeting you both, as well as a few other faces I hadn't seen.

Angela-I wondered where that went. That is actually the left over piece of the green pocillopora, I think , Angela. I looked all over for that thing last night (kept going out to the car to make sure I didn;t leave it there...). I have a few other crabs that were still in the dead parts of the skeleton that I'm trying to coax out into an acro or another Pocillopora colony. At least I know where it is now.

 

[Pickupman66]

gary, I should have warned you. pocillipora is very very hard. I had to hack mine up a few weeks ago and holy cow. I had to break out some comercial grade wire snips!

 

[gflat65]

I think it's time to invest in a bigger pair of snips.

 

[eyebedam]

Thats ebey for hosting me & my wife both had a really good time.
The zoas i picked up opened as soon as they hit the water.

 

[Pickupman66]

dremel is a better tool for those. I shot pieces over 10 foot breaking mine apart.

 

[gflat65]

I feared putting someone's eye out. Ginnie got the turn and cover down by the middle of the meeting.

 

[Angela Short]

Oh did I get the wrong frag of someones? I can bring it back if you had that one saved for you. Seein as how you did all the hard work and I just show up to take! Are all the crabs red with a big pincher? What do they eat? Thanks!

 

[gflat65]

I got at least one other crab, so see if he'll keep your sps company. He lives off of slime from the coral. I am pretty sure these guys were predatory. Some think they might actually aid against certain pests (but would only be helpful in reducing numbers, not eradicating, most likely).

 

[Angela Short]

Hmm, I should drop him in the big table top then? I couldn't imagin him living off slime from a tiny frag. But I would probably never see him then KInda neat looking.