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  1. 1. Should Derp stay, or should he be booted out of the Mushroom Mansion? Pick wisely, your answers *might* determine his future!

    • Keep Derp. It's fun to watch him wreak havoc in your Pico.
      11
    • Toss the bugger out. Hermits suck anyway.
      1
    • Watch him for a while - if he keeps feeding one coral to another shroom again, kick him out!
      6

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Snow_Phoenix
3 minutes ago, Tigahboy said:

Those red 🦀eyes tho.  

 

Love the photo of the crab getting comfy under a Yuma blanket.  🤗

Thanks! I like it when they all try to hide under my yuma. I once had my tuxedo urchin attempt to steal the whole frag, which was 3x his size. :blink:

 

Thankfully, his brilliant 'hat' idea didn't work. 

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5 minutes ago, debbeach13 said:

I'd say scarlet found her home sweet home.

She's now abandoned the yuma and scuttled off to horizons unknown. I did however, catch Grump picking off algae from behind my green zoa rock-stick. I've sort of hit a limbo period with this tank and am now just sitting back and watching things grow - my usual LFS is finally bringing in some corals after about 2 years of selling fish exclusively. I had a sneak peek of some of their shrooms, and it's lovely! (My wallet on the other hand, is already weeping blood)

 

So I guess...moar shrooms? :ninja:

And maybe zoas. Yesh, definitely zoas. omgomgomg

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Just finished doing another 90% WC. 

 

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And I noticed something very peculiar about my green hairy shroom today while refilling the tank:

 

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My shroom is splitting on its own, right through the mouth! omgomgomg

 

So I guess we're going to have two hairy shrooms on the same frag very soon. So excited! I like how things are actually growing and multiplying at a steady rate in this tank. Reminds me of one if my older nanos where I had a neon green candy cane sprout 20 heads from only a dozen in less than 4 months. 

 

The fern caulerpa has also been growing like a ball of weed - I had to prune it a little bit today. My grape caulerpa mostly went sexual and died, but there are a few viable strands left. 

 

I'm on the lookout for some Halimeda and scroll algae atm. My galaxaura is pretty but it is a super slow grower. 

 

I'm waiting for my LFS to restock their branch with new corals before I get anything else. Right now I'm mostly focused on getting this tiny tank stable and growing, and upgrading my nano. (New tank to arrive very soon)

 

Miko is doing very well. I got him a little wrasse friend in QT - it is a pink streak that will be moved into my 60G cube once that setup is up and running. 

 

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Quick update! I just found Scarlet - she now resides in the empty semi-barnacle shell on my LR. It's difficult to spot her because she's hidden so well. (Scroll forward on Insta to see her exact location in the pic):

 

Derp was being a little jerk again and knocked my purple monti (or rather, whatever that's left of it) into my shroom pile. :rant:

 

Had to use tweezers to fish it out of the pile and put it back up. I think I should glue it down to the rock, but as you can see above, it's still half-dead, so I don't know if it'll be worth it. 

 

Miko is doing quite well in QT - did a small wellness check on him and the wrasse, and they both appear to be fine so far:

 

Sorry for the grainy quality of the video. The QT is made of opaque plastic, so it's very hard to focus on anything inside of it, especially things that are in motion like fish. It's worse when you try zooming in on the plastic. 

 

 

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Anyone want moar pics? :ninja:

 

Full PE on new finger leather frag, although it isn't properly attached to anything yet:

 

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Yumas doing good so far:

 

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Shroom pile is also doing very well: 

 

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My only LPS currently in this tank:

 

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Clove polyps now have 4 tiny new heads. Officially the fastest grower in my tank:

 

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This splitting business is almost complete. I can actually see the 'borders' of two separate shrooms now:

 

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I do have film algae on some of my zoa frag plugs. Here's the hitchiker snail hard at work:

 

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From conquering the shroom pile, Derp has now moved on to take over the highest peak in the tank - the zoa tower:

 

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And I think my macro needs more pruning. Grows too quickly but it is full of pineapple sponges, spirochaetes, microbrittle stars, and a lot of pods:

 

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3 minutes ago, Snow_Phoenix said:

Anyone want moar pics? :ninja:

 

Full PE on new finger leather frag, although it isn't properly attached to anything yet:

 

IMG_20190418_175632_755.thumb.jpg.597da451d949adf8cc50b1c2addcd5c7.jpg

 

Yumas doing good so far:

 

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IMG_20190418_175754_268.thumb.jpg.32fa823ffd0bd258c67b12983e2d9de2.jpg

 

IMG_20190418_175754_263.thumb.jpg.b60ef7fcf6dedf8c650d7dd2b1e2c8fd.jpg

 

Shroom pile is also doing very well: 

 

IMG_20190418_175933_136.thumb.jpg.9efe07f28b334608f55689303bbd1029.jpg

 

IMG_20190418_175933_134.thumb.jpg.8ccf089b55da5ad408c1dc0603d7e40d.jpg

 

IMG_20190418_181140_365.thumb.jpg.7a6da71c2efcd3bb0c609ee7fdcc06c7.jpg

 

My only LPS currently in this tank:

 

IMG_20190418_180306_933.thumb.jpg.29e4645c1f1d7536dce76e22971a51ac.jpg

 

Clove polyps now have 4 tiny new heads. Officially the fastest grower in my tank:

 

IMG_20190418_180141_259.thumb.jpg.505d31816221475ff7ad501293e383b6.jpg

 

This splitting business is almost complete. I can actually see the 'borders' of two separate shrooms now:

 

IMG_20190418_181002_589.thumb.jpg.1d2e1b0ad81493203dd4ae6085ff7954.jpg

 

I do have film algae on some of my zoa frag plugs. Here's the hitchiker snail hard at work:

 

IMG_20190418_180448_493.thumb.jpg.c11c4e8734f5f2b70d2f27efd1096d4f.jpg

 

From conquering the shroom pile, Derp has now moved on to take over the highest peak in the tank - the zoa tower:

 

IMG_20190418_180853_334.thumb.jpg.be0d1ff597cbe85a84cbeb0e1db057de.jpg

 

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And I think my macro needs more pruning. Grows too quickly but it is full of pineapple sponges, spirochaetes, microbrittle stars, and a lot of pods:

 

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The shrooms look great! 😀

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15 minutes ago, WV Reefer said:

 

The shrooms look great! 😀

Thank you! I'm holding back from getting more for a short while. Will actively buy other types/colors once my 60G arrives. :lol:

 

I really love the growth I'm seeing. Even the tiny polyps - I honestly didn't expect anything to grow, let alone grow this quickly. 

 

Do you have any recommendations for a nice coral to grow/position over my LR? I was thinking of either a GSP mat (I have horrible track record with growing GSP though) or transplanting my bleached red mini carpet nem into this tank just before I tear down the 20G. Thoughts/advice? :scarry:

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1 minute ago, Snow_Phoenix said:

Thank you! I'm holding back from getting more for a short while. Will actively buy other types/colors once my 60G arrives. :lol:

 

I really love the growth I'm seeing. Even the tiny polyps - I honestly didn't expect anything to grow, let alone grow this quickly. 

 

Do you have any recommendations for a nice coral to grow/position over my LR? I was thinking of either a GSP mat (I have horrible track record with growing GSP though) or transplanting my bleached red mini carpet nem into this tank just before I tear down the 20G. Thoughts/advice? :scarry:

If you didn’t live on the other side of the world I’d send you some branching GSP!! 😃

 

I vote carpet nem! 

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5 minutes ago, WV Reefer said:

If you didn’t live on the other side of the world I’d send you some branching GSP!! 😃

 

I vote carpet nem! 

Oh yesh, branching GSP sounds awesome!

 

Alright, mini nem it is. Hopefully it can recover in this tank and return to its full crimson glory. Right now it looks so washed out and has shrunk down to the size of a penny. :unsure:

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29 minutes ago, Snow_Phoenix said:

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Your hitchhiker snail looks to be a whelk.  While you might not have a problem, I'd keep an eye on it.

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5 minutes ago, seabass said:

Your hitchhiker snail looks to be a whelk.  While you might not have a problem, I'd keep an eye on it.

Don't worry - Tamberav IDed it earlier. Turned out to be a Euplica scripta. So it's a good guy. Does a good job at cleaning up any film algae/diatoms that pops up on the glass too! 🙂 

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8 hours ago, yoshii said:

Nice Yuma pics! And your shrooms look good too!

 

For future corals, couldn't you have both? GSP and the mini red carpet

I guess I could do both. I'd actually love to have a back wall full of GSP. But Derp might knock the frag off or peel it. 😓

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3 hours ago, Snow_Phoenix said:

I guess I could do both. I'd actually love to have a back wall full of GSP. But Derp might knock the frag off or peel it. 😓

Glue is going to become your best friend with Derp in the tank!

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2 hours ago, yoshii said:

Glue is going to become your best friend with Derp in the tank!

Yep. I already have a few tubes on standby. Shame I can't glue down the leather though. It is on a tiny piece of LR so maybe I can glue that bit down, but knowing leathers, they'll turn to mush if you irritate them too much. 🤔

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Erm, remember I had a second hairy shroom which I tried to rubber band to a rock in hopes of getting it to attach to something? 

 

I moved it back to my nano about a week ago to give it more room to recover. I just discovered that it has split and one of the shrooms is on my sandbed, in between my cluster duster while the other is barely clinging on to my LR rubble because of the rubber band. 

 

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So I have 4 hairys now. 😮

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2 hours ago, Snow_Phoenix said:

Erm, remember I had a second hairy shroom which I tried to rubber band to a rock in hopes of getting it to attach to something? 

 

I moved it back to my nano about a week ago to give it more room to recover. I just discovered that it has split and one of the shrooms is on my sandbed, in between my cluster duster while the other is barely clinging on to my LR rubble because of the rubber band. 

 

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So I have 4 hairys now. 😮

 

That’s a happy accident. 😊

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It's official. Derp is an a$$hat and he killed my purple monti today by repeatedly throwing it into the shroom pile. 😓

 

I took Yoshii's advice and decided to glue down my frags to prevent it from happening again. I also transferred these guys because they were melting in my nano under the Prime: 

 

Blasto:

 

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Japanese green nepthea:

 

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Orange polyp toadstool:

 

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Only the orange toadstool is not glued down and hanging by a thread on the frag plug. It was being rolled around every night by my Starry in the nano and shrunk quite a fair bit.

 

I also transferred my small neon GSP frag to the pico and made it protrude out like a mini ledge. Some parts of the mat has melted so I am not sure if it will ever bounce back:

 

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I also glued down the rubble my pink finger leather was on, on one of my green shroom frag-rocks. The leather was tossed to the back by Derp and I really didn't want to lose it, so here it stays:

 

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I will upload a very short FTS later. Nothing much but a mess of corals. I am however, determined to try a small SPS in this in the upcoming months. Maybe something very simple and standard like green slimer acro or red digi. 

 

Also. I put in a reservation for a second picofish for this tank. I originally wanted this to be exclusively Miko's tank, but given how many nooks and crannies there are in the system, I think he can share it with something cryptic. 

 

So say hello to my circus barred goby - he is still at the store and I am not sure if he will survive the weekend but I am picking him up some time next week:

 

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😊

 

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1 minute ago, Snow_Phoenix said:

It's official. Derp is an a$$hat and he killed my purple monti today by repeatedly throwing it into the shroom pile. 😓

 

I took Yoshii's advice and decided to glue down my frags to prevent it from happening again. I also transferred these guys because they were melting in my nano under the Prime: 

 

Blasto:

 

20190419_185128.thumb.jpg.1c9736c300c3cec58ed3f77f7a758f4d.jpg

 

Japanese green nepthea:

 

20190419_185145.thumb.jpg.691e3a50189539fdfb546363ab31f47d.jpg

 

Orange polyp toadstool:

 

20190419_185157.thumb.jpg.fb7d6b3048db909233d4e35f522bb8d3.jpg

 

Only the orange toadstool is not glued down and hanging by a thread on the frag plug. It was being rolled around every night by my Starry in the nano and shrunk quite a fair bit.

 

I also transferred my small neon GSP frag to the pico and made it protrude out like a mini ledge. Some parts of the mat has melted so I am not sure if it will ever bounce back:

 

20190419_185140.thumb.jpg.371e919977889f80ca971c6b787e97f0.jpg

 

I also glued down the rubble my pink finger leather was on, on one of my green shroom frag-rocks. The leather was tossed to the back by Derp and I really didn't want to lose it, so here it stays:

 

20190419_185150.thumb.jpg.4c8a0b8e1bd29583deab6a866e70e15b.jpg

 

I will upload a very short FTS later. Nothing much but a mess of corals. I am however, determined to try a small SPS in this in the upcoming months. Maybe something very simple and standard like green slimer acro or red digi. 

 

Also. I put in a reservation for a second picofish for this tank. I originally wanted this to be exclusively Miko's tank, but given how many nooks and crannies there are in the system, I think he can share it with something cryptic. 

 

So say hello to my circus barred goby - he is still at the store and I am not sure if he will survive the weekend but I am picking him up some time next week:

 

IMG_20190419_142318_441.thumb.jpg.a75bf1fcaa2617abb8b25ae96c566dcb.jpg

 

IMG_20190419_142318_443.thumb.jpg.2566a77669c608c341629674d8b69f07.jpg

 

😊

 

 

 

Derp needs a time out. 

 

That goby is cute! 😀

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