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11-05-2006, 08:44 PM
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| | Skunk Shrimp
Join Date: Aug 2006
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 |  Tin found? WTF is it!!
Time to play everyones favorate game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-----> Look what Tin found in the sea/WTF is it! <----
(The crowd roars....lol)
I got this in the ocean today. My guess is that it's a sun coral. Someone help me out and tell me what it is.  _________
Wunlym Shim - Jamaica
75 Gal All glass tank 20" deep
Sunlight Supply T5 6Bulb
36" Refugium with 1200GPH pump and matching CPR overflow. Miracle mud and calupra (want chetomorph)
Live rock and sand
Currently cycling (I think  )
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11-05-2006, 09:54 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: TN Age: 31
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11-05-2006, 10:11 PM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia
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Thats the one! at first i thort it was a sponge but on further analysis it appear to be a tube coral!! | |
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11-05-2006, 11:03 PM
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| | 3reef Moderator |
Tin, Live collection of coral and fish in Jamaican waters is highly protected
I would really check to make sure your not endangering the ecosystem.
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11-06-2006, 10:16 AM
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| | Skunk Shrimp
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1. Jason, I have a permit.
2. People down here fish with dynomite, so think of it as a protection program. | |
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11-06-2006, 10:28 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator |
That is unfortunate | |
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11-06-2006, 01:13 PM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
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You are not trying to keep that sunburst coral in the tank that you are cycling are you ? And thy are a Pain in the butt to keep in that you have to keep plenty of live brine shrimp and rotifers to feed them with and spot feed them on top of that. Vary high maintenance. I kept a colony for several yrs that split and divided and grew all over a tank But after my auto accident I lost them .. I could not care for them any longer.. They need no light and no bright light at all. Open mostly in a dark cave or at night to feed. Alage will cover then fast also if the water is less then perfect. _________ 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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11-06-2006, 01:28 PM
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| | KingFish
Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Pt. Richmond, Ca. Age: 38
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Ditto what Tangster said.
I didn't have much luck with them.
If you stay on top of feeding them, they sure are rewarding though. Maybe I'll try again when I retire and I'm home every day. | |
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11-06-2006, 02:05 PM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
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The only way I've ever sucessfully kept an Sun Coral was to take it physically out of the tank and put it in an covered bowl (with it's dinner) for one hour at least twice a week- I've had them grow and prosper with this kind of attention but it was kind of a pain. They also seem to like shady areas in the aquarium- | |
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11-06-2006, 02:21 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 44
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Yeah, they are very high maintenance! If you don't feed them correctly...they will die! You can train them basically as I have found out by feeding them at a particular point in time during the day and they will open up to feed like clockwork. For instance I would feed them at night just before I would shut my lights off and they would open up for Rotifers and especially brine shrimp! _________ 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 Ceriantharia Orn.Shrimp and Stars Hermits Queen Conch asst. snails> Stars Zoos shrooms Montipora Brains Gorgonians Favia Turbinaria(large+small polyp) Acropora Xenia Tridacna (CroceaMaximaSquamosa) Leathers <35+75gal.reef tank as well> 
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