cameron's 3gallon reef

[cameronh]

Check out my baby file fish I caught tonight

 

[cameronh]

Well more of catching shrimp and didn't realize he was in the net, then we got home and I couldn't toss him to the side

 

[Mike628]

Well more of catching shrimp and didn't realize he was in the net, then we got home and I couldn't toss him to the side

Ok dude that is SWEET!!! How do you do that?

 

[cameronh]

I watch way too many of them time after time get picked off by bigger fish, so I save some of them and give them a better life (uneaten) puffers, pipefish. Basically keep them till they get a little older and take them down to the oceanography Institute where they re acclimate them and eventually release

 

[Chrisfish]

Check out my baby file fish I caught tonight

What a cutie!!!

 

[cameronh]

I just scoop them up in a net and into a bucket with an aerator

 

[Mike628]

I just scoop them up in a net and into a bucket with an aerator

So you do this to help a science institution?

 

[cameronh]

So you do this to help a science institution?

I do it to save the fish from getting eaten, raise them, take them to the institute and they release them back into the wild when they are past they're teens haha. I have a holding tank at my buddies where they undergo qt and into population.

 

[Mike628]

I do it to save the fish from getting eaten, raise them, take them to the institute and they release them back into the wild when they are past they're teens haha. I have a holding tank at my buddies where they undergo qt and into population.

Thats pretty cool man. Have you ever caught mandarin fish?

 

[cameronh]

Thats pretty cool man. Have you ever caught mandarin fish?

No mandarins nor dragonets, mainly blennys, pipefish, filefish, reticulated puffers (which look really cool) the pipefish I can just stick my hand in the water and scoop them out....and they just hang there haha. I like pipe fish the most out of any fish. Thinking about putting one in qt and keeping him in my 120

 

[Mike628]

No mandarins nor dragonets, mainly blennys, pipefish, filefish, reticulated puffers (which look really cool) the filefish I can just stick my hand in the water and scoop them out....and they just hang there haha. I like pipe fish the most out of any fish. Thinking about putting one in qt and keeping him in my 120

How often do you do this, and do you ever get to keep any?

 

[cameronh]

How often do you do this, and do you ever get to keep any?

Only during spring and early summer. I can keep which ever ones I want but never really do. I just like saving them from the predators. .....which I watch eat them before my eyes like a feeding frenzy, so I save the ones I can.

 

[Mike628]

Only during spring and early summer. I can keep which ever ones I want but never really do. I just like saving them from the predators. .....which I watch eat them before my eyes like a feeding frenzy, so I save the ones I can.

Thats awesome man. I wish I could do that lol

 

[cameronh]

Thats awesome man. I wish I could do that lol

Haha! I do enjoy it rather much.

 

[Mike628]

Haha! I do enjoy it rather much.

Thats awesome man. Im glad you enjoy it!

 

[joshkirkland83]

Ok cool man

Yo, whatcha wanna know bud?

 

[Mike628]

Yo, whatcha wanna know bud?

Oh hey man. I was wondering if my gold hammer would get a deeper gold color as it matures/grows more heads

 

[joshkirkland83]

Oh hey man. I was wondering if my gold hammer would get a deeper gold color as it matures/grows more heads

Sometimes lighter, sometimes darker or stay the same. It depends on type of light, how much light, and how long are they on for. I got this one from wwc and its stayed the same color, just gotten bigger. Cantget a good shot so this is wwc's pic of when i bought it.

 

[Mike628]

Thats a pic of mine @joshkirkland83

 

[joshkirkland83]

Thats a pic of mine @joshkirkland83

Looks good bud. Hard to see with all the blue.