Sasquatch

Looks like someone added dawn soap to your tank ?

Skimmer foam is usually off color

55 minutes ago, albertareef said:

Glad you found a source!  If you get them breeding again let me know... would love to have a little buddy for mine (I know it's in there somewhere).

Will do. You are first on the list for Sasquatch's toenail snails

26 minutes ago, KenH said:

I have some stomatellas running around.  I can probably catch a couple for you if you want.  I'm located in Tigard.

Yes!!! I would love a few nice ones you can find. I would really want to get them going again. 

Mine is growing out. Get them while they're "Hot"

(Squatchatoa)

1 hour ago, albertareef said:

Those are cool!  Sadly, the one I saw wasn't nearly as colorful. 

Selective breeding. Those were the rare ones of the bunch. I know they come in a black morph also. I just want to get them going and someday everyone can have some

2 hours ago, danlu_gt said:

I got lots of mini brittle stars if your interested.

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I would dig some stars. I am free Wednesday or Thursdays. Or most nights and can make the journey. 

42 minutes ago, albertareef said:

If I ever run across mine again I will try and snag it for you. Would be a lot easier to keep track of them in your tank!  Also proabably less likely to get eaten. 

I used to have this beauty. Chevron color and some that were red/pink shelled.

I miss that lineage I had going but that's been a few years. 

19 minutes ago, Flashy Fins said:

I have brittle stars, but I don't think I could get them out of the tank, since they retract into the rock the minute they feel anything other than food touching their legs. If I do manage to get a good hold on a couple of legs, they just abandon them.  

I feel you on the desire for good hitchhikers, though. The downside to starting with clean, dry rocks and qt'ing everything is that I have no noticeable amphipod population, no stomatella snails, and no weird things to spend hours nailing down IDs on. In my first tank, which I started with live rock and added un-qt'ed corals and inverts to all the time, I had all sorts of freaky life forms. I also had murderous whelks, monti-eating nudis, and fish parasites, but hey, pros and cons to everything, right? 

If you have a separate rock to place down with a piece of food under overnight. Then the next morning one might be under the rock hiding. Just need 2, hopefully 3 to get them started.

as for the stomatella. I could give you mine to breed out a colony if no one else has any to spare

Bump. Will pay for some also

Looks like these

Found it

Since using dry rock I want to add some small critters back into my rocks.

if someone has a few stomatellas I would apprectiate some. I have one and it's lonely.

the same for brittlestars, just need a few to get them going.

If someone has limpets or Chitons I would take some as well.. pretty unlikely since they are rarer of the hitchhikers.

Would take handouts, will come pick them up. I can also frag off a piece of pink gorgonian if you want.

Give it a few days. I've taken out a hermit that was just molting.. I pulled it's molt out of its shell and then decided to pull the whole thing. Later I found another dead body which meant it was just resting after the molt

I recently had a rock nem in a small hole. Ended up getting impatient. Smacked the rock against the ground and it shattered. Leaving the nem red with its guts hanging out at the bottom of the foot. But after a few days it was opening again and a week later it's just fine. Depending on the morph it can take some damage. Bubble tips are a bit more touchy but rock nems or maxi minis can recover from an injured foot

That looks like a tick. Maybe a Zoa spider. Never seen one before.. good call, probably nothing good

I want some if its a sponge!

Change in livestock.

added a red with yellow polyps photosynthetic gorgonian.

added a Krakatoa morph Zoa I'm calling a Squatchatoa for now.

changed out the flame angel for a fat head anthias. It nipped my corals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Check out my favorite pink crab sitting on a World Wide Corals Skittles Cypastrea 

3 hours ago, Emerald525 said:

I didn't test at all on my IM nuvo except for the cycling phase. I didn't test for almost a  year on my Red Sea Reefer and only test now because I'm going to start doing more sps and dosing. Testing takes the fun out of the hobby for me and working in the medical field testing can actually be harmful because the more you test the more likely you are going to get an abnormal value that you can chase and actually cause harm or worry about when it really meant nothing.

Personally I've left my test kits behind after my first couple tanks..

i can see how the corals are doing by looking to see if they are happy or bleached.. Because what's the common thing you would do if your levels are off? A water change. So if it looks like things are going south, just change the water.

im not growing any SPS so my expereince isnt the same as others.

I would like #8 but can it be safely removed from the rock is the question.

You gotta get these Zoas before they are gone.. It's the closest thing you will get to a Krakatoa and Only a few people have them.

No name for the yet, but I'm going to call mine

-Squatchatoa-

There is some nice corals there including the Zoas that look like a Krakatoa morph. Can't believe I was able to get some for my tank. Also this super nice gorgonian

Thanks again Jeff.

3 hours ago, Flash21 said:

When's the Deal BOGO on Zoas?! 

Sps is boring. 

Sps is hard, Zoas are easy and faster return.

I would really want a good mushroom or polyp. 

I'll be going just for the good coral and friends. Hopefully find a fish that fits my tank

11 hours ago, jonas503 said:

Not good. It has a hole where it's mouth was. So it looks like a donut shaped. It's on my back wall near the top just sitting there. Hasn't moved since yesterday morning.


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It's a goner. Flush it before it crashes the tank.. If it doesn't look happy in the morning and isn't already floating I would pull it. Check the temp to make sure it's not running hot

20g aught to be enough.. I'll take one er two of them there tangs.

I got the day off so I might stop by

2 hours ago, Brian67 said:

You didnot mention "zoas"????

I've lost them and abandoned the rest. Looking for fresh frags with minimal rock of: 

-Candy Apple Reds

-Sakura/Fuzzballs

-A particular morph of Green Bay packers I dubbed Marleys.

-Also looking for some GSP in a mat with minimal rock to put on the bottom