The Most Biodiverse Rock in my Fish Tank
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- Опубліковано 1 гру 2022
- Christmas tree worm rocks are full of aquatic life. This cool piece of rock is home to a lot of colorful Christmas tree worms, hermit crabs and so much more. The rock is located in my 40 gallon fish tank, but in this video we take a closer look in a special aquarium.
The Most Biodiverse Rock in my Fish Tank
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Christmas tree worms are fascinating to see, these fish tank inhabitants come in a lot of different colors. Usually they live in a piece of live coral together with hermit crabs and other marine animals. It's an ecosystem, such a beautiful piece of nature!
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There soooooo expensive now - back in 80s they use to give Christmas tree rocks away for few dollars and now need a loan !
Ikr!
How much?
@@arodriguez339 I have seen them go for as little as $250 to $500 depending on size back in mid 80s when I got involved with saltwater a rock was $25
@@smoothsteve8331 That's insane
I had one back in the day (early 2000s) when I first had a tank. It came with the live rock and was instantly my favorite obsession. Nowadays I'd have to sell my car to afford one, lol. Keep up the great vids!!!
Yeah. Very hard to find at an affordable price nowadays.
For real! This rock would be probably around $300 nowadays
I love how every single thing has a little spark of life on it
Been following you for a few years now, and its amazing how much you grew up and become so good. Keep up the goed werk maat! ;-)
christmas tree rock has been on my wishlist for SOOOO long!
I've seen it only in videos. Never in person. They seem so interesting for sure. Thanks for sharing 👌🏻
Beautiful rock and aquariums. I have two similar rocks with so much life. My kids absolutely love watching all the comes and go's on the Rock Metropolis.
Yeah i love these rocks. Never seen onr with those hermit crabs thou.. this is truely a great example of loving reef rock. Those hermit crabs with the christmas worms make a super cool reef addition. I wish i had.
Really awesome!
My favorite childhood fish tank memories involve live rock
Wow, how beautiful!
That rock is amazing !
That's so cool!
Very nice small little life in there..
I want something like that in my 40 gallon. It looks amazing.
This is incredibly beautiful. I would just cry if I got one, cause it would be like something out of a book.
I'm am already fascinated with my first saltwater tank, that I recently set up, I'm obsessively looking at all the creatures I got on the live rock and at my first tiny coral, a gorgeous purple mushroom with green dots.
I found some of the tiny starfish, luckily I had seen them in vids before and separated them, but I love them and keep them separately, hope they will make it.
I also saw 2 very small and fragile things looking like bristle stats on my rock, the size of a mosquito, but couldn't identify them.
Never seen one of these before! So neat!
This is not what I expected, and now I want one.
nice video! i like those xmas tree's they are so cool!
Thank you!!
Used yo get these from the Marshall Islands when I was in the hobby
They can come in with many destructive beasties. They are definitely the most densely packed you can get.
You generally have two options: 1, keep them alone in a tank, or except the damage they will do to your reef.
Amazing!
So cool! Do you target feed the rock?
I really want one of these one day!
stunning
Thank you! 😊
Amazing 🎄
Thank you!
I have a Christmas tree worm rock too. Have you noticed the worm tubes growing longer?
Yes! If you look at the very first video of this rock back in 2021, some were way smaller :)
I had one in my refugium for a few years!
beautiful
Thank you!
What type of crab is that? And I remember hermit crab live in snail shell
This is amazing!
What species is the hermit crabs, and how do you start them up properly?
the hermit crab looks like a Pylojacquesia colemani, though I just discovered they exist. So, I can't give you help on the care. That being said I found out that they inhabit empty Christmas worm holes, and they look like they are filter feeders, from that I suppose that they require a similar care to the Christmas worms? Take my opinion with a grain of salt though, I have never had a reef tank, and especially never had either of those
I just pitched a Xmas tree rock. I’m confused if it needs more white light or more blue? Also the flow , what is best? Beautiful rock with life. I just hope mine survives as I’m learning about this expensive creature
I now want a saltwater tank with dozens of Christmas tree worms. Dammit.
Es lindo saber que un pedazo de piedra tiene mucha vida marina
How you find one been looking for years
What kind of hermit crabs are those
Woooow
I’ve had those sea stars in my take for a year, never had any issues with them eating corals.
Lucky you!! At first, I didn’t have any problems with ‘em either.
@@DannysAquariums yeah, depends on what color the starfish have. Different colors are different (sub) species. And some of them eat corals.
@@gamenmetkikkerstyle the 1s I had I was pretty certain ate corraline algae. When I would see them I removed them but they never made it to "uh oh we must address this issue asap" status. Not even close. The biggest problem I've had in the reef hobby was finding what ended up being a 2 meter eunicid worm that had burrowed all through a huge piece of LR covered in several colors of zoas. Hated fragging that huge piece but I knew something evil was inside. Never knew it was longer than I am tall tho.
@@ollielong630 Im always hyped up when I find certain critters. But indeed the worms god damn they creep the hell outta me hahaha
If you ever want a tridacna clam you need to remove the bumble bed snail, they are know to eat those
What species are those hermit crabs?
Wow mantap coba lihat di sini juga di alamnya di tempat saya
any vermited snail?
Where can I get one?
Your christmas tree what country? aus?
Do you quarantine newly acquired rocks? If so, would you mind sharing how, please?
I don’t quarantine anything.. I should tho. 😜
@@DannysAquariums same lol
My local saltwater fish shop has a rock full of them...I'm gonna ask how much they want for it...
Really interesting and cool!! I’m starting my own project in a 15 gallon tank any tips?
Thanks! Awesome to hear, my biggest tip would be to take things slow. Slow and steady wins the race, especially in a nano! 😛
slow = fast
Amazing. how long until like that?
This rock could be well over 100 years old according to some experts!
Imagine the sea
is this getting bigger? I actully have christmas tree worm as well but it slowly cant see different lol
You mean the worms, yeah they grow. Until they reach a length of about 3-4cm. ;)
@@DannysAquariums thx
My hammers aren't doing amazing, but most the time they seem pretty happy(I believe the beginner lighting may be a big factor)
My zooanthids seem to just die or at least parts of the colony dies/closes up for weeks.
Do you have any tips? I've tried the stuff from many other UA-cam and nothing seems to help much if at all.
I'm dying to get my zooanthid garden flourishing then start attempting slightly more in depth specimens.
Sorry to hear that! What are your nitrate/phosphate levels? Do you notice anything on/near the Zoanthids when they’re closed?
@@DannysAquariums they seem to get fairly dirty? Like alge will start growing on them, they close up, then when the snails and other cleanup crew clean them they start to open up partially then just close again. Nitrate isn't as stable as I'd like but that could be because it's a very small reeftank, but I've never had any serious spikes or drops in either that could really screw with them.
I'm absolutely stumped.
Definitely going to, at minimum, triple the tank size when I do resize to help with stability.
Learned after I got a 30g cube that bellow 75g isn't good for a beginner reef tank haha
What were the nitrate/phosphate levels when you last tested them? Continuously high or too low will also cause problems. 🙂
Hey danny, ik heb een vraagje. Ik heb ook sinds een weekje een christmas tree rock. Alleen zijn de wormpen al 2 dagen dicht. Waar kan dit door komen als de waterwaardes goed zijn? En wat is volgens jou een goede plek kwa plaatsing? Veel/weinig licht veel/weinig stroming? Alvast bedankt!
De wormen hebben niet echt specifiek veel licht nodig, stroming is wel belangrijk, dit is waarin ze hun eten vangen. Er mag dus best wel wat stroming staan. Wat zijn je waterwaarden?
Where did you find this?
Lucky local fish store find haha! Never seen one like this since.
i really wnat one of these but their so expensive
Edit: just found one for 100 bucks finna take my chance lol
My cousin have a similar but not as majestic one you have..
Do you study Marine Biology?
管蟲石 好久沒看過牠們了
😳🦠💪
Last month i bought it, its around $6 😂. Im indonesian
Woah! 😍
When coral die, eventually worm die. They are not worth much here. Like US$30-US$50 a rock.
Woah, where are you from?
Bro send me the rock I'll pay :)
That's is so awesome! Jesus is so amazing! Everything in this world was created through Him. Colossians 1:16
It’s such an amazing piece of life!
Where does one find or buy these Christmas tree rock??
Local fish stores, but they’re very rare to find at reasonable prices nowadays.