The Glorious Sea Apple Pic Thread [56k Death]

[rabidcrab]

Hopefully im not the only one who loves sea apples. Here are my pics.
DONT FORGET TO SHARE YOURS!

My Phillipines apple is bigger than a football when inflated all the way. Never seen one bigger! :]

And the other one is a strange purple one i have, its feeder feelers are weird, they arent branchy like normal apples.

Im lookin for a Royal Apple!!

 

[aninjaatemyshoe]

Very nice! What is your feeding regimen for them? How long have you had them?

 

[rabidcrab]

Thanks aninjaatemyshoe!
Cyclopeez, mysis, Phycopure, Decap'd Brine, Brineshrimp are the main things i feed them once a week. I have had the big one for about 9 months, and the small purple one for about 5 months.

 

[rabidcrab]

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[rabidcrab]

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[dadonoflaw]

love apples but i am a chicken

 

[rabidcrab]

they arent bad at all, just dont let anything fall on them, and dont let ur water change insanely over night.

 

[Jeff]

Very cool, but I am very scared of killing my tank.

 

[Ladipyg]

Imagine this: 300 gallon tank, 100 gallon sump....thousands and thousands of dollars worth of high end SPS colonies and a 20 inch magnifica gigantica hosting a pair of GSM clowns. Then one day the owner decides he like the way sea apples look, so he just has to add one to the tank....For the life of me, I couldn't talk him into just making the extra 75 gallon tank just for sea apples...told him of the toxins and potential problems...3 weeks later I told him I had observed the vlamangi tang....14inches with streamers- picking on the apple...Again...I'm told don't worry about it. One week later I get a call in the middle of the night...there's something wrong with the tank, it's all milky white, and beginning to foam up, could I come by. Half an hour later, I walk into the office and almost upchuck...the sea apple has died...the magnifica is dead as a result and has been sucked into the tunze powerhead and turned into chum...every fish is belly up and the corals are gone and I mean just bleached white sticks...4 clams are dead, the anthias harem is dead, the fairy wrasse school, 2 dozen chromis and a purple tang, ALL DEAD. The skimmer is going crazy, there is foam coming over the side of the tank and out of the sump. It looks like someone dumped a gallon of laundry detergent in a Jacuzzi, except for the Gosh awful smell. 2 years of getting the tank perfect and one sea apple killed everything in a matter of hours. The owner is screaming...how could this happen...I tell him in 4 words..."That (^*$%& sea apple!" What are we gonna do...."we...We...WE...are you crazy...I told you a dozen times this was going to happen and that if it did, I was quitting...That was a promise..not a threat!" So I handed him the keys and left....I was sick for days. Gandolph the valmangi tank would eat from my hand and trusted me enough to let me lift him out of the water and he would splash me every morning as a greeting. He was the loss I still feel until this day...
Sea apples belong in their own species tank...PERIOD!!!
Beautiful...but deadly!

 

[rabidcrab]

case in point, dont let your fish pick on them. thats an awful story but its 110% the owners fault, and through responsible day-to-day observations owners of apples will never deal with that problem. :]

if u have angels, tangs, or other large fish... its not for you

 

[aninjaatemyshoe]

I suppose there is always a chance that something could set them off and kill them. Then you're going to have your fish die on you. But in an invert/coral only tank, wouldn't you be ok? I mean the poison is only supposed to affect fish.

 

[Ladipyg]

I can tell you from person experience...it affected everything...

rabidcrab...I agree...tons of $$$ but no brains...I even went so far as to take it out but he was there and carried on like no tomorrow, so back in it went. I think a 29 gallon BC would be a perfect species tank for a sea apple...I've seen them kept like that with no problem....

 

[aninjaatemyshoe]

I grant you that it caused the downfall of the entire tank, but I'm just not certain that it was the poison itself that directly killed everything. If the poison killed the fish, in a tank with that fishload, you'd have one hell of an ammonia spike. This could very well kill many things and cause the anemone to dislodge itself and get caught up in the Tunze. This would create an even greater ammonia spike, which could very well ensure the death of all the remaining delicate inverts. So what I'm wondering is if you take the fish out of the equation, would the inverts die?

 

[rabidcrab]

well if you are smart enough to understand what makes these animals happy they are excellent additions to the reef tank. i actually just got my 3rd one the other day. ill take pics soon. i need to take night-time pics of them opened up. its absolutely amazing looking.

 

[fishybusiness]

In a few months can you update. I've always liked them. I just wasn't sure what type of feeding regime they need.

 

[Ladipyg]

I agree, great, colorful looking creatures....almost like something from Dr. Suess' imagination. I believe what happened was a cascade of death triggered by the Sea Apple...but perhaps not caused entirely by the sea apple itself. A true example of Murphy's law.

 

[Hogfish77]

Any updates, pics?