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After my crash I lost all motivation on maintaining my tank. Ended up losing almost every one of my corals with the exception of some zoos and part of a leather toadstool. Also had an extreme aiptasia explosion out of nowhere and my fishes were not looking too great. However after a very long morning my cube has been relocated to the opposite side of my living room, and we are moving full speed ahead on tank rennovation. Gone are the days of nasty looking black sand it's all been switched back to Fiji pink, and now my sump is located in the basement which will make water changes and top offs a breeze. I'll toss some pics up later, next step is to build an enclosure for the new light that I put together (it's pretty boss), and to begin recolonization efforts. Got a shrimp shipment coming in tomorrow to hopefully get rid of what's left of the aiptasia. And new cleanup crew should be here next week
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Sold on the ReefRadiance. Thanks guys
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So my fiance and my experiment in fish eugenics apparently has failed. We have mollies in our salt tank, and up until now they would give birth, then eat all of the fry. Well, we decided to try keeping some of them alive by putting them in a breeder net and each week, separating out the pretty ones, tossing the drab ones back in to get eaten. Unfortunately we still have a good chunk of them still alive, I think about 20 of them, besides the pretty ones that are in the breeder net still. We also have a Bullet Goby but he doesn't seem as interested in the babies. I was wondering what you guys suggested for something to help cull the herd now that the parents have decided that baby McNuggets are no longer on the menu, even when they haven't eaten. None of the rest of the tank really has much of an interest in the babies either, being as they are a herd of hermit crabs, and a single blue damselfish. The tank is not a reef tank, and has a sand substrate because of my Gobies. Do you guys have any suggestions of something that won't be aggressive towards my adult fish, but wouldn't mind munching on baby mollies? My salinity is 1.020, and is well established. The parents don't even seem to want to eat freshly birthed babies as much as they used to. jadebullet fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Oct 29, 2013 |
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Oct 29, 2013 00:31
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I've never had mollies eat ALL of my fry before, though admittedly I've only kept a few generations thereof. That's pretty neat. But basically any small fish with a mouth big enough should eat all the fry. My recommendation would be some kind of medium-sized (i.e. not a small Paracheilinus) wrasse, anything in the non-reef-safe menu at LiveAquaria. But I'm not certain because any flasher or aggressive wrasse may also gently caress with your chicken selects (adult mollies) just on principle too.
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Oct 29, 2013 14:10
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Would a bangai cardinal eat them? They have pretty large mouths and are a pretty chill fish.
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Oct 29, 2013 17:53
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visuvius posted:Would a bangai cardinal eat them? They have pretty large mouths and are a pretty chill fish. My banggai cardinal would eat anything that he could fit in his mouth. Though he would only eat stuff in the water column, so I would think that fish fry would have been delicious to him.
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Oct 29, 2013 18:20
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Took the clowns out of the office tank, put these in: Not pictured: the candycane pistol shrimp.
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Oct 30, 2013 00:21
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So we have decided to get a Squirrelfish next paycheck to solve our fry problem since a Wrasse would attack our hermit crabs and our single damselfish would probably beat up the Cardinal.
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Oct 30, 2013 01:07
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Depends on the wrasse. I've never heard of a melanurus wrasse going after the standard hermit crab.
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Oct 30, 2013 01:44
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 Yes, that's right, I got a mojo. Wanna fight about it?
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api call girl posted:
Ive got green hair... that's about it  Been dosing H2O2, no real signs of improvement. I think it might be time to change out the RO/DI filters, but they're still reading 0-1 TDS.
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I got my office tank to turn an 180--I went like 10 months without changing media, pumps and filtration were partially clogged, water movement was slow as poo poo, lots of hair algae and cyano mat buildup, etc., corals were getting smothered, overfeeding and under-filtration led to a rise in bristles, clowns were looking severely unhappy. I took the clowns home, changed the filter media, switched the old media basket to an inTank job, added some kalk in the topoff bottle to help raise pH and add a bit of calcium, and freshened up the cuc, including adding 2 chitons.   Look at that sucker go. Anyway, no "before", just a "during". I'll take an "after" tank shot tomorrow. e: that mojo is in my 1.5gal pico, I'm not that irresponsible/dumb, though it's a pretty little guy particularly under LEDs e2: partial "after"
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Nov 6, 2013 02:50
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Nov 6, 2013 18:24
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How fat are the chitons after eating all that? Got any good pictures of them?
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Nov 7, 2013 00:41
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Unfortunately no, they cover themselves with what they eat for camouflage. So one of them is covered with hair algae (and you can see it is hanging out on that big magnet scraper on the left) and the other is covered with a cyano mat. They haven't gotten any noticeably bigger, and given that they're entirely covered by this hard as hell plate, probably would take a lot to actually grow.
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Has anyone here dealt with cuttlefish? I'm debating on making a 100 some odd gallon tank into a species dedicated one for common cuttles, and connected tanks for raising them from eggs. They're incredible to see. I think that since they can adapt and camouflage to any environment, you could put a lot of brilliant corals and weird aquascaping for it to blend with without it getting stressed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgDE2DOICuc I've got plenty of resources to help me if I make that decision, but it would be interesting to hear others experiences. Also coldwater tanks. I'd be running a chiller with this set up.
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Volkerball posted:Has anyone here dealt with cuttlefish? I'm debating on making a 100 some odd gallon tank into a species dedicated one for common cuttles, and connected tanks for raising them from eggs. They're incredible to see. I think that since they can adapt and camouflage to any environment, you could put a lot of brilliant corals and weird aquascaping for it to blend with without it getting stressed. Cephalopods in general, and Cuttlefish in particular, are incredibly smart, amazing creatures that you'll bond with more than possibly any other aquarium inhabitant. And then they die. Hamsters live longer.
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Fascinating creatures. It is a real shame they have such short lifespans. I've not seen them in the UK. Mr. Saltwater Tank has a short segment on beautiful captive bred flamboyant cuttlefish at MACNA this year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8FZd2508i04#t=23
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Nov 8, 2013 22:01
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  Chitons ho!
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api call girl posted:
Too cool, I was super sad when my chiton from reef cleaners showed up dead.
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So wow. I can't believe how many cool things have popped up in my tank over the past year. I'm just over a year with my tank and things are going swimmingly! I love my hermit crabs and I don't care who knows it.  This is some kind of sponge that I haven't looked up yet. No idea what it is other than- it is a sponge!   gimme mysis shrimp god drat it  I took loads of pictures of the bristle worms I had recently discovered. I like this picture because I was able to see more bristle pokey things WITHIN the other bristle pokey things. So now instead of these worms creeping me out I can appreciate them more because they are pretty complex little guys.  Hmm. No, they are still a bit creepy.  Very new bubble algae  Sexy shrimp. 
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I know this must have been covered a while back in this thread, but what's the consensus on bristleworms? I thought they were good guys. What harm can they do?
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Juice Box Hero posted:I know this must have been covered a while back in this thread, but what's the consensus on bristleworms? I thought they were good guys. What harm can they do? I've caught mine munching on zoanthids more than once. I've thinned them out quite a bit.
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MrYenko posted:I've caught mine munching on zoanthids more than once. I've thinned them out quite a bit. Oh, I thought they just ate detritus. The more you know!
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api call girl posted:
Wooo. You did say you had a lot! I'm leaving my worms because they haven't done any damage that I've seen.
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Yeah they're generally harmless. But if you somehow gently caress up and they overpopulate, from my observation they can and will do some damage as they starve themselves out. Also they were so numerous that when I was doing first-pass turn-around maintenance on the tank I managed to get myself stung in two fingers on my right hand. VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Nov 11, 2013 |
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Are the bristle stings like; a. a bee sting b. a pin/needle prick c. a pain that cannot be described (extremely painful) d. no big whoop e. other _______ I trust your experience.
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Kind of like splinters. A bundle of splinters. In fact, two bundles of splinters.
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I don't regularly pet them, but to me it just felt more like a minor skin irritation instead of a sting.
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 Topside of one of these chitons, not obscured by hair/cyano.
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Cute little guy  . What the hell is going on in the previous picture with the bristle worms? Are you introducing or extracting them?
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I can't speak for bristle worms, but man, gently caress accidentally brushing a sea sponge while snorkeling.
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In the spirit of showing some of our odder aquarium inhabitants; here is a picture of a giant bergia nudibrach from our tank. Unfortunately, even a giant bergia is still tiny, so my iphone refused to focus on it directly. I should also note, that this tank is only running as a science project at this point; we pulled out all of the salable inhabitants and just left the tank up to watch until we move in a few months. It is currently filled with aiptasia, hair algae and lots of plankton. [img]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-MnjFNRqnJjY/UoOoum68ghI/AAAAAAAAAeI/P_mXbNWarnM/s640/IMG_3537.JPG][/img]
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SynthOrange posted:Cute little guy Extracting. I pulled two of them out the past couple days that actually shifted the rockwork as they came out.
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I'm moving my tank to my new apartment on Wednesday. Wish me luck! Fortunately we've become buddy buddy enough with the LFS folks that they're gonna help us do it as a 'service call' for the price of beer and cupcakes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJxQZyAGW2U Short video of my yasha haze pair "hanging out".
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Well, mandarin must have heard we were moving, decided today would be a good day to die. Dunno why, was fine the other day. 
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SaNChEzZ posted:Well, mandarin must have heard we were moving, decided today would be a good day to die. Dunno why, was fine the other day. Sorry to hear that, mandarins are beautiful fish with a lot of personality. How long did you have her for?
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Two and a half years ish. This one was sir smoochies the second. The first one went carpet surfing
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