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Ok i just realized you can buy caribbean lionfish off of liveaquaria. Still, I wish they advertized the option more than they do now. http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+36+279&pcatid=279
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I've dove the statue garden in Grenada...really fantastic, definitely a surreal experience
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Sad, isn't it? Budget cuts won't help much either. As far as I can see, the only people actually doing any control work on lionfish are divers and organizations like REEF. Perhaps that is the best way, though - if you get divers in sufficient quantities spearfishing lionfish, you might make a dent in the population. Also, if we can make it financially profitable for locals to kill/import live lionfish, that would also be a huge help. I realize they are doing this now, but it isn't a mass effort - we almost need to have the local conservation organizations on each of these islands talk to the fishermen and convince them to start hunting lionfish.
I will be working on lionfish for an internship this summer and several papers I've read so far basically say that it is near impossible to remove lionfish from the ecosystem - we now have to live with lionfish on Caribbean reefs as permanent residents, and hope the local fish populations can rebound somehow.
Thanks for the report on your visit!
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Sea life inc sells them: marine fish p2
That's great! We just need to get the big guys on board. I was thinking of writing an email to some companies.
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I had this thought today while reading about the P. volitans invasion in the Caribbean, that none of the major livestock suppliers (liveaquaria, etc. ) offer lionfish from the Caribbean; all are exclusively from the indo-pacific region. would it be possible to convince these suppliers to start catching and offering Caribbean caught, invasive lionfish in lieu of or as an option of the indo-pacific lionfish? I imagine it would be cheaper to transport (if not to catch), and would be a more ecologically sensitive solution to getting the lionfish from their native habitat. Also, I'd imagine hobbyists would love this. According to this article (see attached), lionfish are found in densities of 390 ind./ha in the Caribbean compared to 2.2-80 ind/ha in the indo-pacific, so it would be easier to collect these individuals in the Caribbean.
These are just some thoughts of mine, feel free to critique them. I feel it would be cool if hobbyists demanded the invasive lionfish over the natural range ones from suppliers.
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wow! I've never seen one of those before! Awesome. How much?
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I've always wanted to do a temperate tank! Really cool.
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Unfortunately, I found him all dried up on the floor this morning, he must have jumped despite my best efforts at creating an escape-proof top :( No idea how he did it, I just feel really sad, barely had him for a month.
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I had a candy striped pistol shrimp with my ywg, but they are really small, don't really do much work. The tiger pistol shrimp a bigger, much more active, and seem to bond better with my ywg. Just my observation.
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I found this online - a bit long but it's a great summary about issues facing reefs.
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I've seen clowns host in Goniopora...also, yes I love anemones (I have two) but be prepared that they will move. To add to the list of fish-eating anemones, I highly suspect my green BTA of eating three Bangaii cardinals.
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thanks! there should be a few more in the gallery
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thanks for the tips! He has been eating more, and today he even came out of his cave and ate regular old pellets, which I am very happy about.
Funny thing about the lid: I have a glass top on my tank, but I don't have the plastic blockers on the back because I have so much HOB equipment that i would have to cut really weird shapes. Not 30 minutes after I put the wrasse in the tank, he managed to jump through this inch gap and land on the glass hood. Fortunately I was nearby and I was able to scoop him back in the tank, and spent the rest of the evening cutting out plastic backing that hugged my equipment so tightly that there was no way anything could get through. Lesson learned: when they mean tight fitting top, they really mean a TIGHT fitting top.
Here are some pics I took when he was out
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I recently bought a male Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse whom I am very happy about. I know they are picky eaters, so I've been feeding him so far with cyclop-eeze and mysis shrimp through a turkey baster bulb and flexible tubing to get in the cracks where the little guy hides. He has been eating, although not a lot, and I want to know if there is any way I can make him eat more/ possibly accept pellets and flakes in the future. I feed my tank once a day every day.
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Haha my maroon clown is really evil. Whenever I stick my hand in with tongs or a gravel vac he waits until he sees my hand before attacking. He knows the difference between a foreign object in the tank and a hand! He also will rearrange the live rock itself, pushing rocks twice as big as him around. +1 on evil red eyes.
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I do, I keep a Yellow Watchman with a Tiger Pistol Shrimp and a Hi-fin Red Banded Goby with a red banded pistol shrimp. The only problem I've encountered is once when the much more active watchman/tiger duo burrowed straight into the hi-fin/banded hole. The Hi-fin/banded pair were about twice as small as the watchman and the tiger, and got evicted, so I had to shoo them pair into another hole. You could try another shrimp, but I'd try to get a shrimp of similar size or species to the one you have. I have found that the Tiger pistol shrimp seems to like to pair with the yellow watchman more than other, smaller gobies. Just my observation.
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The cathedral got some filials knocked off
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Jawfish (Drew)
My 29 gallon tank
Nikon D3100 w/ 85mm Nikkor Macro lens
Longnose Hawkfish
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I find old salt will do that to me when I'm mixing new saltwater.
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lost power for about 6 hours, turned on some battery pumps and just prayed. Everything was ok. Since the tank doesn't cool down too quickly, I don't worry as much as when I lose power in the winter. Then I am in panic mode. I wish I had a generator :(
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yes, it is sad to see animals like this for sale that are impossible to keep, like nudibranchs. I always see them for sale, slowly dying in their tanks
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In the back saltwater coral tank there is (I'm pretty sure) a medium sized black feather star that looks pretty awesome. Too bad they are pretty hard to keep, I would have been very tempted to buy it! Has anyone else ever kept one?
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I have two battery powered air pumps for the fish, since that seems to be the only thing that they really need. In the past, I lost a dottyback and a clown because of low O2 during a power outage. I have a UPS, but it only lasts 5 minutes with the heater, so I gave that up. I kept the tank reasonably warm (72) by throwing towels over the tank and putting on my gas fireplace. Fortunately, I just got back power two hours ago, and so far the only casualties I can find is my Xenia colony and one of my feather dusters, which dropped its head but I'm hoping it will recover.
Evil Clownfish
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my maroon is a monster, he'll bite me whenever I clean but he will also head butt live rock twice his size until it falls - I'm just waiting for him to destroy some coral colonies