Avid pico reefer here.
Involved in micro reefs from the mid 70's to present, long before most hobbyists were born, or involved in the hobby. I started with a 10 gallon standard tank with under-gravel filter and crushed oyster substrate and T12 shop lights, progressed to LED lighting and live rock filtration... see how we have have learned over the decades? lol.
But I digress... I am now located in a south Texas rural location approximately 80 miles from the nearest "city". Most of my experience is with native marine organisms from the Texas beaches, bays and jetties from Port Aransas, south along Mustand Island all the way to south padre island. I kept bundosonoma cavernata (wharty anemones) for almost a decade in a 10 gallon aquarium, although they quickly bleached loosing the pink/blue watercolor pigmentation.
I have kept dwarf sea horses for years, although the longest tank duration was 35 months due to heater exploding and destroying the pico tank. The zosterea were fed with powdered egg yolk enriched 3 day old artemia and the plentiful supply of peppermint nauplii from a designated 20 gallon shrimp tank fed with Tetra Marine flake food.
My current interests are focused on small colorful anemones... esp the mojano and tulip varieties found on live rock. I had several biotopes of majano morphs during the last decade, but unfortunately lost all due to moving to my current location. Most reefers despise them in their main display tanks.... with good reason, but they make incredibly beautiful pico sized biotope displays for the desktop.
I am currently seeking to recreate my micro anemone picotopes with various color morphs.
If anyone has majano's, graceful's or pink-tip tulip anemones I would be interested in purchasing them and paying the applicable shipping costs. If suitable specimens are not obtained within the next few weeks I will have to resort to purchasing uncured live rock in an attempt to randomly obtain the anemones.
Best regards,
Kelly aka redtxn
Involved in micro reefs from the mid 70's to present, long before most hobbyists were born, or involved in the hobby. I started with a 10 gallon standard tank with under-gravel filter and crushed oyster substrate and T12 shop lights, progressed to LED lighting and live rock filtration... see how we have have learned over the decades? lol.
But I digress... I am now located in a south Texas rural location approximately 80 miles from the nearest "city". Most of my experience is with native marine organisms from the Texas beaches, bays and jetties from Port Aransas, south along Mustand Island all the way to south padre island. I kept bundosonoma cavernata (wharty anemones) for almost a decade in a 10 gallon aquarium, although they quickly bleached loosing the pink/blue watercolor pigmentation.
I have kept dwarf sea horses for years, although the longest tank duration was 35 months due to heater exploding and destroying the pico tank. The zosterea were fed with powdered egg yolk enriched 3 day old artemia and the plentiful supply of peppermint nauplii from a designated 20 gallon shrimp tank fed with Tetra Marine flake food.
My current interests are focused on small colorful anemones... esp the mojano and tulip varieties found on live rock. I had several biotopes of majano morphs during the last decade, but unfortunately lost all due to moving to my current location. Most reefers despise them in their main display tanks.... with good reason, but they make incredibly beautiful pico sized biotope displays for the desktop.
I am currently seeking to recreate my micro anemone picotopes with various color morphs.
If anyone has majano's, graceful's or pink-tip tulip anemones I would be interested in purchasing them and paying the applicable shipping costs. If suitable specimens are not obtained within the next few weeks I will have to resort to purchasing uncured live rock in an attempt to randomly obtain the anemones.
Best regards,
Kelly aka redtxn
