Gatortailale February 3, 2007 February 3, 2007 1) Pomacanthus imperator - As described in Marine Angelfishes book - my imperator will thump one of its ribs against the air bladder. I think the fish is talking to me and telling me he wants food. 2) Synchiropus splendidus (Green Mandarin) - I have had a female sine Dec. 2003. Last weekend I picked up a male from a LFS. Tonight about 30 minutes after actinics off and with just the LED moonlights running they were doing their mating dance. Then after watching a bit, they rose toward the surface together and I could see the sperm ring shoot out from the male. 3) Hydnophora grandis - Watching my coral shoot out a spiderweb like sweeper to claim more space in the tank [from 2003] Now thining I may have to look into getting another juv. flame to go with one I have - if only copps were in town to help sex the one flame I have. Anyway- post up cool / neat things you have observed in your tank.
ReeferMan February 3, 2007 February 3, 2007 Coolest thing i have seen is when my peppermint shrimp had a million babies. They were all over the tank and the fish where feasting on them. Now I only have one from the pair.
rrubberbandman February 3, 2007 February 3, 2007 hello, my two firefish have mouth fights......i wonder if its a breeding ritual? Bryan
steveoutlaw February 3, 2007 February 3, 2007 My orange spotted rabbit fish would sit on my zoos and go into camoflage mode. I've been researching it and still have no idea why.
Jarosh February 3, 2007 February 3, 2007 I've had a breeding pair of emerald crabs, toss millions of babies in the the tank during the night. For a few days straight I would see them floating around after dark. Took me a while to figure out wha they were. I've also had pepermint and cleaner shrimp give birth as well.
dhoch February 3, 2007 February 3, 2007 Coolest thing... hmmm... I have a lot of breeding and I think that's pretty cool to see, but the coolest? Probably the thing that impressed me the most was watching my little ocellarius clown (there cute and docile right?) bite the tail of my blue chin trigger (he's about 8 times as big if not more than the little bugger), but she didn't want him around her anemone. Dave
Caribbean Jake February 3, 2007 February 3, 2007 cool thing? oh there are so many... just it in front of a tank and watch at awe! the ecology of life take it's course. 1) when I was first setting my 55G tank, no clue of what to expect, and seeing all those amphipods and coperpods roam the rocks freely knowing there are no fish in the tank. 2) cleaner shrimps spawning at night and fillig the water column with tiny babies..
dhoch February 3, 2007 February 3, 2007 Actually today watching my cleaners it reminded me of a new cool activity. Watching my cleaners clean the inside of my eels mouth... Dave
davelin315 February 5, 2007 February 5, 2007 Nothing recent, but seeing hermit crabs slamming their shells against the rock and releasing tons of babies into the water column was neat but was definitely beaten by the blue box fish I had in college (ostracion meleagris). He would spit water from the tank at me whenever he was hungry and could shoot it a few feet so I always knew when he wanted to eat. A close second to that was the cat shark I hatched in a reef about 10 years ago. I had a bunch of barnacle blennies in the tank with everything else and when I would feed him they would actually go and rip the shrimp right out of his mouth. Brave little guys!
Caribbean Jake February 5, 2007 February 5, 2007 aahh!! I see it every night and gave it for granted. The Leopard Wrasse making his bed under the sand bed gravel.. and right before the lights go off he buries himself under the sand and goes to sleep...
dzekunoi February 5, 2007 February 5, 2007 Really cool (for me) to observe anemone split. So dramatic!
extreme_tooth_decay February 5, 2007 February 5, 2007 I watched a large pistol shrimp molt one time. It was amazing how fast he did it.
HowardofNOVA February 5, 2007 February 5, 2007 One of the coolest surprises for me was wondering why I didn't have many pods and critters in my tank during the day. Was worried that I didn't have enough. This was with my 8mo old 75g tank at the time. I believe it was Paul JAROSH who was over one night about an hour after the lights where out and when I turned the lights back on, the rocks where literally CRAWLING with pods! I was a little excited to say the least! -Also had the mating dance of my Mandaran's, was too cool! -Numerous babys of different types! -fish that turn up missing, for over a month at a time and all of suddent, THERE THEY ARE!!
lmeyer February 5, 2007 February 5, 2007 My two favorites: Turn off the pumps and feed the corals. The frogspawn will generate a mucous net that covers nearly the length of the tank to try and catch any free floating food. Looking in the mouth of my male Banggai Cardinal and seeing baby Cardinals inside waiting for their time to come out. Unfortunately I'm just not set up to try to rear them (yet)!
davjbeas February 6, 2007 February 6, 2007 I think my hammer coral is droping a clone. this blob is dropping from one of the heads. I haven't seen this before. Here's 2 pics David B.
jamesbuf February 7, 2007 February 7, 2007 Cool saltwater experience: watching my firefish kamakazi out of the tank to attack my girl. Close second was having 3 different anenomes on different angles of the same rock, and watching the 3 different clown hosts defending their territory. Howard can attest to how cool it was. Coolest Frestwater experience: back in college, coming home from class to see my snakehead with my wolf fish halfway down it's throat. The wolf fish was swallowed tailfin first, so it was definitly unusual looking.
martin February 7, 2007 February 7, 2007 Keeping a copperband healthy, then SPS, now growing different types of hard corals.
jason the filter freak February 7, 2007 February 7, 2007 MY STUPID CLARKII!! I swear... I dunno what it's trying to pull, but it's worse than my african chilids were in terms of using it's tail fins to stirr up the sand bed and dig huge, I mean 9 inches across hole.depressions in my sand bed. It kicks sand up into the water column and into my power head causging it to snow in my tank, then swims away like nothing happens, I'll level out the sand bed one day, and he'll do it all over again, I dunno why, it's cool looking, but frustrating. Any ideas?
davelin315 February 7, 2007 February 7, 2007 Oh, yeah, I had a female percula stick her head into a derasa clam and the clam closed up on her. I would have taken a picture except for the fact that the calm was crushing her head and I had to pull her out of it by prying the clam open a bit. She made it, but the clam eventually bit it (I'm thinking I damaged something when I had to pry it open).
martin February 7, 2007 February 7, 2007 MY STUPID CLARKII!! I swear... I dunno what it's trying to pull, but it's worse than my african chilids were in terms of using it's tail fins to stirr up the sand bed and dig huge, I mean 9 inches across hole.depressions in my sand bed. It kicks sand up into the water column and into my power head causging it to snow in my tank, then swims away like nothing happens, I'll level out the sand bed one day, and he'll do it all over again, I dunno why, it's cool looking, but frustrating. Any ideas? My guess, looking for 'pods. I had a Clarkie that did the same thing, and slept at night on the bottom of the tank looking dead. Neat fish.
dbartco February 7, 2007 February 7, 2007 While my LTA spawned, the Hippo tang hung out in the tentacles (not getting stung), intoxicated by the scent of well .... Went on for about an hour.
rioreef February 7, 2007 February 7, 2007 (edited) Not inside, outside... Best thing I have is coming back from a business trip and having my 11 year old daughter give me a complete run down of the cool activity she saw in the tank and operations of the tank equipment. The wonder of kids. For me this will happen tomorrow, when I get back from Miami. Edited February 7, 2007 by rioreef
unninair February 7, 2007 February 7, 2007 One of my hermit crabs trying our different shells was by far the most interesting activity I have seen in my tank. He kept switching between his original shell and a new one for approximately 10 minutes - at which time he decided to stick with the original.
lmeyer February 7, 2007 February 7, 2007 Not inside, outside... Best thing I have is coming back from a business trip and having my 11 year old daughter give me a complete run down of the cool activity she saw in the tank and operations of the tank equipment. The wonder of kids. I couldn't agree more. It is so much fun to have my six year old staring into the sump, looking for mini-stars living in the live rock. She is almost as excited about that as she is in the inhabitants of the display.
Caribbean Jake February 7, 2007 February 7, 2007 One more te sump under the 55G is filled with baby nasarius snails, ghost shrimps, sand starfish, and little white critters that look like falkes... I can easilylay on the floor and look at it for hours, itis amazing to see the ecosystem just at the tip of your fingers
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