cool tetrad. I love how your toadstools look! what is your flow?

Is there any way that you can supplement the sea hares diet? Maybe nori? Totally guessing here.

thanks.


there's a single Koralia 3. maybe it's a 4, I don't remember, lol.


from what I've read they won't take nori or any other prepared algae product, but then what I've read said they won't eat bryopsis either and it mowed through that like everything else, lol. speaking of the little bugger, here's a pic. I say little, but he's about four inches long and three inches wide.



And now for a couple pics of my new brain. Anyone know the species name?

That slug is so ugly it's cute. What's his name?

Paco

lol

what a dumb looking tank.

awwwww.

I was also thinking nori, might as well give it a shot!

Good luck with the sea hair. I had one that gobbled hair algae. I waited to long to return mine, and it starved. :/ I'm not sure if they eat macroalgae.

For tabling acroporas, you may want to try "Acropora solitaryensis". I have a frag of this; not sure if it is from colony of "Steve Tyree" fame. The seller said they are hardier than other tabling species that have more convoluted structures.

I have a crapload of caulerpa in my NW9, but I'm not sure I want to risk sticking it in the tank and the sea hare not eating it...

Could you just put a small portion in, rubber-banded to some rubble and leave it for a day or so?

have you ever kept caulerpa?

maybe put Paco in the NW9 and see if he'll eat there

Dunno why I didn't remember this earlier, but, one of my local reef club members used to own an LFS and I remember she used to keep lettuce nudi in one of those plastic hamster balls (lol, in the tank of course).. and fed them nori. I'm pretty sure all of hers ate the nori. I say give it a try.

What species of Caulerpa have you got in the NW9? You could possibly get away with it with something like C. serrulata, but otherwise you'd need to be pretty diligent. Though, if you're worried about it going sexual and little else, C. prolifera and C. brachypus become options..

only two species but I don't even know which ones they were.

I'm just saying it doesn't take a long time to eat. Why couldn't you just leave it for one night?

Looks like a very nice Lobophyllia hemprichii to me.

That was my first guess, but the corallites are all regularly oval and separate from each other, no 'lobes' if that makes sense.

HEAR YE, HEAR YE:

SEA HARES EAT NORI.






srsly, paco chomped a whole sheet of it in less than a half hour.


SUCCESS!!!

do you know the species you have? im getting like four now (no not really, but i want to)

species? lol.





damn, now I'm curious. off to research.

when I went diving in california, there was this one species that was like, baby sized, or a little bigger. We found one, and I have a picture of me holding it like it's my baby, but it's black and blends in with my wetsuit.

ah, here's a decent pic of a diver holding one

http://scottpenny.smugmug.com/photos/224952333_hc6AB-M.jpg

big!

I believe mine is Dolabella auricularia, btw.

When ever my sea hare is near the top of my tank i hand feed his ass some nori to make sure he is getting some food

dolobella, somewhat inappropriate sounding. I remember two girls got inked by a huge brown sea hair when we went to the tide pools... best class trip ever.

maybe I'll make this tank into a vivarium or paludarium...

you could make it into a sahara desert biotope. I need to get rid of my sandfish. Perfect!

Plaudarium would be really cool. Day geckos were my life before saltwater, and are really fun. Dart frogs are cool too, but feeding can be a pain.

hmm... maybe a planted tank. I don't mind things that live underwater, but I'd rather not have creepy crawlies in my guest room, lol.

A 56 would make a pretty cool looking planted tank.

geckos do have a tendency to escape. What about newts? They're aquatic.

... and creepy and crawly.

What about a leopard gecko or a cameleon? The gecko can't climb glass (it doesn't have sticky pads) and if you keep the branchs short the cameleon can't get out either.

what do people who don't own like to look at? 0.o

guests...

update:



lol

You have the same tank as me! Hey i was gonna ask you if you think that plastic thing in the middle of the top of the tank is necessary? im asking cause its blocking alot of light from my mh light and makes my tank look dumb with a dark spot.

this tank is being re-purposed as a simple FOWLR at my sister's house. I don't feel like making a new thread, so I'll just update it from here.