You should check it out, it's awesome!

Will do

Cold water awesomeness right there man.

Thanks man! You need to stop into my threads more often haha.


I was feeding tonight and though, it's time for some new photos

Beautiful.

Do you have any gunnels?

My favorite out of the last group. Looks great man.

Thanks!

Noooope. I see too many of them to want one haha. Unless I bring a green one back...hmm.




Thanks man! I am glad you stopped by

Nice sculpin! What species is it?

Those are really cool hermit crabs.

I've never seen a green one

Although I think they snack on small mollusks and crustaceans :/

I have decided no plants for me. I liked them, but I like no algae and crystal clear water more.

nice dude but where do you get all these coldwater critters?

Thanks

I get them from my cabin, in the San Juans.

Cabin?

Yea, my family owns a cabin there. It is on the coast of one of the islands

QFT I feel ya on that one.

Love the pics, what species of anemone is this one? Any chance you can get one for me

Thanks! I love photographing that anemone

It is an Urticina anemone.

Oh ok I think I get it .

How do you post these quotes?

Nice nems!

Do you still have all the sticklebacks? What's the current fish list?

Cool

Quotes? It looks like you just did. I just hit reply and it automatically quotes that post.




Thanks! Nope unfortunately I think they kept swimming into things, anemones, crab claws etc...

I just have one little sculpin (bullhead) right now...

Aww poor guys

I didn't get a chance to go gunnel hunting Maybe next week...

Yea it was a bummer.

Bummer, the weekend hasn't even started though!

Are you going to try to get more when you go the cabin? Also lumpsucker.............


It's 2 hours away and the weather conditions were terrible. 100% chance of precipitation with extreme icy weather warnings. Low 20s lol. Not the best beach day.

Probably. I like anemones and inverts more than most fish. Yeaaa, they are pretty rare, finding one would still be cool though.

Psssh low 20s, weaaaaak. It was -9 here haha. But yea, not the best beach day.

Fish are my better I do love my inverts though.

I can deal with the temperature but pooring rain and snow is impossible to deal with.

They are both pretty cool actually.

True true.

You've seen this right? http://www.jonolavsakvarium.com/blog/index.html

Of course

Do you know if he started the new tank yet? I know he moved but he said he would start another.

That was one of the best temperate aquariums I've seen.

Yea I dunno.

It was pretty nice. If you like the plant based theme. I am kind of used to that though, since my cabin has a lot of macros

My favorite part of the tank was the huge variety of fish and invert life.

Very true very true. I need to get scuba certified...

I want to get SCUBA certified in the summer. It's key to viewing the interesting marine life. That and good goggles

I do as well. I am hoping I can before this summer actually. That way I can intern more easily

Spring would be nice. THe sooner the better

Of course.

Definitely! I don't think he set up the new tank though

I like seeing all the life that can hide in the macros Shrimp, snails, crabs, fish, etc

Btw AM, I love your new avatar! XD

Your tank is sooooo much better looking than when you first started.....and I'm not surprised that you've realized growing macros comes with a heavy maintenance price. I, too, stopped growing macros after about a year. Your tank really needs some color though.....and you're not going to find it in tidepools. Get certified and the whole game changes.





I have three of these in my tank and I'd gladly give you one or two of them. One is about 4 inches in diameter and one is a baby at about 2 inches.

Thanks Yea I guess it does, then again I like how it looks right now too, I have always been fascinated by these little guys. I hope to get certified sometime soon, it would be a pretty big advantage.

Hey Steve, if you ever have some free time (I understand you are a pretty busy guy) I would love to see your set-ups in person. We live pretty close I believe

Just wondering Jacob, have you seen any of these nems?


On the stalk they have a green base, with a few bright orange stripes

Maybe. I am thinking know, then again, I may have. Where do they live, and what are they called?

That would be awesome Steve!!! Thanks




Maybe we can make a field trip day of it and get all of us coldwater people together to go to Steves so he only has to show us once

Idk what they are called, not sure what their range is... I found them in bay

I'll try to dig up something, haven't done much research yet

Sounds like a plan Aquatic

Ahhh. Looks like someone has some searching to do

SUCCESS!

It's Haliplanella luciae Which apparently "may have been introduced to both U.S. coasts from Japanese ships."

Well let me know when you can make it down towards Portland, I live just outside of the metro area. I'll make sure I have the time to go over there, I have been wanting to see Steves setups for a while also.

Nice! And that is a really interesting way of bring introduced.




Cool cool. It may have to wait till the summer, I do have school for a while

Maybe we can work out a pick up next weekend or the week after ? basically the week of the 4th through the 11th ? I leave town after that.

Sounds like a plan