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  1. Bellinghammer

    520g Peninsula Build

    WOW! I'm just seeing this for the first time! Great Job Ami!
  2. Bellinghammer

    Yellow Tang Rescue - Fin rot

    Great job! I was just in there the other day and seen a yellow eye kole tang that I was kind of interested in, but his mouth wouldn't close. A quick smartphone google search indicated that was not a good sign. Glad to see your rescue working! -Clint
  3. Bellinghammer

    Puget Sound Copepods/Amphipods

    First I throw chunks of seaweed in my bucket, even though there aren't usually many pods on it. I have the best luck at low tide in sandy areas. Pick up a stick or rock that would normally be under water during the high tide and there are literally hundreds of large pods squirming around...
  4. Bellinghammer

    Puget Sound Copepods/Amphipods

    Pod Update: The survival rate in a 5 gallon bucket in the garage has been so good that I tried a new experiment with these amphipods. Over 24hrs ago I was out collecting another batch of seaweed covered in Puget Sound Amphipods. When I got home, I took a gallon of my 35ppt, 78 degree tank...
  5. Bellinghammer

    Bellingham Area Reefers

    Great! I've been trying to do the same! I started a Bellingham Saltwater Fish and Coral page on Facebook. Check it out and be sure to "like" it. I'm always willing to give tours of my tank and swap corals!
  6. Bellinghammer

    Puget Sound Copepods/Amphipods

    True. And I respect the law, but prefer to use a common sense approach. It is legal to harvest hundreds of thousands of dungeness crabs and salmon from the Puget Sound every year. Unfortunately to be on the safe side the state lumps ALL OTHER MARINE INVERTS in to one category and protects...
  7. Bellinghammer

    Puget Sound Copepods/Amphipods

    Respectfully disagree. Pods are super hardy, and can survive parameter fluctuations that fish and coral would never tolerate.
  8. Bellinghammer

    Puget Sound Copepods/Amphipods

    That's awesome! Do you have to have a special permit to do a plankton tow? I'd be interested to see how that works.
  9. Bellinghammer

    Puget Sound Copepods/Amphipods

    I've been collecting seaweed legally instead. There are a bunch of Amphipods and Copepods on the seaweed that washes up on shore. So far the little critters are loving their new home in my garage.
  10. Bellinghammer

    Puget Sound Copepods/Amphipods

    No surprises from the WDFW.... Thank you for your e-mail correspondence to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW). Your best source for information on licenses, daily limits, season, restrictions, etc. would be the 2012/2013 Fish Washington Sport Fishing Rules regulation...
  11. Bellinghammer

    Puget Sound Copepods/Amphipods

    Come on man. Do you realize how many creatures have been "tortured" to get the knowledge we currently have in this hobby. If you knew the actual survival rates of coral and fish harvested from the wild, or the techniques used you wouldn't be in the hobby. I'm just talking about bugs here...
  12. Bellinghammer

    Puget Sound Copepods/Amphipods

    If I was to drop my temp to 50, obviously everything would die, but I'm guessing the copepods and amphipods would still be foraging... They're a lot hardier than a fish or coral. From Wikipedia, "Amphipods are found in almost all aquatic environments, from freshwater to water with twice the...
  13. Bellinghammer

    Puget Sound Copepods/Amphipods

    Great!! Thanks for the insightful replies! I'm thinking about collecting a couple thousand and seeing if i can keep them alive in the cold water that I catch them in. Then slowly acclimating their temp and salinity in a quarantine tank to match my reef tank. The bugs I find at low tide are...
  14. Bellinghammer

    Puget Sound Copepods/Amphipods

    When out playing on the shores of the Puget Sound I've noticed 1000's of copepods/amphipods running around under rocks and sticks. Anybody try to harvest these for their home reef tanks?
  15. Bellinghammer

    In-Wall Tank and Baby Clowns

    Darthv247 is very observant. He noticed the toilet next to the tank during the in-wall build video.
  16. Bellinghammer

    In-Wall Tank and Baby Clowns

    There is a washer and dryer in the room too! The toilet actually comes in very handy for water changes.
  17. Bellinghammer

    Question about my clowns breeding?

    Yesterday!!
  18. Bellinghammer

    Question about my clowns breeding?

    My clowns always lay on the rock until I put the tile in. Once the tile is in their space that's all they lay on. My tile is a chunk I broke off that is about 2"X4". I place the tile in their territory by the anemone. I like to place it so that when the anemone is completely sprawled out...
  19. Bellinghammer

    Question about my clowns breeding?

    I've hatched and raised a couple thousand clownfish by using the backside of a tile from Lowe's/HD. The clowns are attracted to the porous texture of the backside of the tile and lay on it every time it is in their tank. Using a chunk of tile makes it very easy to snatch the eggs from the parents.
  20. Bellinghammer

    In the market for a skimmer

    Reef Dynamics, formerly Euro Reef, has top of the line skimmers at budget pricing. I couldn't be happier with mine. Super customer support. Several informative videos. At least check em out.
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