Building my Dream: It's a Miracles!
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jt48
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Are u serious? My brittle is over a foot long, the harlequin would kill it?
dave.m
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And eat it. The green brittle stars are notorious piscivores. They stand up tall on their arms and let a fish try to pass under them and there goes another fish. Of course, once they've finished off the brittle star the harlequins will need a constant supply of sea stars to maintain their restrictive diet. Usually people will set them up in a species tank and feed them chocolate chip stars.
BTW I had never heard of the Landseer breed. It is a really handsome animal.
Dave.M
BTW I had never heard of the Landseer breed. It is a really handsome animal.
Dave.M
jt48
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I DONT GET IT!
What is with my acans? For many months, all that existed was some floresence under the blue leds. No flesh, no skin. Within one week two different frags look completely healthy, nice and fat and eating.
Other news- found my lubbocks in the sump, bet that was a wild ride going through 15 feet of pipe and landing onto of my passive filter pad. Hes back in dt and doing fine. My male red head solon has always been very shy. Has been in hiding since i put him in dt and came out today, didnt look good and observed my terminal phase male multicolor red velvet wrasse harrass him unmercifully. I was able to net the male red head and put him in my 40 breeder fuge.
What is with my acans? For many months, all that existed was some floresence under the blue leds. No flesh, no skin. Within one week two different frags look completely healthy, nice and fat and eating.
Other news- found my lubbocks in the sump, bet that was a wild ride going through 15 feet of pipe and landing onto of my passive filter pad. Hes back in dt and doing fine. My male red head solon has always been very shy. Has been in hiding since i put him in dt and came out today, didnt look good and observed my terminal phase male multicolor red velvet wrasse harrass him unmercifully. I was able to net the male red head and put him in my 40 breeder fuge.
muttley000
MTS Sufferer!
Remind me, what are you lighting that with, and how fast is the flow through it?
jt48
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Light is a 6 foot 8x39 T5 with 4 white and 4 pink bulbs for fresh water plants. The bulbs are very very old. Flow is very very low.
jt48
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It is loaded with copepods, amphipods, mysid shrimp, snails, bristleworms, and tons of other stuff. Miniture seahorses would probably love it but anything bigger would not have room to swim. Not interested in keeping seahorses though as u woulds be able to see them.
jt48
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Finally caught this guy as he emerged from the rocks. Unconfirmed but believe he has been eating fish. 
Also sad to report my male red head solon wrasse died. He was always extremely shy and after being quarantined for one month and eating well was placed in DT. My much larger male multicolor red velvet wrasse harrassed him immediately and the red head went into hiding, and harassed anytime he emerged. Several days ago i was able to catch the red head as he was so weak. Placed in isolation but died.
Also sad to report my male red head solon wrasse died. He was always extremely shy and after being quarantined for one month and eating well was placed in DT. My much larger male multicolor red velvet wrasse harrassed him immediately and the red head went into hiding, and harassed anytime he emerged. Several days ago i was able to catch the red head as he was so weak. Placed in isolation but died.
jt48
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Initially disappointed in the loss of head pressure and the effects of flow going to two 1" returns but then realized it is perfectly fine. Tank is very quiet and if anything i have had problems with too much flow within the tank with the pump and 3 mp40's. The next model up, the 6--- something only gives a fraction more flow but uses more than 2x energy. Have been running since 7/7/12 with no problems.
Good luck with ur tank, same dimensions as mine but urs is 1" taller. Damn you!
SPotter
Active member
great thanks for the feed back! I will be reducing the outlet to 1" but the pumps will be right under the tank so the rise will only be about 30".
Newbie Aquarist
Reefing is my middle name
Finally caught this guy as he emerged from the rocks. Unconfirmed but believe he has been eating fish.
Also sad to report my male red head solon wrasse died. He was always extremely shy and after being quarantined for one month and eating well was placed in DT. My much larger male multicolor red velvet wrasse harrassed him immediately and the red head went into hiding, and harassed anytime he emerged. Several days ago i was able to catch the red head as he was so weak. Placed in isolation but died.
Sorry to hear about the Solar. That is a very beautiful fish. As for that starfish, it is a fish eater. It ate 6 of my B&W clownfish in a matter of a week. I thing since its legs were out they thought it was an anemone of some sort. That was an expensive meal for the week.
jt48
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Placed my cb in q with Coppersafe tonight due to combination of ich and an unlnown. Black, larger than ich and only located on fringes of fins. Please id if u can.
perished. This species can be so difficult. Would love to get one from another aquarist.
Metal Man 1221
FMMAS Executive Director
Bummer, I got one with my tank, but it didn't survive the move. I did a bunch of research on them and tried another after the tank stabilized, still was a no go. Very beautiful fish though.
This might be a bit late, but better late than never. I have never used culpera, but according to Sprung, and Delbeek, chaeto is more efficient in removing nutrients. Their argument was that, most of the cells that comprise chatomorpha are photosynthetic, giving it a higher potential to remove nutrients, vs culpera, which has a higher volume of non photosynthetic cells for structural support, reproduction etc.
This might be a bit late, but better late than never. I have never used culpera, but according to Sprung, and Delbeek, chaeto is more efficient in removing nutrients. Their argument was that, most of the cells that comprise chatomorpha are photosynthetic, giving it a higher potential to remove nutrients, vs culpera, which has a higher volume of non photosynthetic cells for structural support, reproduction etc.
