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Species selected (Ptilosarcus gurneyi)

Aquarium Needs: large sand/Mud bed (species full grown average 2 feet, collect specimens 1' or smaller)
Species needs constant water flow (filter feeder, planktonic food supply needed)
Sump system for water circulation possible breeding ground for Plankton (copepods? Tigriopus californicus)

• Sump
• Aquarium
• pump
• overflow box
• intake circulation powerheads/circulation pump
• growth lights for sump and aquarium (add sand to sump as well as local marco algae for copepods)
• mechanical filtration?

Decide to house in Roberts controlled Temp room or possibly talk with Greg about housing it in the Aquarium room so I could connect in to his system which likely already has a large supply of planktonic food available circulating in the system. 

Species collection Locations Bainbridge island, Whidbey island, Alki (spoke with LFS in the area no one knew of any good locataions but Greg has said that Bainbridge was a good location to find plus read (http://www.wallawalla.edu/academics/departments/biology/rosario/inverts/Cnidaria/Class-Anthozoa/Subclass_Alcyonaria/Order_Pennatulacea/Ptilosarcus_gurneyi.html ) an article stating that they are often found "behind whidbey island"

Got in contact with Jon Wittouck <wittouck@uw.edu> to put together

 everything needed for aquarium setup

Update: Jon replied and told me we should not have any 

trouble getting everything set up raised a good question

 to check "biomass of plankton filtered out of water per day" to establish feeding needs

Species creates luminescent mucous?
Species needs large sandbed or lower stalk can becomen inflamed.

T.carpenter@seattleaquarium.org-e-mail sent requesting information on Sea pen needs and possible diving sites.

LFS
BARRIER REEF renton(copepods)
1717 NE 44th St, Renton, WA 98056  (425) 277-7670

Saltwater city, bellevue(copepods)
14150 NE 20th St F3, Bellevue, WA 98007  (425) 644-7050

The fish store, lake city
12320 Lake City Way NE, Seattle, WA 98125  (206) 522-5259

Denny's pretty world, Kirkland
12534 120th Ave NE, Kirkland, WA 98034  (425) 821-3800

Sierra pets, renton(copepods)

601 S Grady Way, Renton, WA 98057  (425) 226-3215

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2003/10/inverts

Basic Aquarium handling and care 

Diurnal pattern of expansion

Culture of Rotifiers recommended or artifical plankton SDMP (ESV's spray-dried marine phytoplankont), APR (Artificial Plankton - Rotifer), or "Size I" (50-100µm), Cyclop EEze if grouded up to small bits.  Feeding on a regular basis

Check other types of plankton as better food supply

Online research shows mechanical filtration better for cold water systems since the cold temperature slows metabolic rates making it difficult to establish bacteria to properly cycle tank, and local live rock not porous enough to act as a good biological filter. (Check if tropical live rock/dead rock could be used as a replacement).live rock is a good habitat for copepods as well as macro algae (join aquarium blog to ask about cycling coldwater aquariums and types of filtration)

Passive Suspension Feeding in a Sea Pen: Effects of

Ambient Flow on Volume Flow Rate and

Filtering Efficiency

BARBARA A. BEST'

Department of Zoology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27706

Reference:Biol.Bull.175:332-342. (December, 1988)

http://www.biolbull.org/content/175/3/332.full.pdf

Flow rate: 

Small optimum 5-6 cm/s data shows optimum efficiency at 1.5 cm/s

Mediuim/large 8-9 cm/s 

data shows optimum efficiency at 1.5 cm/s for both all sizes change from 1.5 to 6.0 decrease efficiency from 42.8-29.9%

optimum food particle size 10-25 microns

Height stats: sea pen with a rachis height of 7 cm, medium sea pen 15 cm high, and large sea pen 25 cm high

http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=52424

Kingdom Animalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  

Subkingdom Radiata   

Phylum Cnidaria Hatschek, 1888 – cnidarians, coelenterates, cnidaires, coelentérés, água viva, anêmona, caravela, cnidario, coral, hidra  

Subphylum Anthozoa   

Class Anthozoa Ehrenberg, 1834 – corals, flower animals, sea anemones, anémones de mer, coraux, água viva, anêmona, antozoário, caravela, corais, gorgônia  

Subclass Octocorallia Haeckel, 1866  

Order Pennatulacea Verrill, 1865 – sea pens, sea panzies, sea pens  

Suborder Subselliflorae Kükenthal, 1915  

Family Pennatulidae Ehrenberg, 1828  

Genus Ptilosarcus Verrill, 1865  

Species Ptilosarcus gurneyi (Gray, 1860)

http://data.gbif.org/species/2258713/?extent=-129%2B41%2B-109%2B51&zoom=5&minMapLong=-129&minMapLat=41&maxMapLong=-109&maxMapLat=51&c[0].s=20&c[0].p=0&c[0].o=2258713

http://www.asnailsodyssey.com/LEARNABOUT/PEN/penFeed.php

Consolidation of research information 

the food particles are unhatched brine-shrimp Artemia cysts