Michael Roth

Cephalopods: Octopuses and Cuttlefish for the Home Aquarium

Lol, I have a picture published in that book... I had posted it on TONMO and was approached by the author. I got a copy of the book in return :>

Octopi are amazing. They pretty much ruined fishkeeping for me...

I was wondering how much it would cost to get all the equipment to set up a 10 gal nano reef tank. I also want some info on how to set it up.

Your biggest expense, as I found out today, is going to be for lighting...you need to decide what you want to put in your tank...low light corals? Sea Anemonies (which usually require more wpg)? For a 10 gallon light you can get one at Big Al's for around $65, you'll probably want to get a heater ($30-$60 depending on type), maybe a HOB filter ($15-$40). Then you still have to buy your Live Rock ($10/lb about 10-20lbs), substrate ($40-80) and salts/chemicals ($35ish), wait a few months, add your cleaner crew ($30), then wait some more, and then you can add 3-4 small fish.

I'm definately not an expert, but I have been looking into this with a friend, and we've discovered that it's quite expensive to start out, but the SW tanks are a joy to watch.

well I have a heater and I can get salt for $20 for a huge pale. I have about $120 to spent I'm sort on cash so I will look into finding deals. Well I want to have easy and common coral to start off what would be the watts of the light I would need I'm guessing around 20-45. But what type of gravel would I use? crushed coral?

sand works best.

bare bottom tank w/ live rock is easier to keep clean.

Just as a note for price wise Big Al's will match any price in town plus beat it by an extra 5%!!!

Any price? Even Gold's?

That would be some trick...

One of the new additions, not the same enclosure for those who may think it might be :P

Now that I know about tarsal spurs, I am 99.9% confident this is a male, and here he is drinking from his 'drinking station' on his hibiscus.

still ignoring pinhead crickets though....

He is fun to watch, but I hope he doesn't hunger strike :>

Wanted one of these since I was a small child:

He is a six-week-old veiled chameleon.

the new tank is 24x24x25 tall, and drilled in the eurobracing for bulkheads. The sump is almost the same size. And yes, the other tank is secured.

Not in this tank, but a guest in another tank. Sleeping. He sleeps a lot.

Even through water changes.

watch golds. Albert sold me one for 45 a few years ago.

A couple of years ago I had a massive aiptasia outbreak in my bowfront, and I was alllll about the 'natural' approach, aiptasia eating shrimps, copperbanded butterfly fish (nice looking fish by the way) ...but nothing was effective as a turkey baster full of screaming hot water. Spray on anemone, it dies immediately, and suck it up in the baster for removal.

Got Albert to have a new cube made for my future Bimac:

I've seen them get up to a couple inches. They don't migrate at all, and seem to manage to eat with no problems. Some grow some long ...horns almost out of the lip of their shells. Pretty cool.

... and what would I feed them? Would small NLS pellets do? They look like very cool little creatures!

http://www.fischbar.de/triops/

We fed ours the small NLS pellets, they devoured them, they devoured each other too :P

The last one there looks like it could be fun. Fossils are always welcome.

The science store in west ed carries them. Thats where we got them anyway...

Thermal dynamics...heat rises.

Sean is shaking his head at you and ranting loudly!

Because heat doesn't just rise, but transfers through conduction as well? :>

kind of tough to get proper gas exchange to boot.

We notice. I started with a 90 gallon tank.... now there are 20+ empty tanks in the basement...

They really do kick @ss, I don't know how I can not keep on keeping octopi... they are an incredible wet pet, and I have had many flavours of wet pets. Many *seemed* to be interested in my side of the glass, but this thing really does think for itself. anthropomorphizing aside. It is never really excited to see me, like my shovelnose catfish was, more curious as to what I might be up to next. The neurotic stacking of shells and small rocks until they are just right, the cleaning of its living space, and of course the near theft of the chopstick :P

Yeah, I'll be doing this again. Hopefully Gary catches up on his tankmaking so my cube can be completed.

nvm, I need to learn to read.

Loaning to Berkley likely means bye-bye mantis. Maybe Dr. Roy could offer some kind of non-monetary reimbursement, like perhaps some wicked research material, or some consideration on other species he may come across....

pretty sure this is his 'King of the Castle' pose. Candace thought he was dead last night, so I moved some rock to find him sleeping away. He spent the next 3 hours arranging the rock BACK the way he iked it, and then shoved all the garbage out the cave mouth. Picky picky.

candace was feeding ours with a chopstick, and when it took the mussel, it wanted to keep the chopstick too. Can't imagine what it would do with it though. Probably take over the world.

... don't let christian see it...

That ray was amazing. I can't imagine how bad I would feel if I killed it.