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My favorite bowl was an upturned abalone shell. In one of the holes I stuck an airtube that ran under the sand then up one corner of the tank. I used a syringe and forced shrimp down the tube and would pop out into the bowl. A completely natural looking bowl and a clean dry way to put shrimp into the bowl.

I vote Erectus. But often it depends on how big your tank is. Some horses need a little more space than others...

A dwarf? A 1.5 is fine. Dwarf wont get that big. if you are dead set on a bigger tank get a 5 gal and use your 15 as a sump. Feeding a dwarf in a 15 gal is more work than worth.

fine sand is fine.

I lost my power plug for my portable hard drive. It says DC 12V 2A, I found a 12V 1.2A. IT doesn't say DC or AC. It is probably not safe to use 1.2 A for 2.0 A right?

Sorry I should of included more detail.

FW tank, filled with a few tetras.

I am hoping to get at least $150 for everything.

Pictures below.

I am moving to turkey.

I cant take these tanks.

I have a 40 gal bow front with stand. All ready set up with fish, wood, plants.

I also have 45 breeder.

1 HOT filter

1 HOB penguin filter

2 lights

2 heaters

Any fair offer will not be refused. I have to move in 2 weeks.

I am moving to turkey.

I cant take these tanks.

I have a 40 gal bow front with stand. All ready set up with fish, wood, plants.

I also have 45 breeder.

1 HOT filter

1 HOB penguin filter

2 lights

2 heaters

Any fair offer will not be refused. I have to move in 2 weeks.

asking 150$ obo

Moving and I can't keep it

45 gal breeder tank

12" tall

36" long

24" deep

lights, hood, filter, heater, rocks, gravel

works fine. just moving and need it gone.

great also for lizards, snakes, spiders, turtles, etc

no stand but It sits on a piece of furniture. solid wood, its what i used when I had it filled with water. very solid stand.

selling furniture sepearate but easily can be thrown together

Madison

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I'm getting ready to leave the country so all the stuff in the garage needs to go.

All of it is available to sell but I would honestly rather trade it. I really would like a mandolin or some nikon lens

But I doubt anyone has these for trade so it is all also for sale. Make me an offer. I haven't been in the club for almost a year so I don't know what this is all worth.

I live south austin so let me know if you are interested. Ill post pictures as soon as I can

55 gal tank

Wooden stand

PC light, 2 bulbs I don't remember the wattage but I remember it is supposed to grow corals and is freakin bright

45 gal breeder tank - its 12" tall, 36" long and nearly 16" deep

I have decorations, sand, rock, etc for both tanks

10 gal tank

Under gravel filter

2 hang on back filters

2 heaters - 1 in line heater and 1 hang on back filter

2 small hang on back filters.

mine never had a problem with me putting my hand in there. but if he feels threatened, he might do some damage so having caves will help him to feel less threatened. as far as clean up crew, there are a few things you can keep in there ( i think some starfish n other stuff like that) that he wont eat. its been a couple years since i have had one, but if you keep em well fed, its possible he wont even mess with the clean up crew. get a good skimmer and make sure there is enough flow to keep all the detritus off the sand and that will help tremendously

you have kept them? So is acrylic important? Did you do live foods or just frozen? I don't know if my skimmer works, i do have a huge filter system. but i have black sand which looks dirty anyway, i just thought the black and white stone would show it's colors better. anything different about keeping them than other reef critters?

acrylic is not really that important. yes, they can bust your tank, but only really when they get huge do they pose a threat to your glass aquarium, IMO. i fed him live food and frozen food. you can get live crawfish to feed him and that makes it easy to switch over to frozen foods too, if he doesnt already eat frozen. mine ate frozen silversides and krill mostly. what kind of filter system are you planning on running? and what kind of mantis? there are a lot of great sites on stomatopods on google to see which mantis is best for you. but since they are messy eaters, you might want to check out your skimmer and make sure it works, or get a nice used one from here.

I have a 5/6 gallon hang on the back wet/dry filter with overflow box, gravel filter, internal filter, heater, and i have to check the skimmer when i go home. idk how the attic life treated it. as far as species... I think some sort of smasher. I have been trying to read up on species and the lancers sound like they tend to stay under the sand and all you see is a pair of eyes... I think I would prefer a smasher that will spend a little more time to be seen. also they seem to have the prettier colors... also smashers sound a little cheaper to keep, as live fish tend to be more expensive than live inverts. also the tank is shallow, only 12 inches and i dont think that is deep enough

Can you keep small fish like damsels with smasher type?

mine never had a problem with me putting my hand in there. but if he feels threatened, he might do some damage so having caves will help him to feel less threatened. as far as clean up crew, there are a few things you can keep in there ( i think some starfish n other stuff like that) that he wont eat. its been a couple years since i have had one, but if you keep em well fed, its possible he wont even mess with the clean up crew. get a good skimmer and make sure there is enough flow to keep all the detritus off the sand and that will help tremendously

you have kept them? So is acrylic important? Did you do live foods or just frozen? I don't know if my skimmer works, i do have a huge filter system. but i have black sand which looks dirty anyway, i just thought the black and white stone would show it's colors better. anything different about keeping them than other reef critters?

Hey Yall,

I just got into grad school and only 25 days till graduation!!. So I want to start a tank up again as a graduation present to myself. I haven't been on here in a while. But I miss tanks and I really want to start another one back up. So I thought I would do a mantis shrimp. I have always wanted one and are by far the coolest invertebrate.

I have a 30 gal breeder, or maybe its a 40. its 12 tall, 18 deep and 36 long. Does anyone have experience with mantis shrimp? I know they are not terribly popular, pest rally. But this would be a mantis dedicated tank. Any advice, reading, words of wisdom on keeping these little dudes? Also any idea who would carry them?? I don't ever recall any local place carrying them but I haven't been in a fish store in almost 2 years.

(not that it has anything to do with this but ONLY 25 DAYS TILL GRADUATION! )

i have not used those tanks but i do have experience with fans. they make a ton of water evaporate, or they did on my tank. the nights i went out with buddies then the 4 hour dinner turns into a 30 hour sidetrack... i come home and the tank would be really messed up, lot of water gone, salt levels way too high, fish looking terrible. So personally i try to avoid fans if i can, but if your not the college student like i am and can make your regularly check ups on the tank then go for it. but if your noobish to reef tanks don't over complicate it with fans and heating issues.

Tropical Fish hobbyist. I always liked that one. it covered all aspects of fish keeping. from plants to fresh, salt, and even monsters. stay away from aquarium fish hobbyist, the one that is always seen in petsmart. I never thought it was a great magazine

my cousin attached her extra horse shocker thing to the front fence around her yard. She electrifies the whole darn thing. Nasty shock to anyone who tries to hop her fence...

I like the idea of that. that sounds rather different! Yea i can't bring stuff inside, my roommate the germ-a-phobe wouldn't accept such outdoor things inside for a freeze. dirt is to stay outside...

I've had really good luck this year growing peppers in pots.. bells, jalapenos, and sweet banana peppers, as well as raspberries and blackberries. Not the prettiest, but definitely tasty. Aloe and agaves tend to grow pretty well potted as well, and are pretty forgiving if you forget to water them.

As far as flowers, my wife is partial to hibiscus, but they can be a pain having to haul them inside when a freeze is expected since they can get pretty big.

i live on the second floor. I have room for one pot, about 1 16" pot. im not worried about deer. the only thing that ever makes it up the fire hazard my landlord considers stairs is the neighbors pug

I have a small patio, and I would love to put a plant out there in a pot. I never garden, so I thought to ask if yall have any suggestions. Any ideas of a plant with some pretty flowers, or nice smell I can put in a pot on the porch? Preferably something that I wouldn't kill by looking at it wrong?

Thanks yall for any ideas.

i am looking for some pc or florescent bulbs. if you have some that have moved out of spectrum ill take em off your hands, ill even pay for em. poor college kid.

I was asking because I spent a lot on this pc fixture. I have regular florescent fixtures. I have like 5 fixtures of various sizes. I just have to replace the bulbs. I just wasn't sure if it was better to spend the extra $ for a pc bulb or the ordinary florescent. wouldn't 50/50 bulbs be better though? I mean chlorophill use the blue and red end of spectrum and not the green middle part, the most efficent is the blue end of the spectrum. so a 50/50 be better for that wouldnt it?

Well if anyone has old pc bulbs that are no use for reefs Ill take them off your hands.

I have my used power compact 48" light I used for reefs. The bulbs burned out. I want to try to use it as a grow light for plants. But I have not found bulbs for it that are not "reef spectrum bulbs". I know technically plants is plants and the spectrum is the same. But so far I haven't found bulbs cheaper than 55$. Is there cheaper bulbs I could use? I know our aquarium bulbs are really strong to penetrate the water. I am new to plants. Is the pc lights too much or regular florescent lights better?

I know sun is best but my apt has no "outside". It is just door and parking lot. Not a ton of room outside. any advice would be great!

Big thing is flow. Dead spots are good, or at least in my experience. They like to play in the stronger flows and chill in the slower. Mine loved rock work as rocks were great breeding grounds for pods. The grape vine stuff i forget the technical word, those are great!

Tall is always better than long, especially if you want to breed them. A trick when feeding, get an abalone shell and turn it upside down. Stick a thin air tubing into the one of the holes and the other end out of the tank. This way if you defrost your frozed mysid in a cup and use a syringe you can inject the shrimp down the tube neatly into the little bowl. With a few weeks my seahorses were trained that whenever I tapped on the glass they knew they were going to be fed and would go to the dinner shell for food. IT was quite fun!

be careful about tank mates. seahorses are the slowest things in the ocean. so they are the opposite of aggressive feeders. they stare at food for a long time before eating. Pipefish can be dangerous to keep with horses. Or at least i have read a lot of horror stories of wild caught pipes with captive bred horses. I had good luck with the kellogi's you see cheap around town, but on seahorse.org there are a lot of people who have had problems with them dying very quickly.

Also be very very careful about intakes. Seahorses have an amazing almost magical ability to get stuck to them. Even the slow 10 gal HOB. they swim by and get sucked to the side and stay there till they die. I suggest adding a sponge or guard anything to protect them. Believe me my last horses it was a constant battle keeping them out of the 10 gal HOB filter...

Good luck and very jealous!! I miss my horses

I would stay clear of the blue mussels they are cold water, kinda like people who put periwinkles in there tropical tank it dramtically shortens there life if they last at all. I have seen the green mussels up for sale online. I'm originally from Maine and I can tell you the blue ones grow like weeds so if you find the green ones I'd keep them in the sump.

I have seen on ebay oyster clusters wich are supposed to be in the sump:

http://cgi.ebay.com/...=item2eac040a86

I however am not advertising for them this is purely an example

i also be careful with the freshones at least because in many places they are illegal. growing like weeds is an understatement. more like a pandemic is more like it. we spent a week studying the impact non native bivalves have on american ecosystems and how far across the country they have spread.

did i miss how to work on the wiki? i've got far too much free time and this sound much more productive than online tv. where is the wiki?

I don't think if you put them in a blinder many will make it. Because each peace has to have part of the mouth of the mushroom to make a new one. The bridal method of geting more than one frag stuck to a rock works but does not work when their is a nother coral on the same rock that you can not cover. They should not harm your other corals but the other corals may harm them.

i think your partially right.

the blastoderm will only form from cells of the inner stalk. however if the cells are viable then the main stalks should form blastoderms and grow into full organims. but the cells and bits of the distal ends will just die off. they are epimorphollaxis, it just depends on how the blastoderms are formed. (is it blastoderm? I know in salamanders it's a blastoderm for regeneration but idk if that is the right term for an invert...)