RubberFrog

The list of options, upgrades, and unthought of ideas are endless!

It's not a crab from that list. It doesn't even look like a crab as it has no claws. From what I've found via google, its starting to look more like some sort of isopod. It was burrowed into a hole in the coral, and the tissue loss radiated out from there over the course of a week. Definately not an overnight loss.

I got a nice little chalice frag over the weekend. I dipped it in revive for 10 minutes and gave it a good once over, but apparently not good enough! It has been receding the last few days (more than half of it is gone). Tonight I took it out to see if I could see anything and I found this evil little thing burrowed into it. Any idea what this is?

I wish you were open today.

You'll be swimming in algae city with 10-12 hours. I would just turn them on in the evening when you're home. As far as the clowns, they'll most likely come in the same bag so you can acclimate them together.

pool supply

Yeah, I'll skip that dive too.

I dose home made two part following randy's recipe here- http://reefkeeping.c...2/rhf/index.php DowFlake (calcium chloride dyhidrate) is repackaged as Prestone heat. You can get a 50 lb bag at home depot for $18- http://www.homedepot...198&R=202353198 With that said, 50 lbs is a lot to store and not worry about it absorbing moisture and clumping over the next six years. You can get 7 lbs at brs for $14. That's enough to treat a 100 gallon heavy sps tank for 9 months. It's still a deal. And you don't have to store a huge bag for years. For the soda ash, I just buy a box at the grocery store and make a gallon at a time. It's about $3 and makes a months worth for a 100 gallon tank.

I'll come help if you want. You're going to be drilling for a while. It must be at least 3/4" thick.

Great idea!

Sure is coming along.

Did you make sure the impellor was moving freely inside the cage?

Did you clean the glass real well?

Ben and John have both been very helpful to me also! Great guys for sure.

That is so impressively nasty!

Thank you for the info. I have a spot a few inches off the sandbed that has moderate lighting that looks promising. I think I will mnitor each night and see if it starts to put out some tentacles for feeding.

Thank you both for the information. OU, do you remember it's orientation on the reef? Some of the info I have found indicates that it prefers to be placed vertical, as opposed to horizontal, to prevent debris from collecting on it. I have seen pictures of it placed both ways. When I got it, it looked much "spindlier", like this picture on live aquaria, except it was a deeper blue with brown tips. Since we got it home, it has become fleshier, like the picture in my first post. There has been some debate at home as to whether or not this is a good thing. I suspect the spindly appearance is a matter of stress from collection and transport. The first pic below is of it's tankmate at the store under blue leds- the colors are off due to cellphone quality, but you can clearly see the form of it. The second pic is how it looks in my tank under a T5 ( my MH is not on yet).

Does anyone here have/had one of these? Information on the web is sparse and conflicting. It probably doesn't help that there several types of pectinia and none of them have a common name to reference. Almost every link seems to share the same cut and paste description. The general consensus is "difficult", but anecdotal reports from individuals tell different stories. Some sites/folks say to keep it off the sandbed, others say they thrive on the sand bed. Some say low light, others say it loves the light. Low flow, medium flow, feed it, don't feed it... It goes on and on like that! I picked one up last weekend rather impulsively (I know...). It has "fleshed out" a bit since I got it and I think this is a good thing, but I'm not really sure. I fed it a little zooplankton with the lights on and didn't really observe it responding to the food in any way. I stayed up for several hours after lights out and never saw any tentacles come out to feed. At this point I have it tucked into a small alcove on the sandbed in a low-medium light area with a low-medium flow (trying to cover my bases). Mine looks a lot like this currently-

^ scary

That sure makes it easy and convenient!

I drilled mine while it was partially filled. I drained the water several inches below the bottom of the soon to be hole. For lubricating, I drilled three small holes into the cap of a soda bottle and squirted water at the hole as I drilled from the inside out. I laid a big thick beach towel behind the tank to get any water as the bit came through. It was a total non event.

By throttling it down, I mean restricting it's output.

That's what I would do. You can only throttle down so much. Some pumps are more tolerant than others. It depends on the blade design and the shape of the chamber.

You have cavitation and it's bad for the impellor blades. Can you plumb in a small line (1/2") to dump some of the return flow back into the sump?

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