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Power out since 5pm yesterday. Tanks are now down to around 70. I know my freshwater tanks will he fine but I just hope my reefs survive. I see online that there is a fair amount of success recovering from temperature drops down to the mid 60s so hopefully the power comes back soon. All tanks have battery powered bubbles going off with the last D batteries I found at Wal-Mart What are people experiences here with big temperature drops due to power outages, faulty heaters etc.?

You can always have a good sandsifter fish like a diamond goby to do most of the maintenance on the sand. Though if your grain is too small it might end up all over corals near the bottom.

A little late but thanks for the raffle donation! This Typhoon was a snap to set up and is already hard at work for my reef! The hand held TDS checker is proving to also be very useful for my freshwater tanks as well.

Mine run at 78-79. Everything is growing well. Back when I lived in PA I had my 20L with nothing but softies and some lps like an acan, trumpet, and a small goniopora. No AC and just a fan blowing. Over the 5 months Feb-July it ran from 75-77 in the spring to 83-85 in the early summer and 84-90 in June before I moved. All zoas grew throughout and the acan went from one head to 7. Trumpets never grew. Goniopora nearly doubled in size. That was my first tank haha. I ended up losing most during the move but all the fish are still around happy and swimming.

I have a diamond goby (Dyson is his name) that does an excellent job keeping the sand looking nice and white. For the most part my water flow keeps sand from ending up on any corals for long but occasionally i have to blow it off my favia with a turkey baster. He is also just a fun fish to watch

Like the mantis shrimp... It looks like it's up to no good lol

Power came back on after 4:30 hours of stress lol Fish are fine, pretty much all corals look good. My blasto is pretty shrivelled up but it had been like that for a couple days now. All other corals have their polyps out so I would say it looks like a happy ending. I'll definitely invest in a couple of those battery air pumps though. Good for power outages and even for some fishing trips

So I get an email leaving work about a power outage. I rush home to make sure my sump did in fact hold all the water the siphoned from the main tank. I only calculated the baffle heights and test tried it once before setting up the tank. Thankfully no water spillage but it was full to the brim haha. I knew it shouldn't but it was a bit scary driving home panicking. I closed the ball valves to the return and overflow and moved most of the water back to the display. Power has been gone about 2 and a half hours so far. I'm using a pitcher and mixing the water for couple minutes every 15 mins or so right now in my 40 breeder and with a glass in my 20L. So far everything seems ok. None of my fish seem to be gasping and corals have a look of night time polyp extension with no sliming as best as I can tell. BGE says power should be up "soon".... Anyone have any advise outside of getting a generator? Haha Maybe I'll go get a battery air pump when my girlfriend gets home.

When they hatch they are in a planktonic stage called a veliger that floats in the water column. From what I've read most snails in our tanks take at least a couple weeks to go from veligers to juveniles with a shell and then much longer, I think 2 years for nassarius snails, to reach adulthood. Don't quote me on that time frame for all snails haha It can boil down to sheer luck in a reef tank to get to the juvenile stage. From flow to filtration to inhabitants makes all the difference. Breeding probably requires a separate dedicated tank for consistent success.

Forgot the link haha https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/for/6155135976.html

Ran into this while looking around Craigslist today I know some people keep blacktips in tanks but I had never seen one in someone's personal tank until today. Does anyone on WAMAS keep sharks?

When I scrape them off my tank glass my watchman will sometimes eat them.

PM sent for skimmer

I've been filing RODI buckets most of the day. Won't have to make more for a while haha

Sorry to hear about you tank. Hopefully it recovers and you get to learn a lot more about the hobby from the experience. I know I did from losing my 20 Long when I moved from PA to MD. Poor packing for the trip and a bad refractometor was the fault for that. Likewise also appreciate how helpful the WAMAS community is. Also, pretty sure BRS has free ground shipping for all items aside frozen merchandise.

I also used it once for a couple days with no ill effects to any livestock. Cyano died and after tweeking my feeding schedule a bit, haven't had issues with it since.

That anemone on the snail must feel like it's on a rollercoaster haha

I'd love to volunteer for something like this but being in Laurel, The Children's Science Center Lab is a little bit of a drive. Maybe in the weekend. Would their be other opportunities closer to me?

Congrats!

I know there are also species of hermit crabs that will attach anemones to their shell. Eventually they grow and find a new shell and rip the anemones off the old shell and make them latch to the new one. It's a n amazing and hilarious thing to watch haha

Probably also depends on what fish you want to put in there. Like a Yasha goby with a pistol shrimp would appreciate some sand while a clown pair won't care what the substrate is.

I've have a pair of peppermints in my tank for a few months now. They've never done anything up until last Friday afternoon when I noticed my single orange ricordia was struggling and losing the orange. I kept an of on the tank all day and then saw the shrimp come over and start picking at it and pulling more of the orange off. I dropped a couple pellets in the back corner where the shrimps hang out and watched to make sure they found them. Last week I was super busy at work and neglected feeding the tank a bit. I'm assuming the shrimp just got hungry enough to cause trouble. Since then I haven't seen either one pick on the mushroom and the mushroom is also coming back thankfully. Hopefully they didn't get a taste for corals...

why is my text so tiny... Haha

Kinda looks like the top of a vermetid worm tube. But I'm no expert

I'm in the process of getting a 40 breeder tank with a 30 or 20 gallon diy sump going. I have my lights, skimmer, return, and pumps ready. I'm almost done building the stand and next I need to get a hold of a tank ($1/gallon sales or try asking in the forums) and baffle up my sump to get the plumbing set as well and the canopy and blah blah blah. Anyways, I've always wanted to get an urchin and this would be a good time to check that off my list. Don't know how much algae there will be to graze but I'm ready to feed it if need be. I'm mostly concerned about them being mini bulldozers. I'm planning on just using super glue to attach all my corals and rockwork so they can't be picked up or moved. I read a few people on Reef2Reef using epoxy but it failing to stop the urchin. Does anyone have any solid way they use to prevent urchins from moving stuff around that they shouldn't?