miggs76

There two popped out of my live rock about a month ago. What are the long green/white worm looking things between the zoas and montipora and in back of the zoas?

Here is my first attempt at a pic from my Biocube 14......Buddy is popping his head up in hopes for a tasty shrimp treat!

Just wondering if anyone has any experience with the battery operated generators. They have some that run about 150 bucks and for me at least would be enough power for a heater and pump.

It is definitely not a bristleworm......I search and found an exact picture of it...same color/markings/ect....and that would be a bobbit or eunicid worm. I am going to try and get it out this weekend using the carbonated water trick. If it comes out and survives I would be welcome to give it away to anyone who wants it. I am just concerned that I won't be able to put that live rock back in my tank after I mess with it and put soda water in it......

Really? From almost everything I have looked up online people have said before they found this little monster in their tanks they had zoas, sps, and small fish disappear........If it is good for the tank I would absolutely keep it---its very bizarre yet intriguing----but I think I want to be safe rather than sorry......

I have a BC14 and only 3 pieces of live rock in it. My biggest piece is about 7 pounds....unfortunately there is a worm living in it that needs out. It is definitely a bobbit/eunicid worm---it hasn't killed any YET...but I plan on adding some sps corals after I upgrade my lights so I am pretty sure this guy has to go. I've tried to trap it with no luck. I am going to do a stake-out this weekend and when it pops out to grab some food I am going to try and use my forceps to grab it. I know my chances are slim so........I really want to keep this piece of rock. It has coraline on it and it is a premium figi piece. It is extremely porous which I think is good for live rock. I actually tried to dip it in coral rx and the darn worm wouldn't come out after an hour! So what can I do? Should I try hypersalinity? Here are my choices: 1) Totally take it out and let it rot (don't wanna lose the rock) 2) Smash into pieces and get the worm (don't wanna ruin the rock) 3) Hypersalinity? 4) Try coral RX one more time? 5) Put the rock in a bucket of RO water for a few hours Will choices #3 or #5 kill off all the good bacteria on the rock? Any suggestions are very appreciated.

The 5gal water is 11.99 at Petco----I know it is half the cost to buy my own salt and RO water from the grocery store, but for an extra few bucks all I have to do is pour it in the tank...for such a small tank it is worth it.....if I had a 40 or 50g tank then it wouldn't be cost effective. The coral love it. I believe that the fact it is real ocean water made them grow so fast. Which panorama lights were you thinking of? Are they something that would require me to scrap the biocube canopy? I like the look of the canopy and don't really want to get rid of it....and yes I am going to send in payment to become a paid member....i'll use my teacher discount!

Well here is some background info on the tank..............I started it up in the summer.... I've spent a good deal on this set up already.....but I knew that coming in..... 1) Premium Figi Live rock (most of it is already coraline encrusted) 2) Took out the bioballs, put in InTank media basket with filter floss, chemi-pure elite, and purigen 3) Got the InTank fish saver (to save fish from jumping to sump) 4) UV sterilzer is running 5) Took the stock pump out and put in MaxiJet 900 6) Put in Hydor Koralia Nano So far I have a yellow watchman goby, along with 2 frogspawns, 1 hammer, 1 candy cane frag, 2 favia frags, and a chalice frag...........all of the coral are doing great.in fact the frogspawns and hammer have almost doubled in size in the last 6 weeks..the goby is cool...he waits all day for food, then sleeps in his cave at night. I do my own testing buy brought a sample to my LFS last week and he said in fact everything was perfect......I even use the natural seawater that you can buy in a 5 gallon container from petco.......every Sunday I change out about 15-20% of the water. The only real mod I haven't done is the lighting........I think if I mod the lighting I would really have a perfect little reef....... I do want to get a designer clownfish (know a good place to get one????), but only one to share the tank with my YWG.......however, I want to put as many coral as possible inside.

I'd really like to get some SPS, especially a Clam. I really want to keep the BC14 canopy too instead of ripping it off and putting on a whole new piece, which is why I think the retrofit RapidLED would work best???????

In Rockville

http://www.rapidled.com/servlet/the-229/Plug-dsh-and-dsh-Play-Biocube-14-Retrofit/Detail I started a thread a few weeks ago asking if anyone would be willing to install upgraded lighting for a BC 14. Quite a few offered help and I really appreciate that.......I think I found out that the link above would be the easiest to install....is there anyone who has done a Rapid LED retrofit kit???

What kind of lighting upgrade did you do?

Located in Rockville......I don't know which exact type of lighting upgrade....but the PC stock bulbs are pretty week. Any suggestions are quite welcome.....

So I have a Biocube 14 and I am looking to upgrade the lights.......I am pretty sure after looking at the directions for many of the Biobuce upgrade lights that I will end up burning my house down. If I do decide to go ahead and order something, I was wondering if anyone out there would be willing to install it for me. I would pay you of course a negotiated rate......and I would only want someone who has done it before. Thanks!