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    HELP!!!!!!!!

    in New to the Hobby

    its been about a month, why are there still readings in ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate?

    I would probably think because the water change water has more ammonia than the tank. Ammonia gets converted to nitrate.

    Tube worms.

    in General Discussion

    What happens to tube worms? One minute they are there and the next they're gone. Nowhere to be found. Does anything eat them? Do they leave their tubes and can't find their way back home? I had a gorgeous red and white tube worm that would be out everyday. Then all of a sudden one day it didn't come out and I've not seen it in a week. I pulled the tube out of the sand and it looks like it isn't in there anymore.

    Could be either. I read something about how sometimes they will leave their tubes and aren't able to make another one/aren't able to find their way back. I know some wrasses eat them, not so sure about things like crabs and such though.

    McCosker's Flasher Wrasse

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    I have had one sleep in the rocks and others sleep in the sand. It might just depend on where it came from. If it doesn't look stressed like it searching for sandy bottom then don't worry about the sand.

     

    Are they eating?

    He kind of lies on the bottom, so I'm not sure if that means he's really looking for sand. They both just ate, with the wrasse actually eating more ravenously than the gramma. He's kind of swimming around some, but he still has the somewhat flecked scales and goes back onto the bottom once he's done swimming.

    Where to purchase live rock?

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    Why mail order dry rock and pay for Postage, Super Pets in Annandale has dry work for about $2.25 per lb and you can also buy a small piece of live rock there to seed it.

    If this is the place I'm thinking of their florida aquacultured rock isn't too bad, but I got most of my live rock from Marine Scene and it was really nice rock.

    McCosker's Flasher Wrasse

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    wrasse+small qt tank= carpet surfing. careful.

    Thanks, good thing I got a cover on the QT.

     

    Did you acclimate it well? How close was your SG to the stores SG. Always check the water in the bag to see where the stores SG is at since most run the SG allot lower then home aquariums.

     

    He maybe stressed because he has no sand to bury himself in. A bowl of sand in the q-tank would help.

    I acclimated him slower than normal if anything. I run a hyposalinity QT out of habit so it might be closeish to the store's. I didn't know flasher wrasses buried themselves in the sand. Does it matter what kind of sand?

    McCosker's Flasher Wrasse

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    Is it in a QT? What are your params?

     

    Setting up a Qt is a piece of cake. Get a large gold fish bowl or a 5 gallon tank or??? Whatever is comparable to your system and the size of your fish. Whenever you purchase a new fish just do a water change. Take the water our of your main tank to fill up your temporary QT. Add new water to your main tank. Plop a heater in the QT, a piece of PVC so the fish have a place to hide and a HOB filter and you've got a QT. Unless your putting clams in your Qt any aquarium light will do for fish.

    Yeah he's in a QT that I keep running just in case anything happens. I checked the parameters a day or two ago and everything was fine. It's a 10 gallon, and theres also a royal gramma in there that I also bought today that seems to be doing fine.

    McCosker's Flasher Wrasse

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    So I got this guy today and he looked perfectly fine in the store. He was in a medium sized tank with two other fish that looked perfectly fine. He was a little slow in the acclimation bucket but was lively when i was putting him in the tank. But now I'm worried. His scales are all flecked and pale, he's been pretty sluggish, and it looks like he was vomiting(if that's even possible). I'll try to get a picture up but he's hiding in a piece of PVC scrap right now so that may not be too easy. :unsure:

    Bristle Worms

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    I think I saw a little bristleworm in one of the holes in my live rock. Is it good or should I get rid of it?

    They're good scavengers and won't really do any damage, but boy are they ugly little critters.

    Coral Compatibility

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    Did you have it at the bottom of your tank? Did anything fall on it? Moderat (mid sectio of a tanK) to high light. They are also susceptible to brown jelly disease when injured. Stings from other corals will cause injure too.

    Yeah, it's at the bottom of the tank. It has a weird frag plug so I'm having issues putting it somewhere. There's no brown slime so I dont think it's the brown jelly disease...

    Coral Compatibility

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    Well, here's part two of my coral woes. I think something's eating the frogspawn.

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    All there is in the tank is two clowns, two neon gobies, a six line, peppermint shrimp, hermits and snails. What could eat a frogspawn?

    what would eat a hammer coral?

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    This is the science teacher. All the other corals in the tank are doing well. The coral was looking great the day it came. Polyps really extended in the medium flow placement. It was a naked, clean white skeleton the next morning. Water conditions have been great. I did find a random molt of a crab claw that I did not recognize.

     

    I would like to give great thanks to skurtis (Curtis) for his kindness and generosity. The difference in the tank has been beyond amazing. I love hearing students ask if I got any new coral and another say in a reasonable tone " Oh, this digitata is new and this chalice coral here."

    I dont know, but if you didn't recognize the crab molt, maybe a reef crab is eating the coral. I think theyre called Xanthids.

    Coral Compatibility

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    It looks like the top of a troll doll. I am guessing it is gracilaria algae and not dragon's breath. Dragon's breath is wider and not as delicate looking.

    Darn. Here I thought I had something nice growing.

    Covers!

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    Well, we tried that screening idea and it didn't work very well with the bowfront. The midas blenny then decided to make a jump for it. :cry: So, we're going to try the eggcrate cover to see how that works.

    Coral Compatibility

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    Whats the big red furry thing..?

    Dragon's Breath Macroalgae. There's some nemastoma in there somewhere, I know it! If anyone wants some, I'd be glad to get rid of some.

    Coral Compatibility

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    I've never had issues with my frogspawns extending their feeder tentacles much. Keep it a few inches from any other corals and keep an eye on it.

    Ok, I guess I was kind of thinking about the chemical warfare aspect of the coral too, I probably should have mentioned that. Are any of the above mentioned coral a threat in the chemical department?

    Coral Compatibility

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    So I bought a few LPS and softy corals the other day, brought them home, then realized that some of them were the more aggressive ones.

    I got galaxea, sunburst, frogspawn, clove, palys, goniopora, and a brain coral.

    I know the galaxea and frogspawn are aggressive, but are there any other ones I should watch out for.

    I think I managed to isolate the galaxea, but I'm worried about the frogspawn. gallery_2632200_728_899381.jpg

    If you can tell where I put everything, advice on where to move the frogspawn would be appreciated.

    white worms

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    Sounds like a type of harmless hitchhiking feather duster. They're pretty common, have hard tubes, and often have tiny reddish "feathers".

    Yeah, that's what it sounds like. Like what he said they're pretty harmless, they even catch detritus and stuff out of the water.

    omg What!

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    Could it be that you have the wrong kind of shrimp? To me, the difference is obvious, but without knowing your experience level perhaps you have some camel shrimp instead? Also, it's not outside of the realm of possibility that your shrimp are simply bothering the coral to death by picking it over, but it's also possible that there's another explanation, too.

    I have read somewhere that there is a type of peppermint shrimp, from the Pacific(maybe) that is much larger than its smaller relative and has been known to nibble on coral.

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