Nikons 20 gal nano reef

[Anonymous]

perhaps they are but i have no probs keeping it under tropical temperatures...someone said they wont eat or be as mobile but IME thats bull...i guess if you can call the southern coast of cali cold water, i guess it is compared to Hawaii or GBR..i figured the guy was talking the Atlantic type cold water...

 

[Anonymous]

4-13-04

 

[invert]

Just thought I should mention that your chocolate chip star is a coral and invert predator and has a liking for mollusc so that would explain where you clam went.

And I know it is not the tiny choc chip stars you get on live rock it is large and has blunt dark spikes correct?

posted this on nr as well hope you get it.

 

[Anonymous]

yeah the choco is my oldest resident, i know Protreaster Nodosus is a predator, newbie mistake, however i cant punish it for never doing anything...but i wont go back to NR, place sux a$$...

 

[Anonymous]

4-19-04

 

[sloreefer1]

hey man im from nr too, i hope i didnt offend you in any way, i jsut wanted to see some pics. id bett that the choco ate your clam, the nassa is jsut a scavenger and was finishing off the rest of the dead flesh left behind. nice tank otherwise. i have always wanted a catalina goby, but refrained from getting one due to the same concersn everyone is expressing.

 

[Anonymous]

the clam wasnt eaten by the choco..it kinda withered away...not everyone offended me, just most people did..maybe at first i got a little over reactive but it was just a fire after that...i know the catalina is coldwater species and its risky to keep them in a tank that is warmer, ive had it nearly a year without a hitch, id have to say im doing something ok..its "slowly" overheating, i doubt it..not as long as i have had it...

 

[Baianotang]

Lord its quite a cool little tank and has progressed very well. (this from a guy that dosent like "nano" "micro" and the like sistems and less as the main one).

 

[Anonymous]

and the like sistems and less as the main one).

Not sure what that meant but thanx for the compliment

 

[Anonymous]

5-08-04 pic taken 4-24-04 and 5-7-04

 

[krullulon]

info from marine depot on the catalina goby:

"This brilliant red and blue beauty is from off the two California's Pacific coasts. It is not tropical, and will only live a short while in water in the upper seventies, eighties. It should not be sold as a warm-water organism. Why do I, should I mention this? It is an embarrassing sham in the trade, and a waste of resources. Endemic to Catalina Island, this brightly coloured fish is suitable for cooler aquariums (22-23 C). Intolerant to its own kind, Catalina Gobies do best in invertebrate set ups with lots of rockwork for nest building. Keep water quality high (SG 1.020 - 1.025, pH 8.1 - 8.4, Temp. 72 - 78° F).

from clemson university: "This is a catalina goby, a beautiful peaceful fish. However, they require temperatures consistently in the low 60's to thrive."

from animal world.com: " A cold water marine aquarium is ideal as these are not a "tropical" fish. They are "coldwater" fish, which means they will thrive best in temperatures in the 50°s and 60°s F (with the highest temperatures being 74° F)."

all of the references i was able to find agreed that the catalina was cooler aquariums only, and most recommeneded that the ambient temp be well under 74...

ruh-roh... 8O

 

[Anonymous]

Krullulon:

Theres exceptions to every rule. Species evolve one at a time you.

Lord:

Congrats on the lengthy stay of your resident Catalina goby, sounds like it's acclimated quite nicelly to your tropical aquaria. El Nino, hmm.

 

[krullulon]

No doubt, Gresham.

Note that the reason I did this research wasn't to prove LordNikon wrong, but because I saw his pic and thought it was a very cool fish and wondered if I might be able to add it to my wish list. ;-)

That said, the preponderance of info stating that it's a cold-water fish will cause me to strike it off *my* list, simply because I'd feel crappy about knowingly putting a fish in my tank that lived in naturally much cooler waters -- I'd constantly be wondering if I was making his life miserable. :roll:

If you end-up with something and later find-out it's thriving against all reason then that's a great thing (as in Lord Nikon's case here)... but if you pursue something that you know from the outset would be happier in much different conditions then that's just selfish IMO.

 

[Anonymous]

Ignorance on my part should have been no excuse..Needless to say thanx for all the compliments, however, I have come to part with the catalina as a result of all the negative feedback...It was a very neat and active fish no doubt though..He is better suited for his own enviroment

 

[krullulon]

aww

 

[Anonymous]

New updates 6-02-04
the clowns have taken a liking to my porcelain crab...in fact he lost a claw over it...Love hurts right? :?

 

[ricky1414]

Keep up the good work Nikon, and nice pics. I had to put my MH back into storage. We had a little bit of a heat wave here in LA, and my temp was spiking, even with cooling fans. Oh well. Wife and I are buying a house pretty soon, can use the MH on my cube I wanna get.

BTW- clean the front glass of that single verticle salt water line. It was there in the begining, and I saw it in your later posts as well. :wink:

 

[Anonymous]

Yeah uh thats not a water line, thats silcone that needs to be scrapped off, i thought i had a leak and didnt have a way to evenly place silicone on the rim.(I bought the small tube that didnt have a nossle thingy)..Ill eventually stop being lazy and get that

 

[investigator1]

Strangely enough all of my posts got deleted.

 

[investigator1]

I wish I could speak freely about this thread.