drunkreefer

It's one of many reasons I made the jump towards temperate marine hobby just due to the fact I could collect my own animals legally!

This idea of collecting temperate animals for acclimation into tropical will fail 100%. Oregon's native marine animals are true temperate sea creatures unlike southern California subtropical animals which can tolerate higher 60's for a short time, now it's true that inner tidal animals such as purple shore crabs and some anemones can regulate there body temperatures to combat low tide exposure twice a day but this is still temporary and in all of our experiments (Coldwatermarineaquatics) raising the temperature past mid 60's always resulted in stress on the animals and death. This notion you have is not new by any means and is still very frequently used in the tropical hobby as a money making scam by selling subtropical animals that can last for several months in a reef tank but will always end up starving to death from stress due temperature, temperate water has a higher oxygen content due to the lower temperature. This plan of yours sounds good in retrospect but will fail miserably not trying to highjack your thread and be the barrier of bad news but saving you the wasted time and flaming you will receive for trying somthing that's so obvious meaning that if this worked don't you think our company and the thousands of other companies would already be selling coldwater invertebrates and fish for tropical reefs lol???? If you need more info I would urge you to educate yourself by using online tools like fishbase.org or just Google for info on the temperature range of these animals and remember your not new at this by any means and a ton of people have already made these mistakes so you don't have to, if you need help setting up a coldwater tank feel free to email me at coldwatermarineaquatics@gmail Josh Groves

Wow...... that's 100% crazy that's legal! We hate to even over night our shipments with way more air!

RED EYE MEDUSA JELLYFISH ( Polyorchis pencillatus) SNEAK PEAK!!!!

Oh just the module never mind...... I need more sleep loo (:

You have a pm

I'm on dendroard dart666 is my handle. Ive built allot of vivs and love everyone!

I'm still going strong! Want to build a verticle viv for a pair of basti

Nice to see you on the board ammon! To all those who have yet to meet Ammon and his brother they are great people and the new facility is going to be stellar! Stew and I are working on some wolf eels for there Idaho location so if any one wants to see a big ol' eel before we ship them off let us know they should be in are holding system in the next week or so. Josh

I don't think so but that would be nice!

I wish we took a picture of the 24 inch Pacific giant cucumber I found when we collected for there other aquarium in Idaho, it was super sweet!

Stew and I got the tour of the place a while back before they went public, you know coldwater marine aquatics will be stocking it up with all the Pacific coast has to offer!

I have a rare and I mean rare! Red bubble algea! 200 dollars a pop but will trade for rare clowns.

I'm going to have to pass because of the way its already set up for reef keeping tank but man its very euro styled and it would make a great reef tank and that coast to coast could be used as an Inn tank refugium flow through.

Be a perfect vivarium or plandarium! I want it!