Justind823 Posted November 20, 2018 Author Share Posted November 20, 2018 On 11/17/2018 at 11:14 AM, Nano sapiens said: Corals and fish look great...and nice and clean, too 👍 Loosing the 9g must have been disheartening, but good to hear that the house and all was spared. Thanks! Yea that time was rough but it could of been much worse. On 11/17/2018 at 11:21 AM, YHSublime said: Everything is looking really nice! I'm very jealous of the sump/fuge area. I've never been able to grow anything, but I've started giving some Dragons Breath a shot. It's not died, but it's not growing either.... You know it took awhile for the chaeto to acclimate and I thought it was a goner. It's growing nicely now, not sure what I changed. I do have a heavy hand with feeding and no skimmer I love dragons breath - good choice. I hope it takes off for you. On 11/15/2018 at 6:58 PM, Justind823 said: PICS Turns out that Curlique anemone that hitchiked on my chaeto order is huge! FTS tomorrow! Bringing pics to the new page On 11/17/2018 at 10:17 AM, Justind823 said: FTS! 3 1 Quote Link to comment
Justind823 Posted December 9, 2018 Author Share Posted December 9, 2018 A local reefer was breaking down his tank so I picked up his coral and clean up crew a week ago. He had a pistol shrimp that had never paired up with his goby hiding in the rocks so I took it home as well. It didn't look like any goby shrimp that I had seen before so I put the little guy in the sump for the time being. Turns out the shrimp isn't into gobies at all, in fact it's very fond of that hitchhiking anemone I ended up with when I bought my chaeto. Accidental symbiosis! I never thought I'd end up with a curlique/ pistol pair. The relationship is really neat to watch. Since they paired up I decided to clean the home up a bit and I added a piece of PVC for the pistol shrimp which it took to immediately. Recent pic of the anemone in the sump - I need to get a new pic of the new setup 6 Quote Link to comment
Justind823 Posted December 10, 2018 Author Share Posted December 10, 2018 Wow...turns out this tank is a year old already? Time flies 🤭 2 Quote Link to comment
DaveFason Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Great update Justin. Congrats on one year! Quote Link to comment
Justind823 Posted December 10, 2018 Author Share Posted December 10, 2018 1 hour ago, DaveFason said: Great update Justin. Congrats on one year! Thanks Dave! 1 Quote Link to comment
YHSublime Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Time does fly! Your sump is becoming the DT, lol! Quote Link to comment
Justind823 Posted December 16, 2018 Author Share Posted December 16, 2018 Quick cell vid of the monsters that live in my sump Yes I know I have a ton of hair algae in my sump 😄 but it only grows down there so I'm not complaining! 4 1 Quote Link to comment
Fel Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 Glad to see he made it to a good home! 1 1 Quote Link to comment
Christopher Marks Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 Congratulations on reaching the first year milestone @Justind823! 🎉 That new pistol shrimp is really cool looking, good video clip! How neat it's taking to the curlicue anemone too! 1 Quote Link to comment
FISHnChix Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 Wow digging your tank! I love how clean it is and how dirty the fuge is.. its awesome. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
Justind823 Posted December 16, 2018 Author Share Posted December 16, 2018 2 hours ago, Fel said: Glad to see he made it to a good home! Yeah everything that I got from you looks great! The pistol seems very happy to have that anemone now too 1 hour ago, Christopher Marks said: Congratulations on reaching the first year milestone @Justind823! 🎉 That new pistol shrimp is really cool looking, good video clip! How neat it's taking to the curlicue anemone too! Thanks CM! It's really a great relationship to watch 1 Quote Link to comment
Justind823 Posted December 16, 2018 Author Share Posted December 16, 2018 1 hour ago, Weikel said: Wow digging your tank! I love how clean it is and how dirty the fuge is.. its awesome. The best of both worlds 😂 Quote Link to comment
Justind823 Posted December 17, 2018 Author Share Posted December 17, 2018 Here's a cell pic of the sump setup for the nem and pistol. I put in a PVC elbow and broke up the big rock to pile it on top. The pistol some how coaxed the anemone to the top of the PVC near the opening. It's really amazing how those animals work together 3 2 Quote Link to comment
Justind823 Posted December 19, 2018 Author Share Posted December 19, 2018 A buddy of mine was staying at our place this past weekend and was having some fun with his Iphone. He shared with me so I thought I'd share with you all. Nothing too exciting but they are fun captures My pistol shrimp had just molted the night before this short timelapse 5 Quote Link to comment
JR! Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 What a beautiful reef sir 😎 1 Quote Link to comment
vlangel Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 I used to have a shrimp/ curlique pair. They are cool. Awesome reef and fun sump. Quote Link to comment
Justind823 Posted January 17, 2019 Author Share Posted January 17, 2019 On 1/8/2019 at 10:36 AM, JR! said: What a beautiful reef sir 😎 Thanks man! Good to see you around again. Getting the itch? On 1/9/2019 at 5:57 PM, vlangel said: I used to have a shrimp/ curlique pair. They are cool. Awesome reef and fun sump. Thanks very much! Indeed they are a fun pair 1 Quote Link to comment
JR! Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 2 hours ago, Justind823 said: Thanks man! Good to see you around again. Getting the itch? Thanks very much! Yeah I have a bus going right now 🤣🤣 Quote Link to comment
Justind823 Posted January 26, 2019 Author Share Posted January 26, 2019 Tea anyone? 🍵 😁 1 Quote Link to comment
Justind823 Posted January 28, 2019 Author Share Posted January 28, 2019 Came home from a work trip and everything looked great! Except for my hammer frag... At first it just looked like it was doing the usual poop thing but when I walked back later it wasn't looking any better. So I check under the polyps and noticed the flesh looked grayish in one spot... and then the gray moved! I immediately grabbed it and threw it into a cup and removed this beast of a flatworm with the forceps. The whole hammer was covered in eggs pretty much all the way around. I'm very happy I caught it before things got worse, as in before I had hundreds of these things slithering around my tank. So far I haven't noticed any indication it's laid eggs on anything else and the rest of the Euphyllia looks healthy so here's hoping! I had never heard of large Euphyllia eating flatworms before but I'm not surprised. For everything there is in the ocean there is something that's eating it. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
Reefkid88 Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 Sweet baby jesus,that thing looks huge !!! Thank goodness you caught that before it got any worse. 1 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 7 hours ago, Justind823 said: Came home from a work trip and everything looked great! Except for my hammer frag... At first it just looked like it was doing the usual poop thing but when I walked back later it wasn't looking any better. So I check under the polyps and noticed the flesh looked grayish in one spot... and then the gray moved! I immediately grabbed it and threw it into a cup and removed this beast of a flatworm with the forceps. The whole hammer was covered in eggs pretty much all the way around. I'm very happy I caught it before things got worse, as in before I had hundreds of these things slithering around my tank. So far I haven't noticed any indication it's laid eggs on anything else and the rest of the Euphyllia looks healthy so here's hoping! I had never heard of large Euphyllia eating flatworms before but I'm not surprised. For everything there is in the ocean there is something that's eating it. is it weird that the "blob" didn't really bother me, but as soon as I saw the eggs, I gagged a little? 🤢🤮 1 Quote Link to comment
YHSublime Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 So what's your action plan? Quote Link to comment
William Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 I had one of those ..... I didn’t think that they ate euphyllia, just snails, clams, etc Quote Link to comment
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