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    Thank you!

    in Avast Marine Works

    I was fortunate to win your 100$ gift certificate in the raffle yesterday and wanted to thank an awesome vendor for supporting the club. Businesses such as Avast are the reason why I continue to shop local!

    phyto to go!

    in General Discussion

    Thanks Isaac for the offer. Actually I was looking at the one that I thought was battling vibro and am now leaning towards a)I'm a helicopter parent and was paranoid and b) he was switching colors on me due to the move and different tank colors. Anyway, I'm going to keep monitoring the situation... he seems happy enough in the hospital tank eating his fill of live enriched brine. I think it's all the buckets of water and the current 4 tanks (usually just 2) going in the office right now that is grating on the SOs nerves :). I, like many on here, always skirt the line with my various tanks, especially on nights last night when we had to keep the generator going !

     

    Jessica-- yes! Thank you, I couldn't remember where I saw that Alagen dispenser! If bottled phyto doesn't work I'm going to call them and see if they're still offering it as a backup option.

     

    Thanks WAMAS!!

    phyto to go!

    in General Discussion

    woohoo, thanks for the advice Brian! I'm pretty sure i was thisclose to being thrown out when I explained recreating the food chain in the office. I dumped in the phyto that I had and pumped some selcon in along with the meds for the next batch.

    phyto to go!

    in General Discussion

    Over the course of a big move, stuff hit the fan at my male seahorse's expense :(. No, he's not dead, just scratched, and if you've ever owned ponies, well... yeah.

     

    Anyway, I won't bore you with the particulars other than the mad dash (and rifling through my fish supplies trying to find this and that) to find brine shrimp (check), gut load them with meds to prevent, you know, death (check), enjoy the male playfully snick them up (check and whew!), 50 percent water changes and an army of airstones... and now here I am with half a Home Depot bucket of brine shrimp, aerated, with the phyto poured in that i had laying around (usually reserved for my clam). 

     

    So suffice to say, I wasn't prepared to feed the buggers, other than my slurpee of phyto in the fridge. Like a good hobbyist, I've now taken it upon myself to try to cultivate and rear every creature big and small in my office and will be ordering a couple strains of algae mentioned in the previous posts in the forum and apparently chugging soda over the weekend. 

     

    If you've kept with me so far, i'm really asking if anyone has any suggestions of some ready-made stuff to pour in (and how much) or if any of our lfs have some phyto available, 7-11 style until I can get my butt in gear?

     

     

     

    Feeding RBTA

    in General Discussion

    Lynz, didn't you get a really pretty little nem at MACNA?  Is it doing ok?  Or am I thinking of someone else?

     

    My nem also really started growing after it started getting incidental feeding of bits of LRS.  When I blast some into that area for the clowns that live, it usually gets a bit or two.  I don't do anything special for it.  Just random bits of LRS once in a while.

     

     

    Yep Alan, that was me, though I'm sure many others made out with nems. By the time I shopped around on Saturday, there weren't many left. Anyway, formerly it was "nem that lived/survived in my bag during MACNA" and is now "nem that refuses to come out of the basket" :) Wish I could get a good picture with the yellow and green at the bottom.

    Feeding RBTA

    in General Discussion

    I use a turkey baster to spot feed my fish a combo of LRS/mysis/brine shrimp and just spray a bit of that into the tentacles of my rbta every couple of days, and he's become a monster over the past year (from about 4" to his current 12+" when fully open). I used to do that with two others and they outgrew my tank and have since been sold. You really don't need to feed them, but if you do, you want the food to be really small pieces so that the 'nem can digest easily. If you feed the 'nem and it spits up even a little bit of food, then the pieces are too large, and from most of what I've read that tends to happen with silversides.

     

    +1 this is what I do with LRS/mysis/calanus (the last one happens to make it to the nem via my sun coral). My RBTA has grown since I got it in July, however the member I bought it from (see Oct tank of the month) had gorgeous nems that were never directly fed. Occasionally I spot feed though as I love the *NOM NOM NOM* trash compactor close they do :).

    New Member from Alexandria

    in Welcome to WAMAS: FAQ / FYI / Hobby News

    Oh MACNA was so much fun! I had none of the burdens of planning and execution and all of the satisfaction of meeting other members and talking to people who are crazy about their tanks :). Basket nem, aka martini since she's a lemon drop, was flipped upside down in said basket in a low light/low flow area for a couple of weeks. Then i tried higher up. I even "encouraged" it to move a few times using various methods of gentle nail encouragement, powerhead placement, and aloud readings of self help books. With moving on the horizon and 3 weeks of stubbornness, I've officially given up and she's happy in the basket, clipped to the side of the tank, with the neighboring live rock (also in the basket) that she's dutifully ignoring. Ok, now I sound like a total crazy person.

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