Hi, I've actually made contact with someone who isn't talking about
their corals etc. I wonder where everyone else is?

My tank is about 2 foot by one by one. I knocked it up about 20
years ago and it had been standing outside for years until I
resurected it. I have got an undergravel filter because that is
what I had 20 years ago and I thought, it worked OK then, lets have
one again.

Are your snakelocks under lights? They are supposed to be difficult
but I don't remember having any problems with them.

I don't remember having any problems with the tanks getting too hot
for plumose anemonies and fan worms but of course it was not so hot
back in the sixties and seventies! Where did you get your beer
chiller? I may experiment with an old fridge. The temperature is
between 15 and 17C at the moment.

I collected a "left-handed" hermit crab in Norfolk which probably is
Diogenes and not Pagurus but I will have to check it properly before
I shout too loudly. It may be a first for the county but there are
so few people who I can ask.

Dick


--- In wetthumb@..., Charles
Lindenbaum<c.lindenbaum@...> wrote:
>
> 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
>