fries852 Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Tank is looking great Caps! It's amazing you managed to save so much...good for you. Goes to show a little diligence can go a long way. Shows how much you care. Keep up the good work. By the way liked your screen name story! Link to comment
HeyLookItsCaps Posted November 6, 2007 Author Share Posted November 6, 2007 thank god it came back is right! and haha ya my story actually has some meaning! ill keep you guys updated. im about to have a mantis tank too O.o Link to comment
c est ma Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 By the way liked your screen name story! Ditto. Might come in second to Pickle's. thank god it came back is right! and haha ya my story actually has some meaning! ill keep you guys updated. im about to have a mantis tank too O.o Sweet! Looking forward to that thread! Hey, multiplying dusters are happy dusters. You must have lots for filter feeders to eat in there. Well, I decided to try to do a little research on the coralline question. Most of what I found had to do with reefs in the wild, but I still found it fascinating. So I offer these links: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12617144.400.html http://darter.ocps.net/classroom/klenk/ms/Algae.htm (Scroll down to "The Importance of Coralline Algae") http://www.algone.com/coralline_algae.php As far as I'm concerned, it's simply beautiful. --Diane Link to comment
glennr1978 Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Sorry to hear about your tank man. Seems like you've had alot of bumps in the road with it. I guess it's better to get all the crap out of the way early huh.. Link to comment
HeyLookItsCaps Posted November 9, 2007 Author Share Posted November 9, 2007 Ditto. Might come in second to Pickle's.Sweet! Looking forward to that thread! Hey, multiplying dusters are happy dusters. You must have lots for filter feeders to eat in there. Well, I decided to try to do a little research on the coralline question. Most of what I found had to do with reefs in the wild, but I still found it fascinating. So I offer these links: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12617144.400.html http://darter.ocps.net/classroom/klenk/ms/Algae.htm (Scroll down to "The Importance of Coralline Algae") http://www.algone.com/coralline_algae.php As far as I'm concerned, it's simply beautiful. --Diane wow great info diane. i had no idea it was so beneficial, i just thought it was pretty haha Link to comment
filefish949 Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 any way you could post pics of your led light, I am specifically interested in the condition of the connectors and any residue that was left on the light. do you have any idea how long it was on in your tank? thanks, Link to comment
HeyLookItsCaps Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share Posted November 19, 2007 it was a typical round plug in for my LED moonlights, ive been following your thread as well. there was definately oxidation and a white crust around it. looked like it was dunked in powder almost. that simple 12 volt lamp destroyed my tank, but heavy water changes, carbon, and pulling out dead things saved it and it came around. keep working on yours and it will too. did you still wnat pics? i still use it *glued in* but i can yank it out for you Link to comment
filefish949 Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 not if it is a whole hastle, take a look at these... is this consistant with yours? and when new Link to comment
HeyLookItsCaps Posted November 20, 2007 Author Share Posted November 20, 2007 definitely the same problem.... electrocution is the culprit my dear watson Link to comment
filefish949 Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 definitely the same problem.... electrocution is the culprit my dear watson I doubt that it was electricution... I am thinking it is the missing nickel and chrome plating.. NSW has only a few ppb (parts per billion), a few /1,000,000,000. there is enough matirial missing to increase the concentration in a 100 gal tank several magnatude 1 gram in 100 gal ~400l would roughly be 2.5 ppm Link to comment
HeyLookItsCaps Posted December 20, 2007 Author Share Posted December 20, 2007 some updates. lots of growth. i few new pieces....and were off firstly, we got my HUGE cerith snail doing som freaky thing with his trunk, i couldnt get the camera fast enough so thats only about 2/3 extended FTS! blastos! gorgeous fairly new clam i have new purple and yellow feather duster i picked up only $15 for this whole colony of zoas cleaner shrimp tried to get a good shot of the new fish.... so fun to watch my clown finally hosted! this started off as my first "fragging experience". originally 2 polyps of paly that i totally ruined and glued to a rock and hoped theyd grow. seems that they did! top down shot and finally a shameless plug for my other money pit. my 88 honda civic. just came out of paint, motor went in, and i should be turning the key by new years! Link to comment
HeyLookItsCaps Posted December 20, 2007 Author Share Posted December 20, 2007 buuump gimme some love! Link to comment
Rehype Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 buuump gimme some love! LOL Great looking tank caps. I Like the civic too Link to comment
HeyLookItsCaps Posted December 20, 2007 Author Share Posted December 20, 2007 lmao, thanks ill get a pic of the tank IN my civic when i move. haha Link to comment
Pickle010 Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 Definately looking good! Nice shots... what cam are you using? Link to comment
HeyLookItsCaps Posted December 20, 2007 Author Share Posted December 20, 2007 Canon s80, only a P&S albeit higher end..... dont tell my dad but i know hes getting a rebel XTi for christmas *rubs hands together* then the pic quality should go ^^^^^ Link to comment
c est ma Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 ^^^Whaddaya mean? How could they get any better? SWEET pics! some updates. lots of growth. i few new pieces....and were off firstly, we got my HUGE cerith snail doing som freaky thing with his trunk, i couldnt get the camera fast enough so thats only about 2/3 extended Did you mean Nassarius? Mine does that a lot when foraging... FTS! Oh, man, that looks so sweet! blastos! gorgeous fairly new clam i have new purple and yellow feather duster i picked up only $15 for this whole colony of zoas cleaner shrimp All very nice. I love the composition in that shrimp pic. tried to get a good shot of the new fish.... so fun to watch I give up. What kind? my clown finally hosted! Super shot!! this started off as my first "fragging experience". originally 2 polyps of paly that i totally ruined and glued to a rock and hoped theyd grow. seems that they did! top down shot and finally a shameless plug for my other money pit. my 88 honda civic. just came out of paint, motor went in, and i should be turning the key by new years! Those zoas look so nice from the top...And that last pic of your car looks like an auto ad! Very nice. Congrats on everything! --Diane Link to comment
HeyLookItsCaps Posted December 20, 2007 Author Share Posted December 20, 2007 is it a nassarius? this guy is golf ball sized. i thought nassarius were the small guys and cerith were big, but upon investigation cerith is wrong. do nassarius snails get golf ball sized? thanks for giving me love diane. you always know how to brighten my day im gonna have to ask my LFS guy what kind of fish it is.....it has a blu head with white body and yellow fins. ill find out tomorrow Link to comment
c est ma Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 As Nassarius and Cerithium are both genera, I imagine there are any number of species in each, which could easily have wide size variation. And yes, I've seen some pretty large Nassarius. There are more important distinctions to note, however. Most of our CUC gastropod members come from the Trochidae or the Turbinidae--Trochus, Turbo, Astraea, etc. Nerites are from another family, as are ceriths, but all these species are similar in that they are basically grazers, mostly of algal films, such as diatoms, with the exception maybe of some of the larger individuals which might eat some macro algae. Nassarius, OTOH, come from a different order (or suborder or infraorder or whatever we're calling it now) which includes mostly predatory members--such as the whelks, volutes, augers, and cone snails. The Nassarius are the exception in that they are scavengers...they are not grazers, though, and will easily starve in tanks that are not fed or do not have dead animals for them to eat. Note that none of the grazers have that long proboscis that Nassarius do. From one web source: (order Neogastropoda) Despite their large number of species and diversity of habitats, the neogastropods show more anatomical uniformity (efficient mantle cavity, inhalant siphon with chemoreceptive osphradium, extensible proboscis, stenoglossan radula, and simple carnivore gut) than is found in any of the other major orders of gastropods. ( http://www.answers.com/topic/neogastropoda?cat=technology ) Forgive me if you were already aware of this. It is one of my pet causes because so many lfs's and so many books and websites treat all gastropods as similar members of the CUC, when they are not. Those who buy Nassarius to clean up algae are making no progress against their algae and starving their snails. I shudder when I hear that someone has added 10 Nassarius to a new tank as part of the CUC. If that tank isn't being fed, the snails will die. But at least, the dead ones will feed the survivors, while they last... I have only one Nassarius in my tank and I love it. It is my biggest snail and grows ever bigger. I rely on it to tell me if something is really deceased or not. Sometimes an inert grazing snail is just chillin', but if the Nassarius erupts out of the substrate and goes after it, I know it's dead! I'm not sure my tiny tank would support more than one of these cool snails. --Diane Link to comment
HeyLookItsCaps Posted December 24, 2007 Author Share Posted December 24, 2007 its definately a nassarius of some sorts....it ate a dead clam when my tank had the mini crash. and it has no problem sticking his....appendage....on my hand and trying to eat me. hes my favorite to watch tho, he comes breaching out of the sand like a submarine. by the pics you can see how huge he is, almost golf ball sized, and his trunk thing turns out to be over twice his shell length. i think the LFS had the big ones labeled as cerith and small as nassarius Link to comment
siwelk Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 thats a nice civic youve got there. what are the specs on it? heres a pic of my new civ i got back in april. i still havent had the time/money to invest in it yet. im still waiting to get a little ways through my warranty before i start to heavily mod it. Link to comment
HeyLookItsCaps Posted December 24, 2007 Author Share Posted December 24, 2007 this is a link to a thread on my build. I like those black wheels. Those new Si's are pretty sweet. that thread is very pic happy so enjoy Link to comment
c est ma Posted December 25, 2007 Share Posted December 25, 2007 its definately a nassarius of some sorts....it ate a dead clam when my tank had the mini crash. and it has no problem sticking his....appendage....on my hand and trying to eat me. hes my favorite to watch tho, he comes breaching out of the sand like a submarine. by the pics you can see how huge he is, almost golf ball sized, and his trunk thing turns out to be over twice his shell length. i think the LFS had the big ones labeled as cerith and small as nassarius Way cool snail! I, too, love the way Nassarius erupt from the substrate. Man, I hate to see major errors like that at lfs's! --Diane Link to comment
HeyLookItsCaps Posted January 17, 2008 Author Share Posted January 17, 2008 bump for high quality pix Link to comment
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