Thanks ! South American cichlids, Cardinal tetras and the gar. The piranha was in a species tank in college. I thought it was so cool. In hindsight the tank was very undersized and quite cruel
I was with my buddy checking out LFS this week. We saw a reef shark on its side in a 20g tank, struggling to breathe. I was so angry. Shark was about 2.5 feet in length. Sharks need to keep swimming to breathe. It was beyond torture. :mad:Thanks ! South American cichlids, Cardinal tetras and the gar. The piranha was in a species tank in college. I thought it was so cool. In hindsight the tank was very undersized and quite cruel
Yea fw gets boring fast.
That’s so sad
I always wanted one oddly and had never found one. Back then, you had to research that stuff in books at the library. So basically no one researched what fish they wanted to keep or kept. But you did the right thing.That’s so sad
I did eventually rehome Ronnie (the piranha), as far as I know he lived out the rest of his days, potentially still living in a 200gal system my buddy’s dad had/has in PA. That’s a pretty rare fish for that state to my knowledge. I got it on the black market.
That’s weird. Looks like a wall hammer kind of, but also torch-ish, with a dash of heliofungia. The specs I think are just pods. Mine have had those before I think?
Would need a better pic to determine if a wall hammer. All the wall hammers I’ve seen have those curled hammers. But I can see what you mean. If they were pods, wouldn’t they get stung and eaten? No idea. I’ve seen my corals sting my larger isopods. It’s so funny. They die in an instant.
Really? lol nah I haven’t seen that. Sounds awesome lol. I really don’t know. I’ve seen those specs on mine before though. They went away. Not sure.
We’re keeping the ocean in our tanks. There are countless creatures out there. It’s like keeping a forest in your backyard and trying to identify all the tiny insects and worrying about what everything is. But of course, you’d rather know than not. I’m surprised at how sharp many ppl on this forum are.
Same, I love it. You can really become well versed in reefing if you spend 6 months on here. A few hours a day. So much knowledge and decades of experiences, it’s so cool.
I have to be honest, I learned more here in a month than I did in years of keeping SW tanks. I also learned a lot from local reefers and LFS as well. But the people here have the most collective knowledge than probably anywhere else on earth. I’m telling you, 20 years ago, this was the cockiest hobby. People thought that if they kept tangs and triggers alive in a FO system, they were the gods of the universe.
LOL, in 1990 it felt pretty awesome to keep anemones alive.
I saw a tigger pod get trapped in the polyp of a cyphastrea once... it was kinda morbid, watching it struggle with all its might to try to swim out, but it got devoured in the end
Pffff !!!Stupid snail!
Yea. Did he figure out that issue ? I haven’t seen that thread pop up in awhile.
