NanoNerd

We got some from Beau, huge and beautiful plug!

I know that I returned the handheld on 11/5, it was reading low battery.

I was not intending to sit and watch the entire thing at this moment, but I got totally sucked in. How fascinating!

I bought some critters from a web site, which I hate to do (because of all the risks and costs of shipping), but they had Pederson's cleaner shrimp in stock, and we wanted more than the one we have. Everything came good, large, healthy, but the only problem is... they sent us two White Spotted Anemone Shrimp instead of Pederson's. 😭

Thanks very much for sharing your experience (and pics, the anemone certainly is beautiful)! My boyfriend had also mentioned just getting a mushroom. Not sure how well they'd do in high light/flow or what would be best to try at least... I've also never really been into the ricordea type mushrooms, I guess. There's only one section of the tank that would be inconvenient for the anemone to plant itself. Most of the stuff in it can be moved. I may give the anemone a try! 😊

I've never wanted or intended to get an anemone. So I've never seriously educated myself on them. I know they move where they want in a tank and cant be reasoned with, stinging corals as they go, eating fish and other things if they can (?!), and most get very large! I wanted to get some sexy shrimp for my 5g peninsula. It's fairly high light, high flow, mostly sps oriented. So not much that would interest a shrimp to live in at all. In my reading of corals I could potentially get for them, it seemed the most wide-spread success with them was the mini maxi carpet anemone. I knew of carpet anemones, but not this specific kind. Would it be a good fit, do you think? Or is there something easier? What's your personal experience with them? (Other tank inhabitants include 3 birdsnest corals, one branching cyphastrea, one plug of gsp on the back wall, tiny zoas and an entrusting Monti that can both be moved, some branching coralline algae, a cluster of fireworks cloves, cerith snails, one stomatella, one conch whom I love, and one temporary inhabitant of a peppermint shrimp who'll be gone once he finishes his aiptasia work.)

In this tank, I only have this one. It's not even properly attached (in fact, the crab had knocked it upside down onto the sand when I came home today) so well take it out and then see what kind of dips we can try. Seems like everyone has a different suggestion, so have to sort through it. The coral doesn't really show any damage at the moment. Hopefully we can save it.

Blargh

I am a supporting [family] member.

I intend to bring the handheld back thiS afternoon. It's still reading low battery, fyi.

Yesssss! I'd be thrilled to get my greedy hands on some purple bacteria friends! We'd love to pre-order 16oz! 💜

Picked it up!

I paid our deposit and can come and get it tomorrow late afternoon.

Is it our turn, or Lavender again [since they couldn't get it to work before it sounds like]? Otherwise I can pay deposit and get it tomorrow.

I have the smatfarm 60w on my 5g tank and I love it. It's by far the easiest light we have, of three. I have no idea the PAR until I can borrow the meter, so I may be blasting my corals or not, but hopefully I'll know soon. We have an AI Prime for a future tank but haven't even unboxed it yet. I see you already bought your light, so kind of late now. There's tons of cheap clip on lenses for your phone you can get on Amazon for ~$20. I have two macros, because I lost one and could NOT find it anywhere, so had to buy a new one. Then one day I discovered SOMEone had used it as a chip clip. 😒 Your tank is so nice and clean, mine gas become an algified mess this week, but trying not to stress. Welcome!