My tank

[psykokid]

so when you removed the unknown crab did the stuff stop dying/getting killed/disappearing?

[Hajra]

so far yes. YAY.  though time to do water change and combine tanks. fun fun fun... as for the hermits and stuff. i will see if i can spend a few days to get decent pix of everything. hopefully will post again soon. sorry for not being on everyday. been busy...




oh and Bill cause i know your always up on topics. lol. i just wanted to say thanks for the shout box. its not the im like i was talkin about but it does the same thing. lol. thanks again. also hope your doin well.

[Hajra]

Ok your pix as promised. tis will take a while. but here is a start. hopefully i dont have to draw on them and their true nature can be admired...

[OCtrackiepacsg1]

Very nice IMO

just to clarify, the one on the filter is the emerald? and the last one is a...?

[Bergy]

much MUCH better pictures....


nice urchin btw.. i like those.. .they get big so be carefull... they also like to um  get randy........ so you might want to have some carbon handy...


(little streamers of semen like wiffs of smoke that will go on for maybe an hour or so at a time)

[Hajra]

the last one is a teddy bear crab under the rock. he is actually quite big.

[Hajra]

much MUCH better pictures....


nice urchin btw.. i like those.. .they get big so be carefull... they also like to um  get randy........ so you might want to have some carbon handy...


(little streamers of semen like wiffs of smoke that will go on for maybe an hour or so at a time)

i actually have had him sice he was the size of a quarter or so. ihavent seen anything like that yet. but i will keep my eyes peeled. also i keep carbon rocks. lol. helps keep the water clearer

[psykokid]

dont impale your self accidentally on one of its spines either, hurts like a gnarly bee sting.

[Learner]

Nice pic's Hajra, all coming on nicely methinks..

[Just_Greg]

definitely nicer quality on the pix!

here's our "sump monkey" teddy bear/gorilla crab:

[pinkorchid]

Nice pics!
Good luck with combining the two tanks.

Greg - that picture is hilarious!!! I can't believe how "fuzzy" he is LOL!

[RandyFolds]

i actually have had him sice he was the size of a quarter or so. ihavent seen anything like that yet. but i will keep my eyes peeled. also i keep carbon rocks. lol. helps keep the water clearer

Well, they live to be like 70 years old so he has a lot of growing left to do. Looks like a Diadema sp.

The spawning events tend to happen in response to stress. Sometimes just poking them around a bit is enough to trigger it. Changes in salinity, temp, pH, basically anything that would mean it was SOL in nature can trigger it. It is sort of a last move bailout before death thing.

In a small tank such as yours, it could cause a swing in the water quality, but it is quite innocuous in larger systems so it probably isn't a big deal. In a more mature and stocked system, it is a great plankton producer, though at the cost of basically whatever it decides to eat, which ranges from algae all the way to your favorite coral.

[psykokid]

my urchin would come out and spawn monthly on the full moon cycle. he would do his thing then i would get massive polyp extension from my corals as they were eating up all the urchin schutz..

[Hajra]

FYI spines do hurt like a b****. i have gotten one. combine went well. pix in a few days. want the fish to settle in and stop with the territory crap. Nice crab by the way. kinda fuzzy. lol. my goal is to move the bigger crabs to the ten gallon. hopefully i can find someone who could take them off my hands when they get too big for my set up. any ideas on how to catch the little guys so that i don't cause them pain and viseversa...???????????? nets don't work the crawl out of them quite quickly i might add. lol. If i missed any ones questions let me know and i will happily reply

[Bergy]

urchins hurt reall REALLY bad..

when i moved here from hawaii, my buddies told me i couldnt move to So CAl and tell folks i lived in the North Shore and never went surfing....

so they took me surfin.... it was summer time, the north shore is flat like a lake then with maybe a one foot little swell sometimes...  and they had me on a huge board, i guess that makes it easy to learn, but even with a big You better mean it as in 'donkey' board and really good surfer buddies tryin to help me i couldnt get up...

I ended up fallin' / steppin off the board, (the water was about 1-2 foot deep) and stepped on an urchin...

damn if i didnt have about two dozen spines stuck into the bottom of my foot...  my friends are laughin volunteerin' to tinkle on me...   hehehehehe


so, i moved to So Cal with a big ole surfin' accident...

is that good enuf story???