Esabasard Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 If you start a 20L FTS thread I will join in. Link to comment
Kittysnax Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 First, here is what happens to one stalk of Xenia in 4 weeks: Second, look who came out of hiding. I am theorizing (imagining) that he's hunting on the left island. there are two brittle stars here, a couple of whitish looking starfish and a few asterina I see on these rocks from time to time. Either that or he just went for a stroll. Whatever the reason, it was nice to see the shy guy: I am so in love with these shrimp, but Im afraid I wouldnt be able to afford to feed them! DO/Can they eat anything other than live starfish? ;3 Link to comment
captainbastard Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 Wow love your tank man, maybe I will go with the two island thing. Dunno if I can make it work with the LR I got though Link to comment
violinist Posted February 13, 2010 Author Share Posted February 13, 2010 Well some frisky critter managed to topple a couple of rocks off the top of the right island. No glass cracked or anything, but the one rock had my tiny little birds nest frags on it which I've been happy to see growing little stumps of branches. They landed face down in the GSP on the sand bed and a couple of them snapped off. So I don't know if the rest are stung to #### and destined to die now or what. Saw a little gorilla crab scurrying back into one of the rocks when I was putting things back together. Moved my vortech while I had the light fixture off the tank. Positioned it for the anticipated placement of the sps frags. Link to comment
animalmaster6 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Good lukc catching the Gorilla Crab. One of my worst nightmares Link to comment
violinist Posted February 13, 2010 Author Share Posted February 13, 2010 It's really tiny. There was a big one in there that I spiked when I broke up some of the rock. This one has been in there for a couple months now and nothing is damaged so no screwdriver of death for him until he earns it. Link to comment
animalmaster6 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 screwdriver of death for him until he earns it. What ever happened to keeping exotic inverts in refugiums? Link to comment
violinist Posted February 13, 2010 Author Share Posted February 13, 2010 Nothing exotic about a crab. I can go order one for dinner any night of the week Link to comment
animalmaster6 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Nothing exotic about a crab. I can go order one for dinner any night of the week What about Porcelain Crabs? They are pretty cool! I don't eat seafood. Ick. Link to comment
violinist Posted February 13, 2010 Author Share Posted February 13, 2010 I don't eat crap eaters like crabs either. Porcelain crabs and the like are very cool, not in the same class at all. Beautiful things get treated differently in life, surely you've discovered this even at your age lol. Link to comment
animalmaster6 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 surely you've discovered this even at your age lol. What are you tryin- The red eyes of Gorilla Crabs are weird. Kinda like mice in an odd way. Link to comment
glennr1978 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Pics as requested... The obligatory FTS Future TOTM imo. looks outstanding! Link to comment
Byrdman Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 that sucks man gl catching him Link to comment
violinist Posted February 13, 2010 Author Share Posted February 13, 2010 that sucks man gl catching him Nah, I don't freak out over hitchhikers. No big deal. More upset about those little birdsnest frags getting toppled and broken. Link to comment
violinist Posted February 13, 2010 Author Share Posted February 13, 2010 Starbucks - check Bagels - check Dremel and diamond cutting wheel for sps frag mounting - check Ruthless attitude and high hopes for complete xenia removal - check Link to comment
animalmaster6 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 If you want the xenia dead why not just poor Starbucks on it? Link to comment
violinist Posted February 13, 2010 Author Share Posted February 13, 2010 Lol. Ok, the xenia is erradicated an I scraped off the little bits that were hanging on to the rocks so hopefully that's the end of that. New sps frags are mounted. As usual I hate myself for my ugly putty skills, but there it is. FTS later when the lights come on. Also managed to free up one more fair sized piece of LR which I moved to the back of the hex. I'll start testing calc/alk/mag every day this week to see if the three sps frags push things into dosing land (hope not). I also had to yank my little birds nest frags. The broken/stung pieces were already turning white ####ing snails. Link to comment
animalmaster6 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Poor Xenia Looking forward to seeing the tank! Sorry about the little guy Link to comment
violinist Posted February 13, 2010 Author Share Posted February 13, 2010 Also, I'm sick to death of this ugly rubble filled sand. Absolutely fed up with it. I don't remember what brand this junk is, though I bought it at Petco or somewhere like that - Pet Something, and I swear it must be 60% rubble which is always moving to the top week after week. Scrape the junk off the top, next week there's more. And it always takes on this hint of brown color. So I have light brown chunks of shell/pebbles/junk laying on nice white sand. Ugly. I see a transplant in the near future. Link to comment
violinist Posted February 14, 2010 Author Share Posted February 14, 2010 Also picked up this eyelash blenny at MWC this afternoon. Of course he holed up in a cave once he went in, so I figured I'd better get a bag shot: Added some more snails. No pics of snails, who cares about snails. Here are some tank shots after the xenia removal and frag mounting. A turbo decided this was a good time to start chewing on the front of the vortech, so the mp10 was blasting water downwards and kicking up a bunch of junk. Apologies for the debris in the shots. I forgot to take a solo shot of the green birds nest, but here it is on top Link to comment
animalmaster6 Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 Tank looks great! That blenny is awesome! Link to comment
violinist Posted February 14, 2010 Author Share Posted February 14, 2010 Thanks! It reminds me of a bulldog. It sort of stomps around like it's walking instead of swimming. Link to comment
animalmaster6 Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 Thanks! It reminds me of a bulldog. It sort of stomps around like it's walking instead of swimming. Sounds like a fun fish. Link to comment
imcosmokramer Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 talk still looks sweet Link to comment
violinist Posted February 14, 2010 Author Share Posted February 14, 2010 talk still looks sweet Thanks, dude. I just read your nem tank thread for the umpteenth time, dreaming of an algae free hex tank with some nems in it lol. Link to comment
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