The Journal Of A Marine Beginner
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looks very bristleworm-ish to me
Cool, nothing to worry about then?
Matthew5664
Fish Herder
Nope!
Great!
Also noticed that there are 7 long stringy things about 8inches long coming out of my leather mushroom coral, they have like feather shaped bits coming out of them and they retract randomly at high speed, is this a filtering mechanism?
Also noticed that there are 7 long stringy things about 8inches long coming out of my leather mushroom coral, they have like feather shaped bits coming out of them and they retract randomly at high speed, is this a filtering mechanism?
Not much of an update but a couple of funny things happened...
The power was out for about 8 hours, I had to get up and 1:30am then 3:30am to make sure all was OK, great hey! Anyway, when the power came back on, i hit the light switch, I saw something white disappearing under a rock, it started to come out again - it was a shrimp type thing!! I also so some other creatures I had not seen before so I'm going to go on a hunt one night to see whats actually living in there....
The power was out for about 8 hours, I had to get up and 1:30am then 3:30am to make sure all was OK, great hey! Anyway, when the power came back on, i hit the light switch, I saw something white disappearing under a rock, it started to come out again - it was a shrimp type thing!! I also so some other creatures I had not seen before so I'm going to go on a hunt one night to see whats actually living in there....
great tank mate, how did you manage to get the pic of the bristle worm lol. i just added some living rock about 30 mins ago and seen the exact same thing in my tank... it looked alot smaller but was kinda seethrough with spikes but really skinny. was going through the holes in the rock lol at least i know what it is now.
Been a while since the last update... Today I went shopping for a few bits and ended up getting 3 red legged hermit crabs, 2 peppermint shrimps and a red sea xenia
Bought the shrimps to assist in getting rid of the aiptasia that I have recently noticed, the crabs are good for cleaning (although I just saw one of the new additions have a go at some algae - hope they leave the corals)
I've also started as from today brining up the calcium and magnesium levels in the tank, starting with SG at 1.025 then brining calcium up over the next few days then starting on magnesium
I also want a mandarin, I'm now looking at stocking the Juwel filter with live rock rubble or chaeto to act as a simple mans refuguim
I'm also working on a Auto Top Off build (with the massive help from underwurlde)
Check out this red legged hermit dude, he is the daddy - big bugga
This is a shot of the tank, powerheads have been moved (yet again) to get rid of dead spots....
Will keep ya posted and thanks to everyone who has helped!!
Bought the shrimps to assist in getting rid of the aiptasia that I have recently noticed, the crabs are good for cleaning (although I just saw one of the new additions have a go at some algae - hope they leave the corals)
I've also started as from today brining up the calcium and magnesium levels in the tank, starting with SG at 1.025 then brining calcium up over the next few days then starting on magnesium
I also want a mandarin, I'm now looking at stocking the Juwel filter with live rock rubble or chaeto to act as a simple mans refuguim
I'm also working on a Auto Top Off build (with the massive help from underwurlde)
Check out this red legged hermit dude, he is the daddy - big bugga
This is a shot of the tank, powerheads have been moved (yet again) to get rid of dead spots....
Will keep ya posted and thanks to everyone who has helped!!
idlefingers
Fish Addict
Looking great sophos! that xenia's really grown!
Cheers mate
The xenia is getting well bushy, want to fragg some now and take it to the LFS for credits... Bought some Red Sea Xenia which looks cool, will get some photos later and update!
You can see surface scum in the photo, there were some issues with dead spots - the tank had a good clean on Friday, cleaned powerheads (which had greatly reduced flow due to stuff built up in them) and fired up an additional 600lph pump (in the 'black box') as I'm going to throw LR rubble and want flow over the LR.
Will get a couple of proper shots and if those peppermint shrimp ever appear, will get a shot of them too...
Today I broke up and added 1kg of live rock, breaking up to increase surface area of course. Fingers crossed the relevant life will find itself growing in there soon enough.
For ages I've been after a Mandarin, today I got one!! Picked the fattest little bugger I could find, it looks great however I did not get a photo so if it pops out of the rock, I will grab a photo.
I also bought a Sea Urchin (Landmine Urchin) today, these things make an interesting addition - it looks strange and for us is a little centre piece
Grabbed a couple of photos
Also, the Aiptasia is all gone - those illusive shrimps have been doing there job!!
For ages I've been after a Mandarin, today I got one!!
Picked the fattest little bugger I could find, it looks great however I did not get a photo so if it pops out of the rock, I will grab a photo.I also bought a Sea Urchin (Landmine Urchin) today, these things make an interesting addition - it looks strange and for us is a little centre piece
Grabbed a couple of photos
Also, the Aiptasia is all gone - those illusive shrimps have been doing there job!!
Hi musho, thanks! I think it looks cool (and most importantly is about its adult size), at least it did not drop its spikes and turn into snot - the several hours of acclimatisation must have worked.
We don't know if the mandarin accepts frozen so we have an agreement with the LFS. We discussed the requirements (and I've been reading up on these for about 4 weeks) and here is what we are going to do. Its only *real* competition is the peacock wrasse, I have seen quite a lot of pods in the tank and fingers crossed, there should be more coming in the poor man's refugium. I'm also going to increase the feeding rate of frozen foods over the next couple of weeks I've heard brine shrimp and lobster eggs are liked by the Mandarin.
If it looks like his belly starts to sink then he is going straight back, fingers crossed with some dedication this will not happen...
Do you have any tips?
hmm, no i dont know much about mandarins, do you have any macro algae in the display? Put some chunks of chaeto here and there in the display, you can hide it behind a rock or something, pods will reproduce in the middle and come out and get eaten. You can make pod piles from lots of small live rock rubble piled into a small hill, you can even culture your own pods outside of your tank, buy a bottle of live pods, put it in a 1-5 gallon container with saltwater at something around 1.025 SG, then put the pods in, and feed a few drops of phytoplankton in there, when you get a good amount feel free to put some in your tank every once and a while, i dunno if it would work but maybe mix the pods with some mysis to trick the mandarin or something.
With brine shrimp make sure you get some sort of enriched brine since adult brine isnt that nutritious, omega-3 enriched brine is easy to find. Baby brine is more nutritious than adult brine so you may want to get a hatchery going and feeding the mandarin freshly hatched baby brine. You could also get frozen baby brine but im never sure if that is really baby brine with egg yolks attached or not....
With brine shrimp make sure you get some sort of enriched brine since adult brine isnt that nutritious, omega-3 enriched brine is easy to find. Baby brine is more nutritious than adult brine so you may want to get a hatchery going and feeding the mandarin freshly hatched baby brine. You could also get frozen baby brine but im never sure if that is really baby brine with egg yolks attached or not....
Thanks for that reply. Thats what I'm hoping the Juwel filter box will do, I'm currently filling it with 2kg of live rock rubble and none of the fish can get there - the filter box does have several wier type outlets tho so the pods should be able to come out.
I'm going to get some mysis on the weekend and the brine shrimp is enriched...
I have an old tropical tank (thats still housing fish) which I want to transfer when I get a garden shed, may start a bit earlier and get it making some live foods
Thanks for the tips
I'm going to get some mysis on the weekend and the brine shrimp is enriched...
I have an old tropical tank (thats still housing fish) which I want to transfer when I get a garden shed, may start a bit earlier and get it making some live foods
Thanks for the tips
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