Night Viewing - Podcast Episode 66

[Rob]

Brain Plankis is back with us again to talk about Night viewing. so many people dont even realize the stuff that await them in there tank when the lights get shut off, so here we are taking some time to give you the ins and outs of viewing your reef tank at night

Questions discussed
* Night Viewing tools
* What to do with startling hitchhikers
* What harm are hitchhikers
* The good sides to hitchhikers
* and more conversation about out night viewing experiences

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CoralDynamics

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[Small Fry]

Great topic and podcast, i must say, when i had my nano, some of the only times i could view my tank were at night, and with my moonlights i coul sit for hours and watch the bristle worms crawling around and like brian said, i saw my snails spawning, very neat experience :D

[miwoodar]

Rob, you're an animal. I have no idea how you are able to churn out so many quality podcasts on a weekly basis.

[wwest]

i am almost possitive mountain dew has a big part of it :) lol

[wildeone]

Great show Rob, very informative as always. Keep up the great wrok!

[BrianPlankis]

Here are a couple of pictures of my TBS brain corals (Manicina sp.)

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y45/garagebrian/RCPerm/11082005newbrain6.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y45/garagebrian/RCPerm/07282005brain.jpg

Brian

[Rob]

Rob, you're an animal. I have no idea how you are able to churn out so many quality podcasts on a weekly basis.
thanks, im glad you are finding them valuable.. :)


i am almost possitive mountain dew has a big part of it :) lol
actually it used to, but no longer.. havent doen the dew in over 2 months now..
now its jsut SW and Zoajuice.. ;)


Great show Rob, very informative as always. Keep up the great work!
Thanks, and thanks to Brian to for his help, (he did most of the talking anyways.. ;)


Here are a couple of pictures of my TBS brain corals (Manicina sp.)
Brian
Brain, thanks for sharing the images.. very cool coral..

[wildeone]

Wow, great looking brains!

[Rob]

Wow, great looking brains!
thanks i know :D

oh.. hmmm..
you were talking about Brians corals.. yeah, i guess those are nice too... ;)

[NM354]

love the brain

[Danamck]

OK - so I finally got around to doing some night viewing. HOLY COW! I had no idea how much nocturnal life there is in the tank. The sand bed looked alive - hundreds and hundreds of pods scattered back into the live rock (perhaps my red filter is the wrong spectrum, as it seems to scatter all the night life about as fast as a regular flash light!)

One thing I saw that has me very curious - there's no way for me to photograph them, so here's my best description: they look like baby guppies. They were light brown, were shapped like baby guppies, were about 1/4 - 1/2" in size, and SWAM! Swam like fish! Any idea what these can be? I do have a pair of false perculas, but I have never seen them lay eggs. So I can't imagine that they are fish.

Any ideas ...

[Rob]

my best guess is mysid shrimp, but cant be sure..

its awesome that you got a chance to check things out.. :)

[Danamck]

They don't look like mysid shrimp, but I'm not sure either. I did find some smaller ones swimming in the return area of my refugium. I'm going to try and catch one and take a look under a microscope (that child's microscope kit I bought my son many years ago is finally going to see some use!) I'll let you know what I find, and try and provide a better description.

Anyway - for those few remaining souls who haven't gone expoloring their tanks in the middle of the night (or was I the last one!) all I can say is "DO IT!" There's a whole other world of life hiding in your tank during the day that you have to check out.