LadAShark

I love reefs, but I'm also a big fan of large predatory tanks which usually end up FOWLR. Is there anyone else here that likes these as well? If there's enough, it would be cool if we could have a section to discuss FOWLR. Cause when I go to the Fish section I sure see a lot of Reef fish :P

I recently needed to do a dip for my corals, so I purchased loads of 99.9% purity iodine crystals and 99.9% purity potassium iodide. Just wanted to see how interested people would be to buy something chemically equivalent to Lugol's solution for sale at like 5-10 bucks at the April 15 meeting? Would probably be willing to trade for frags too.

For background, so that you know I'm qualified to do this, I am a bio(chemical) engineer.

12 minutes ago, albertareef said:

Thanks for the update.  I actually was curious about that as well - guess it was a pretty memorable discussion!

Fair enough. It's actually not often that someone comes talking about a shark tank or about shark and goes through with it. Even more common is the "can I keep a bull shark in a 40 gallon tank?" To which I often reply "no I suggest a 4 gallon biocube"

22 hours ago, Higher Thinking said:

What happened to the shark tank??

Ended up putting off the expansion of my house, so I am instead setting up a temporary pool in my garage. There was a possibility I was going to work in Turkey for the next six years (which is no no longer going toomo happenw ), so I had no choice but to put off my plans. As they say, life happens.

Anyway, the pool has a 600 gallon bestway pool as a base, and is lined with two layers of pond liner. It will be attached to a fluidized filter as well as a turf scrubber to guarantee ono metals or in tank algae growth.

Am surprised you remembered that I was going to build a shark tank. Unofortunately it didn't work out, but I haven't given up! The stocking will be some catsharks, a short tailed nurse shark, a live shark sucker, and a few other large fish. I happened to see a good deal in North Eugene on a 120 reef tank, and so I happened to get it. Doesn't mean the sharkies are called off. You can expect some updates on that in the summer.

44 minutes ago, TheClark said:

Those killis are amazing!  Can you still mail order dry eggs?

 

pretty sure you can

5 minutes ago, Tanuki said:

Well when I found out mine were going at .40 a pop, they were dropped off in a milk jug lol. 

lol

10 minutes ago, TheClark said:

Nothing compares to Marine fish right?  I was fond of the mama with her orange belly and daddy had the nice long fins. 

Killifish beg to differ!

4 minutes ago, Tanuki said:

No one wanted mine either lol. I think the pet store gave me like $10 for 40 of them. 

 

wow...

Just now, TheClark said:

Spawning convicts are what lured me into the hobby.  It was so sad after I started raising them though.  At that time there was not much of a market and the fry ended up going for (very tough) feeders!.

Love how the parents take care of the babies, sooooo cool!

 

I mean, I understand why people didn't like cichlids. At a glance they aren't the prettiest fish...

1 minute ago, Tanuki said:

I had convict cichlids spawn years ago.  It was neat to see them when I had no idea I even had a mated pair living together. 

 

Would be nice to see them even if you did know you had a mated pair :P

On 3/31/2017 at 0:08 PM, Gil&Fin said:

***UPDATE FOR SUNDAY, APRIL 2--Many of the frags I posted yesterday sold, so I've restocked. You'll find updated pics below.***

 

I'm doing another Open House this weekend--Saturday, April 1 & Sunday, April 2, from 1 - 3 p.m. each day.  Beer/soda's in the fridge and $10 frags galore.  A few examples in pics below.  PM me for the address, or look on the PNWMAS Facebook page.  Looking forward to seeing you!

I currently have a tank that crashed, any chance you'll be having such awesome sales in like 2-4 weeks time?

Purchased a fully set up reef tank from way down in North Eugene. I had seen a tiny piece of montipora broken off with what I thought was rot at the time. However, 5 days later I have realized that that was brown slime, and by purchasing the tank I led to a huge outbreak that basically wiped out all of the coral in my tank (several square feet of montiporas, acroporas, and several softies). In a couple weeks to 4 weeks time (after I cycle and recure the live rock) I will be restarting the tank, and was hoping I could get some help in the form of frags. Unfortunately I don't have a reef currently setup to restart the tank with. Once my tank gets going I'm willing return the favor!

P.S. the guy had a pistol shrimp in his tank too, which is still alive and about (which explains the hundreds of empty shells I found in the sand), if anybody wants him

1 hour ago, danlu_gt said:

Sorry, someone came and took him a week ago. Please close.

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awww,

ok

please close topic

6 hours ago, TheClark said:

Probably true, have any favorite rotifer articles to point me to?

My todo list is way bigger than my available time sadly... But one of these days right?

 

http://reedmariculture.com/support_rotifers_culturing.php

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2002/9/breeder

When cultivating rotifers, it's important to control ammonia. By directly interfering with ammonia, you can get a huge amount of rotifers that would normally not be possible due to the insane bioload.

Classifieds is a better place to put this.

The salinity could very well kill plants, assuming the salt remains in the soil. It really depends on the grain size of your sediment.

Good news is I have the iodine dips going (I just got my potassium iodide and iodine crystals in the mail). Bad news is I already don't have much hope

huh, interesting how nobody replied to this

I'll give him a try if nobody has taken him off your hands. I have one 120 that will be ready soon, and two more soon after that.

On 3/30/2017 at 7:20 AM, TheClark said:

Perhaps some day here.  I heard these guys are smaller and need rotifers.  Sounds like a full time job just raising the food!

 

Nah, rotifiers aren't that hard to raise.

Now if you did plan on raising them, I'd love to have one or two or four ;P

Interesting. Hoping this isn't just a turf scrubber, but I'll be waiting on it regardless.

49 minutes ago, albertareef said:

BTW - Chewie posted this bit of advice regarding brown jelly in another thread so thought it might be useful/helpful here...

Lugols works very well on brown jelly disease. It's old school but it rarely fails me. Coral Rx Works great too but I have had much success with 40drops per gallon lugols dips on Gonis and Euphyllia. I'd say 75% success on bad infections.  

Oh! Lugols is iodine. I was planning to do dip myself.

I will buy some laboratory grade potassium iodide crystals and iodine crystals and produce some 5% solution myself (how lugols is made). I have amazon prime so hopefully it will arrive in a day or two. It does seem there are some montiporas that are only slightly infected, but there are also some in horrible condition. Most have outright melted. 

Well on the bright side I'll have extra iodine solution if anybody needs it!

I'n not going to get my hopes up, however, as I don't want them to be dashed. For now I'll order the crystals, concentrate on saving what I can, cure the live rock, and bake the sand so I will be able to start back up in a couple weeks ot a month at most.

On September 28, 2016 at 4:45 PM, katarian said:

My wife and I are thinking about adding a new fish to our 55 gallon tank. Right now we have 1 chromis, 2 Ocellaris Clowns, 2 peppermint Shrimp, a RBTA, and some CUC. And some softies.

We were thinking about some sort of wrasse, something that's not aggressive. One of the reasons we were thinking about Wrasse is because they eat pests, including bristle worm (I just have a huge population of them inside the tank, some of them are around 10inch long, and need something that will keep their population in check and not just completely eradicate them.

 

But we are pretty open about other fishes too. So I'd love to get some input from you all experienced reefers.

 

And something on the cheaper side please. Maybe around $30 at most. I'm not risking buying something expensive right now that might end up dying, as the tank is pretty new.

 

Thank you

 

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I would have suggested a harlequin tusk if you weren't so sold on the melanarius.

but now that I think about it the harlequin tusk is no cheap fish ?

On March 17, 2017 at 9:53 PM, PowderBlue said:

300 doll hairs?! Holy smokes. Totally does look like the thug of the tank haha

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Woah! That's a steep price! 

1 hour ago, TheClark said:

Ah, so sad, sorry to hear it.  

Sometimes that happens when moving a tank.  Not sure what the cause is, there can be so many.  One that comes to mind... Allot of people recommend tossing the sand when moving an existing setup.  It gets old and nasty, and the move gets it stirred up.

I would hesitate on cooking all the rock if this was an existing system and you are trying to save coral.  If you are starting over though it's a great idea.

If you want to ask someone in your area to coral babysit you may save quite a bit of stuff.  @stylaster and @Saltwater newbie saved allot of my coral when I had a big die off.

Good luck!

 

 

 

Oh my bad, I miscommunicated, I'm not cooking the rock, I'm cooking the sand. The rock, I'm gonna let that sit at around 80 degrees and let the rot happen. 

If I could legitimitely save some acros and others I would be really happy!