ROCK POOL REEF KEEPERS GROUP

[kevgib67]

Went out today and got some limpets and made some cubes . The native fish love them and the hermits and prawns

You’ve got the market cornered in limpits!

 

[Nano_Man]

Merry Christmas everyone and the moderators

 

[kevgib67]

Merry Christmas everyone and the moderators

Merry Christmas!

 

[907johnfish]

I’m a lover of books so I can’t help myself, I’ll start off the new year with this. Have any of y’all read it? Love to hear your thoughts, criticisms, and additions!

 

[Nano_Man]

I’m a lover of books so I can’t help myself, I’ll start off the new year with this. Have any of y’all read it? Love to hear your thoughts, criticisms, and additions!

@Subsea he is your man on seaweed and. Everything in native and Natural environment set ups he has helped me out a few times great guy and he might show you his tank of sponges stunning and natural

 

[Subsea]

I’m a lover of books so I can’t help myself, I’ll start off the new year with this. Have any of y’all read it? Love to hear your thoughts, criticisms, and additions!

I will check it out. I am more familiar with North Atlantic cold water ecosystems on the Maine Coast.

@907johnfish
Would you provide a link for book. It did not come up on Amazon search.

Also, show us your sponges. I have a fetish for SpongeBob.

 

[Subsea]

tide pool ecosystem:
A single tide pool contains many food chains. Algae and other plants are eaten by plant-eating zooplankton; this plankton is eaten by larger, carnivorous plankton; these are eaten by a mussel, barnacle or other marine invertebrate; the mussel is then eaten by an ochre star, which may be eaten by a gull or a sea otter.

http://experienceolympic.com/ecotou...Coast or,limpets, marine snails, nudibraches.
Unlike the Atlantic Coast or Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific Coast and Salish Sea is in a sweet spot for intertidal diversity that includes sponges, sea anemones, marine worms, mollucks (chitons, limpets, marine snails, nudibraches

 

[907johnfish]

I will check it out. I am more familiar with North Atlantic cold water ecosystems on the Maine Coast.

@907johnfish
Would you provide a link for book. It did not come up on Amazon search.

Also, show us your sponges. I have a fetish for SpongeBob.

Here’s the link for ya!

Amazon product ASIN 1533088713
I unfortunately don’t have any sponges. That would be amazing though!

We’re on opposite sides I live in the very North Pacific

 

[Nano_Man]

Happy New year to all the members

 

[Nano_Man]

Big welcome to @Reef Devils

 

[Nano_Man]

Out today not much happening a scallop on its last legs and a bye valve couple of anemones

 

[Nano_Man]

Welcome. @fishface NJ New Member

 

[Nano_Man]

Something for your eyes

 

[Nano_Man]

Here's some more

 

[kevgib67]

Here's some more

I think the only thing your tank is missing is some anemones and blue damsels just to make it perfect!

 

[Projects with Sam]

 

[PeterErc]

tide pool ecosystem:
A single tide pool contains many food chains. Algae and other plants are eaten by plant-eating zooplankton; this plankton is eaten by larger, carnivorous plankton; these are eaten by a mussel, barnacle or other marine invertebrate; the mussel is then eaten by an ochre star, which may be eaten by a gull or a sea otter.

http://experienceolympic.com/ecotou...Coast or,limpets, marine snails, nudibraches.
Unlike the Atlantic Coast or Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific Coast and Salish Sea is in a sweet spot for intertidal diversity that includes sponges, sea anemones, marine worms, mollucks (chitons, limpets, marine snails, nudibraches

The Atlantic coast is a bust. Here is directly across from Boynton inlet to the Atlantic. Just teaming with asphalt and concrete debris, broken glass, and whatever paraphernalia was left behind.
Some critters collected are dwarf planaxis, blue leg hermit, porcelain crab, amphipod, nerite.
It is interesting to me to see the progression of the blue leg hermit crabs. The smallest shell I have found them in is the dwarf Planaxis. From there they move out of the tiny house into a Cerith shell or other shell in size range. I do not know the life cycle of the crab or at what stage or how the first shell becomes acquired. Read some studies, either couldn’t find info or didn’t understand it.

 

[Nano_Man]

The Atlantic coast is a bust. Here is directly across from Boynton inlet to the Atlantic. Just teaming with asphalt and concrete debris, broken glass, and whatever paraphernalia was left behind.
Some critters collected are dwarf planaxis, blue leg hermit, porcelain crab, amphipod, nerite.
It is interesting to me to see the progression of the blue leg hermit crabs. The smallest shell I have found them in is the dwarf Planaxis. From there they move out of the tiny house into a Cerith shell or other shell in size range. I do not know the life cycle of the crab or at what stage or how the first shell becomes acquired. Read some studies, either couldn’t find info or didn’t understand it.

They are tiny but you can not complain
I got some cold water common hermits and slowly raised there temp upto 25c and introduce them to the tropical tank they are doing fine apart from the Blennys try and eat them

 

[Nano_Man]

 

[PeterErc]

I had a harlequin tusk that was re homed it ate anything it could fit in it’s mouth. I have loaded the tank up with Nerite, Dwarf Planaxis and have columbellid euplica along with a few astrea and turbo’s . They do a great job keeping tank clean. I dose silicate for the diatoms as a food source.
At one time I had hundreds of stomatella snails that also did well at clean up. The raising magnesium to battle bryopsis was their demise.