tau626 Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 I went to the LFs and purchased: red scarlet hermit crab emerald crab (I know their evil but getting bad case of bubble algea) 1.5 lbs of LR rubble small frag of green star polyp.... I left with everything and went home...The small frag of GSP...got changed with...I think it is a organ pipe polyp thing....the body consists of a bunch of long red tubes with 8 feather like fingers sticking out of each tube...Since the LFs was an hour away and be closed by the time i got there, I placed it in my tank...pretty cool thing...I'd like to keep it...not sure how to keep it healthy... Any thoughts? Also i just discovered a pink/brown bristle worm that came with my ricordea too... 6 gal Eclipse 130 W coralife...65k....10 k lights Link to comment
SeaMountain Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 Gonna have to disagree with you on the emerald crack. I get a kick outta my emerald. Dude's got personality and takes no cr@p form the others when I drop some fresh shrimp pieces into the tank! Hasn't caused any troubles yet for me, but I guess some reefers have had some bad ones... Link to comment
tau626 Posted August 11, 2003 Author Share Posted August 11, 2003 Actually this is my second emearad crab. I returned the last one 2 weeks ago, he was eating my ricordea. Link to comment
SeaMountain Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 Do you drop anything in there for an alternative food source? My emerald has totally ignored my ricordea but will fight the hermits like a junkyard dawg when the shrimp drop. Link to comment
Graywolf57 Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 Are the polyps feathery edged? I believe thats what I have. The polyps initially appear white until fully extended then they are brown with white centers. Initially I had just a couple of white looking polyp hitchhickers on a zoo rock. They then began to spread over the rock to thier current 5"patch. Next the tops of the red tubes started flaring out and connecting to each tube next to them forming a new layer. Now the tubs are extending above that seconadary laywe. Kinda neat really. They were initially called GSP as well by the LFS. I have mine in a 7 gal with only 2x32 Watt PC lighting for over a year. They continue to grow slowly which is fine. Link to comment
tau626 Posted August 12, 2003 Author Share Posted August 12, 2003 GreyWolf, That sounds like it, I did some searching and i think they are organ pipe coral: http://www.cautiouscoral.com/salt/coral/ha...162&query=ORGAN hopefully they'll survive for a long time Link to comment
NepTuNe-UsD Posted August 12, 2003 Share Posted August 12, 2003 I once purchased a set of corals from someone who was selling his entire tank. One of the corals included was the organ pipe coral which was beautiful when I first acclimated it. As the link above suggests however, it is difficult to keep in a tank and after about 5 months the entire coral colony mysteriously died. Everything else in my tank has flourished. Link to comment
Graywolf57 Posted August 12, 2003 Share Posted August 12, 2003 Mine are similar to GSP in the way the polyps sometimes go in for a day to a week at a time...one thing I noticed was they seemed to stay in quite often when the tubes were connecting....might have been coincidence Link to comment
tau626 Posted August 12, 2003 Author Share Posted August 12, 2003 My Emerald crab eats when I feed the rest of the aquarium...mysis shrimp..formula 1....but I feed every other day...so he might've got hungry and start picking on the ricordea Link to comment
tau626 Posted August 13, 2003 Author Share Posted August 13, 2003 thanks greywolf for the info Link to comment
kennerd Posted August 13, 2003 Share Posted August 13, 2003 Pipe organ for sure: give it moderate flow and lighting, and make sure you keep an eye out for valonia, which have a tendency to grow inside the skeleton, and broke one of my colonies to chit. BTW: the pipe organ is actually considered a softy! Soft corals are also known and identified by the # of tentacles: yours being an octocoral, or softy, with a hard skeleon, opposed to an LPS. Just an interesting note, but another octocoral is Blue Ridge Coral, which is an encrusting coral, with a calcefied skeleton, and is usually mis-labelled as a SPS. Link to comment
tau626 Posted August 13, 2003 Author Share Posted August 13, 2003 Awesome...how long have you had yours Kennard? do you add any supplements? feed them? Link to comment
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