Hi Dick,

 

Yes there is at least one person out here! this web group has gone rather quiet in recent years - it used to be very active  - Im not sure what happened really.

I now only have a medium sized coldwater marine tank which has snakelock anemones a sand goby prawns, cushion stars and a few other small beasties! I have an external filter (which I would highly reccommend). I would be interested to hear how you get on with your tank, particularly the longterm survival of your plumose anemones. I have had these before, but I suspect they dont like the chaotic flow of water around the tank. I would also love to inroduce peakock worms and feather stars to the tank but I think that without cooling the water they may not survive.

 

In the past I have used an old beer chiller to cool the water but it was so noisey and smelly that its now in the garage. I have heard aboutsome electric cooling methods which are simply rods that you can put in the tank to cool it down. Has anyone else heard of these or used them?

 

Good luck with your tank.

 

Charlie

(up in north Wales)

>>> "dickjones999" <dickjones999@...> 03/05/08 2:43 pm >>>

I've just got into marine aquaria again having left off twenty odd
years ago. Things have changed on the equipment front in the past few
years.

I set up a small tank as an experiment and filled it with beadlet and
plumose anemonies and some Sagartia species, a clump of peacock fan
worms and a shanny and some starfish and of course some (small)
crabs. It has been going for six weeks now and seems to be ok.

It is hard to find anyone else who keeps cold saltwater aquaria, this
forum doesn't seem to be active at the moment, Is that true?

Dick