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MachoMarlin

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  1. Hi all,

    This is something that we hooked up from about 40-60m water in this region. It looks like some sort of a coral at first, but it behaves more like a kind of carnivorous star of some sort. It had attached itself to a piece of squid and was broken off at the lower part. When I tried to touch it, it's spiky tree-root like tantacles tries to grab my fingers but falls sort of actually grabbing (probably the heat or something). Anyone here be able to identify it?

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    Thanks in advance.

  2. You may be able to purchase industrial ethanol from chemist. But If only you are really lucky, then you will be able to find some with purity > than 95%. Ethanol is a highly dutiable item, it have to be sufficiently denatured to waive the tax duties.

    Personally I find ethanol is not a very good preservative, and it is far too volatile. Formaldehyde is a much better option, much less evaporation and non-flammable. :whistle

  3. wow! do they still have the stripe when there are at that size? read that they don't usually grow that big when kept in captivity. i saw 2 on my last diving trip to redang, at the kalong house reef. they still had the stripe and were at least 6" long. but only 2... , not 20 or 40 of them. haha

    btw are they edible / good eating? :whistle

    lelong lelong... open up to trade for zoas or other fish (except damsel) also

    From my understanding they are edible, though I never tried or like them. They re basically scavengers andseems that they love to frequent beach areas and near drain oulets like other catfish, but, just that they go in large schools. I did kept some at one time for a couple of weeks before releasing them, see if I can still find the pix. remembered getting pricked & poked by no less than 3 times when they jumped, while retrieving them from the net. :pinch:

    Oh! btw, the Super Sun I bought from you last Oct, had been hijacked by a SS fanatic friend, it's definitely overweight and obese :eyebrow:

  4. I've caught these fellas afew times before with my casting net @ East Coast. Almost 20-40 of them in a single net of about 6-8" long, and also on rod and line, measuring almost 10" in length. As they had recommendation for 100gallon tank, well, not the least surprised, if they want to keep it for breeding? :eyebrow:

    Tested on myself before (accidentally), poisonous as in other catfish, but still okay, still considered mild when compared to Rabbitfish. Never want to try a Scorpion or Lionfish, they're top of the chart! :pinch:

  5. No worries, just chop it all up and feed your fishes.

    We used to get at the beach to fish for smelt, and can often be found in LR. Can be quite good scavengers/ snad cleaners, but will bite small fishes, and be food for the bigger ones! ;)

  6. I had one of those before. But I was lucky cos, it moved to a rock which was easily removed at the top of the rock scape, and I spotted it. Rock was removed with the crab inside. hehehe

    I knew a reefer who had a crab that moved quite a few of his priced zoas to the back of the tank. Kinda like trying to decorate its cave. :lol:

    :lol::lol::lol: That's a smart fella! Interior home deco! :lol::lol::lol:

  7. If that's the case your starting bid should be 200 since that's the lowest that you will let go. Makes no logic to start at 100 right?

    Juz passing by...

    Agree with ultraman, if you are starting at $100, that means you are ready to let go if there is only one bidder who offers $100. If your min. selling @$200, why make people waste time and wave band to bid all the way to $200? afterall, below $200 is rejected?

    Mebbe u gotta relook at it. :blink::heh::paiseh::P

  8. Anyone has this experience before, where the 'sand' crawls up the rocks and slowly bites off pieces of mushroom?

    Had a mushroom which was slowly bitten off and suspected the newly added hermit crab or orange-spotted goby but this is the 2nd time i see this sand trail and another mushroom is being bitten bit by bit.

    I thought it was the trail of a snail but its not. Not slimy and disintegrates when touched. There may be a hint of a thin shell but can't really confirm without a microscope.

    Used a pincer to pluck off what I can but anyone with a better idea? Some worm???

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    Yep, it's the worms (dunno the name). They have a survival instinct to camouflage by covering themselves with sand. Mine most active late in the night, but I was slow in catching them, shrunk back into the rocks in a slit second! Dunno if any relation to the tube worms, but I doubt so. <_<

  9. Well, I don't know if I should disclose the location to prevent ppl from swarming there to collect mangrove shoots. But its not Pasir Ris beach. :rolleyes:

    :heh: No worries, at low tides, you will find LOTS of them around Changi, East Coast Park, Pulau Ubin, Lim Chu Kang, with some drifted as far away as southern islands and beyond. These are plentiful in Singapore and Johore.

  10. Thanks bro. Will let you know if I need more, which could be soon, looking at the rate the chaeto is disappearing. Come to think about, it's actually quite ex to feed chaeto to fish! I think pellet food is still the way to go! Haha!

    Try feeding it with lettuce, to distract it from your Chaeto a little! :upsidedown: My tangs had been feeding on whatever greens that I can get from my fridge, save alot on fish feeds. :lol:

  11. if the worm is super fast, it could be a bobbit worm, that is a nasty worm.. i had 1 last time, over a foot long, and it ate about 5 fishes before i found out it's there..

    what happened was, it refused to come out, so i poured boiling water over the rock, and splitted the rock, to my amazement, a cooked 1 foot fat and long nasty sea centipede.. a way to id it is that it has fangs in front and feelers.. and ten times faster than a normal bristle..

    just my experiences, hope that helps.. :)

    Actually most sea worms (often nicked centipede because of its legs and feelers), eg, sand, mud, bristle, DO have fangs. It is just that it is more difficult to see if they are small. How to find out? Catch it, squeeze it's head alittle between your thumb & index, then feel for it's fangs sinking into your finger! :whistle:whistle:whistle

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