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I’d love to get the blue throat and the purple tang if either fall through.

I highly recommend soaking any rock you get  in sodium hydroxide solution (unless you reallllly want to keep some rock alive, thought you can bet you’d get the same bacteria again through your macroalgae and pods). Pretty sure you can find a good ration to use online but it wouldn’t be capable of causing damage to the rock, while completely removing all deposited organics, leftover algae, and deposited phosphates. Doing an even better job than bleach could, while leaving no residue like bleach. I buy Essential Depot lye/sodium hydroxide off of Amazon. It works like a charm. Also useful for some other things in the hobby. Just be careful not to get it on your hands and you’ll be golden. Also soak it in some water, rodi water preferably, afterwards to get all the residue and remaining unreacted sodium hydroxide off, and you’ll have the cleanest dry rock you possibly can with no real effort involved besides pulling on gloves, mixing the solution, and putting the rocks in. 

8 hours ago, reefnjunkie said:

If a fish touched/hit this thing I’m sure it would be over- It amazes me how they seem to know to stay away all the while swimming closer than I’d like to see.

 

Heres to hoping the super glue works so I can keep it-

 

Quick people...... the clocks ticking, I may end up not needing to sell it but for now it’s on the block

 

I’ve heard of some anecdotal experience (that most worked in my experience too) with nems that might just help. Feeding the nem when it’s in a spot you want it to be seems to make most nems (except one suicidal one I’ve had, grrrr) stick to their spot for the most part. I’ve had it work spectacularly well. My rose tip anemone even does this whole stretching display when it’s feeding time.

Pmed.

Beautiful, with the trade off being it’s a devourer of worl— err everything potentially. Glws, truly a centerpiece, but would likely need something built around it.

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Dimensions on the 150? Might be interested.

Might also be interested in the 48” t5 fixtures depending on their state.

Edit: Oh lord. Cottage Grove. That’s far. South of even Eugene. I will need to think twice on a trip like that. A 4 hour round trip will be hard to schedule. Nonetheless, still might be interested in the things I mentioned, but will need a better shopping list before I make the trip.

I think I’ll take the hannah if reefrun won’t. Might also be interested in the water change stuff, but not 100% sure on the latter bit.

I tried to get a xenia frag into my tag. I was going to attempt a xenia refugium, but temporarily put it into my display. It was demolished by something, and while I am not a hundred percent sure, my suspicion is it was my Longhorn Cowfish. Despite the name, he’s such a pig 😡 🤣

All the xenia variants and the cespitularia I got disappeared almost overnight. Rip. Might have to relocate him, a regal tang, and an indian trigger when I get over my bout of LRS (lazy reefer syndrome, or maybe busy reefer syndrome in this case?).

I don’t really see the need to close threads the majority of the time. If we must be OCD about it, a “close thread request” button could be available. Alternatively just give the thread creator the power to close their own threads.

Nonetheless, unless there’s some weird memory leak issue or something serverside that actually requires you to close threads (due to some unspeakable spaghetti code), I don’t see the point. 

If it isn’t already spoken for I am also in Tigard and would be willing to pick it up. Have been meaning to set up a small anemone display/growout tank for a while.

27 minutes ago, obrien.david.j said:

Anything on the bottom will make it easier than Bare.   you could even just use really coarse or Puka shell gravel.   that would work.

Berghia will eat an Aptasia every 1-2  days.  I ran out of them super fast.   You need time for the berghia you get to grow.   Then lay eggs, and hatch.  Then grow out the little pin pricks into berghia again.     Its actually a fun cycle.

BTW, another source to feed your Aptasia farm is visit a few local fish stores.    I noticed easy to get to overflows at All Things Aquariums at the club meeting there last year.   Overflows are my prime place to harvest Aptasia from.   (concentrated and usually easy to get)    See if they'd let you harvest?    You get the idea.

That makes a lot of sense. Goodness, if they eat 1 every 1-2 days sustaining something like 10s to hundreds of them would take a lot of aiptasia. Though I guess similarly aiptasia can multiply like crazy, something to the order of 1 polyp to 5000 per year given the right conditions. I guess if I think about it in another way I’m basically converting the food I otherwise would have fed to a culture into aiptasia which acts as food for the berghia. Now I just need to source my berghias. 

11 minutes ago, obrien.david.j said:

Heads up.  In order to grow out Berghia, you have to be able to Feed Berghia.  They only eat Aptasia.   Kind of counter intuitive, but better start a side tank to culture Aptasia Right Now.   And feed it heavily so they grow out.  Put in simple things for aptasia to land on, and move into bergia tanks easily.   Maybe line the tank bottom with small floor tiles.  So you can just remove one at a time and feed to berghia directly.

I've cultured these guys at least three times.   First time I starved them, thinking I'd get the Aptasia right out of my tank to feed them.  Didn't work

In general, they were Super Easy to grow and get to breed.  I saved deli containers and grew in those.  poke a hold, add an airline bubbling for light water motion.  Add an aptasia or two when they're gone.     

Deli Continers, like these:  https://www.uline.com/BL_1517/Deli-Containers?keywords=deli+food+containers

 

Yeah I realized that my tank wouldn’t have nearly enough aiptasia to support a culture long term. Plus, I wouldn’t even want to rely on my tank as an aiptasia farm. The plan is to find some that I have not killed yet and then just plant a ton of them in a 5 gallon tank or so. Maybe chop them up a few times for said tank. The tiles idea is pretty good, I’ll try to see if I can find any tiles lying around from a while back. Alternatively I might just consider going barebottom with those and just tear out some aiptasia using some forceps. Culturing them might actually end up being a lot of fun.
 

Any idea how much aiptasia they actually need to eat on a dailly/weekly basis? 

So I realized I have accidentally introduced aiptasia to my tank despite quarantining. Interested in purchasing a few berghia nudibranches to firstly culture then to then begin to eradicate my own aiptasia (since my copepods would likely kill them off if I introduced them too young, and I run the risk of my fish eating them if I don’t have enough). Would prefer to buy locally and support some local breeder/culturer rather than shelling out for some online retailer. 

PM sent. Would love to have it.

23 minutes ago, Zoolander said:

Like everybody else, cleaning. Plumbing materials, some carbon, light bulbs, etc. 

I’m interested depending on how far out you are, pm sent.

How big is your tank? 

I’d like the GSP, Xenia, and Cespitularia

(which works out great since the only thing I wasn’t particularly interested in were the clove polyps.) 

I think I’d like to have it, but I can’t find info on how big of a tank it’s rated for?

Tank size/dimensions?

On 4/25/2020 at 9:57 AM, susp1cious said:

Yeah, mine did that a month back and I thought it was cool at the time. Now my tank is infested with them. probably over 100 tiny stomatellas running around. Going to need to cull some of them soon, they are out eating my actual snails. 

That’s the opposite of a problem in my book. My trigger eats all of them too fast, I need snails that either can’t be bitten through or reproduce fast enough.

I would love to have a ton of stomatellas. I tried getting some from some other folks on here but I think a few were not enough to take hold in my tank.

Love to have another urchin. Pm sent.

I’d love to have the torch. Also somewhat interested in the grape plate and perhaps the duncan and/or hammers depending on their size. I’m also in tigard so I can come check out the rest of the corals too when grabbing the torch if that’s ok. My main interest is just the torch though 😜 

3 hours ago, Taylorhardy1 said:

Ive got a fairly small longspine urchin that I don't want anymore. I'm tearing the tank down, and dont want him in the sump of my new tank for too long. His longest spines are about 3.5" long. Would love a frag in return, but it's definitely not necessary. Bring a container to haul it in.

I already have one, a second would be great. You’re in Albany, Oregon right? Will you ever be passing through Portland soon? If so I’d love to have it. If not, I don’t think I can get him 😞 as I’ve been super busy lately.

15 hours ago, SuncrestReef said:

I used my aiptasia laser to kill a bunch of clove polyps.  As long as you have a line of sight to them from outside the tank, it's easy to zap them.

Sounds like a fun alternative to a mobile game 😜