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On 1/16/2020 at 2:43 PM, obrien.david.j said:

My first treatment absolutely Eradicated the Blue Clove Polyps.  (they're actually very pretty, my family loved them).   But what remained with this ugly 2nd strain - which I assume the Blue Clove Polyps were hiding.

They might have been outcompeting them too. 
 

If you’re really up for it, you could try to ‘train’ an animal that normally eats them to focus on eating them. For best effect it would be better to separate said critter, and then slowly reduce its intake of whatever foods you normally feed and replace it with clove polyps. This should, in theory, give you a chance to train your fish/cuc to recognize the polyps as food. This may work, it may not, but it may be worth a shot.

Copperband butterflies may help. I’ve heard some foxfaces may have a taste for clove polyps, and a cheat option are silver scats, which are coral friendly but known to eat clove polyps (and actually a fully marine fish despite being called “brackish”). 

Combination therapy with fenbendazole and praziquantel might be of assistance. Else you could look within the benzimidazole family of drugs (fenbendazole is one of them) to see if there’s something else that you can get that might help.  Though I would tread carefully overall when it comes to medication.

That’s what comes to mind at least. Hope something here helps. I’d personally consider a silver scat first since it sounds like the easiest and safest potential solution. 

On 1/16/2020 at 6:23 PM, MrBret said:

I have a mother daughter team trying to do a science experiment/project with anemones. I told them i would ask here.

Does anyone have a bleached anemone they can use?

 

Thanks for the help

Colorful anemones that bleach won’t stay bleached. They will either recover or die. 
 

If you’re looking for an anemone that’s in the process of bleaching then that is a different matter, but it also leaves a very short window for something to be done.

If rock flower anemones work, I recommend just buying a few common rock flowers from https://www.live-plants.com/rockflower.htm. $5 each. If they want to be fancier they can buy green ones for $8 each (and I bet it would make the extent of the bleaching more clear). 
 

Once they get the anemones, they could hust carry out the process (pollution, too much light, too little light, disease, etc.) they want to make it bleach, and then do whatever experiment they want from there. 

10 minutes ago, Gil&Fin said:

That is actually a beautiful fish, as is the crosshatch.  I just don't have nerves of steal like you do.  I would be constantly worried about losing my other fish and inverts.  I do have the sense to know that a stripper would not make a good girlfriend, though.

Why stop at a crosshatch?

Pay the sharp pointy teeth no heed. 😉
 

Look at its beautiful smile:

Accidentally having become the owner of an Indian Trigger (when I had actually ordered the Hawaiian Black Trigger 😠), I can say that the Indian Trigger is a fairly docile and interesting option if you are looking for a trigger to take its place. I have never seen it do anything besides try to steal food 😜. If you can find one, its cousin the Hawaiian Black triggerfish would likely also likely be an interesting option. 
 

Just my 2¢
 

Indian triggerfish:

Hawaiian Black Triggerfish:

My Indian Trigger from around a year back (I don’t take many pictures, so nothing recent, sorry :

What’s included? With livestock or without?

https://www.shopmedvet.com/product/soda-lime-5-gallon-JOR553B/jorgensen-products-anesthesia-products
 

I’ve read that this is a good/decent source. No personal experience with it though.

With some chemistry knowledge you can just make it with kalkwasser and Sodium Hydroxide, however.

I’m interested. How big is he exactly? Or roughly. Partly to see how well he’d do in some of my tanks, partly to guesstimate the risk to my fish.

I think I can take it all

PM sent.

Wonder if the $1 per gallon deal will apply 🤣

36 minutes ago, Vaertox said:

I could trade or sell them depending on how many you want.  Im at 72nd foster in east Portland If that helps

PM sent.

16 hours ago, Vaertox said:

Would anyone here be interested in micro brittle stars, baby turban snails, or baby stomatella snails? im starting to get quite a bit of them and figured i would ask here. 

I think I would be interested in them. I need as much renewable cuc as I can get.

World of wet pets and wet spot are two different business everyone!

On 12/3/2019 at 7:04 PM, freddyk said:

Their coral section is minimal and over priced but I have had a lot of luck with the livestock and they often have a great selection.

I’ve had a similar experience with the coral, but have had terrible luck with their livestock, both fresh and saltwater. I do not recommend. I’ve personally seen them happily mislead their customers and have heard that they use tap water instead of rodi to mix their saltwater.

To the extent that (in the case of freshwater), I’ve had better experiences with PetCo than with world of wet pets.

I’ve found, and heard as well, that feeding anemones in a certain spot helps encourage them to stay there.

1 hour ago, Dakotapi3rc3 said:

Location?

 

His profile (which you can reach by clicking on his name) says that he’s located in Vancouver, WA.

Happy holidays!

15 minutes ago, SantaMonica said:

Inorganic carbon, yes, mostly from the alk. Not organic carbon, on a meta level anyway. Of course I'm not talking about mixo's like dinos.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1539151/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5706373/

Not only are there a significant number of auxotrophs (autotrophs with a mutation that forces them to acquire a particular nutrient, hence not truly autotrophs), there is also a common misconception that even true autotrophs cannot or do not sequester organic carbon. The classification is that they do not need an organic carbon source like heterotrophs do, not they cannot make use of organic carbon sources. You are confusing autotrophs with obligate autotrophs, which many algae species are not.

It would be fair to say that many species of organisms will not refuse a free meal that lands at their footsteps, and there is an inherent advantage to being able to be opportunistic.

2 hours ago, SantaMonica said:

Entered!

Algae however does not remove organics; it adds organics such as vitamin c, amino's, glucose, and of course pods.

It can, on the contrary, remove certain organics as the algae can utilize them for growth. That is part of why some people have serious algae growth despite low NO3 and PO4. Still, primarily a consumer of NO3 and PO4, but they still do need carbon in various forms for growth. For example, thiamine is commonly taken in by many forms of algae, but algae can also sequester various carbon compounds that are similar enough to metabolize and synthesize the vitamins another metabolites they need.

28 minutes ago, xxkenny90xx said:

I'll try the obvious guess, is it an algae scrubber for nutrient export?? 

Well that would have been my guess too. Now I don’t know what to guess lol.

Edit: I’ve got to guess it’s an algae scrubber that is completely enclosed, with particularly high surface area to make it more efficient. Of course, it is used to remove nitrates, phosphate, and some level of organics in the water. I see that it appears to have some sort of removable tray or the like at the bottom? Curving inwards to make it easier to pinch and pull out? Maybe to remove algae? It could be a light too but I feel it’s more likely a sort of tray you can pull out, do some work on, and put back in. Whatever it is, it seems like it slides all the way back (and makes up that surface) so I wonder if that bottom is actually the top of the product? That’s my guess, if that even counts.

4 hours ago, Saltfishlover said:

So I've noticed over the last few days the mini brittle stars (hitchhikers) are coming out more often during the day.  Is this common? I know they are usually nocturnal animals.   Is my water going bad for them?   

I’ve heard that even nocturnal critters can start to learn when food comes around. Any idea if it’s near feeding time that you’re seeing them? Alternatively, there’s a possibility you could be witnessing a spawning event.

Otherwise, they’re pretty hardy, I would expect other inverts to show signs of doom and despair before them.

9 hours ago, Dakotapi3rc3 said:

Hi all,

In the spirit of Christmas (and overcrowding my tank) i have five green fuzzy mushrooms up for absolutely free. If you want to kick me a coral cool! If not no worries.

Ranging from 1"-3"

Pickup in Aloha/Hillsboro Area

 

Would love to have one! I got really busy last year and lost most of my corals to a weird crash (no changes in any of my measurable parameters!?), so I don’t really have anything to trade though... but I am planning to start back up my reef soon (basically a FOWLR atm), so one of those would be a great start!

Would be interested in checking them out, though I’m mainly interested in the urchin. I’m also located in Tigard. Pm sent

Interested in this pump depending on how much it has or has not been used, its age, and also how quietly it runs.

Interested in this pump depending on how much it has or has not been used, its age, and also how quietly it runs.

Interested. How old is the tank? And how many pounds is it rated at?

Would grab them but don’t have time to go to Bellevue and back.