all you need is a big pump and some pvc! Some sort of intake filter would probably be good, too I don't think you want to be blending up the wildlife. On the plus side - fish smoothie for your livestock!

Cod smoothie would be nice. I am thinking about one that could be permanent though, like a large glass aquarium with a flow through in it, sitting on the back where it gets sunlight. That would be pretty cool.

Pretty cool indeed. Do it.

Newport Beach is a nice place. If you go kayaking in the bay you can find navanax and bubble shells. On the ocean side are all kinds of hermits and regular crabs. I love Newport .

Sounds awesome!

And, just in case you guys were worried that I had completely lost it and was actually getting rid of my coldwater stuff, I present to you, my new downsized cw tank! It's now a 5.5 aga (no fts at the moment, sorries.)





mini-jim (Jim himself now lives in Maryland)


xantho


epiactis




full of mysis




Downgrading means I should be able to get a few more months out of my chiller. yay!

Nice pics

And Jim is quite happy in MD. Thank you for him.

glad to hear it!

Strawberries!!! So how is everything doing? FTS por favor

Looks Awesome!

jacob and Jamie! Check out my 125g thread in a little whi;e. I went to the NE Aquarium and took quite a few videos and pics of coldwater tanks. I saw a gunnel EXACTLY like Jim!!!

I was trying to feed Jim and he bit me .

I told D I wasn't touching the tank again.

Everything's doing good. Pics when I'm done with my english term project.



will do.



You must not be feeding him enough

He doesn't bite that hard though. I personally think you should forgive him. He has poor vision.

mo' pitchers!

mystery Epiactis (if you have an id, let me know!)


mini jim


snail


actinia equina, antho. xantho.


dshnarw nem (what did we decide this was?)


berries

Mini Jim is a cool cat.

I have an ID for that nem! The little one on the right looks like a brooding nem baby to me!

Indeed.



Well, what do you know? It's not the one you mentioned, but you sent me on a bit of search, and here it is! I've even been this website before, and I didn't realize this was it. Epiactis ritteri it is.

http://www.wallawalla.edu/academics/depart...is_ritteri.html

Dang. It really looked like one lol....ohhh well.

Well, they're pretty similar - same genus.

Oh well....


So how is everything doing? It is all still spread out between tanks right?

we havent...

something from west africa.

Everything is now consolidated into this one tank. (it's a 5.5. sorry I still haven't gotten around to that fts). The 16 gallon was basically just holding jim, some big rocks, and a few anemones. All the nems were moved to this tank, the big rocks were thrown into the woods, and jim sent to live with dshnarw, so no more big tank.



Ah, I remember now. I feel like we should invent a name - Actinia hawkinsii?

that would be pretty darned awesome

You should send a picture to whoever figures out that sort of thing. It could be new, who knows?

more work (AP tests) = more procrastination through photography!













suprisingly, this guy is still alive. He must be eating something, I've had him since last august.


well camouflaged decorator crab and turban snail


Thanks for looking!

Looks awesome!

What camera do you have again?

nikon d40

lens was a fixed 50mm plus lens extender.

I'm looking at and am probably getting the Canon Rebel T1i

Nice shots man! I need to start taking some photos, I want to have mine have that black around them too, is that just a shadowing effect in photoshop?

exciting! take lots of pictures when you do.



Thanks! Not sure what you mean, vignette? The only one of these I put a vignette on was the hermit crab, and I use ps lightroom, though I bet you can make vignettes in regular photoshop too.

I definetly will!!

I honestly have no idea. I don't use the photoshop I have, I really should though. My pics would probably look a lot better....hmmm

do eeet.

hi recent fts pls kthx

Hey Jamie! How is college? Do you have any tanks still?

Everything that was his is now mine....all mine!!!!! But I'm keeping it warm, errr, cold for him til he gets back from college

tank is no more



friggin amazing. I can't even describe the jump between the boringness of highschool and the amazingness of college. get excited. no tanks at the moment, but I've been tossing around a pretty sweet idea, and if I can convince my parents, it might be developed in the near future, but right now they're not to excited about it.



and it all looks great. glad you're doing such a good job!

I hope you get that tank Jamie! Sounds interesting

We'll see. I can always hope!

Ahh I envy you. I can't wait to go, it should be a ton of fun Oooooh really? At college or home? Guessing home since it involves parents.

both, transportation is the hitch. I'm trying to make a pico that can seal up tightly and be put in my checked baggage. I have something that I think will work, but they don't, which is the problem. I say that the only solution is to build it, but we'll see what they decide.

Are you trying to get stuff down there? Or back up here from there?

Maybe a little of both, depends on where I can find cool things for cheap, I guess. This would be a tropical tank, by the way, I realized I didn't say that earlier, and we're in a coldwater thread here.

Ohhhh, well in that case......

though now that I think about it, cw wouldn't be too difficult. If I could automate some sort of feeding system maybe I could even leave it there over the summer. One of the bio profs might like to have it in their room... I guess I'll ask around.

I built my refridgerated auto feeder for under $60 final cost. Hit me up if u want more details, its pretty easy once you've done one and as long as you can find a great deal on a dosing pump that is programable for 7 days a week. I picked up 2 dosers shipped for $72 on ebay and got the mini fridge for free.

yeah, that would be awesome. Still don't know if I'll do it yet, but its always good to have more information. People are always selling their mini fridges for really cheap at the end of the year, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Hey Jamie, I'm going to go collecting at Barview on April 20th. There is going to be a -1.7 tide that morning Got any pointers for the area? Or things I should keep an eye out for? Any other places along that area of the coast I should check out while I'm there?

I went collecting in Barview last year and got some pretty cool rocks. I collected in the big pool you will
see as you drive up. Good hunting

H

Thanks

We are going to start at sunrise just south of Tillamook and Garibaldi, in Oceanside, and then head back around Tillamook bay to Garibaldi and and Barview.

Here's the thread I have going about the trip if you haven't checked it out yet.

Any scouting reports for me or things I should look for?

yep, barview is a great place to get invert-encrusted rocks. good luck!