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03-13-2003, 08:42 AM
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Family Man
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Canton, GA
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Food lobsters as pets
Now that I'm going to, but....
Is it possible to buy one of the comercial lobsters that you see for sale in the supermarkets and keep it as a wet pet? Has anyone on the board done that? What kind of tank set up would they require? I would imagine that they'd need a pretty godd chiller to start with.
Cheers...Michael
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03-13-2003, 11:43 AM
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Little fish in a big pond
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Canton, GA USA
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They'll eat your seahorses  
Yeah you'd need a good chiller, they are a cool water animal to be sure.
Back in the day, we snagged a few oysters at an oyster-fest party, and kept them in our tank for a couple of years! Found a little crab too, and threw him in -- he loved to excavate under the rocks - it was a FO/Invert tank.
I'm sure there was a post about this kind of thing on one of the boards once...
You might be a redneck reefer if....
....you shop for livestock at the grocery store
ROFL
Jenn
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03-13-2003, 02:44 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Marietta GA
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Yeah, and I guess if you get tired of it you can always throw it in a pot of boiling........oh my that sounds cruel!
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03-13-2003, 03:54 PM
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Summer's Daddy
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Lawrenceville, Ga in a van down by the river
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Redneck jokes in Ga.....my heavens...
Actually Jenn, did you get the thread about my sea ponies..?
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03-13-2003, 06:27 PM
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Family Man
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Canton, GA
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Cruel, but, oh so tasty....
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03-13-2003, 07:12 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Decatur, GA
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Didn't Homer try this on the Simpsons? Doh!
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03-14-2003, 11:45 AM
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Ghetto Reefer 101
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: georgia
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if you are seriously interested, I may beable to get you some pretty good info.... my buddy's father is a big time lobsterman in maine, and my buddy is actually quiting his job in NYC to open a lobster distribution center, he has been researching holding tank requirements and suff for quite some time, let me know if you are seriously interested and I'll give him a call.....
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03-14-2003, 03:07 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Macon GA
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Why not a rock lobster from down South. Doesn't have the front claws but doesn't need a chiller either.
Also for a temperate tank you would either need a thinck plexi tank or a tank w/ double pane glass otherwise it will sweat.
I actually have modified a 10 gal to be a temperate tank. I installed extra panes of glass on the inside so that in the end it was a double pane tank. Didn't sweat.
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03-14-2003, 04:00 PM
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Summer's Daddy
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Lawrenceville, Ga in a van down by the river
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But it wasn't a rock.....It was a rock lobster...
Sorry couldn't help it.
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03-14-2003, 08:11 PM
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Family Man
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Canton, GA
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Serious, me? Nah - I appreciate the offer traip93, but don't go to any bother. I was just wondering if anyone on the board had brought home dinner, only to turn it into an pet, that's all.
Cheers...Michael 
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03-15-2003, 10:59 PM
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Ghetto Reefer 101
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: georgia
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hahahaha......funny, I don't know home long I could let a maine lobster live in my house, they are too **** good.....although I have noticed the longer I have my salt water tank set up,the less I desire sea food......you think there is a connection?
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03-15-2003, 11:01 PM
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Little fish in a big pond
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Canton, GA USA
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Quote:
Originally posted by Ray1214
But it wasn't a rock.....It was a rock lobster...
Sorry couldn't help it.
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Now I've got that b-52s tune stuck in my head -- thanks....
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