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That is SO sad! It's bad enough loosing one! Hope that the rest do great and the tank gets back to fabulous! I'd be having a few words with the constuction dept....

I hope that works for him! Let us know if he fattens up.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU !!!!

"glue a bunch of mushrooms" Glueing doesn't work well.

I've never done any fragging so my terms (i.e. glueing) are teribble but I was reffering to a mushroom colony of over 30 mushrooms on one rock I am going to attempt to seperate a bit... and the advise I've gotten on how to do that

I'll get picts up Wednesady when I'm off. It's crazy not to know after all I put into it back then .... after all it is the same stuff! I don't know why I feel like I'm starting all over.

It's kinda stupid but I'm excited... well you know except for the whole palytoxin thing ... getting my fragging legs !!! Markdadof2 I might have to take you up on that!

Can't wait to see a picture of that tank! I always worried about them walking around and stinging everyone. That's why I never ventured there. I'll be reading up some more I guess.

I had a goby I had to feed. I would feed the others till they were done, not that they were ever done, then I would spot feed him like I did for the corals with a baster. I tried to slowly move further and further from him with the food to train him but he didn't care. I just had to make sure that the food came to him.

That is so crazy! I'm amazed that you can cut these guys like that. I am absolutely fascinated by the cutting the RBTA's on here. I've just never "reefed" like that though. I'm going to have so many mushrooms if I can get this to work though!!! WOW!!!

Great palytoxin! That sounds wonderful There's a first time for everything... lets hope the first time ends up actually being moving mushrooms and not experimenting with palytoxin !!! thank you for that cause I would have had NO CLUE!

That would be great! I'm not ready for a few weeks anyways. I want to get everything just right before I start any large scale stocking! The water is looking great. I want to get some new test kits to make sure. (Making my lists and checking it twice for that LFS shopping day ) Do another BIG water change just to be safe. And replace the last few bulbs I don't know dates on. After I know the tank is thriving I'd love to talk to you about these. The corals have grown already in just 6 weeks so I think another 4 and well be good.

I had always been affraid of anemones cause they move but the RBTA sounds amazing. This time I'm going a whole new route. I love this forum cause you get more than one opinion vs. reading online from someone who probably never had a tank even I really appriciate seeing your pictures splitting them! and being able to talk to the person doing it is even better!

I don't have much that he'd probably like to eat I hope. I stuck one in there but there is so many aptasia he'll never do much good alone. I'm scared of the Aptasia X cause I'm scared of doing anything to the tank I don't "know" about but I think it's a good time to experiment while the tank isn't stocked.... maybe. I've already got some great advise off of here about so many of my questions. I'm going to try and remove and glue a bunch of mushrooms and got great advise off here so I think I can try this too!

Another lump of dumb questions here.... Do you do this in a tub of the tank water?

or dry?

Will just any super glue gel work or is there a particular one?

Does it work with water? Seems like superglue gets hot in water or something along those lines?

Do you have to do anything special before putting newly glued pieces back into the tank?

THANK YOU!!!!

There are zoas in around the trunks of the mushrooms. Can I do the same with them. This rock is covered with them. Sorry but I've never "fragged"....ever... probably not even the word you'd call it

Thank you for these pictures. i am seriously considering a RBTA for my refurbishing

These are cool snails. I had a few and my son thought they were great cause the looked like ninja stars. Added a great look to the tank and great cleaners. I can't remember if the could flip but seems like not... thank you for that link. These guys will be part of the refurbish!

I've looked at everything I can think of online. He still looks like the flame scallops. I should tell you that it is facing into the rock by the way.... oooopppsss that could have helped! Sorry!

It's not round like sand clams. It is more oval like muscles. It never moves. If it is the same one has been there in that same rock for years. If it's not it hasn't moved since Valentines day when I got it back.

It amazes me the things they find. Even crazier will be the things yet to find. Thanak you for the great article!

Maybe this isn't a flame scallop then. I use to have one. I thought it was on this rock cause it use to have a fabulous leather on it :( Everything else died I can't imagine something hard to keep alive. Do you know what it looks like? Hard to envision a scallop without it tentacles though..... It opens up amazingly and if it is the one i had it has been there for years!

GREAT! My poor tank. The only aptasia left is so close to corals. That's why I haven't cut them off. I had one on my maxima that was causing him not to open up and was able to get it off as well as many others in various spots. Well I guess that I found a solution on how to thin out the mushrooms on that rock .... if it's not one thing with reefs it's another huh! That's why I love them I guess!!!

OK so if I use the aptasia X which is sounding great after reading more on it would it kill my peppermint if he ate a dosed aptasia?

Also I read some that the Aptasia can hurt surrounding corals but didn't say if it was permanent? Anyone know first hand?

That's a spectacular tank! SO neat to see what goes into it!

Does Aptasia X affect the tank? What about the death of them releasing toxins? Will it put everything outta wack again? Oh how I dread another "outta wack" ..... cause you know that never happens once it's perfect

I'll get pictures. Thing is I tried to look up by name but they don't have names that I can find??? I feel like a bum!