cheesesteak Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 On 8/17/2020 at 11:58 AM, TheRope said: This is an awesome shot! 1 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted August 19, 2020 Author Share Posted August 19, 2020 8 hours ago, cheesesteak said: This is an awesome shot! Thank youuu, my wall isnt actually ywllow tho, Thats just the lense 😂 1 1 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted August 21, 2020 Author Share Posted August 21, 2020 Did a little test. Found this asterina on a frag I got recently amd decided to keep it to see if it will predate on zoas, two days later hes sitting on an armor of god polyp and I remove him and the polyp looks like it was being dissolved the rest are fine now ans have opened up, other than the damaged one of course. Also nice pic of th e mushrooms 2 2 Quote Link to comment
A.m.P Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Seems like you got an asterina species with an inclination towards corals, another one of the "controversial" topics somehow... Animals which eat other animals, insane right? Some keyhole limpets eat sps, some bumblebees eat just about any coral, some pods eat just about any coral, some stars eat coral. Thousands of species and an ocean full of animals but it's a "hot-topic" almost purely because "hasn't happened to me personally". We're not the brightest bunch of monkeys... Glad you caught it early, cool experiment to run! (well except for the melted zoa head) 2 1 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted August 21, 2020 Author Share Posted August 21, 2020 6 hours ago, Amphrites said: Seems like you got an asterina species with an inclination towards corals, another one of the "controversial" topics somehow... Animals which eat other animals, insane right? Some keyhole limpets eat sps, some bumblebees eat just about any coral, some pods eat just about any coral, some stars eat coral. Thousands of species and an ocean full of animals but it's a "hot-topic" almost purely because "hasn't happened to me personally". We're not the brightest bunch of monkeys... Glad you caught it early, cool experiment to run! (well except for the melted zoa head) I 100% agree with this 😂 I was hoping he would be the algae eating type and I would have a bunch of cute stars, but the star had other plans 😅 1 2 Quote Link to comment
ffoott Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 On 8/21/2020 at 8:03 PM, TheRope said: I 100% agree with this 😂 I was hoping he would be the algae eating type and I would have a bunch of cute stars, but the star had other plans 😅 It has been theorized that the less food there is available to them (small tank in this case) the more likely they are to munch on corals... 2 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted August 23, 2020 Author Share Posted August 23, 2020 17 hours ago, ffoott said: It has been theorized that the less food there is available to them (small tank in this case) the more likely they are to munch on corals... Thata possible but he went directly for them in less than 48 hours 😂 1 Quote Link to comment
Break Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 11 hours ago, TheRope said: Thata possible but he went directly for them in less than 48 hours 😂 You can apply optimal foraging theory to most animals eating behaviors, which can be summarized as: [(calories gained - calories lost) / time] or more simply put as "currency," the most food per unit of time. Given that these stars have a generalist diet, it's not surprising it went for the most readily available food source that required the least amount of effort/time. Plus, some specialists will switch over to a generalist diet approach if food resources become scarce or other factors come into play. Too many reefers assume the organisms in their tanks to be such diet specialists that they will simply starve rather than turn to alternative food sources. While this may be true of some organisms (some nudibranchs come to mind) it is certainly not a blanket rule one should assume. Especially in a captive environment, where diversity of food sources is probably more limited than it would be in their natural habitat where they could either move to a new area to seek more food or have it brought by currents, etc. Like all behavioral ecology models, it obviously requires certain assumptions and has its limitations, which means it will never be super precise (or possibly even truly testable), but that's true of many behavioral science models. I've found the research surrounding this one to be pretty solid, but then again, I'm just a layman and not a qualified researcher. 3 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted August 26, 2020 Author Share Posted August 26, 2020 On 8/23/2020 at 2:47 PM, Break said: You can apply optimal foraging theory to most animals eating behaviors, which can be summarized as: [(calories gained - calories lost) / time] or more simply put as "currency," the most food per unit of time. Given that these stars have a generalist diet, it's not surprising it went for the most readily available food source that required the least amount of effort/time. Plus, some specialists will switch over to a generalist diet approach if food resources become scarce or other factors come into play. Too many reefers assume the organisms in their tanks to be such diet specialists that they will simply starve rather than turn to alternative food sources. While this may be true of some organisms (some nudibranchs come to mind) it is certainly not a blanket rule one should assume. Especially in a captive environment, where diversity of food sources is probably more limited than it would be in their natural habitat where they could either move to a new area to seek more food or have it brought by currents, etc. Like all behavioral ecology models, it obviously requires certain assumptions and has its limitations, which means it will never be super precise (or possibly even truly testable), but that's true of many behavioral science models. I've found the research surrounding this one to be pretty solid, but then again, I'm just a layman and not a qualified researcher. You are probably 100% right 🙂 it makes a lot of sense, although I never clean my glass so he would have had a ton of algae to munch on but maybe the zoas were easier 😂 3 Quote Link to comment
Break Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 4 minutes ago, TheRope said: You are probably 100% right 🙂 it makes a lot of sense, although I never clean my glass so he would have had a ton of algae to munch on but maybe the zoas were easier 😂 Tank is looking great. I notice you got rid of the succulents? I'd bet zoas are far more calorie dense than the equivalent volume of algae - less effort/time, more calories. Either way, good thing you caught it fast! The big amphipods in my tank are munching on my corals and I'm going crazy trying to battle the little bastards. I never truly appreciated wrasses until I started keeping pico tanks where I can't have them. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted September 9, 2020 Author Share Posted September 9, 2020 Babysitting some coral frags for a friend 4 1 3 Quote Link to comment
Reefkid88 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 Those Zoa's in the last pic are uhmazing. 3 Quote Link to comment
Break Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 @TheRope - How's the tidepool coming along? Any updates? Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted October 18, 2020 Author Share Posted October 18, 2020 Totally forgot to update here hahaha It's alive i have not done any w.c in the last 2 months at least But here's a video 3 Quote Link to comment
A.m.P Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 5 minutes ago, TheRope said: Totally forgot to update here hahaha It's alive i have not done any w.c in the last 2 months at least But here's a video Boy, that polyp with the blue center and neon orange lashes (skirt) sure is bright. Is that what afterburner's look like, never seen them in person lol. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted October 19, 2020 Author Share Posted October 19, 2020 17 hours ago, Amphrites said: Boy, that polyp with the blue center and neon orange lashes (skirt) sure is bright. Is that what afterburner's look like, never seen them in person lol. The guy who sold em to me said they were Fiji fires XD 1 Quote Link to comment
A.m.P Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 3 hours ago, TheRope said: The guy who sold em to me said they were Fiji fires XD That pulls up all of two pictures which both look radically different from each other and yours lol... Typical XD 1 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted November 22, 2020 Author Share Posted November 22, 2020 Some update pics also... Can someone explain to me how these sps have no skin on the skeleton but have ultra healthy polyps for about a month now??? 4 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted November 24, 2020 Author Share Posted November 24, 2020 Alrighty I'm back to regular updates my interest has been re sparked with my innate love of discosoma XD I'm also going full pest tank now since these zoas ain't growing at all. So here's the 3 newest additions -iron man shroom -orange shroom -pulsing Xenia https://www.instagram.com/p/CH8x66nLeUw/?igshid=19tflk1k0emu0 3 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted November 26, 2020 Author Share Posted November 26, 2020 Picking up 4 more shrooms this weekend so excited to be back on the shroom grind 🤣 3 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted November 30, 2020 Author Share Posted November 30, 2020 More shroooooooms 2 Quote Link to comment
farkwar Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 On 8/18/2020 at 6:44 PM, TheRope said: Thank youuu, my wall isnt actually ywllow tho, Thats just the lense 😂 Ansel Adams used a filter in virtually every landscape photo he took(every photo with a sky except Moonrise Hernandez) And Photoshopped every one of his best prints How many times did he say, "Oh, it didn't really look like that in real life, I used a filter and 'shopped it" On 8/18/2020 at 10:08 AM, cheesesteak said: This is an awesome shot! It is I love it 1 Quote Link to comment
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