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06-04-2007, 02:21 PM
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| | Ritteri Anemone
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Naperville IL Age: 29
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Another good quick read. Divers dismantle artificial tire reef - CNN.com
I actually saw this in Maui during a wreck dive where there was plenty of marine life everywhere except on the tires which had no coralline and also no coral at all. Great idea that just never paned out.
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06-04-2007, 02:51 PM
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| | Giant Squid
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Wow, Can't believe they actually though that something like disposing rubber tires in our ocean would work! The chemicals associated with the tires, I think would have a reverse effect-which obviously, it did!
Oh well, live and learn I guess...In theory, it would have been nice to have a manmade reef-but ended up disturbing the area around it. That mistake, probably caused more problems than we know and over that long a time period!!! OUCH! _________ 125gal.w/Mag9.5 return(dual megaflow)>Mag7 pump Aqua Cev180skimmer.Wave2k Hamilton Reefstar(2)250watthqi(mh)pend.a Yellow, Naso Tang Red Lip Blenny Percula Clown Demoiselles Niger Trigger F. Wrasses Cerianthid Stars Hermits snails Zoos shrooms Montipora Brains Gorgonians Favia Turbinaria Kenyon Tree Acropora Xenia Tridacna (CroceaMaximaSquamosa)
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06-04-2007, 03:15 PM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
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Well all the Data and expert study at the time they started the tire reef deal said it was great idea.. But the old common sense fishermen with no data and degrees all said all that would happen is they would hold fish and fish is all they have in and around them.. Oh well so much for Data and expert studies.. _________ Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible (Doug Larson) | |
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06-04-2007, 04:02 PM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Tucson AZ
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yea really wow sad! | |
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06-04-2007, 04:11 PM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
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20 years ago in Adelaide South Australia,they put in a 1 mile stretch of artificial tyre reef.It has worked amazingly.You can't tell that they're tyres apart from the odd circlular shape here and there.It is completely colonised by the local creatures.Perhaps some work and some don't. | |
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06-04-2007, 04:50 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Milwaukee Age: 29
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The Army Corp of Engineers dropped 30 - 40 old army tanks in the gulf of Mexico to create an artificial reef just outside Tampa Bay. I am not sure what type of reef they were hoping to accomplish but they housed alot of bait fish which attracted alot of red snapper, snook and yellow tails. It was definitely my favorite fishing spot when living down there. _________ -R 2 maroon clowns, 3 bubble tip anemones, 3 emerald crabs, 1 coral banded shrimp, 12 astrea snails, 4 mexican turbo snails, 2 ricordia yuma, 2 purple mushroom ricordia, 2 small zoanthid frags, 8 red legged hermits, 1 flame scallop, 1 watchman goby, gonoporia, sun ployps, yellow polyps, star polyps, galaxea 29g bowfront, 10g sump, 20g fuge, 250W MH, 6 blue LED, 6 white LED, 2 65w power compact Actinic, DIY overflow / skimmer The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful  | |
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06-04-2007, 09:09 PM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Australia Age: 25
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Originally Posted by sharkatak  20 years ago in Adelaide South Australia,they put in a 1 mile stretch of artificial tyre reef.It has worked amazingly.You can't tell that they're tyres apart from the odd circlular shape here and there.It is completely colonised by the local creatures.Perhaps some work and some don't. | if its the ithink u mean its a dam good fishin spot too  cought some interesting little reef fish there too | |
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