Recent content by dj.simpson

erm, kinda cheating there.... like I said, I have to treat my weed like cut flowers as fresh stuff only lasts a couple months. The stuff in the photos was fresh that day. I can only seem to get my anenomies to flourish, from the 10 i collected 6 months ago (3-4 species) I now loose count of them...

In Port Phillip Bay. I wasn't even sure it was a creature because it just looked like a piece of twig. But twigs don't usually leave drag marks in the sand so I knew there was something interesting in there. It does have such beautiful purples in the fan, I've had to constantly move it back to a...

I've been treating seaweed the same as fresh cut flowers these days in that it looks great when I gather it but will always need replacing every couple weeks. For whatever reason i just can't keep it alive longer than 4 weeks. I don't mind gathering more but I've noticed that the weed seems to...

Cold marine dweller... some kind of tube worm?

My current difficulty is with seaweed. I've tried a few without much success, either my fish ate them, my crab posse stomped them or they weren't compatible with my environment. I'm considering a number of variables such as tidal area and water temp but I'm also wondering if plant life from the...

Hi all, I'm trying to recreate as much of a temperate marine ecosystem as possible in 250ltrs (55gal). Some things are working (healthy live sand bed and anenomies breeding like rabbits) , somethings are not (seaweed dies or gets trashed by creatures and fouls water). Currently I'm actually...

I am lucky to live right across from a beautiful beach where I can stock up on as many creatures I can find. Not to mention an endless supply of clean sea water. I change 25% water per month (good exercise) and run with a minimum of filtration, I have a bed of mussels for that and a deep live...

I'm trying to keep cold water creatures because that's what I can collect locally. (Melbourne, Australia) Everything seems to be able to tolerate the 23degree temp, except the seaweed. In 6 weeks the 5 adult mcNugget-sized ones have spawned an army of at least 75 ant-sized minions. The other...

I was kind of hoping this was a Mantis Shrimp, anyone care to enlighten me? I reckon he snuck into the tank on fresh seaweed, (which i can't seem to keep alive) He appears from time to time defoliating fresh sea weed. Haven't seen him in a while though, maybe his place in the food chain caught...

Can anyone identify these anenomies for me please? The red one has just ejected a litter of hundreds! What are they? As amusing as it was to watch, I can't have this happen every night...