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Caesar777

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MrA, awesome pictorial! I can't believe the transformation even from the first pic to the second one a week later! Clearly it's a testament to your excellent reefing skills. :flower: Really.

 

Weetie, awesome anglers in your sig. I LOVE anglers; I had the cutest little thimble-sized one that was a perfect mimic of toxic flatworms: velvet black with bright yellow-orange round speckles, cobalt-blue edging on the fins, and little white "toenails". He was eating frozen sand eels but mysteriously died one day. :( I also had a bigger one, solid black with white toenails and a dusting of the tiniest white speckles, who grew to nearly plum size; he ate sand eels with gusto, right from my fingers. His name was Borax. You may have read about him in my tank thread...LOL. (Back to A's tank thread now... :P )

 

PS, I've given away macroalgae frags. :)

 

"No charge for the Bryopsis." :haha:

 

We have a cool blue-purple branching one at work--not little flattened, round-edged "leaves" but spindly, spikey and tougher--that I've given to several customers. Came out of a coworker's tank--he gave me a frag, too, but it collected too much detritus on the bottom of my BB tank. :rolleyes:

 

Edit: Why is it that when it auto-joins two posts, it takes out ALL the paragraph breaks?! Then I gotta go an' FIX EM! :angry:

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Weetabix7

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MrA, awesome pictorial! I can't believe the transformation even from the first pic to the second one a week later! Clearly it's a testament to your excellent reefing skills. :flower: Really.

 

Weetie, awesome anglers in your sig. I LOVE anglers; I had the cutest little thimble-sized one that was a perfect mimic of toxic flatworms: velvet black with bright yellow-orange round speckles, cobalt-blue edging on the fins, and little white "toenails". He was eating frozen sand eels but mysteriously died one day. :( I also had a bigger one, solid black with white toenails and a dusting of the tiniest white speckles, who grew to nearly plum size; he ate sand eels with gusto, right from my fingers. His name was Borax. You may have read about him in my tank thread...LOL. (Back to A's tank thread now... :P )

 

PS, I've given away macroalgae frags. :)

 

"No charge for the Bryopsis." :haha:

 

We have a cool blue-purple branching one at work--not little flattened, round-edged "leaves" but spindly, spikey and tougher--that I've given to several customers. Came out of a coworker's tank--he gave me a frag, too, but it collected too much detritus on the bottom of my BB tank. :rolleyes:

 

Edit: Why is it that when it auto-joins two posts, it takes out ALL the paragraph breaks?! Then I gotta go an' FIX EM! :angry:

 

Wow, I would love to have seen that thimble sized angler! I had a juvenile wartskin angler for a while that I named Daffodil, she was by far my favorite fish that I've ever had! I'm nuts about anglers. I want to get one so bad right now, but I suspect that I wouldn't have enough free time to take proper care of it, due to my two little troublemakers!

It's so tempting though.

I was just thinking tonight how awesome it would be to hook up a 20L display refugium to my 10g prop tank and put an angler in it. That blue-purple branching macro that you speak of would look perfect in it too!

Sigh. -_-

I'm gonna be good.

 

Sorry for the hijack MrA, it's all C7's fault, she lured me into it!!!

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Caesar777

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I only wish I'd had photos of those little anglers. :( It was surprisingly easy to get them onto frozen/thawed food; they'd eat krill and silversides, too; anything in my fingers. :wub:

 

OMG you know what's another HUGE sidetracking issue?

 

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT!

 

Readers, vote! FOR or AGAINST?

 

:P KIDDING! Luv ya, MrA!

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Rene

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I tried for about a year to get that color blue Dictyota for one of my tanks. I just could not find the stuff, and it's gorgeous, and I was willing to deal with it if it got out of control. It's just so purdy.

 

C7: Okay, I know I'm going out on a limb here without even a picture, but your blue bushy algae sounds like it could, maybe, possibly be Ochtodes. Another one I want to get someday ;)

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MrAnderson

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Lookin good Mr. A!

 

Those rocks look pretty beefy. Are you able to siphon out detritus from behind them without re-aquascaping?

 

no, it's bare-bottom back there and my flow is massive. the rockscape holds the sand back - for now. there's only about an inch between the 2 front rocks for sand to creep through, it's held steady so far. very little accumulates back there.

 

 

 

I want some too, me, me, me, ME!!!!!

 

really? let me see how it comes off, it IS spreading...

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Duncan

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Awww... How cute is that, eh? That's a keeper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nope, squash it.

 

j/k, I got no idea. Best to take it out, jmho.

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Doesn't look like any of the known bad ones, he may be a macroalgea feeder or he may be SOL with no food source in your tank. I say keep him but just keep a watchful eye on him. Amazing that he lived through transport of liverock. Just another reason to "soft" cycle a tank.

 

Danny

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Caesar777

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It IS a bad one. Found one of those on a Scolymia and found it was a baddie in the Nudibranch book.

 

And keep on the lookout for more. Carnivore!

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Caesar777

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LOL! He's literally in the center of the photo, horizontally-inclined, blue and white with red-tipped "antennae" (rhinophores).

 

Wow, look at that Dichtyota sparkle! :)

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Hmm, I may have been mistaken on the info. It's a Sacoglossan, just like "lettuce slugs", and those eat algae (many just Caulerpa, probably other macros).

 

Yup, I continued searching, and I was, indeed, mistaken:

 

Sacoglossan sea slugs (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) are one of the few groups of specialist herbivores in the marine environment. Sacoglossans feed suctorially on the cell sap of macroalgae, from which they "steal" chloroplasts (kleptoplasty) and deterrent substances (kleptochemistry)

 

(from http://www.icm.csic.es/scimar/index.php/secId/6/IdArt/70/ )

 

Looks like he's safe! :flower: YAY WINNAR! He's easily the most colorful reef-safe sea slug I've seen around!

 

I AM going to check the nudibranch book, and hopefully I just remembered wrong; I doubt it would have the wrong info...?!

 

LOL! From the link above, "new arrivals"... "WTF I'M BEIN EATED?!"

 

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Hmm, I may have been mistaken on the info. It's a Sacoglossan, just like "lettuce slugs", and those eat algae (many just Caulerpa, probably other macros).

 

Yup, I continued searching, and I was, indeed, mistaken:

(from http://www.icm.csic.es/scimar/index.php/secId/6/IdArt/70/ )

 

Looks like he's safe! :flower: YAY WINNAR! He's easily the most colorful reef-safe sea slug I've seen around!

 

I AM going to check the nudibranch book, and hopefully I just remembered wrong; I doubt it would have the wrong info...?!

 

YAYYYYYY!!!!

 

LOL! From the link above, "new arrivals"... "WTF I'M BEIN EATED?!"

 

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OMGLOLOL... awesome caption.

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Rene

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Rene, if it's that serious of a situation for you, i could send you some!

 

Really?! Mr. A, I'd love that. I have seriously been going as far as to call collectors in Florida I've worked with to see if they could get me some...they say they've never seen it, though the guidebooks say that the blue stuff does grow here. Lemme PM you.

 

I *heart* your slug. It's a pretty little elysid, and I wonder from the color what it eats. I used to visit www.seaslugforum.net mostly to look at the pictures, but I remember it being a good site. Someone over there could probably give you an accurate idea, especially since you know where the rock came from.

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MrAnderson

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for those interested in some Dictyota:

 

because of fear that i might be harboring Bryopsis as Caesar pointer out from one of my photos, i lowered my photoperiod from 10 to 8 hrs, and it has shriveled up somewhat, and stopped spreading. unfortunately, the Dictyota has as well. it's still there, but not as broad-leafed as depicted in my last pics. when i tried to get some off the rocks, all i could do was get flakes of leaves off; it is quite embedded.

 

so this is what i'm doing: i've gotten some LR chips, 1/4 to 1/2 inch, and stabbed them into the best growth near the top of the tank. i'm going to give it a couple weeks in hopes that it spreads and i can make little Dictyota plugs to send out to those who want it.

 

other than that, the nudibranch is growing, and Mr. Thing is still going strong. no more snails lost, and my M. spumosa has attached to a neighboring rock. some interesting macroalgae has grown out, and i like the look and the growth isn't out of control, so i'm leaving it. the pink macro is completely gone though! oh well...

 

i'll post pics over the next couple days!

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Weetabix7

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I hate that you lost the pink macro afro, but I like your idea for Dictyota frags.

I want, I want!!

 

I'm also interested in seeing the other interesting macroalgaes you referenced.

 

Refresh my memory, what is Mr. Thing?

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Caesar777

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So a question popped into my head yesterday, MrA: do you feed the tank?

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