arwndsh Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 ahhhhhh! Tidepooling was amazing!!!!!! I ended up going to this place called The Three Graces in Tillamook (google it) which is brackish, but the life there was amazing. Barview would have been nice, but it's a jetty with 13 foot swell breaking over it, which would be unpleasant in the dark. Anyways, I found these two anemones, and I don't know what either of them are! Not in my book, or on the internets! Well, one could be Anthopleura artemesia, but I don't think so - it's still closed up, so I can't tell, I'll get back to you on that one. But the other one is amazing! It's about 2 inches wide, and, just looking at the oral disk, looks almost exactly like some sort of urticina. Shorter and more numerous tentacles though (I think). But then on the sides, it's striped , like Epiactis prolifera (but the stripes aren't white, more green). It's sooo cool. Overal is sort of a tan-orange green color (hard to tell) but the oral disk has fine maroon lines running around the tentacles. Exactly like U. grebelnyi. Gah! I can't wait to put it in my tank. The other anemone is closed, but superficially looks kind of like a metridium, but it's not squishy enough, and has this sort of blue grey color near the top. No verrucae (maybe). white-ish. And then there's the fish! There were all kinds of gunnels everywhere! I brought back, like, five or six, so some of you guys might have to take a few off my hands. One of them is enormous, 8 inches long maybe, but it's so beautiful. It's light tan-green, but then right behind it's head it has this deep green patch with intense red mottled throughout it. It's a very small area on the fish, but it looks tight! I also found this really cool dark grey-and-white sculpin. Me and my dad were investigating a crack in a big rock, about 4 feet above the water, and this sculpin was just sitting in there, no water or anything! So we scooped him out and he's now in a bucket with the gunnels. The water was a toasty 47 degrees, it has now warmed up to 50 in my basement (which is probably around 55-60). I will get pics once everything is in the tank tomorrow, I'm so excited! Daniel, there actually were metridiums there, but they were so tiny and fragile that it was impossible to get them off the rocks without squishing them. I also kind of forgot to get more elegants, but I have plenty at home that you can have. and you get a gunnel, too, if you like. yay! so happy! :D Daniel says "WANT!!!!!!" And they (Daniel) say I'm tough when bugging people for pictures, lol. Waiting... Me too. Link to comment
dshnarw Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Daniel, there actually were metridiums there, but they were so tiny and fragile that it was impossible to get them off the rocks without squishing them. I also kind of forgot to get more elegants, but I have plenty at home that you can have. and you get a gunnel, too, if you like. Thats okay, I'll take anything I can get and there'll be other opportunities for me to get some metridiums Gunnel would be awesome - I need a fish in there And they (Daniel) say I'm tough when bugging people for pictures, lol. you're just upset you didnt beat everyone else to the punch that time Daniel says "WANT!!!!!!" This^^ Link to comment
Jamie Posted January 12, 2009 Author Share Posted January 12, 2009 Pics! Unfortunately, they're not very good. My camera ran out of batteries, so I had to make do with what I had up to that point. A terrible pic of the new nem (closed). You can see the stripes on the base. As you go up the column they turn into rows of dots. Once it opens I'll get another pic so you can see the oral disk. I think the other un id'd nem is A. artemesia, but no pic right now. chitons! old anemone this is the nem from the diver's den, not as purple in my tank, but it's still nice berries gunnel/prickleback thing. This was the guy I was referring to as having red on him. As you can see, the cold was getting to me, he's definitely not very colorful, but he's still a cool fish. about 7 inches long (daniel, this may be the one you get) sculpin - 3-4 inches long Link to comment
Lalani Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 I likes the chitons, lol Link to comment
arwndsh Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 I don't know what I like better. I think its all awesome. Link to comment
jeremai Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 I gotta get a cold tank set up. Link to comment
Jamie Posted January 12, 2009 Author Share Posted January 12, 2009 Thanks all. I gotta get a cold tank set up. yes, yes you do. Quick update - everything seems happy. The fish hide a lot, occasionally I'll see a head poking out of a a rock somewhere. They've changed color a lot, too. The pricleback you saw earlier is now almost black, with lighter patches - similar to the sculpin. The big one has been identified as a Black Prickleback, Xiphister atropurpureus (what is it with cw animals and painful latin names? ). The other two have not showed themselves in the tank enough to be ID'd yet. I saw (and caught a few) gunnels (either saddleback, Pholis ornata, or crescent, Pholis laeta), but I don't know if I brought any home - they're all the same in the dark, so I just picked three to keep arbitrarily and dumped out the rest. The sculpin is a Mosshead Sculpin - Clinocottus globiceps, and he has a funny little patch of fuzz on his head. The nem is not yet open, but I'm gonna feed him and see if that'll do the trick. Link to comment
Jamie Posted January 13, 2009 Author Share Posted January 13, 2009 Somewhat better pics of the new nem - can anyone Id it yet? it opened enough to eat mysis today, but it wasn't fully open. Hopefully it'll start doing better. other nems Link to comment
dshnarw Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 OMG CHITONS NEMS AND FISHIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fishy looks mean...i like Link to comment
Jamie Posted January 14, 2009 Author Share Posted January 14, 2009 Indeed he does. Unfortunately, one of the pricklebacks mysteriously died. Just stress I guess - didn't see any physical harm. Everyone else is accounted for. I'm also having some issues with water clarity. The hob is pulling a lot of junk out, but the water is still murky. I'm thinking of running a skimmer, and if that doesn't help, getting a canister filter. I think now that I have a bigger tank I need to be better about dealing with nutrients. Link to comment
dshnarw Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Indeed he does. Unfortunately, one of the pricklebacks mysteriously died. Just stress I guess - didn't see any physical harm. Everyone else is accounted for. I'm also having some issues with water clarity. The hob is pulling a lot of junk out, but the water is still murky. I'm thinking of running a skimmer, and if that doesn't help, getting a canister filter. I think now that I have a bigger tank I need to be better about dealing with nutrients. that sucks. hope the rest make it oddly, the last week mine has gotten a diatom dusting...i think it may have finally finished cycling from the move in october Link to comment
clownfish1124 Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 this looks real nice! i love the little strawberries and that huge red one! how do you combat with nem movement? do they sting other nems, or just stay where they are? Link to comment
Jamie Posted January 15, 2009 Author Share Posted January 15, 2009 that sucks. hope the rest make it oddly, the last week mine has gotten a diatom dusting...i think it may have finally finished cycling from the move in october I don't know that I've ever kept a cw tank long enough fr it to cycle. this looks real nice! i love the little strawberries and that huge red one! how do you combat with nem movement? do they sting other nems, or just stay where they are? The strawberries don't move - the others do some, but they eventually find a place. They do sting each other, but never to the point of death, so I just let them work it out for themselves. Link to comment
Jamie Posted January 16, 2009 Author Share Posted January 16, 2009 Well, I figured out why the water was murky. .25 ammonia and 20 nitrates! I think a combo of lots of food (and fish waste) + new tank + maybe anemone chemicals. Sooo, I did a four gallon waterchange, and got a H.O.T. magnum filter, and treated the water with some stuff that supposedly reacts with ammonia. I'll test levels again later, and probably do another water change tomorrow. Most things in the tank actually seem fine - fish are ok, strawberries are perfectly fine. Elegants look a little upset though, and the new nem ( which I've decided is some sort of Urticina) is really pissed. Hopefully I can get this cleared up soon. edit: i changed the thread title, since it's not really that tank anymore. Link to comment
Lalani Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Oh, and I bought a chiller. Link to comment
Jamie Posted January 16, 2009 Author Share Posted January 16, 2009 Yay! but why tropical lr? or am I misunderstanding? Link to comment
Lalani Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Yay! but why tropical lr? or am I misunderstanding? Wha? Oh, chiller will be used on a different tank at a later time. Link to comment
Jamie Posted January 16, 2009 Author Share Posted January 16, 2009 gah! I was so sure. I guess I'll just have to wait and see then. but srsly, you needs a cw tank. Link to comment
Jamie Posted January 17, 2009 Author Share Posted January 17, 2009 Finally some decent pics! The filter has helped a lot - water is much clearer (though not perfect yet) and all the nems seem happier, especially the berries, who are now open 24/7! no fishy pics - I think they're nocturnal - they all came out last night and when I say "came out," I mean that they stuck they're heads out of their holes and watched the cyclopeez float by. In fact, I'm not sure that they've eaten since I got them. But they seem fat, so I guess they're okay. okay, pics now. daniels nem pink orange new nem and the supposed beadlet (not sure about this id though) the beadlet is upset because it just lost in a fight (against an elegant) the new nem is upset because it's not as tolerant of ammonia as the others (I suspect). berries and elegant snail fts Link to comment
dshnarw Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 nice pics! does the beadlet have little bumps on the column like mine??? Link to comment
Jamie Posted January 17, 2009 Author Share Posted January 17, 2009 nice pics! does the beadlet have little bumps on the column like mine??? indeed it does. fourth pic, the nem on the right. Cool (pun intended!) lol, thanks. Link to comment
Jamie Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 I'm enjoying the new filter - water is nice and clear now. Fish are out too, now that they're not dying of ammonia poisoning. The big one has some blackish welts on it - those are caused by ammonia, right? I wish that hadn't happened anyways, been trying to get some better fish pics. You can see the spot on his neck that I imagened to be colorful - it's definitely different than the rest of him. Also, the sculpin is ranking high on my favorite fish list, BECAUSE HE LETS ME PET HIM!!!! I know what you're thinking. "That's kind of weird," and, "Why would you even want to pet a fish?" and "How did you find that out?" Well - I had my hand in the tank, messing around with the rocks, and I noticed that he didn't seem too scared of the giant hand invading his territory. I wondered how close I could get to him before he'd freak and swim away. I moved my hand slowly toward him - he didn't move. I poked him lightly - still nothing - then I ran my finger along his back - he ate something invisible on the rock next to him, then sat there some more. I decided this must have been some rare occurrence - and dismissed it - but my curiosity got the best of me, and I tried again a few minutes later - again he didn't seem to mind, maybe he even enjoys it! I guess his camouflage is so good that nothing ever tries to eat him. Strange though! Link to comment
Lalani Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Great pics, and we need a video of petting the fish. Link to comment
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