Nano sapiens Posted June 6, 2015 Author Share Posted June 6, 2015 That's surprising! I figured he was too small to be aggressive like that. Spunky fish! He's an adult 2-3/4" male...the Rics are nearly 6" across 1 Quote Link to comment
Felicia Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 He's an adult 2-3/4" male..the Rics are nearly 6" across Oh! Wow, he looks deceptively small because the rics are so big. makes the rics that much more impressive! Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 He's an adult 2-3/4" male...the Rics are nearly 6" across Wow! Now I know not to let mine grow indefinitely in my 4g Yours are beautiful! Quote Link to comment
Nano sapiens Posted June 7, 2015 Author Share Posted June 7, 2015 Wow! Now I know not to let mine grow indefinitely in my 4g Yours are beautiful! Not to worry. It's safe to say that most people's Rics stay quite a bit smaller (and thus more manageable). This is likely due to the higher flow typically used these days. 3 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Thanks! The only flow in my 4g is from the return pump, but hopefully they won't get too big. I don't think I could stand to try and cut them back. Quote Link to comment
Nano sapiens Posted June 7, 2015 Author Share Posted June 7, 2015 Thanks! The only flow in my 4g is from the return pump, but hopefully they won't get too big. I don't think I could stand to try and cut them back. I trim the larger ones when I want more light to reach the smaller ones. Never had an issue doing this. Not recommended for Rics that aren't in the best of health, though. Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Mine are quite healthy How do you trim them? Scissors? Scalpel? Quote Link to comment
Nano sapiens Posted June 7, 2015 Author Share Posted June 7, 2015 Small scissors. Quote Link to comment
Red_Blenny Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Small scissors. By trimming, like cutting a piece of it off (that has no mouth?) Quote Link to comment
Nano sapiens Posted June 7, 2015 Author Share Posted June 7, 2015 By trimming, like cutting a piece of it off (that has no mouth?) Sure. On occasion ive takne the whole mantle off leaving just the mouth and around 1 - 1/2" diameter. In ~2-3 months it grows back in again. Quote Link to comment
Red_Blenny Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Sure. On occasion ive takne the whole mantle off leaving just the mouth and around 1 - 1/2" diameter. In ~2-3 months it grows back in again. This is my face right now: I'm impressed, I would never ever thought about trimming a florida. I figured that if they get big, I'll let them stay big but I've noticed that some of my floridas are overlapping my other smaller floridas. Quote Link to comment
Nano sapiens Posted June 7, 2015 Author Share Posted June 7, 2015 LOL. Any Florida that's completely blocking a Yuma gets trimmed 3 Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 That clownfish video is adorable. Quote Link to comment
Nano sapiens Posted June 8, 2015 Author Share Posted June 8, 2015 That clownfish video is adorable. It was a spur-of-the-moment thing that I couldn't pass up capturing on video 1 Quote Link to comment
Nano sapiens Posted June 8, 2015 Author Share Posted June 8, 2015 Picked up (literally) a couple nice pieces this weekend. Fragged the encrusters into tiny mini-colonies and placed them all over the place to see how they do in different lighting and flow areas of the tank, so pics will have to wait until they grow out. The technique works great with encrusting corals like Pavona and Leptoseris and I've been successful growing colonies, some from pin-head size clumps of tissue. Should be interesting when they all get bigger and start encroaching on each other ('Coral Wars', part deux!). 2 Quote Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Picked up (literally) a couple nice pieces this weekend. Fragged the encrusters into tiny mini-colonies and placed them all over the place to see how they do in different lighting and flow areas of the tank, so pics will have to wait until they grow out. The technique works great with encrusting corals like Pavona and Leptoseris and I've been successful growing colonies from pin-head size clumps of tissue. Should be interesting when they all get bigger and start encroaching on each other ('Coral Wars', part deux!). Pictures! Cool strategy on the encrusting corals- I bet that'll cover more surface area in less time. Quote Link to comment
Nano sapiens Posted June 8, 2015 Author Share Posted June 8, 2015 Pictures! Cool strategy on the encrusting corals- I bet that'll cover more surface area in less time. Absolutely It's also a great way to drastically lesson the chance of lossing a coral type since multiples are growing in different locations (assuming that the tank doesn't crash, of course). Quote Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Absolutely It's also a great way to drastically lesson the chance of lossing a coral type since multiples are growing in different locations (assuming that the tank doesn't crash, of course). Nice! I WANT PICTURESSSSSSS (Sorry for being so demanding ) Quote Link to comment
Nano sapiens Posted June 8, 2015 Author Share Posted June 8, 2015 Patience, patience...the.frags are too small to get any decent pics. Check back in a month or so 1 Quote Link to comment
gena Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Speaking of stirring...and balance... I just came back from a 5 day vacation and my tank walls were so full of brown algae I could hardly see into the tank. The tank was not fed in my absence. What makes this so unusual is that normally I can go 4-5 days until I start to see a small dusting of algae. I feed twice daily (dry food for the fish in the morning, frozen for the fish and aminos/coral food in the afternoon)...plus daily stirring of the sand bed. I speculate that the bacteria in the sand bed were deprived of the daily nutrition source they were using to denitrify and stirring distributed some bacteria into the water column for consumption while the remainder naturally repopulated (phosphate usage/sequestering). With both processes interrupted, nitrate and phosphate were then abundantly available for the algae to utilize, hence the algae bloom. A good example of how a tank 'gets used to' a certain routine...and what can happen when the routine is interrupted. Consistency in regards to tank feeding and maintenance practices are often overlooked, but they rank right behind water parameter stability, IMO. So interesting! He's an adult 2-3/4" male...the Rics are nearly 6" across I had no idea...he looks so tiny but your ricordeas are giants . 1 Quote Link to comment
Nano sapiens Posted June 8, 2015 Author Share Posted June 8, 2015 I had no idea...he looks so tiny but your ricordeas are giants . Big fluffy pillowy things they are. I think they saw a Carpet Anemone on my monitor and decided that's what they wanted to be when they grew up The all-green one (Haitian Ric) I measured at nearly 10" across when it had 3 mouths...then it split into large separate polyps. The tissue is so puffy on this one, in particular, that it could almost float! 3 Quote Link to comment
Nano sapiens Posted June 10, 2015 Author Share Posted June 10, 2015 Over the weekend someone asked for a pic of a Ric with a ruler for reference. This is a single mouth Ric (I have a bigger one, but it has three mouths) Stainless 6" ruler with one side down by the lower tentacles and the other at the top, so around 5-1/2" (somewhat squished) : 11 Quote Link to comment
Red_Blenny Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Damn, it makes me want to lower the flow but my other corals (especially a few floridas) gets pissed/unhappy when the flow is too low... Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Over the weekend someone asked for a pic of a Ric with a ruler for reference. This is a single mouth Ric (I have a bigger one, but it has three mouths) Stainless 6" ruler with one side down by the lower tentacles and the other at the top, so around 5-1/2" (somewhat squished) : Show off! Quote Link to comment
Nano sapiens Posted June 12, 2015 Author Share Posted June 12, 2015 Damn, it makes me want to lower the flow but my other corals (especially a few floridas) gets pissed/unhappy when the flow is too low... It's certainly a balancing act in these mixed-reef tanks. Show off! At least you now know that I'm not 'blowing smoke' when I say they are close to 6" 1 Quote Link to comment
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