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ludnix posted:What's surprising to me is that a lot of major coral sites still want to charge $40 for a small frag of it though despite the market saturation. Currently I'm just going to have to throw these away because I cannot find anyone to take them. How much for shipping? My tank doesnt have any corals and if they're as hardy as I hear then I think one would make a perfect starter coral
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Vitae posted:How much for shipping? My tank doesnt have any corals and if they're as hardy as I hear then I think one would make a perfect starter coral
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May 4, 2009 00:46
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Any idea what this fella that just showed up today may be? Never seen it before today.
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May 6, 2009 03:36
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Originally I was going to guess some sort of calimorph (mushroom coral). But since I don't see a mouth on it, It can't be that. Then I was guessing some sort of nudibranch but that still don't seem right. Now I'm guessing dead coraline flake or sponge.
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May 6, 2009 05:49
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The edges make it look like some sort of flat worm, but that would suggest it moves around. It does look like a coralimorph if that is just a weird elongated mouth, but then again it's a mushroom I've never seen before.
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May 6, 2009 09:31
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I probably should have elaborated. It does move around, and has two antennae. Although you can't see it in this pic, it has a white oval shaped spot on top of it. That was just a cell phone picture of it since it was handy. I'll try and get a better image of it.
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May 6, 2009 14:00
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Does it have any blue on it? The closest thing I could find was a Pseudoceros sapphirinus or maybe a Pseudobiceros uniarborensis, but both have coloration on the edges. Anyways I think most decorative flatworms usually end up dying off before too long so I wouldn't be too concerned.
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May 6, 2009 21:56
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Nothing is missing or damaged, so I'll just keep an eye on things. Thanks!
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Is this new live rock and where did you get it? I know some of the cultured rock from Tampa Bay Saltwater has all sorts of stuff on it.
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TooLShack posted:Is this new live rock and where did you get it? I know some of the cultured rock from Tampa Bay Saltwater has all sorts of stuff on it. I haven't put any rock in my tank in about 9-10 months. I got it at Water World over on 9th and Langley (you're still in Pensacola, right?)
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Sure am, real good friends with the guys at water world. If you are still in pensacola we should trade some frags.
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I'm doing some work with zebra fish at my school and there are a couple 15 gallon, 30 gallon, and 80 gallon acrylic tanks vacant but hooked up to the lab's aquarium system. I'm thinking of using one of the spares to start up a reef fish aquarium but I'm not too sure how to go about this because of how those tanks are set up. The lab aquarium is connected to a large seawater reservoir one story below that gets replenished with fresh sea water every 2 weeks. Each tank has an intake pipe that continuously pumps in seawater from the reservoir and an outtake pipe that drains into a collector that multiple tanks are arrayed above. Presumably the collector sends the water through a filtration system to be recycled. The biggest issue is that the system keeps the seawater at a constant 17.5 degrees Celsius but reef tanks need a temperature of roughly 25 degrees Celsius. Would commercial heating elements be able to maintain the required temperature in the system that I described? I'm able to control the flow of water to each tank independent of each other.
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theDOWmustflow posted:I'm doing some work with zebra fish at my school and there are a couple 15 gallon, 30 gallon, and 80 gallon acrylic tanks vacant but hooked up to the lab's aquarium system. I'm thinking of using one of the spares to start up a reef fish aquarium but I'm not too sure how to go about this because of how those tanks are set up. It sounds like it's going to depend entirely on how fast you're planning on allowing flow through the tanks and reservoir. I can't imagine how to go about determining what sort of heating you'd need. Can you test it out with just the the water and some heaters?
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Turns out that there are several temperature control units for different arrays so I won't have to worry about temperature issues. Alright so I can either stock a massive 80 gallon shallow pool tank (view from above) or a 30 gallon. Probably going to go with the 30 gallon with a mantis shrimp because it's more low maintenance.
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Bob Sapp Please posted:I probably should have elaborated. It does move around, and has two antennae. Although you can't see it in this pic, it has a white oval shaped spot on top of it. That was just a cell phone picture of it since it was handy. Looks a bit like an elephant snail but they are only in cold water round here so I don't know if there is a variety that lives in the tropics.
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I'll preface by saying that I have kept marine fish and a very lovely reef (due mostly to the every summer massive dieoff since the AC stopped working all the time), but overall I consider myself very loving novice in marine tanks. I'd like to look into dwarf or pygmy seahorses, and I do know that keeping baby brine is a constant for them, and seahorses do need to be largely kept in species tanks. What I don't know is if they can thrive and breed without a protein skimmer (I'd think the current might be a bit strong?) or anything other than a sponge filter?
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I keep dwarf seahorses with no protein skimmer. I'm a daredevil.  I keep them with pipefish and a pygmy wrasse, as well as some sexy shrimp and other harmless inverts. I have a soda-bottle brine shrimp feeder, and they are fed daily. So far they are thriving, and breeding.
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What size tank do you keep them in? Did you get them from a breeder, order online, etc?
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Cowslips Warren posted:What size tank do you keep them in? Did you get them from a breeder, order online, etc? 12 gallon tank, and I got them from Ken at sealifeinc.net. He very rarely gets them in, and I ordered every one he had at the time. I have about 15 at the moment.
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How often do you water change? I'm used to freshwater overall, where water changes are frequent in my tanks. I know daily feeding of BBS is needed; do you feed copepods as well?
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Cowslips Warren posted:How often do you water change? I'm used to freshwater overall, where water changes are frequent in my tanks. I know daily feeding of BBS is needed; do you feed copepods as well? I have a fuge where pods grow, and I do see the horses and pipefish eating pods in the tank. I do a 2 gallon change weekly.
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Oh god I got my first aiptasia  Now to form a plan of action..
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Vitae posted:Oh god I got my first aiptasia Peppermint shrimp. No further action required (in my experience).
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Make sure they're Caribbean peppermints, not pacific. Only the Caribbean ones eat aiptasia
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Well, my LFS (Memfish) had a sale on some coral, 15$ for a bunch of cool pieces. I couldn't help myself. I bought my first coral, ever.  Hopefully she'll open up soon, then again I just put her in there earlier.
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Anyone know how long it takes for Zoas to open after being introduced into a tank?
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Vitae posted:Anyone know how long it takes for Zoas to open after being introduced into a tank? Anywhere from minutes to days.
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The Interpolator posted:Make sure they're Caribbean peppermints, not pacific. Only the Caribbean ones eat aiptasia I had a peppermint that made snacks of a snail and polyps before he up and died out of the blue
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Morbid Florist posted:I had a peppermint that made snacks of a snail and polyps before he up and died out of the blue My drat peppermint is *still* alive after almost 10 months (from what I gather is unheard of for a peppermint). It even survived me nuking my tank of flatworms with Salifert's FlatwormExit. That was gross, btw, but well worth it.
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I picked up a few new toys for my tank. I finally got my own RO/DI unit. I don't know why I waited so drat long. I also got the vortech MP20. It is a pretty amazing piece of equipment. It allowed me to remove all my other powerheads. And finally I took advantage of the $99 ReefKeeper deal and picked one up. 
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Hypnotized posted:I picked up a few new toys for my tank. I finally got my own RO/DI unit. I don't know why I waited so drat long. I also got the vortech MP20. It is a pretty amazing piece of equipment. It allowed me to remove all my other powerheads. And finally I took advantage of the $99 ReefKeeper deal and picked one up. That is an amazing tank! Looks a lot more organized and fluid than mine. Mine looks like a random mashup of various corals. I need to come up with a better plan, but I'd kind of rather just get a larger tank (90 gallon acrylic or so plumbed for a closed loop)  Click here for the full 1280x853 image. That ReefKeeper lite is tempting. What modules do you have for it? I'd love to be able to graph its results in cacti heh
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Hypnotized posted:I finally got my own RO/DI unit. Best thing I ever picked up for myself as far as my tank goes.
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optikalus posted:That is an amazing tank! Thanks, as for the ReefKeeper I just got the Level 1. It comes with a temperature probe and 4 controllable outlets. You can do a ton of stuff with it and control anything that is dependent on time or temperature. It is upgradeable, but I don't think I will because it does everything I need to right now.
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My 120 gallon has been running for a year now. Thought I'd share some pics:   Bunch more here: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=15192780#post15192729
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A few pictures of some of the corals that have moved into my new tank.   
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You either need to take pictures under full spectrum lighting or adjust the blue out of your pictures. It looks like you're specifically taking pictures under actinics to blow out the colors.
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