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Some salt water aquarium photos. Eels, snorkeling, reef etc.
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Some salt water aquarium photos. Eels, snorkeling, reef etc.
I posted a pic or 2 in another photo thread and was asked to post some more. Rather than hijacking that thread anymore than I already had, I figured I would post a new thread with the pictures.
The eel is Gorby. I had him for several years. He is a Green moray that really loved to be handled. Most larger moray eels are non agressive. I have been scuba diving and pulled california morays out of the rocks with my hands. Dont try this at home kids! Gorby was named after Mikhail Gorbachev becuase Gorby had a big brown spot on the top of his head like Mikhail. I never once fell from the step ladder. I still have the same one to this day and still stand on it like that almsot every day when I feed the fish. At 5'6", I am a bit vertically challenged and as such, I make due as best as I can for a little guy! Those pants are LONG gone!
Another of Gorby
Ever get drunk and want to take a swim in a tank?? This was my birthday party back in 1992.. This tank was 240 gallons. In it is Gorby along with 2 white tip reef sharks, a horn shark and there is also a snow flake eel and a porcupine puffer.
This is one of my current tanks and the one that ultimately replaced the tank pictured above. Its 500 Gallons. These pics are a bit old as the tank is now a community salt water fish tank and no longer a reef tank. I dont have any current pics of it with the fish.
Thats me in the tank building the aqua scape from live rock. I glued the live rock together using pond foam. You can see the chunks on the bottom of the tank as I was clearing the excess from between the rocks.
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Originally Posted by razz
Absolutely stunning. I used to have a very nice reef tank that was 360 gallons if I remember right. I didn't know that trick with the pond glue. That's very cool.
Your jelly fish tank is also very beautiful. I haven't seen a jelly fish only tank before. The tank you used for it is perfect.
Cheers,
This tank is at my office. We just switched from the jellies to sea horses.
Absolutely stunning. I used to have a very nice reef tank that was 360 gallons if I remember right. I didn't know that trick with the pond glue. That's very cool.
Your jelly fish tank is also very beautiful. I haven't seen a jelly fish only tank before. The tank you used for it is perfect.
Cheers,
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Thanks floridaman and Razz!
The tank with the jellies was designed for jelly fish. Its called a kreisel and designed to suspend the fish and the food. It also works great for seahorses. I will get a couple pictures of it with the sea horses tomorrow and post them.
I've seen the tank at the Mirage many times, and probably your shark!
I sold them the shark several years back. More like 12 years ago I think. In order to write my fish hobby off, I was importing and selling fish. Mostly sharks inlcuding white tip reef sharks, black tip reef sharks, lemons as well as others. I got friendly with some of the curators at the mirage. At one point I sold them 500 clown fish in one shot. They were a bit of a pain when it came to the shark. It had to be at least 36" which it was but I had to take him out of the tank and measure it just to be sure. They paid me what I wanted plus plenty to have a crate made. I starved the fish for a few days, crated him up around 3am. They had a truck come to my house in So. Cal at 5AM and pick it up to deliver it to the airport for a flight to vegas. In vegas another carrier picked it up and delivered it to the hotel. The fish arrived there and ate immediately after being put into their holding tank. The transfer went like clock work but I was sad to see him go as I had him for a couple years.
It was moved into the tank behind the registration desk shortly there after. I was able to recognize it for years to come because of a spot on his side. Not sure if he is still there now. I havent been by there in years even though I am in vegas at least twice a year.
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Originally Posted by bstnsportsfan
Incredible tanks you have! What kind of work do you do that you have a tank like that in your office? I'm happy just to have a window!
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We actually have 2 tanks at my office. The one above with the jellies is in our lobby and separates our lobby and conference room. The other tank is a 90 gallon tall in our CFO's office and its packed with saltwater fish as well.
Here are a couple more of the lobby tank and one of the other tank that is in the other office.
Just after we fishied the install:
Other tank.. There are many more fish in it since this picture was taken. Matter of fact, this picture was taken when it was in its original location before we remodeled the lobby and put the jellyfish tank in.
Hi Slief yes I already saw that website Yesterday. Very nice stuffs!
I did a search through the web and already have an idea how to build that. I live in Vietnam so building it taylor made or even myself (sometimes better spend some times and be sure I do not end up with a washing machine) shall not be a big deal.
I just wonder what jelly and how I will collect them here.
Hi Slief yes I already saw that website Yesterday. Very nice stuffs!
I did a search through the web and already have an idea how to build that. I live in Vietnam so building it taylor made or even myself (sometimes better spend some times and be sure I do not end up with a washing machine) shall not be a big deal.
I just wonder what jelly and how I will collect them here.
The easiest to keep are the moon jellyfish. If you have them in your waters, you could scoop them up with a 5 gallon bucket or a milk jug. The ones with long tentacles such as Sea Nettles tend to be a pain to keep as the tentacles tend to tangle between the fish. The moons are pretty hardy.
Nice work! I was in the aquarium business for many years. I have done tanks as big as 1500 gallons.
I can imagine you had to drain some water out of that 240 before taking a swim huh...LOL...
Nice sharks, I remember back in the late 80s into the mid 90s they were very popular. Down here we used to keep baby Lemons and Black Tips. We had a 600 gallon tank in our store with about 6 of them swimming around. The whole neighborhood knew when feeding time was and all the kids would come in to watch. It would get crazy in the shop at times.
I like the jellyfish tank. How are the sea horses doing? They can be difficult to keep alive, though it is much easier if the entire aquarium is deticated to them.
Thanks slief.
Well I may first try with plastic bags as this is what most look like jellyfishes here in the waters and easy fishable
Tissue paper is better as its less buoyant. Just clump it into a ball and throw it in. The design however is more than just how the water goes around.. They way the water enters the tank and leaves is very critical and I know my buddy spent years and tens of thousands of dollars designing and developing the tanks. He even has a patent on the design. I'm not trying to discourage you but it might be more practical to get something that was designed for that purpose rather than throwing money at experiments. Jim ships those tanks all over the planet. I'm also aware that there are similar designs produced out of Japan or China.
Nice work! I was in the aquarium business for many years. I have done tanks as big as 1500 gallons.
I can imagine you had to drain some water out of that 240 before taking a swim huh...LOL...
Nice sharks, I remember back in the late 80s into the mid 90s they were very popular. Down here we used to keep baby Lemons and Black Tips. We had a 600 gallon tank in our store with about 6 of them swimming around. The whole neighborhood knew when feeding time was and all the kids would come in to watch. It would get crazy in the shop at times.
I like the jellyfish tank. How are the sea horses doing? They can be difficult to keep alive, though it is much easier if the entire aquarium is deticated to them.
I didn't have to drain any water out.. The sump is around 200 gallons. I still use that sump on my big tank. I just had to get in slow so the overflows could keep up. The pic below show about 2/3 of the sump.
Since you were in the business you will appreciate this. The 240 that I swam in used a pair of Little Giant 4MD's if memory serves me.. My 500 gallon system uses three 3800 GPH pond pumps and an Iwaki RLT 100 for the chiller which is in the garage. The plumbing to the garage is over 50' each direction and run underground around the hose. Over 5000 GPH of water flow at the current head level. I bought the house with 3 priorities in mind. Tank, Entertainment system and Garage. I closed on bare floors and dirt back yard and tore in within hours of closing escrow.
If you are interested in more details of the system as well as pictures. You can see them here and here.
The horses are doing great. We get them from a breeder in Florida. They are tank raised and captive bred. They'll eat frozen mysis shrimp that have been thawed as soon as they are put in the tank. This after an overnight trip with fed x. Out of 22 we have 19 doing very well after a month.
The last batch we got was 10. They all did great for several months. We had numerous sea horse births. I am trying to come up with a system of raising those. I had little success but I was keeping them alive longer each birth. I had some special tanks made for the horse fry which I have not used yet. This batch of horses are much smaller and younger than the last ones. I would expect the new ones will have babies before long too.
The sea horses are actually easier than the jellies. The best part about the horses is that they are readily available. The jellies are difficult to source. I had a crab fisherman collecting sea nettles for me in the Chesapeake bay and shipping them to me. They were a pain though as the nettles would end up getting tangled together in the tank due to their long sticky tentacles. The moons are the easiest of em but the sourcing issue was discouraging especially when I have a nice tank to keep looking happy at my office.
Thanks for the thread,
Being in the business myself I enjoyed it, especially the link to MACNA X on your site
I just got back from exhibiting and a small speaking bit at MACNA XXI. It was in Atlantic City this year.
Some salt water aquarium photos. Eels, snorkeling, reef etc. 
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