Jules

Who is BRS and where do I find the website? I wouldn't mind someday joining in a group buy.

I hate those things! I use to have them and they spread out of control. When i switched tank i made sure they didnt go into my new tank but thats just my opinion

LOL I hear that a lot about the fast growing softies. I don't have as strong of a light as most so the rest are okay but those yellow ones just love the moon light so they tend to be open more than the others.

I should probably give away the rock that was given to me when a couple more move off of it then. Sort of like pay it forward I really like them but don't want them to take over, scattered would be just fine.

I hope that is okay, will they bother many other corals? I isolated the xenia but not that one. lol

Do yellow polyps normally move around like an anemone? I am pretty sure that some moved just wondering if it is a normal occurrence.

Here is a before when it was on one rock and after and looks like some polyps jumped off the rock. (laugh)

I go both ways...Colts and Cowboys! But only own Cowboys stuff.

Thanks for the tip Pam, I may have to try a red light. I have a moon light in there but I think it gives off too much light, when I turn it on my yellow polyps open up.

It hadn't occurred to me maybe a hitchhiker crab, foot long bristle, now that I can see...lol

It would be tricky with the trap, I tried a home made worm trap and my Blenny could see the food from the outside and wouldn't stop trying to get it.....he might raid a crab trap....it is a thought though, I will keep it in mind. Thanks.

Oh and I forgot my nauss snail, loves scraps and I think it would go inside the glass and eat the bait as well. It stuck it's long snout inside the worm trap and was eating the bait. :(

Couple pics I will have better ones later was playing with a new lens

GO COLTS! HEHE

I'm no expert but I used tap water in the beginning and just made sure i added the stuff to make it all in check (ph buffer and neutralizer to rid of chlorine) and it went fine. I started buying ro/di water in the 5 gallon jug about 2 months ago to keep from having to add anything to it and still fine, I think it is all a matter of just keepng an eye on your parameters and keeping them in check if anything starts to change. Normal water changes every week. But than again I only have a 12g reef

http://fins.actwin.com/species/anemone.html

I have read a few pieces about them, here is one that has info on a few different ones, I did notice one point in all, they say the food should be around the same size as their mouth if that helps any.

ROFLMA I didn't get past the "at least they won't have far to drive" post. Wasn't that like 3 or 4 years ago when that happened, the first post????

I'd like to talk about the Raiderssssssss. Or the 49erssssss (whistle)

GO COWBOYS

Well, both of my Chromis went MIA, one was not eating and I figured it died but the other looked just fine and was acting just fine, it is gone now too. So, everything has disappeared or died except a few snails and my Bi color Blenny. Just wondering if maybe i should tear apart the tank and see if something is lurking in the bottom taking everything out....there is a spot in the back on the bottom that is like a little cave that the chromis would go hid sometimes. But on a brighter note I can get another fish, one that won't go hide in the cave of death! :(

Thanks for that it sounds like really good advice. I probably do overfeed, or/and I need to get better food. It seems a lot is getting ignored and they are picking through it and letting a lot go. I havent given it much thought as the food goes till lately, that has been happening.

Flow? I have a nano koralia, in a 12g do you think another would be okay. I thought it would be too much but on the other hand there is places with barely any flow at the bottom. Lots to think about, but yeah, good ideas all around. Thanks!

well what other creatures do you have in ur tank? some fish and inverts like to pick on shrimps. some shrimp just die, stress, molting what not.

 

I don't feed my shrimp. the scavenges on the rocks and sand. I don't have any glass anemones.. My shrimp most of them are over two years. But they don't live too long normally. He most likely died and your other scavengers ate him. thats normally what happens.

 

My shrimp always come out when its feeding time as long as I step a bit away from my tanks. Id just suggest another shrimp. cleaners and peppermints are great.. If you like to get rid of some of your brissle worms I hear coral banded shrimp love to eat them. I myself like my tiger pistol shrimp with my goby. they really keep my sand in my tank clean. but they often will eat another shrimp. Unless you have a big tank where both can be co- exsist and never meet... I had a camel shrimp and he was always out for about two years never had a problem with him, but I have heard they can some time go after green mushrooms. Mine never did... But im sure there are alot of options...

The only creatures in my tank are 2 chromis, a bi color blenny and that hermit I just got, not counting the millions of pods, 6 cerith snails and tons of bristle worms. I guess it was just his time to go. I like the idea of getting the shrimp to get rid of some worms. But I wouldn't mind nice clean sand either. (scratch) Would I have to get my corals off the sand? I have 2 mushrooms and some small zoa's on the bottom.

I do have cerinth snails in there 6 of them (I thought they were called cerith), one turbo and a very very tiny hitch hiker of some sort.

Anybody know what this is? eggs? and if so what kind??

Looks like I will be getting that cleaner shrimp sometime. I lost my big babylonia snail today, I thought it was just stuck but when I flipped it over a bristle worm shrunk back in it's shell. My pepp could of died because of insufficient food. I don't know. I saw a worm grab it one time a long time ago too but it moved so quick I didn't think anything of it. Or, since the lfs fed it aptasia, I didn't spot feed it, maybe it starved like i think the snail did. (not much algae and no fuge to put it in) Live and learn right? Anywho, Everything else is doing fine.

Hmm, if it is hiding he is doing a very good job, I hope he didn't get out somehow, I checked inside the HOB and didn't see him. Not on the floor. He usually comes out and eats with everyone else in the morning though. Weird. Thanks everyone, I will check more while lights out and just wait and see.

I guess I can get my cleaner shrimp if he doesn't show himself ever again.

Does anyone know if a blue legged hermit can kill a peppermint shrimp? Mine has been MIA for 2 days going on 3 and I just got a blue-leg hermit about a week ago. Water is fine nothing has changed except the new addition.

Depends on how big the hermits are and how hungry or if they need larger shells. I buy the really small blue legged ones' date=' about 1/4" they don't bother anything in my tank and they work hard on the rocks algae. i also put in various shells for them when they grow. its fun to see hermits check out empty shells[/quote']

I went and bought a blueleg hermit, just one because I did read somewhere that having more then one or two could cause problems in a smaller tank, it is soooooo tinyyyyyy (laugh) got some empty shells and 4 more cerith for sh*ts and giggles

 

You might try movig it up high' date=' if its attached to some sand you can glue it to a rock and set it on top. Everything else looks really good![/quote']

I moved the green sunularis up higher and it is darkening now looking green and doesn't look as pale. Battery is dead on my camera will post a pic of it laterz.

 

Looks great Jules. Keep up the good work.

 

Thanks

They are links to the pics november 2008 and tonights picture Looks very nice Oh and welcome lol

You might try movig it up high' date=' if its attached to some sand you can glue it to a rock and set it on top. Everything else looks really good![/quote']

 

I got it to attach to a piece finally by putting it in a clam shell with rubble and sand and wrapping rubberbands around it so it couldn't move. I have ordered some underwater epoxy type glue (reef safe) and I can attach all of them to the main rockwork soon. Will it do better up high you think? It looks much better since I took it out of the shell. It hasn't laid over at all.

do you have any hermits in there? If not i'd throw about 10 zebra or blue legged hermits in there. They will clean up those rocks in no time.

No, no hermits just a babylonia snail and 2 cerith. Wouldn't the hermits eat the cerith snails?

Looks good' date=' did the green sinulara ever open up?. That mushroom looks happy![/quote']

I don't think it is open but it is looking bigger and better. It is in the middle in the picture. Here is a better pic of it.

My first corals

So far my corals are doing pretty good. I lost a pulsing Xenia, it just wasn't a happy camper i guess. :(

Here is an updated pic of them all if you can see them. (laugh)