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What kind of rock is that? Looks cool
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It was GOM liverock. Not sure what hard coral it was. I processed 800 pounds before I shut down AquacultureRanch 20‘ by 40’ greenhouse.
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PS: My bad with double post.It was GOM liverock. Not sure what hard coral it was. I processed 800 pounds before I shut down AquacultureRanch 20‘ by 40’ greenhouse.
It could have been any of these hitch hikers.
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We have around half a million pounds of live rock under production on our federal live rock lease site located 10 miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico's EEZ zone. We use a natural calcium carbonate rock called Bryozoan facies to build our lease site. This rock is basically prehistoric coral and reefs that are dug up in south Florida by construction sites, farmers, pool makers and rock quarries. Remember that most of Florida was under water thousands of years ago. If you look closely many rocks contain visible prehistoric marine fossils and shells. This rock is extremely porous with many nooks and crannies for fish and inverts to seek refuge inGulf Live Rock
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Oh ur that guy with the greenhouse of rocks... I remember Richard (Tampa Bay saltwater live rock) telling me about you.
Easy natural solution to Aiptasia. Just found these guys yesterday in the overflow.
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That's awsome. Open water certified diver but haven't been to gulf yet.It was GOM liverock. Not sure what hard coral it was. I processed 800 pounds before I shut down AquacultureRanch 20‘ by 40’ greenhouse.
It could have been any of these hitch hikers.Gulf Live Rock
We have around half a million pounds of live rock under production on our federal live rock lease site located 10 miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico's EEZ zone. We use a natural calcium carbonate rock called Bryozoan facies to build our lease site. This rock is basically prehistoric coral and reefs that are dug up in south Florida by construction sites, farmers, pool makers and rock quarries. Remember that most of Florida was under water thousands of years ago. If you look closely many rocks contain visible prehistoric marine fossils and shells. This rock is extremely porous with many nooks and crannies for fish and inverts to seek refuge inGulf Live Rock
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What am I looking at? Nudibranch?Easy natural solution to Aiptasia. Just found these guys yesterday in the overflow.
Berghia nudibranch to be specific. Arguable the best solution to aptaisia. Not cheap though if I consider how many you would need (or how long your aptaisia problem persists) it looks like nothing is happening and then, all of a sudden, no more aptaisia.
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My first live rock order was The Package and I ordered it while I was working on a 14/14 on off schedule on a Semi-submersible drilling rig 200 miles due South of New Orleans. As things turned out, when I talked to Richard, he was in the middle of a July 4 fishing tournament sponsored by Biloxi casinos on the coast. Coincidently, our drilling rig in 3000’ of water was in the middle of bill fish & tuna fish breeding in blue water off the mouth of the Mississippi River and he saw our rig as I talked on Marisat satellite phone. That was more than 15 years ago.
Did you actually dive on the lease?
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There is a deep coral reef out of Galveston.
Back in the 1960’s, my father sometimes took scuba divers to spear fish around production platforms in shallower water around 60’.
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In deep water drilling, as a senior subsea engineer, I operated underwater camera for visual inspection of subsea BOP (blowout preventer) or I monitored Oceaneering ROV (remote operated vehicle with robotic arms for emergency backup functions) camera.
During these inspections, I would pan up from 500’ and see our 1 acre footprint in the center of multitudes of schooling fish. When 12 hour work day ended, I would often catch some of those same fish.
All pictures are taken underwater of a production platform installed in 1982. In the winter of 1980, I was a young subsea engineer for Odeco that drilled the well before the Flower Gardens were designated as a sanctuary. Note the biodiversity that has attached after ten years. All prodtction platforms far enough offshore to to be in blue water will have similar fauna & fana.
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In my opinion, the best member of your clean up crew is a tang, which is why I’m moving away from multiple, smaller tanks towards less, larger tanks. I watch my blue hippo and yellow tang in my display and man are they busy!
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We can definitely trade here. In 52 years of Reefing I have never had these in a system and would be interested in seeing them work.
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Yes to the Tangs as omnivores. However, I like displaying ornamental seaweed and the tangs like it for a different reason.
Just as some like to match equipment to get desired outcome, I like mixing live stock to get desired results, so I tinker about with specialty theme tanks and Caribbean mixed garden lagoons are in style for me.
I only pretty much stayed above the water line..
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Hey! who sent the photos of the drilling rigs, especially the Ensco rigs, which one was that 850X?I only pretty much stayed above the water line..
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If you come to Austin, I will gift you a 5G bucket of assorted Bryozoan limestone that was an ancient
(50-100 million years) coral reef that is now present day Florida. In essence the reef in my tanks can be traced back 50 million years. When you get my age, those details matter.
.I live 5 minutes from the Salt Lick in Hays County.
PS: When I dismantled the big tank (12’ by 20’ at 4’ high) In the green house there was Texas holey rock next to diver collected live rock that was excavated from rock quarries inland and then railed to seaport, then 500,000 pounds was barged offshore and deposited by crane to flat bottom lease in 30’ of water due west of Tampa Bay.
Here and now are small piles of live rock that have been bleached 5 years in the sun.
On these 1.5 acres, there are two exposed Edwards Plateau limestone shelves which collided to make a wet weather stream and very visible are similar marine fossils. So, in fact, Texas holey rock is of marine orgine when Texas, Louisiana and Florida were shallow inland seas.
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If you pay overnight shipping ill give you a few for free. Your post and knowledge have been worth the cost. Thank you.
My first glance I saw Sargassum cause its been in the news so much lol...I only pretty much stayed above the water line..
