nems went in the tank a minute ago.

AND!!!!!!

I FOUND ANOTHER BABY BEADLET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

little guy is hiding behind a rock near the back of the tank. saw a little pinky-red spot that didn't look like the dark red coralline. tiny little guy, even smaller than the other one.

I demand pictures!!!

^ That.

wait til you get home and see them in person


they aren't open yet

but but that won't be for another 3 hours

you might be home before they open up



For all you beadlet owners/future owners:

Chia (1976) found that beadlets were on a 6 month cycle for asexual propagation. You should see brooding twice a year under optimum conditions. Give me a few months, and we'll see how that holds up

okay, so where are the pictures?

tomorrow

tonights lesson: if you're going to make custom intake filters, make sure they fit correctly. otherwise, they get sucked through the plumbing

news nems are shy. all 3 hidden under rocks.

in other news, i'm trying out margarita snails for cleaning purposes. hopefully they'll be fine after the temperature shock back to temperate.

Beadlet papa you are LOL.

H

Against the wishes of my arm...

I rearranged the tank enough to get some photos of the new beadlets. I did, however, make no effort to turn off the flow when I took the top-down shots, so you'll just have to get over the funky blur from the ripples

#1





#2 you'll also have to forgive #2 for pooping (or is that puking?) in the midst of the photo shoot.



#3





not sure about the margarita snails...several are at least showing signs of life at this point, others have yet to even open up to attach to a rock. none have made any forward progress to speak of. don't think they appreciated the temp swing.

Lemme know how the snails do because I need more in my tank..

pretty! they look surprisingly similar to anthopleura's.

talk about nems on my wishlist...



several snails are moving about chomping on algae now. minor success thus far

looks like most of the snails have made it through the temp shock. only a couple that i can see that havent moved. most of the others have left little clean trails over the rocks

now, for long term survival...

haha, nice. Next time, you could try letting them acclimate to room temp first, then drop them down. Might be a little less of a shock - sounds like they're pretty tough though.

well, we had to drive an hour to get home from the LFS, so they were plenty cold by then. I just couldn't come up with an easy way to make the temp acclimation take, say 5-6 hours instead of 2.

You acclimate for two hours? O.o

I acclimate for two minutes. If I'm feeling generous.

when they're going from 78* to 58*?

....yeah

well, not quite. When I got my nem from the drs., the water in the bag was already around 63, so I just let them sit for a couple minutes and tossed them in. That would be the only time I've ever took something tropical and put it in a coldwater tank, but the temp in their bag was probably dropping slowly the whole time they were going through shipping, so not really the same as your case. Have the slow ones perked up yet?

yeah, that does make it a bit easier unfortunately, the good drs. decided to double heatpack the last group they took 2 hours in cool down mode too.

nope, looks like i might have 6 or 7 dead ones out of 20ish. seems about average for snails. a couple of the live ones got some serious munchies goin on

Yeah, not too bad!

Hmmmmmm...

Good tank, good life, etc. etc.

Going high-tech now...got a skimmer...used Remora w/Maxi-Jet.

5 minutes in, and lots of bubbles in the tank, and a ton of foam in the cup. Methinks I should have done more water changes.

Now I just need to make a hole in the collection cup for a drain line. I don't wanna have to go cleaning that thing every day...

skimmer??

nice tank, I got my chiller today for my pico. It seems to be doing well. What would yall consider the best filtration for a coldwater? according to my studies it seems that good nutrients i the water are helpful to the life.
Lol does anyone know how to use the temp controller for the iceprobe?

More pics are needed in this thread.

can't pass up a $50 remora. especially when it filled the collection cup with nasty baby poo colored skimmate in 16 hours.



water changes. as with all tanks, water changes are the best. some nutrients are good - most coldwater areas are high in nutrients compared to tropical reefs. but too many is just as bad - you'll see lots of hair algae and cyano growth and your anemones will be unhappy.



new pictures less than a month ago

Indeed. :/

Agreed, sweet deal. Best bang for the buck skimmer I have used.

I need to get a skimmer...hmmmmm.

And less than a month is nothing

i think i'm pretty much at my limit for photos of the same thing in unique ways right now. not really motivated to take the same shots over and over. if i get something new, or find a unique shot, i'll take it.

after adding the skimmer, the beadlet on the back near the closed loop intake decided to move. he's now climbing the temp probe, and partially out of water.

the snails are doing a great job. cleaned off every bit of detritus on the rocks, and they'll do a close shave on the hair algae if you trim it first.

tried to find some abalone from the local asian supermarkets for some more CUC. no luck so far. i'll have to try the bigger markets after we dig out from all the snow that'll be here tomorrow. for the record, though...the number of poky flavors is amazing. i stopped counting at 30 in one store. poky = awesome.

Poky??

Pocky?

yeah, that.

Didn't mean to poke fun (ptp) I had to Google it either way

So its that cookie sort of thinngy huh?
Had no idea.... never heard of them. Yet one more thing you taught me D.

I guess thats a good excuse

And those pocky things are very good, I have only had a couple flavors though...

eh, it's okay

yup. great stuff. kinda like a stick-shaped and frosted animal cracker. dark chocolate and strawberry flavors are the best i've tried so far. my sister can be blamed for my addiction

pocky

http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?...51&hl=

that pocky shelf is tiny though. this was half a supermarket aisle.

local club member for the store selling abalone - small ones too. he's gonna grab the healthiest ones for me on their next shipment day given our current weather, that may be a few weeks

FTS pls

Hey look, a biotope section.

...who knew?

I am pretty sure this is the best section.

agreed.

Will do It'll be a few days, though. Recent attempt at fish ended with me having to pull rocks looking for bodies.



lol



bingo



in other news...a local came across a moon snail which he may be bringing to the local club meeting for me. always wanted one, but I'm a bit worried about how fast it'll go through the snails. maybe i can train him to just eat clams...

I would be more worried about their size

Unless we are talking about different snails, the moon snails up here get softball* size and bigger!

wouldn't be any fun if they didn't get huge...

besides, the larger rocks towards the back are softball size, so there'd be plenty of space.

Very true. Either way that will be neat. I want to find more, most of the ones I find are just shells, and even those are pretty uncommon.

cool stuff. My guess would that he will eat all your snails. fortunately for you, I have chitons I need to get rid of! Actually, it'll probably eat those too, but you can have them anyway. Also getting ready to send Jim your way... the snow clear up yet?