I thought this was self explanatory. I'm #2. I believe that leaves you to be #1--of course, my math skills are a bit weak.

Whoa, what an ordeal!

Quite a story and such an enjoyable read.

I do hope attempt number two is successful, although I must admit -there is a small part of me that cannot wait to read about failed attempt number two....and plans for #3.



Best of luck folks.

Awww, thanks so much.

I'll be sure to post how attempt #2 plays out, once we're all recovered from last night's attempt, of course.

Maybe I should start posting my battles with the aiptasia...

So here I am, trying to be productive. Three loads of laundry in the machines, fishies are fed, went to the grocery store for necessities for the week.

My new phallic leather thingy has more and more polyps extended, and is in fact quite turgid this afternoon.

Cheese cutlet fell over onto one of the green rics the night before last, I woke to find the ric actually trying to eat the cheese cutlet. Both wounded, both looking like they'll survive.

And yet, here I am, staring into my tank, wishing I could go and buy a new zoa patch.

I have no $, and couldn't go frag shopping today if I did, but I see them in my mind, pink, blue, green, orange, I think they're magically delicious.

Blech, there goes the timer, time to go back to the laundry room.

~Anne

hi anne

I think we need more pics of the tank.

and a video of us trying to catch the fish!

Well, until I hit the lottery, you're my officially unofficial cameraman.

Wonder how you're going to run the camera and catch the coral beauty at the same time? Oh, Sakura...

Lmao!!! that's a good one!!! Remind me to bring you this other camera I have sitting here! Oh and I have to watch Mr. Pooh bear very soon ... walk-mates?

Yes, and yes!

OMG, so far as I can tell we've got such a similar life-stock in our tanks....clakii, 6line, etc... and some of the corals too..

Hi Boris! Thanks for stopping by.

Hmmm, I remember reading your thread before I had a tank, maybe there was a subliminal influence?

Neither clown is a clarkii, though--just really fat!

Yea, I just went back and realized that it isn't a clarkii, just looks like it in one of your photos. I also have the blue mushies, the green striped ones but no LPS yet...still reticent to get them since my setup is a bit ghetto right now...

I bet your six line was a really happy one when you put him in the tank...to monitor that pod population... do you have any left? I certainly don't...or can't see them.

I LOVE my LPS! I find the candy canes endlessly fascinating, and the same is true for the frogspawn and plate.

Who am I kidding, I love them all!

The six line was in heaven when he came into this tank, yes. Believe it or not, the pod population wasn't decimated. Decreased, to be sure, but you can still see them if you look. Perfect, this way they're still working as another link in the cuc, enough if I added another fish that see them as a treat, but not so many that they're irritating the corals.

well, that's great. I wish I had pods in my tank, but alas...I have yet to see even one and it's been a year and a half since I set up my tank. Though, I don't have a fuge or a sump.

Needs moar seahorse thread!

+10000000000 I vote Seahorse nano in Ap's house!!!

SEAHOARSERS!!!

Or atleast a pipefish tank

Or both ...


DUH!!!

LOL! You guys are too funnty!

I would love to set up a seahorse tank--after I get a 75g upgrade, of course.

But Dave, you get to convince hubby. Bring beer, lots of beer. Or vodka. Or scotch. Or....

~Anne

i got a couple bottles of bacardi rum from my honeymoon


oh & 5 lbs of black sand that i dont need.. hell we could probably put the entire tank together for free if you searched hard enough

Mark

Hmmm, Mark, I like your line of thinking. Right in my budget. Black sand sounds like perfection in a seahorse tank.

I wonder if my boys will notice if I dissemble the Guitar Hero World tour drum set and use that spot...

Make the drum set into a seahorse tank. Dooo iiiiit.

I agree ... turn drum set into fish tank ... with seahorses ... we will help ...

Clearly you didn't see/don't remember what happened when I tried to DIY with pantyhose and the overflow u-tube. Ugly, very ugly. And wet.

2nd times a charm!!! Trust me

I don't like the look of this face you just made ... I think we need to go to a bar ... and well ... you know the rest

I know you too well by now to trust you.



I know, it seemed like it should have been such a simple thing...

fixed!

lol jbm...perfect.

ROFLOL.

You guys have fun with the beatings. I'll take care of emptying the beer bottles for you. Blue Moon, please. Kthnx.

Hienekine

Trying to add a pic. Not working, grrr.
> Heinekin

No new pics, but I did get some new coral additions. An orange digi frag, a yellow something I don't remember frag, and some very pretty yellow centered zoas.

This stupid aiptasia is driving me CRAZY. Everything I've injected into it (lemon juice, Part B, boiling lemon juice) just seems to make it bigger and stronger. This being the case, I'm reluctant to buy one of the products specifically for it that also may or may not work. So, I bought a peppermint shrimp. Also bought a little emerald crab for some bubble algae hidden in my poci colony.

The orange clown was NOT happy with the peppermint addition, and immediately set out to have herself a $5 snack. The pep was able to evade her for about 30 hours. Sadly, I woke yesterday morning to find the pep crunchy on the floor in front of the tank. If I listen closely, I can hear the aiptasia snickering, and the clown giving out a self satisfied HRUMPH.

Last night my candy cane (which has been solidly in place for months) fell--or was pushed--off its perch, right onto one of the rics. The candy cane is now sliming like mad, and I'm chewing my cuticles; I love that thing.

*Question, I have a red monti frag that was given to me with most of the flesh brown/gone. It started coloring up and growing right away. Two days ago I noticed a little hole appear where the flesh had not colored up/regrown. The hole has grown, but other than that the frag still seems fine. None of the new growth has died, polyps still extend, etc. Sound familiar to anyone? Anything I should watch for?

Thanks for reading.

~Anne

o boy Anne, sowwy about the troubles. But congrats on the new additions.

Aips can be a real PITA. Peppermints did the job for me several times. But this last time they also helped themselves to my prized Cespitularia - Blue Xenia once the Aiptasia were gone.

Not sure on the monti. Although I have had a similar situation recently. The hole has not really gotten any bigger, yet the monti continues to grow outward. Hopefully someone else will chime in here as I to would be interested to hear.

Good luck Anne, I hope everything pulls through for you.



--Richie

Thanks Richie.

I know I can try supergluing the mouth of the aip, but it's growing from my pipe organ, and I'd have to pull the whole piece out of the tank to do that. I've had such great growth with the pipe I don't want to risk hurting it, kwim?

Ouch on the blue xenia! I think I'd find a skewer with the pep's name on it.

Interesting that you've seen something similar with your monti, and very encouraging to hear you're still experiencing continued growth.

take some frag putty & smother the aptasia with it.

worked for me many a time

Thanks Mark!

I haven't heard of that one, I'm going to try it.

I'm going to lose my candy cane. The larger of the two heads has been looking worse. Once it stopped sliming, I could see some skeleton. The &^%$&*( coral beauty just took a BITE out of it.

This was one of my first frags.

frag & seperate them

place the 'worse' head on your frag rack to heal

I was wondering about that, Mark. But I don't know how to frag, or have any tools to frag with.

Mierda!

could probably find most of those in a cvs or a beauty shop

I didn't do anything to/for the candy cane yesterday. I need to watch and think before taking any action; overall I think that trait is serving me well in this hobby. I'm sure there will be times when it bites me, though.

Anyway, the coral beauty ate a little more than half of the fleshy crown from that one head. I guess that was the most damaged part, because then she stopped, and it doesn't look any worse this morning than yesterday evening. The other head is fine, it isn't sliming, and the flesh that has grown down the stalk still looks completely fine.

The emerald crab found the bubble algae and has been eating it.

Good to read this Anne.

Thanks Richie. I fed each head a pellet before and they both ate! It took the damaged head longer than usual, but that has to be a good sign--not to mention, being a mom, I'm convinced food will help the healing process.

~Anne

Funny, I don't feed my corals at all. I should try it out tho

Really? That's the first thing I do with new corals, check out who will eat what.

Do you ever give phyto or anything?

nope.

the hardest thing i have to care for is my candy canes. everything else is softies. i figured my 12.5% (5 gallons) weekly water changes (sometime bi-weekly) is sufficient. That & 300+ watts of light should do it

Nothing really new, but I figured I'd update the progress. I know, I know, I need to update pics.

All of the minor mishaps have corrected themselves. The candy cane has recovered completely, the flesh regrew, no more exposed skeleton.

The hole in the monti cap got bigger and bigger. The interesting part is that only the old dead flesh/rock disappeared, while new growth has continued to surround the hole. I figure this means it's ok, and it actually looks kind of cool.

The coral beauty took a couple of bites out of the yellow _____ frag (looks like a cross btw a monti cap and a cup coral) I got, new flesh has already regrown over the exposed part.

My rainbow (?) monti frag continues to grow and encrust the frag plug, looking very cool.

The emerald crab stopped eating the bubble algae before the job was done. Still, he's cool to watch, and so far is a hard working addition to the clean up crew.

The clowns decided they didn't like the orange digi anywhere near their spot, and rammed it repeatedly until they knocked it down, and covered it in sand. Needless to say, that was not good for the frag, and polyps retracted and it bleached. It is recovering now, and I'm trying to figure out a safe spot to putty it down.

Fish are all fat and happy. I'm waiting for my schedule to mesh with a friend's to try a capture of the coral beauty, round 2. This time I won't give up, because I know there's no stopping her occasional nipping.

Th th th that's all, folks!

~Anne

i catch fish for beer!