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Old 10/23/2007, 11:18 PM
KErickson978 KErickson978 is offline
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Bioluminescence?

This may or may not be a futile question but are there any organisms available to the hobby that can be sucessfully kept alive and well that use bioluminescence?
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Old 10/23/2007, 11:42 PM
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There are some Cerianthids that make it in from time to time that are bioluminescent. If given proper care, they arent particularly difficult to keep.

Flashlight Fish and Pinecone Fish are the only other animals I can think of that come in to the hobby with any regularly, and they dont have real good track records.
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Old 10/23/2007, 11:59 PM
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bobtail squid, but they are hard to keep and not reef safe.
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Old 10/24/2007, 07:05 AM
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There are also some brittle stars that occasionally come in, but I don't know of anyone that carries them regularly.
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Old 10/24/2007, 12:59 PM
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you could also just go with the old school deep blue/purple 03 actinics. They make a lot of flourescent polyps & corals look like they are glowing in the dark.
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Old 10/24/2007, 02:04 PM
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Electric Flame Scallop.. very neat to watch, but has poor survival rate in captivity.
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Old 10/24/2007, 10:02 PM
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Yeah i had done some research on the Electric flame scallop when i first saw one but soon found out that they starve to death because their diet cannot be replicated, so thats what got me wondering about other bioluminescent critters.. thanks to everyone for the info, i think i will go read about the Cerianthids, and brittle stars =)
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Old 10/24/2007, 10:24 PM
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If you're willing to invest in a kreisel tank, various bioluminescent jellyfish species could be options to you. Well that, and if you can find someone/where that even ships them to individual hobbyists.

If i were to do it (I hope to one day), I would definitely to talk to public aquarium jelly keepers on husbandry and good species in tanks. i know a bit about them as do some other fellow hobbyists, but experience is lacking for home aquaria. the pros would be the best resource.
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Old 10/24/2007, 10:26 PM
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My wife and I have seen something very small in my 135g reef giving off light. We only saw it once, and whatever it may have been it was free floating......
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Old 10/24/2007, 10:47 PM
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some planktons will biolumenence if aggitated
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Old 10/25/2007, 01:15 AM
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does anyone know if the brittle stars that bioluminece are ever available or what they are called? i can only find their latin names
Ophiopsila californica, and Ophiopsila riisei
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Old 10/25/2007, 01:28 AM
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I think inland aquatics breeds them
 


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