Mynameskenny19 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 Hey guys! My dad and I are doing a 75g coldwater setup and have had it up and running for 3 months, but have been waiting for the tank to look good and the critters to settle down a bit before we posted anything. We've checked with Fish and Game and also the university out here HSU to see if it was legal to collect critters and they said yes, so no worries about that. We built a stand for it and got almost everything we need since we're kinda short on money. The only thing we need and actually sorta want to get is a Fluval 405. Well anyways, enough of me blabbering on, lets go to the equipment and livestock lists! Equipment: -75g aga Black -Millenium 3000 HOB from our 55 [glass broke so we bought the 75] -Coralife T-5 series Double Linear Strip, 48", 10,000k daylight, Tru actinic 03 -AC 802 Powerhead -Frozen 3-liter bottle of water to keep temp down till we get a chiller In one of the pics you'll see a 29g sitting underneath. That's our anchovi holding tank for one of our fish since he eats an anchovi a day. We're also going to turn that into a sump/refugium sorta thing and use another one of my 29g's as a 'chovi tank. Livestock: -3 adult walleye perch -7 baby walleye perch -1 mid-size shiner perch -2 small black rockfish -1 mid-size blue rockfish -1 stag horn sculpin -2 cabezons -2 flatheaded clingfish -1 baby pacific halibut [shhhhhhh!] CUC: -20 to 25 hermits -lots of snails -1 baby moon snail about the size of a quarter -5 very small red starfish but we dont know what species they are -1 4" purple starfish that loves to eat banacles, so i collect rock for him to eat off the barnacles And now its time for the pics! Sorry, but i lack good picture tanking skills with my own camera, so some if not all are a little blurry. Enjoy!!! stag horn sculpin aka the "devil fish" by my mom, eating an anchovi. The Divil Fish!!! one of our small red starfish and a hermit or 2 eating a dead anchovi Right side tank shot Left side tank shot Left side shot again FTS FTS angled And thats it for now. Ask questions and comment please! WIll take some more pics when we get a certain anenome that we want. Do you guys like our biotope? Link to comment
Big_Bruddah77 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 DO YOU COLLECT A LOT OF YOUR STUFF FROM LIKE A TIDE POOL OR DO YOU BUY IT? Link to comment
Mynameskenny19 Posted August 8, 2008 Author Share Posted August 8, 2008 DO YOU COLLECT A LOT OF YOUR STUFF FROM LIKE A TIDE POOL OR DO YOU BUY IT? Yeah, some of the stuff I get is from a tide pool, but most of it is from the bay. Everything in there besides the fish is from the shore in the bay and the fish we caught in a slough and at our dock. Link to comment
jeremai Posted August 9, 2008 Share Posted August 9, 2008 Nice, simple set-up, looks good. Your fish seem a little large for the tank though, lol. And you could use some more anemones. Link to comment
Mynameskenny19 Posted August 9, 2008 Author Share Posted August 9, 2008 Nice, simple set-up, looks good. Your fish seem a little large for the tank though, lol. And you could use some more anemones. Yeah, the 3 big perch are going back to the bay and the little school of babies are staying till they reach 4". And tonight at 2 AM Im gonna wake my dad and we're at low tide to this boat ramp and get some big green anenomes. Thanks for the comments Jeremai. Link to comment
Mynameskenny19 Posted August 9, 2008 Author Share Posted August 9, 2008 Man, i dont think anybody is even interested in my tank except for jeremai. Link to comment
Jigsaw Posted August 9, 2008 Share Posted August 9, 2008 on the contrary dude! I think this is a great tank, though I've never visited humboldt bay myself, its pretty natural looking. Did you guys catch those fish with hooks and such or did you just nab em out of the water ? Link to comment
Jamie Posted August 9, 2008 Share Posted August 9, 2008 Yay for coldwater! Maybe a stupid question, but where is humboldt bay? And I agree with Jeremai, less fish, more anemones! A very good start so far. -Jamie Link to comment
Mynameskenny19 Posted August 9, 2008 Author Share Posted August 9, 2008 thanks guys! on the contrary dude! I think this is a great tank, though I've never visited humboldt bay myself, its pretty natural looking. Did you guys catch those fish with hooks and such or did you just nab em out of the water ? Yeah, we caught all the fish with hook and line. Try fishing some day with a "sabiki". They are the BEST jig to catch almost any kind of bait fish you could want! Six hooks with lil beads and fish skin feathers on them. Jig up and down in a school and you'll catch 6 fish at once! But the bad side was we had to treat the fish in our quarantine tank for a few days to let the hook wounds heals. Yay for coldwater! Maybe a stupid question, but where is humboldt bay? And I agree with Jeremai, less fish, more anemones! A very good start so far. -Jamie Humboldt Bay is the 2nd largest natural bay in California and it has 2 peninsulas separating it from the ocean. I live in Samoa, which is a small privately owned town on the southern end of the northern peninsula. My boss owns the town. It's pretty cool. Anyhoo, sorry for getting off topic. Earlier we went to Petco and baught the largest net so we could get the 3 large walleye perch out. It worked. Man, those were some tasty perch! lol They were big enough to eat and we had 3 of them and the bay is a mile from our house, so we cooked em up and ate them. Sorry if I sound barbaric. We're setting up another 75g as an aquaculture tank in a few months when our money situation gets all sttled down again. Link to comment
Mynameskenny19 Posted August 9, 2008 Author Share Posted August 9, 2008 EATING PET FISH FTW!!! whats FTW mean? and so, everything in that tank is edible and my dad wanted it to be an aquaculture tank to begin with so we can stock our house with fresh seafood, but i convinced him to not do so. Glad I did, cuz this tank is awesome! BUt hey, we solved the "too many fish" problem and our hunger problem at the same time! lol Link to comment
Toomin Posted August 9, 2008 Share Posted August 9, 2008 FTW = for the win.haha. give me more pic's! Link to comment
Mynameskenny19 Posted August 9, 2008 Author Share Posted August 9, 2008 Thanks Toomin man! or woman... Anyhoo, pics will be up in a few minutes. Hope you didnt go to bed already Ok, sorry, but there seems to be a problem with my potobucket account. New pics will be up soon, but probably tomorrow since its 1:07 am. Link to comment
awcasper Posted August 9, 2008 Share Posted August 9, 2008 I think the tank looks cool. It could use a background and some more rocks, in my opinion. Fresh seafood and entertainment! Link to comment
Mynameskenny19 Posted August 9, 2008 Author Share Posted August 9, 2008 New pics are here! Yeah, last night around 2 am, we went to the bay at an extreme low tide and got some more Caulerpa and other types of macro. We also got around 40 more anenomes! Thanks for lettin me know about the other uses of a credit card jeremai. As you might notice in our pics, the "devil fish" lol is the centerpiece fish in our tank. When you look at him from different angles, his eyes change color!!! Anyhoo, here's the pics! FTS Some macro Devil Fish Others Agnle Shot of right side corner CLose up New anenome! Our sand sculpin New "hang out" for critters Hope you enjoy! Link to comment
Aqua newbie Posted August 9, 2008 Share Posted August 9, 2008 I'm amazed. Where is this bay? A stingray would be cool as well, but might eat your fish. Great job. Link to comment
Mynameskenny19 Posted August 9, 2008 Author Share Posted August 9, 2008 I'm amazed. Where is this bay? A stingray would be cool as well, but might eat your fish. Great job. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Bay_(United_States) A stingray would be too big for our tank and even if we got a baby Bat Ray around 4 inches diameter, it would be too fast paced and would need a large sandy bottom. And thanks for the comment! Hey everybody, we went fishing earlier so we could get some food for the devil fish such as anchovies. We got some jellyfish too!!! Is there anyway to identify what species they are??? Link to comment
Kraylen Posted August 9, 2008 Share Posted August 9, 2008 Sick tank man... I love biotopes. My parents have a Monterey Bay biotope its dope... Humboldt county is off the hook too man.. love that place.... Link to comment
Mynameskenny19 Posted August 9, 2008 Author Share Posted August 9, 2008 Thanks man! Do you happen to have a thread on your parents Monterey tank? Oh and we get all of our stuff from mainly Samoa and some of the stuff from Eureka. Ill take some more pics later. We have the awesome sponge that i got from a dock too. Its edge is outlined in a fire red color and the body is orange with black dots. Link to comment
Kraylen Posted August 9, 2008 Share Posted August 9, 2008 Nah, If I had a scanner I could scan some pics from the 80s but its nothing of what it looks like now... Link to comment
Mynameskenny19 Posted August 9, 2008 Author Share Posted August 9, 2008 Damn, that sucks man! Is it anything like my tank??? Oh and one of our jellyfish keeps swimming around and getting stuck on our filter's intake. You know of any way to prevent this?? Maybe some tube with holes in around the intake tube of our filter? If not, then im just going to transfer him to my 20g long upstairs. Link to comment
Mynameskenny19 Posted August 9, 2008 Author Share Posted August 9, 2008 Ok, thanks man. Ill try that. Link to comment
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