Long Island Mikes 210 upgrade

[Long-Island-Mike]

OK, The father released the fry last night. I woke up this morning and there they were, five baby cardinal in the sea urchin. I then removed them and put them with the others in the frag tank. Everybody seems to be doing well. I hatched some baby brine and they were all eating like crazy. I was thinking that maybe there were more in my overflow box. I decidedd to pull it and see what happens. Well to my surprise there were three more from this litter, but there was also one from the first litter in December He seems to be fine, just as big and healthy as the other two from the first batch

You can see the size difference in this picture from the fry in December and now

 

[masterswimmer]

Mike this is just great. What about putting an urchin in the frag tank? It's the natural 'habitat' for the Banggai's and thought it might be good to have with them.

swimmer

 

[Long-Island-Mike]

Mike this is just great. What about putting an urchin in the frag tank? It's the natural 'habitat' for the Banggai's and thought it might be good to have with them.

swimmer

Hi Russ, Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. To be honest, I tried to make a artificial sea urchin. Its pretty bad but here it is They looked at it like Yea Right :lol2: I am just going to put one of the real urchins in now.

 

[masterswimmer]

Dude, you get an A for effort an A+ for creativity and apparently an F from the Banggai's. Sorry bout that. It really looks good though. I wonder if that were the only hiding place in the tank and you put a lionfish (or any other predator) in there, would the fry ultimately become food for the lion or would they say wtf and try your 'cable tie urchin'? lol

Really nice effort though.

R

 

[jerl77]

hole $$$$ that looks like my telephone cord lmao
i give you an a for trying buddy

Hi Russ, Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. To be honest, I tried to make a artificial sea urchin. Its pretty bad but here it is They looked at it like Yea Right :lol2: I am just going to put one of the real urchins in now.

 

[Long-Island-Mike]

LOL, thats guys. I think you are just being nice though. I still have the frag racks in the tank, the fry have been swimming through it, in and out. Maybe thats why they dont want to use my Awesome Cable tie urchin :lol2:

 

[ed51802]

thats awsome bro.

 

[TRUKINGNY]

this thread was amazing just read it from beginning to end and didnt stop once.. i hope to have a tank like this one day i might print a pic and hang it up and look at it everyday...lol... wish you were closer would love to see this in person:scratchch

 

[ed51802]

i vote long island mike for tank of the month

 

[Long-Island-Mike]

HI Guys, Wow Thank you very much, I really do appreciate the kind words. Trukingny, You can come by and check out the tank anytime Buddy.
Thanks again

 

[KathyC]

I absolutely LOVE what you did with the cable ties, what a creative idea!

Beautiful tank too, everything is there looks so happy!

 

[Long-Island-Mike]

Hi Kathy, Thank you very much for the kind words. I really didn't want to stress out the tank by trying to take out sea urchin, unless I really had to. I figured if I made one, it wouldn't hurt the urchin and the fry wouldn't know the difference (apparently they did) :scratchch my daughters that it looked real :lol2:

 

[jerl77]

tank of month ,tank of month ,tank of month ,tank of month,tank of month
kathy here is your next tank of month
mike get the camrea out and start shooting
you have one of the nicist tanks i have every seen
come on boy get to work just leave the zip ties out of the photo shoot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!lmao:bigeyes:

 

[Long-Island-Mike]

:hug: Jerl, you are to kind bro. Thank you so much.

 

[jerl77]

so where the h$$$ are the pics so they can make it a tank of the month

 

[Long-Island-Mike]

Jerl, you are to kind bro, Really thank you. I have seen your tank, and if anybody's tank is a Tank of the month, its yours!! I very much look forward to your tank thread. Thanks again Bro

 

[marki24]

Nice tank. Long Island is taking over lol.

 

[Long-Island-Mike]

Thank you Marki

 

[Macropora]

Beautiful setup! +1 for TOTM. Jeremy is +1 for TOTM after that...

 

[jerl77]

thanks but i need some one with a good camrea too take pics
if li mike does it i am in if not you must come over to see mine ha ha ha ha