Ive notices my male erecus will sometimes be hitched to things hanging upside down. He eats normally (and loudly if i might add), no bad water parameters no airstone has been turned off lately, is this normal?

-adam

Looking for lunch dood... looking for lunch....

He's just hunting. Some do it more than others... hey my erectus is doing it right now at I look over for him. I have one Reidi who I barely ever see upright.

oh good, i was afraid there for a second.

It's cute when you know what they are doing. They are going to scare the heck out of ya at least 50 more times.

i <3 to see them do that =]

<3? Translation please... I'm SO not with the times.

yeah...me neither! :D

Umm I think it's supposed to be a heart. Or as he said "I <3 (love) to see them do that =]

aha! cyber language! got it! :cool:

I feel old.

You just need to have a bunch of teenagers who hang around you house or text you!

do you have any pics of them doing this? i would love to see them.

who? the teenagers? http://www.talkingreef.com/forums/images/smilies/tease.gif

LOL Christi.

I haven't been able to capture them completely upside down. They must know when I'm backing out of the room that I'm going for my camera and straighten up really fast. But here's one kind of doing it.

thanks. they are totally awesome!

BTW, i wanna point out that I don't have fake corals in the tank. That is his feeding dish that he is hitched to and it's magnetically attached through the glass. This way the BWs will stay out of their food (reduced risk of accidental BW ingestion which kills horses) and you can feed them without a mess.

i should add that the feeding station was a (yet another) creation by Renee. it's made from the halfshell from a T. squamosa clam ( i lost the clam in a tank crash). she added the hitching posts (the coral skeleton) and a super strong magnet that sits against the tank, with another magnet on the outside to hold it in place (think mag-float). the magnet inside the tank is covered in aquarium-safe epoxy.

can we get a close-up of this? sounds cool!

I'd love to see more pics of your guys' tanks/ponies! :D

I'm actually going to build one soon from 2 part casting resin and soem strong magnets to hold an abalone shell. This one is kind of cheezy but I would be happy to show ya.

K, after he moves off it.... I tried to shoo him... he's looking at me very displeased.

Ta-daaaa!

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y248/seahorsedreams/fish/Reidi2.jpg

tell him to take his fat brood pouch down the road...*muttering as i press <post>*

that is totally beautiful!!! thank you so much for sharing.

Great pic, SHD!

Great shot Renee!!! wow....so clear! :D

is that sargassum?

That's grape.... caulerpa.

Sargassum is brownish/golden "leaves" with little bubbles groups here and there.

really? wow so one day my caulerpa will grow up to be big and strong like your caulerpa?

Pic I snapped of sargassum

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l65/Reneecoles/sargassum.jpg

do you have any whole tank shots?

and how do you keep algae at bay with such low flow? I have a bad problem.

I actually don't have any saved full tank shots. I was hoping to have the caulpera take hold before then.

As far as having no algae?..... the tank is new.

But also keep the nutrient export going. Take care of your lights. Have a good and varied clean up crew. Have your flow as high as your horses will tolerate. Keep your alkalinity at the high end of normal.