Comments on: The Ongoing Saga of the Saltwater Tank

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:37:40 +0000

People sometimes call gold fish boring, but they can actually be quite fun. I think it’s all in the kind you get. I had a friend with what I think was a koi who had gone blind (from age?), and he had a super fascinating personality. Strange, but true!

Good luck with your search, and thanks for posting!

By: Brooke

Brooke — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 04:35:10 +0000

I was talking with my roomate about plants, she keeps some of them in tanks, which reminds me of my new want for some type of fish. That led to me going to the local pet store and just looking around when I saw a mantis shrimp, obviously had to ask a worker what in the world it was. I think they are very interesting creatures and very pretty but i don’t think I could ever have a pet that I have to feed another pet to. I’m thinking just a little gold fish. something simple to start off with? What do you think?

By: Suanne

Suanne — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:32:32 +0000

Sounds fun, and a much happier ending then ours! I wonder what kind yours is–could it be a juvy peacock? The peacocks are beautiful, with bright irridescent colors like the one above. Our was a grey-brown, almost black. Good luck with it!

By: dodie

dodie — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:58:34 +0000

I recently caught my Mantis shrimp; not for sushi but to keep and study. I think it is beautiful!!!! My app. 5 year saltwater hobby has unveiled a new world in which I’ve fallen in love with! My shrimp could have actually been around that long, but unlikely, as Ive bought live rock many times, so who knows. It never killed a fish, that I know of, but has a taste for hermits. It is ring finger in length and a nice bluegreen which Im told is juvenile colors. His new home is in a 12g. nano tank, beside my bed. Alone, with a couple snails and I feed him by hand. Not bare handed but with long tweezers. My storys first chapter.

By: Suanne

Suanne — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:02:20 +0000

Always happy to be an inspiration. Just be warned–it’s a very addictive hobby. One minute you’re a very reasonable person, the next you’re trying to justify expensive lights ‘as an investment’ in growth from the hypothetical corals you’ll buy!

By: Becca

Becca — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:57:07 +0000

Haha! Love the sushi line

Now I know what a mantis shrimp is. Very interesting story. I used to have freshwater fish as a teenager. It would be fun to get a saltwater tank. You’ve inspired me!

By: Suanne

Suanne — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:17:02 +0000

One important element of a reef tank is live rock, which is rock that has living organisms and tiny critters on it. Unfortunately, sometimes it also has a small crab hiding in it or–you guessed it–a mantis shrimp.

In other words, it was a hitchhiker.

As for what we did with it, ever heard of sushi?

By: Ginger

Ginger — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:25:55 +0000

So how did it get in there anyway? Is this a dumb question? I know nothing about saltwater tanks. And I wish I could have seen you diving in to grab it. So after it was grabbed–what did you do to it??