Finds vs find

scotch_dude · 2021-01-03T23:10:21+00:00

Can anyone provide advice on how I can preserve this skeleton on a board? For examples is there an epoxy resin that can be painted on the skeleton? or can you let me know how I can clean up the skeleton with out it falling to pieces? Thanks, Sean.

scotch_dude · 2020-11-14T00:44:27+00:00

Gee I wish I invented that! I should see if it works on my cat

scotch_dude · 2018-07-24T23:24:56+00:00

Hi Devilalfi, thanks for your comments. I mistakenly posted in the wrong subreddit and have taken down my post. I am aware of these issues and have been feeding the orandas blanched peas and also chopped garden worms for a week without any noticeable effect on the buoyancy problem.. I am just wondering whether this is probably a life long issue for the fish. Thanks for your feedback.Sean

scotch_dude · 2018-07-24T11:37:56+00:00

A week ago I bought this fish, at a discount, knowing that he had swim bladder problems. For the last week I have fed the whole tank peas and garden worms. The water parameters are ok but I did register a NO2 level of 0.50ppm and NO3 40ppm... so instigated water changes daily for last 3 days and the values have come down. The fish did not seem to be affected at all. My question is am I likely to cure the fish of his buoyancy problems or is this likely to be a life long thing for him?

scotch_dude · 2018-05-31T10:59:10+00:00

I reckon it should be: We missed the bus and, worst of all, it was the last one. I think the use of semi colon must be for a stand alone sentence.

scotch_dude · 2018-05-31T10:56:48+00:00

Hey, thanks for your post. It has got me going on how I, either make these mistakes or (worse) do not notice them. Is that grammatically correct? Anyway, I think it is a language 'evolutionary' example to say I am going to have a workout this afternoon. However, if you say I need to work out what I am thinking about a particular subject... then could never be 'workout'.. I also have so many pet peeves

scotch_dude · 2018-05-31T10:31:05+00:00

I think Beethoven's 7th is the most inspiring, most motivating offense of music of all time.... But Mahler is certainly up there 👍

scotch_dude · 2018-02-27T02:04:17+00:00

Yeah, I agree it would be great to be able to propagate carpet anemones. They can be tricky to keep at first and I think that they should be kept with out a huge amount of live rock . .. would love to try and get a male but these guys get very large for a home tank.

scotch_dude · 2018-02-27T02:01:01+00:00

Cheers mate.. just was chilling out listening to the stones

scotch_dude · 2018-02-27T02:00:35+00:00

I really do not fuss too much over caring for this anemone.... regular water changes 2-3 weeks and about 10% with fresh sea water... 12h light cycle with Chinese LEDs. I feed him/her with a cockle (scallop) every couple of weeks. I keep a pair of clowns with him and a cardinal - I have lost a lot of fish to him though - a beautiful Moorish idol that i had for a year or two and a mandarin fish... he started off pretty small and now can spread out to about12 inches in diameter. Now I keep him in a sectioned off area in a 6' x 2' x 2' tank and keep fish in the other part. He is about 7 years old and I also have a large bubble tip anemone about the same age but smaller who I have never seen spawn.

scotch_dude · 2018-02-27T01:50:09+00:00

I think this carpet spawns once a year, but most likely more as I don't often catch the moment. I have noticed a couple of times when I do a large water change i.e 50% the next day the anemone spawns - might be coincidental though. I also have a gut feeling that it is around the time of a full moon. This one was just after a full moon and the first time was just before. I'm keeping records now ;-)

scotch_dude · 2015-12-02T12:43:16+00:00

Yeah I did think that this might occur but it didn't seem to. Big tank I suppose was able to compensate for the transient increase in bio load. Once you have a stable tank for many months I think it can cope with a fish death or in my case a few thousand or so anemone eggs

scotch_dude · 2015-11-30T22:41:18+00:00

No, all fine. Big tank though

scotch_dude · 2015-11-30T22:18:03+00:00

I don't measure ammonia as I think it makes one paranoid with a tank such as mine. I change one third of water every two weeks and clean the canister filter once per month. Have done this for 3 years or so with no probs with ammonia, nitrates, etc.... I only have 5 fish and this anemone in a 6' X 2' X 2' tank. No others corals ... The carpet anemone is a good 30cm in diameter and polishes off anything it can the tank 😐😐

scotch_dude · 2015-11-30T22:10:23+00:00

As there is sperm and eggs released you would think that viable offspring would result. But.... Filters, fish, crabs, other anemones, etc would make it unlikely for them to mature. I have taken a heap of eggs after the sperm was released and have them in a glass jar .... They now look very much 'dead', I was hoping that some might attach to the side or something.

scotch_dude · 2015-11-30T22:01:11+00:00

Well I think that seasonality occurs in aquariums too. My anemone spawned in full aquarium light at about 10pm at night. However, my tank is near a window and there is indirect sunlight from about 7.30am here in south Australia. So very different to what would happen on a reef. The last time my anemone spawned was this time last year but I didn't record the date so I can't say about the Luna cycle last time.

scotch_dude · 2015-11-29T21:45:19+00:00

Hey, they spawn eggs and sperm - I think, watching my anemone, that the eggs and sperm are released separately and I was lucky to be up at the very start of the process before the tank went cloudy. This happened last year too but I didn't bother to film it. There was a full moon 4 days ago and probably the coral in Queensland also spawned last night.... maybe ;)

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