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[bigmac]

Here is a thread I'd like to start to show the most often asked about item(s) in our tanks. Here are three items that my friends ask about the most when they visit (with some of the questions they ask).

Elephant Ear - "Is that an anenome?" Or my personal favorite "so then it must be related to a venus flytrap?"
http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo11/bigmac0671/DSC_0069.jpg?t=1232595139

Starfish - "Is that thing going to shoot poison darts out of it's spikes?"

http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo11/bigmac0671/CSC_0341.jpg?t=1232595535

Goby - "How much nutritional value does he get from just eating sand?"

http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo11/bigmac0671/DSC_0154.jpg?t=1232595463

[bigmac]

I now have larger pictures posted! Photobucket is a wonderful thing.

[danny zubot]

I can only answer #1 and #3. Elephant ears are in fact a species of mushroom, but all mushrooms are distant cousins of anemones. So you could say that they it is an anemone, but to acurate, call it a "shroom".:biggrin:

The nutrition a goby can acquire from a sandbed can support it quite well in my opinion. I hardly ever feed my tank and my gobyis nice and fat, and I don't even have a sandbed. It feeds on detritus from the bottom of the tank.

Hope this answers some of you questions.

Danny

[fooser]

This is the one I get asked most often about since it sits right on my sand in the front. Hairy Blue mushrooms with green base. There is 3 of them in this picture, each opens to about 4" diameter across. Never seen another one around ever.
http://members.shaw.ca/chin88/DSC_0230.jpg

[Keri]

My candy cane. "Wow, that's really neat, it's fake, right?"

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii254/Keri1980/candycanes.jpg

[fishoholic]

For some reason I can't think right now of what my non reef friends say. However the first comment I usually get from a fellow reefer seeing my tank for the first time is "Holly biggest Salfin ever!" He's 10" long and about 2" fat :lol:

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii53/Laurie_Morin/DSC_1148.jpg

[Boomboy]

well it was one big fish.

[bigmac]

I hope my sailfin gets that big someday; however then I'll need a much bigger tank than my 100.

Danny-Thanks for the answers; however those questions were the most asked by my non reefer friends.

Keep em coming!

[MikeP]

Here's the Carpet Nem I used to have (unfortunately he ate to many fish so he had to go).

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q117/MikeP471612/Inverts/09a98f05.jpg

People would ask,

So you feed him prawns, really?

How would he ever 'catch' a fish?

and

How come he doesn't eat that crab who lives on him?

[Marlin65]

I alway get a kick out of "you don't have very many fish"
Even though your tank is loaded up with corals.:lol:

[untamed]

Just the opposite....

People use to sit beside my old 30 gallon tank for quite a while before suddenly exclaiming..."Hey, there's a fish!".

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r118/untamed_photos/100_0169.jpg

[Marlin65]

LOL maybe that is because I only have small frags in my tank.

[karazy]

well i dont have any pics, but questions ive heard are..

whats that?

thats a piece of coral

oh. its a plant right?

no, it's a coral. its very different from a plant

but it sways back and forth like a plant would!

or the most confusing one ive ever heard is a 3 year old girl was pointing at a clownfish.
he wasnt saying nemo.
she was saying "look, its a flounder!!!"

[bigmac]

Any other reefers out there who want to share a pic or two of their most asked about items in their tank?

[o.c.d.]

How about this is what is front they stare for a minute with out a word then then.....http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii261/mudslingercor/P3240020.jpg
" Hey is that a crab" mmmm ya thats a hermit crab.
http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii261/mudslingercor/P3240066.jpg
Then... is that a snail... Yes that is a freaken snail. and yes it's saltwater
http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii261/mudslingercor/P3290029.jpg

[marie]

For some reason my non reefing friends all seem to focus on these horrid things
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/mariesnell/jan1509032.jpg

and can't understand why I'd want to get rid of them :lol:

[Lance]

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo151/lancefishtank/IMG_2544.jpg


So you say it has venomous spines and stung you once. Can you show me?

[marie]

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo151/lancefishtank/IMG_2544.jpg


So you say it has venomous spines and stung you once. Can you show me?

Now why didn't I think of that when I was at your house yesterday :razz:

[Lance]

Now why didn't I think of that when I was at your house yesterday :razz:

No Marie. I think everyone should experience it themselves.

[PoonTang]

For some reason my non reefing friends all seem to focus on these horrid things
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/mariesnell/jan1509032.jpg

and can't understand why I'd want to get rid of them :lol:

When you find a cure for them, please let me know. ok?

[fishoholic]

When you find a cure for them, please let me know. ok?

The cure for them is my naso tang. Shockingly enough I've actually pulled some from the small tank I had running and tossed them into the big tank for him to eat :biggrin:

I love friends who point at corals and say "What do you mean it's alive? How is that possible?"