Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. I had a post asking these questions and no one responded. These are amazing and I am trying to keep them as best that anyone can. Do you test for nitrates. My sump is a 100 gal rubber maid if you are talking about ghetto. In NJ a pile of sand is a fortune. My best investment is a Lifereef skimmer.
3 h.mag, 2 gigantea, a crispa, hadoni, and more..
- Thread starter Rod Buehler
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Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
BRAVO!
BRAVO!
great thread, Rod. are the polymnus black?
if so... have they ever spawned for you?
BRAVO!
great thread, Rod. are the polymnus black?
if so... have they ever spawned for you?
Rod Buehler
New member
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Greg, To be honest, I dont test for much of anything (My bad), but I have been in the hobby for a long long time, and aftera while you start to develop an eye. I dont use a refractometer anymore.. Taste test works for me
Just kidding ( Sort of )
Thanks Gary. Yes, black.
Thank you. The brown one usually exhibits longer tentacles than what it shows in the pic that I posted here. The clowns were spawning and had irritaed teh anemone to make it close up a bit. I'll see if I can get a better/more natural pic. They are usually more typical of what you see in toward the center of the purple..
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Greg, To be honest, I dont test for much of anything (My bad), but I have been in the hobby for a long long time, and aftera while you start to develop an eye. I dont use a refractometer anymore.. Taste test works for me
Just kidding ( Sort of )Thanks Gary. Yes, black.
Thank you. The brown one usually exhibits longer tentacles than what it shows in the pic that I posted here. The clowns were spawning and had irritaed teh anemone to make it close up a bit. I'll see if I can get a better/more natural pic. They are usually more typical of what you see in toward the center of the purple..
It only blows around for the first week or 3.. It eventually settles. Maybe not exactly where I want it, but it does settle. Especially if the sand is really old/coated with bacteria
this is me
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Rod,
That purple gigantea is crazy!! Beautiful!
That purple gigantea is crazy!! Beautiful!
Dave Harms
Premium Member
Great nems and clowns! Thanks for sharing.
Pacific Reefs
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Wow Rod thank you for posting your collection...simply amazing fish and anemones. My H Mag has similar tenticles as your oldest specimen (longer and more narrow). Why do you think they differ from your newer specimens? I am running a 400w MH 14K bulb. Do you think it may be stretching for light and if I changed to a 10K for more PAR this would help?
Rod Buehler
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The finest available.. Southdown, carib~sea aragamax )oolitic).. Iusally starts off at a 3-4" depth, but I usually have about 5-6 in areas and very little in others. WHen I had the 2" (x2) surges running, I had no sand in the front corners with 7 in the back.. I added some larger rubble in the front corners.
This is me: Thank you
Musho.. No. One of the mags came to me via a split. As far as I know, there are no records of gigantea splitting naturally.
Dave: thank you and youre welcome.
RedClay, thanks ( it could easily be 15-16 years old but I dont want to stretrch it, so I play conservative with saying 14.
)Pacific reefs.. I would guess collection area...
Gigantea question. I pick one up on sat. I acclimatd for almost 2 1/2 hour . Looked fine untill today. It was the size of a dinner plate , today looks tense up and some brown poop comming out of mouth. Hasnt eaten yet. Mouth was closed until today . Should I change flow or lighting. Mouth was closed also until today.
ANY IDEAS
ANY IDEAS
Rod Buehler
New member
Thank you Carl... One of these days soon, I hope to show some "tanks builds"..( at least for the purple gigantea.. ) been a lil busy lately.. (Will I see you at the fest this weekend?)
rick12
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you mentiioned keeping them in the same tank as well as separate. i have a sebae in a 40g display, and want to add a green carpet. will this work or should i have a separate system for the carpet?
i was thinking of putting the carpet in my reef display but worried it will move arround and harm corals.
thanks
i was thinking of putting the carpet in my reef display but worried it will move arround and harm corals.
thanks
ILLiDaN
Clownfish Fanatic
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Woot and i thought i was the only one
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Woot and i thought i was the only one
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postid=14692926#post14692926 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Rod Buehler
Greg, To be honest, I dont test for much of anything (My bad), but I have been in the hobby for a long long time, and aftera while you start to develop an eye. I dont use a refractometer anymore.. Taste test works for me
Thanks Gary. Yes, black.
Thank you. The brown one usually exhibits longer tentacles than what it shows in the pic that I posted here. The clowns were spawning and had irritaed teh anemone to make it close up a bit. I'll see if I can get a better/more natural pic. They are usually more typical of what you see in toward the center of the purple..
It only blows around for the first week or 3.. It eventually settles. Maybe not exactly where I want it, but it does settle. Especially if the sand is really old/coated with bacteria
Fishy_Clown
New member
Something special
Something special
Hey buddy,
Wow - you have some of the nicest nems I have ever seen. Kudos to you for not only keeping them going for so long, but for making them thrive ! I am in the process of setting up a 3000 liter species tank - S.Gigantea and Hadonni. I am going to try get my giganteas to spawn as I dont believe propagation is the way forward with these amazing creatures.
You sound like you have one heck of a lot of knowledge on the subject so think you and I are gonna become best friends over the next few months and years :thumbsup:
Well done Rod and thanks for sharing with us mate. Looking forward to more nem posts and soem future conversations
Cheers
Keith
Something special
Hey buddy,
Wow - you have some of the nicest nems I have ever seen. Kudos to you for not only keeping them going for so long, but for making them thrive ! I am in the process of setting up a 3000 liter species tank - S.Gigantea and Hadonni. I am going to try get my giganteas to spawn as I dont believe propagation is the way forward with these amazing creatures.
You sound like you have one heck of a lot of knowledge on the subject so think you and I are gonna become best friends over the next few months and years :thumbsup:
Well done Rod and thanks for sharing with us mate. Looking forward to more nem posts and soem future conversations
Cheers
Keith
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