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  1. So I have concluded that peppermint shrimp should be removed after aiptasia is gone. They have I think been picking on my BTA, and just the other day eat my torch coral.
  2. Update: I haven't seen the peppermint shrimp attacking the plate coral again. Aiptasia in the tank seems to be mostly gone. Still keeping a careful eye just in case.
  3. Yea the place I bought them from says they are peppermint shrimp. I also checked them myself. They don't have the hump nor bright coloration camels do.
  4. I just got some peppermint shrimp in today to control some of the aiptasia in my tank and I just caught it rip a tentacle off the plate coral. Shocked, I moved the coral to the other side of the tank and decided to just keep watch for now. Has anyone else has problems with peppermint shrimp eating coral? (And yes I am sure that I got peppermint shrimp Lysmata wurdemanni)
  5. The tank is a 90 gallon tank. I was thinking that is an option too but it would be 3.5 inches lower than the face frame.
  6. I had to build a new stand for a tank I bought because the stand itself seemed a bit dangerous (it seemed to have stress cracks in the back). I built the tank following this blueprint from http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1169964 I am not sure how it happened but I ended up have the tank 4.5 inches too wide. So 3 of the sides of the tank are directly supported by 2x4 and the front is not. Tank Stand http://i.imgur.com/wzqWPRI.jpg Under Tank Stand http://i.imgur.com/KbraNnJ.jpg I am trying to think of options of how to fix the situation. I was considering just adding 2 more support beams below to support the front side that doesn't directly have a 2x4. I was also thinking adding a 2x4 so its perpendicular to the middle support beam but fully supports the length of the unsupported front. However, both of these would be just supported by kreg screw joints (pocket holes) and not directly transferred to a vertical 2x4. I am not sure if that would be a problem given its only the front and all other sides and corners are supported. I have seen commercial stands with little to no front support but the top is 1 1/8" thick to my 1/2" plywood top (but mine does support the plywood with one, up to three 2x4 supports.) Thoughts?
  7. I just added the emerald crabs so I don't think they are the culprits. I bought 3 peppermint shrimp prior this last one and they all died as well. I found one in my filter sock and the other two I haven't seen so I am assuming died.
  8. Hey everyone, So I thought I controlled an outbreak of aiptasia in my tank but clearly I failed as I saw a few yesterday when I was cleaning the tank. I been trying to introduce peppermint shrimp to eat them but strangely they keep dying. At first I though it was because I wasn't acclimating them properly so I kept it in a basket attached to the top of my tank over night to keep an eye on it. It survived the night so I introduced it into my the tank and I found my cleanup crew eating it up at the end of the day. What is weird is I also introduced a cleaner shrimp and 2 emerald crabs at the same time and they are fine. My hypothesis is that something is attacking the peppermint shrimp but I am not sure what it could be. I have 2 clownfish, 2 firefish gobies, 1 royal gramma. There seems to be alot of talk about how to remove them but what worked for you?
  9. So you guys aren't going to believe this and I feel so noob haha. My refractor is in Brix and I was using to measure salinity. I use to use it for brewing and it didn't occur to me (but it should have) that the refraction rate for sugar and salt would be different. My brix for my tank is 6.2 instead of 4.0 as 6.2 is 1.0245 for a sugar aqueous solution but not for salt.... Glad I figured this out before I tried to introduce anything else. Interestingly enough, the clownfish handled that increased salinity like a champ.
  10. I did it in my sump so I don't think it was the temperature that killed it. I should have checked the SG with my refractor -_-; that would have been smart. But yea it wasn't the exoskeleton. I raise fresh water shrimp so I am pretty familiar with the whole molting process. Essentially the shrimp in the tank had started to disintegrate.
  11. So I bought a cleaner shrimp and drip acclimated it for about 1 - 1.5 hours in my sump draining half of the water in it when it doubled twice. After that I put it into a container and then added some water every 5 mins or so until the container was full, drain half of and repeated. I finally introduced the shrimp and then I woke up this morning to see it dead -_-; I think I need to drip acclimate it even longer? Say like 4-6 hours since the salinity of the LFS is 1.018 or something pretty low while my DT is at 1.025. Thoughts?
  12. Ok well it looks like I will just avoid them like the plague. I was going to put in a big order. Any LFS or online store you guys would recommend. I am in DC but I don't have car so its an ordeal to travel far.
  13. Hey everyone, Has anyone had any experience with Reef2Go? They have some pretty bad reviews online but I am trying to figure of if only the people who had bad experiences bothered to write a review or they are just bad in general. Thanks!
  14. Awesome Thread! Maybe I will keep my fluval edge 12g instead of selling it.
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