Keeping Live Coral in your home
Keeping a coral garden is a year around hobby. You can "frag" corals which is to say fragment corals and grow them out to full size or buy them full size and just place them in your coral reef Aquarium. There are many different light combinations and other advanced equipment that can be added such as a calcium reactor or protein skimmer. If you have photos or info you would like to post please do. I have started a group here on SBLive and would invite anyone to join that might enjoy this hobby.
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Welcome aboard matey!! ;) Glad to see a seafarer on board. I don't guess there is any such thing as a Bering Sea crab aquarium is there? :D
Seriously, I really like aquariums. There are a few awesome tanks around town, usually in doctor's offices. |
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I just shot these photos of one of my coral tanks. There is a large clam and many other corals in this tank. I will add more to the collection on the group I have started so check back in the near future.
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Those are some great pictures for sure :clap: I have done 214 Caribbean dives in the Caymans, St. Thomas and the FL Keys but you do not see the corals in the Atlantic that you could see in the Pacific. I hope to dive the Pacific one day but lots of big ass sharks and the water is much cooler. Nice thread and I may have some dive photos to add :clap:
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Very beautiful pics.....
I used to know a guy with a salt water tank, but for one reason or another something was always "wrong" and, as you know, these fish are insanely more expensive than your average guppy or goldfish. Are the coral easier to grow/care for (not sure of the proper terminology) than a handful of fish? Like, are they hardier than fish and more able to withstand less than ideal conditions or would the opposite be true? |
I thought a clam was something you ate. When did it become coral?:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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Really, I had no idea clams could be so colorful and pretty. (I know they are tasty) ;) |
Stunning photos! I enjoy watching the fish swim in my dentist's aquarium before appointments. There's something very soothing about them! One of my favorites around town would have to be at the Horseshoe! It is huge and gorgeous but I don't believe it is saltwater. What do you think have you seen it?:)
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1. Tridacna Derasa 2. Tridacna Crocea 3. Tridacna Maxima 4. Tridacna Hippopus 5. Tridacna Gigas 6. Tridacna Squamosa Aquarium Care: The mantle of tridacnid clams contain zooxanthellae so they require strong light sources. The clams with blue mantles (crocea, gigas) require more light than those with brown mantles. This is because they occur in shallower water and the blue color of the mantle acts as a light filter. Those with brown mantles are also generally easier to keep. It has also been found that smaller clams require less light than larger ones. Tridacna Crocea Attachment 731 These are first grade Crocea Clams. Clams are in the bivalve family. Tridacna Squamosa Attachment 732 Tridacna Derasa Attachment 733 Tridacna Maxima Attachment 734 Bivalve Clams use nitrate from the water and good lighting to grow. They also need calcium and other trace elements added to the water. Most of the clams that are on the market are cultured and this helps because about half of them that are grown are returned to the ocean. When you buy one it is helping to restock the ocean :clap: |
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Awesome pictures and website...thanks! I'll have to come in and pay you a visit!!:)
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In our home..
This is a snapshot of our Salt Water Aquarium in our home. I believe it is a 105 gallon tank. We've had it over 4 years and really enjoy it. It is kept up by Aquarium Concepts!
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Welcome to the board SDBK!!!! Your aquarium is nice!
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I might have to buy me a aquarium :D
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Welcome to SB Live SDBK! It's always great to have new faces on board!
Your aquarium is beautiful!:) |
Thanks so much Pocahontas & Texasbelle! :)
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Hey SDBK thanks for you nice post of your aquarium. It is good to see some other aquarium people on the board. I hope you make some more post in the future. Neo is building a very nice reef tank too and I hope he will post some photos when he gets done with it.
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I have a Koi pond....do you want to see pictures Isaac? :D Or how about the fishing pond out in the pasture? :laugh: It's built by God himself!
All kidding aside ...our house was built almost 100 years ago. The old highway use to run along the backside of our pasture where the pond is. Once a month the preacher would come to the pond and everybody that needed to be baptized got baptized in it. How cool is that? Of course, you could not pay me enough to get in it! I prefer water that I can see the bottom. |
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This girl will never ever get in that pond by free will. My oldest son did swim in it one time and ended up with the worst case of swimmers ear and an ear infection you can imagine. He actually missed the first two weeks of school because he was so sick. Nope, not getting in the pond. There's plenty of fish in it though!
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Bass, Bream, and Catfish. Do you know anything about those?
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