Temperate reef

[frogman]

i was thinking, has anyone ever set up a temperate reef before? i've been toying with the idea of some of the cooler water sea horses and am looking for some tankmate ideas. i want to keep the water around 65 degrees, are there any corals that i can keep with them?

 

[Anonymous]

Let me know what you hear. I also am thinking about setting up a similar tank.

 

[frogman]

ur the first that has replied, i was hoping that there would be more traffic than this

 

[wade1]

Catalina gobies are a good choice as they are from cooler waters.

I have seen colder tanks done before (NW Pacific), but they require major chilling.

As to seahorses, if you are keeping any of the tank raised, they do just fine in the mid70s temperature range. I've successfully kept lined seahorses without a chiller or heater in my home tank, which went from around 68 in winter to around 80 in summer. They bred heavily in the warmer months.

Look into the captive reared seahorses as they are actually likely to survive at home and are also sustainable.

Check out seahorse.org if you haven't yet!

 

[Anonymous]

I used to seine stuff from off the coast of long island, NY and keep them in something like a reef tank. Really nice fish selection, some anemones and assorted shrimp.

This was before reef tanks existed in their current form; I just used NSW water changes mostly for filtration.

 

[frogman]

u wouldn't happen to remember the exact names of any of those things do u?

 

[wade1]

In NC, which is a mix of temperate and cooler weather critters, we see:

peppermint shrimp
pistol shrimp
seaweed blennies
tilefish (nor reef safe)
seahorses (lined)
atlantic tangs
2 spot butterfly
slippery dicks (full size wrasse)
blue chromis
queen angels
morays
bicolor damsel
blue angel
blue goby
longsnout bfly
reef bfly
spotfin bfly
yellowtail reef chromis
and now... lionfish

There are some web site that will show you what is what... I think the best one is:
http://core.ecu.edu/biol/nortons/NCFish ... urces.html

Here are some pictures I've taken underwater here:
http://www.earthandh2o.com/travel/northcarolina2003/

 

[Anonymous]

in august thru october you can find 3 types of filefish, deepwater bigeye, boxfish, grey trigger, butterflyfish, blue-spotted cornetfish, permit, lookdowns, etc. They are not always ther depending on the vagaries of the gulf stream, and die off over the winter. The trigger seems to hang on and get big enough to catch while fishing though.

Other than that stuff there are the temperate residents: pipefish, puffers, stickleback, cunner (small wrasse) and more.

Anemones I have found in permenantly shaded zones below the high tide lines on jetties in the ocean.

 

[Joew]

Wade,
That's quite a diverse list there.

JoeW
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[wade1]

Indeed... makes for fun diving. The only real issue is how deep you have to go (due to proximity to gulf stream) to find some of the tropical strays...

Check out the pics in the link from my site above... morays, angels, etc.