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
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
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.
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.
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