vlangel Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 9 hours ago, jedimasterben said: Thanks dawn, yes, it could have been quite a bit worse. The tank is mostly back to normal now, I need to get some more little fish in there because there just isn't enough going on to keep my attention 🙂 I just added some blennies to the seahorse tank for the same reason. Seahorses are darling but they spend much of their time boringly hitched. Blennies are a very fun fish the way they pop in and out of holes and crevices. Quote Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted November 6, 2018 Author Share Posted November 6, 2018 Image links will all be breaking pretty soon, Flickr is limiting their free accounts, so will no longer be using their service. 2 Quote Link to comment
Tamberav Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 Yeah, I use them too. I don't have 1000 photos though so I think it will keep working but I'll have to find a new host for future pics. Blah. 1 Quote Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted November 8, 2018 Author Share Posted November 8, 2018 On 11/6/2018 at 1:47 PM, Tamberav said: Yeah, I use them too. I don't have 1000 photos though so I think it will keep working but I'll have to find a new host for future pics. Blah. I had somewhere in the 5-6K neighborhood, mostly auto uploaded photos from my phone. Quote Link to comment
ninjamyst Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 On 11/6/2018 at 8:28 AM, jedimasterben said: Image links will all be breaking pretty soon, Flickr is limiting their free accounts, so will no longer be using their service. i was pretty pissed when i got the email about this. what are you switching to? Quote Link to comment
Christopher Marks Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 On 11/6/2018 at 7:28 AM, jedimasterben said: Image links will all be breaking pretty soon, Flickr is limiting their free accounts, so will no longer be using their service. We have an image cache proxy that will keep a local copy in place, so they will remain even once Flickr takes them offline. 🙂 3 3 Quote Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted November 10, 2018 Author Share Posted November 10, 2018 On 11/8/2018 at 7:13 PM, ninjamyst said: i was pretty pissed when i got the email about this. what are you switching to? I honestly don't know yet. Google photos is out since they stopped providing image links. Photobucket has strict limits, as well. On 11/8/2018 at 8:27 PM, Christopher Marks said: We have an image cache proxy that will keep a local copy in place, so they will remain even once Flickr takes them offline. 🙂 Well, that is good news 🙂 Quote Link to comment
kimberbee Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 On 11/8/2018 at 6:13 PM, ninjamyst said: i was pretty pissed when i got the email about this. what are you switching to? Glad I happened to wander in and see this. I use an old email address for my Flickr account, so I never would have known. 😒 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 I haven't found a good alternative yet either 😟 Quote Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted November 27, 2018 Author Share Posted November 27, 2018 Changing skimmers. The Icecap K2-120 was super expensive, but it doesn't seem to perform well in this tank. Going to a tried and true Reef Octopus 110INT. Anyone wants the Icecap for cheap, PM me. Quote Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted December 17, 2018 Author Share Posted December 17, 2018 Got a molly from Petco and a sebae anemone (Heteractis crispa) from the LFS yesterday. Molly seems to have survived the transition to saltwater since it is still alive and swimming around, and this morning my maroon decided he liked the anemone. Mother####er turned his nose up to the nice (though small) magnifica anemone I had gotten a while back (that wasted away, sadly). Anemone is bleached, but it had a very strong foot and sticky as hell tentacles, so it should color up in a few months. Tentacles have a very slight fluorescence to them, which is very strange for Heteractis nems. 6 Quote Link to comment
vlangel Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 The tank is looking great Ben. I have often thought about putting mollies in the seahorse tank. I have read that other pony keepers do it for algae control. What is your salinity? Quote Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted December 17, 2018 Author Share Posted December 17, 2018 1 hour ago, vlangel said: The tank is looking great Ben. I have often thought about putting mollies in the seahorse tank. I have read that other pony keepers do it for algae control. What is your salinity? I keep it at 35ppt. Mollies are excellent at algae control. They don't have scraping teeth like some tangs and foxface do, but any kind of filamentous algae is fair game, and they will still try and scrape from flat surfaces like the glass. I've only had success with the jet black mollies and the mottled orange/white/black ones. All of the others I've tried have not survived the transition, and I tried a LOT. 😕 3 Quote Link to comment
vlangel Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 3 hours ago, jedimasterben said: I keep it at 35ppt. Mollies are excellent at algae control. They don't have scraping teeth like some tangs and foxface do, but any kind of filamentous algae is fair game, and they will still try and scrape from flat surfaces like the glass. I've only had success with the jet black mollies and the mottled orange/white/black ones. All of the others I've tried have not survived the transition, and I tried a LOT. 😕 Thanks for the info. I do run the pony tank lower since its about fish more than coral. Its around 31ppt so maybe it'll be easier for me to acclimate some. I have had excellant luck with ghost shrimp. Quote Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted December 17, 2018 Author Share Posted December 17, 2018 4 hours ago, vlangel said: Thanks for the info. I do run the pony tank lower since its about fish more than coral. Its around 31ppt so maybe it'll be easier for me to acclimate some. I have had excellant luck with ghost shrimp. Best method has been the dump & pray rather than a slower acclimation, it is how they do it here in the wild. 2 Quote Link to comment
DaveFason Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 Great to see a mini update Ben. Hope you are well! 1 Quote Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted December 18, 2018 Author Share Posted December 18, 2018 Clownfish already knows to feed the anemone, so it should definitely be coloring up sooner rather than later. https://www.flickr.com/gp/jedimasterben/YR3366 3 Quote Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted December 21, 2018 Author Share Posted December 21, 2018 i see you there. 8 Quote Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted December 29, 2018 Author Share Posted December 29, 2018 All of this is stuff getting pulled and hopefully traded in to the LFS for the $5 in credit that I'm sure it will be 😄 4 Quote Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted December 30, 2018 Author Share Posted December 30, 2018 LFS didn't want it, but one of the workers at Petco and I were talking and I brought up the stuff, and he said he'd take it, neato. Got a ruby red dragonet, two chromis, a strawberry crab, and two more trochus snails at the LFS. 5 1 Quote Link to comment
vlangel Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 24 minutes ago, jedimasterben said: LFS didn't want it, but one of the workers at Petco and I were talking and I brought up the stuff, and he said he'd take it, neato. Got a ruby red dragonet, two chromis, a strawberry crab, and two more trochus snails at the LFS. I went to our lfs today and it had a darling ruby red dragnet but it was not eating frozen yet so I did not buy it. I came home with an orange spot blenny instead. I will enjoy seeing pics of the new purchases! Quote Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted December 30, 2018 Author Share Posted December 30, 2018 1 hour ago, vlangel said: I went to our lfs today and it had a darling ruby red dragnet but it was not eating frozen yet so I did not buy it. I came home with an orange spot blenny instead. I will enjoy seeing pics of the new purchases! You probably won't find any from any store that will be eating frozen from the getgo, even though dragonets are easy (relatively, of course) to breed at home or in a commercial farm. These are collected in the wild by the thousands, so there is no market for expensive captive-bred specimens. This is the same reason that ORA no longer breeds mandarin dragonets, they are expensive to produce and cannot compete with a $10 wild-caught specimen. I wouldn't worry about it, though, as these fish take to frozen food usually within the first few days, so if you see one again soon for a good price, I wouldn't hesitate 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment
ninjamyst Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 that's a bright red crab! Is it a red mithrax? Quote Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted December 30, 2018 Author Share Posted December 30, 2018 53 minutes ago, ninjamyst said: that's a bright red crab! Is it a red mithrax? No, it is a Liomera sp. 'strawberry crab'. Very cryptic, I don't expect to see it again for a few weeks, but they are super cool 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment
vlangel Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 10 hours ago, jedimasterben said: You probably won't find any from any store that will be eating frozen from the getgo, even though dragonets are easy (relatively, of course) to breed at home or in a commercial farm. These are collected in the wild by the thousands, so there is no market for expensive captive-bred specimens. This is the same reason that ORA no longer breeds mandarin dragonets, they are expensive to produce and cannot compete with a $10 wild-caught specimen. I wouldn't worry about it, though, as these fish take to frozen food usually within the first few days, so if you see one again soon for a good price, I wouldn't hesitate 🙂 My lfs works on getting them to eat frozen and when they do marks it on their chart. I will be watching for some that are doing that. Quote Link to comment
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