The Marine Planted Tank & Macro Algae Thread

[bitts]

was wondering if bongo shrimp's basket star or that gorg of icy's would fit into this group.

 

 

bongo shrimp's basket star.

 

 

icy's gorg.

[SbCaes]

icy's gorg.

thats an insane gorg.

[animalmaster6]

you are one of my heros.

It will be finished tonight.

[got2envy]

For real....that gorg is off the chizain.

[bitts]

yeah icy's hole tank was unbeleavable its what got me into having a display fuge, i think.

 

still wondering if it (icy's gorg) would be in a macro tank if said tank were biotopic vs just a bunch of stuff throne in cause its cool. maria or am, you can probable anwser that better than most. or maby bongo shrimp if we can get him to post in here.

 

later i plan on a dedacted display fuge post. most likely move post #22 to #21 and edit #22. so dont forget to check back near the begining from time to time.

Edited April 26, 2010 by bitts

[animalmaster6]

still wondering if it would be in a macro tank if said tank were biotopic vs just a bunch of stuff throne in cause its cool. maria or am, you can probable anwser that better than most. or maby bongo shrimp if we can get him to post in here.

Imo it very much so is.

[got2envy]

I agree.. you can have a biotope macro tank, it can be macros from a specific area...I tried to do just caribbean but ended up just mixing it up

[bitts]

besides the macro what would or could be included while still remaining biotopic.

gorgs, rics, anything cool.

 

sorry its taking me awhile to update at the moment the little girl is home sick.

Edited April 26, 2010 by bitts

[Weetabix7]

I'm hoping to get good pics and ID's on all of the Macros in my tank sometime this week.

Bitts, I'll get those to you as soon as I have them.

I think I have in the general neighborhood of 15 different types.

Some you already have pics of, some you don't.

[bitts]

awesome, cant wait.

[animalmaster6]

sorry its taking me awhile to update at the moment the little grils home sick.

I hope they get well soon

[bitts]

thanks animal. she seems to be doing better but not quite ready to go back to daycare yet.

 

working on the ideas for display fugu section, but it is going slow.

[animalmaster6]

Why not add pics of the best display fuges you've ever seen?

[bitts]

the problem is that ive got lots of diagrams for there construction but few after that.

 

 

lets see what i can find though.

here's a bad cameraphone shot of my tank and display fuge. I'll try to get some better shots later on. I really like the way it's going. I'd like to get my hands on some more cool macroalgae for it at some point. Both tanks are 20L. The fuge is lit with 2 65watt PCs, 50/50 10k and actinic. I like the fact that it matches (more or less) the spectrum on the top tank, but I may go to at least one 6500 for better growth. There are some crabs and snails and a pair of very small gobies living down there at the moment. The pump and heaters, etc. are in the right blocked-off area in the fuge, beside the egg-crate-and-cheato baffle (which is a great microbubble reducer when the water level's right. I have an auto top off and a bit of extra baffling I need to get around to adding.

 

 

and this is pretty cool

http://schigara.smugmug.com/Hobbies/29gall...276858051_zKhFs

Edited April 27, 2010 by bitts

[19jeffro83]

Think this thread is giving me expensive ideas for my next tank. Very cool stuff guys.

[bitts]

Substrate for the marine planted tank

 

 

 

 

to start

 

 

<a href="http://www.uberfrags.net/forums/showthread...ng-AcrosGRAZING" target="_blank">http://www.uberfrags.net/forums/showthread...ng-AcrosGRAZING</a>

 

AND ZOOPLANKTON PRODUCTIONAS KEY CONTROLS OF PHYTOPLANKTONPRODUCTION IN THE OPEN OCEAN

 

http://www.tos.org/oceanography/issues/iss...1/7_1_banse.pdf

 

the use of partical size

 

http://www.terrapub.co.jp/journals/JO/JOSJ...04/25040172.pdf

 

Between the grains

 

 

<a href="http://whyfiles.org/022critters/meiofauna.htmlAnimals" target="_blank">http://whyfiles.org/022critters/meiofauna.htmlAnimals</a>

 

Between the Sand Grains - Meiofauna

 

http://www.msc.ucla.edu/oceanglobe/pdf/San...na.pdfInfluence

 

of artificial reefs on the surrounding infauna: analysis of meiofauna

 

http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/repr.../suppl/S356.pdf

 

abstract fromThe effect of experimentally increased near-bottom flow on metazoan meiofauna at a deep-sea site, with comparison data on macrofauna

 

 

<a href="http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&...dt=2380974first" target="_blank">http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&...dt=2380974first</a>

 

page/abstractThe Effects of Meiofauna on Settling Macrofauna: Meiofauna May Structure Macrofaunal Communities, by Mary C. Watzin

 

 

<a href="http://www.jstor.org/pss/4217082The" target="_blank">http://www.jstor.org/pss/4217082The</a>

 

ecology of marine sediments: an introduction to the structure

 

http://books.google.com/books?id=sm85AAAAI...una&f=false

 

Temperature and substrates as interactive limitingfactors for marine heterotrophic bacteria

 

http://www.int-res.com/articles/ame/23/a023p187.pdf

 

Microbial processes in cold oceans. I. Relationshipbetween temperature and bacterial growth rate

 

http://www.int-res.com/articles/ame/10/a010p243.pdf

 

Periplasmic aminopeptidase and alkalinephosphatase activities in a marine bacterium: implications for substrate processing in the sea

 

http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps/92/m092p089.pdf

 

Correspondence between assemblages of coralreef fishes and gradients of water motion, depth,and substrate size off Puerto Rico

 

http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps/105/m105p243.pdf

 

Effects of recurrent sand deposition on rockyintertidal organisms: importance of substrateheterogeneity in a fluctuating environment

 

http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps/11/m011p129.pdf

 

Dispersal of marine meiofauna: a review andconceptual model explaining passive transportand active emergence with implications forrecruitment

 

http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps/48/m048p081.pdf

 

Direct measurements of secondary currents in a meandering sand-bed (in river's but seems related)

 

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v315/...s/315746a0.html

 

http://www.eng

 

Direct measurements of secondary currents in a meandering sand-bed (in river's but seems related)

 

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v315/...%20Nature85.pdf

 

 

place's to order bugs

 

http://www.aquaculturestore.com/swinverts.

 

htmlhttp://sealifeinc.net/catalog/index.php

 

http://www.ipsf.com/index.htmlhttp://reefc...t&Itemid=34

 

http://www.essentiallivefeeds.com/

Edited August 5, 2010 by bitts

[bitts]

thought the mangroves in the overflow was a neet idea.

[gregowen420]

neat thread, i'm in the process of adding a drilled 10g macro/mangrove display to my already 90grr with a 30g sump/refugium. i have drill bits and bulkheads in the mail so i'll give you guys an update in a week. also $100+ worth of flora and fauna in the mail from reefcleaners, and several pounds of john's mud.

[bird]

agree, great thread.

[Bongo Shrimp]

Neat idea, don't forget all those cool sponges...

[bitts]

will be adding pics to the algae list asap but must sleep. should have them up on the morrow, mid day.

 

May take longer little one is home sick.

Edited April 28, 2010 by bitts

[animalmaster6]

Neat idea, don't forget all those cool sponges...

I'm putting them in the livestock list.

[gregowen420]

 

[bitts]

added pics

thanks weets.

[bitts]

just in case you haven't seen it. reefcleaners forum.

http://reefcleaners.org/index.php?option=c...a&Itemid=87