First of all I would like to say that I am new to the reef side of our saltwater hobby, I do have years invested in FOWLR tanks.
Second, a quick report of tank parameters. ph 8.2-8.3, amm,nitrate,nitrite,phosphate, all at 0ppm, cal 380, alk 9-10.
Tank has been set up and running for 14 months. 75gal, 330watts of VHO, coralife superskimmer220, eheim 4chamber canister filter, 2 maxijet 1200, 2 eheim powerball powerheads.
Third, lifestock. 1 Kenya tree 5 inches, 4"x4" piece of green starpolyp, 5 red/green mushrooms 1-2" each. 1 peppermint shrimp, 1 sand sifting star fish, 1 brown sebae anenome 6" across, 1 Scopus Tang medium size, 1 2" maroon clownfish, 1 blue with yellow tail damsel 1-2" long, 1 cleaner wrasse. I also have about 50lbs of manmade live rock (by me, and on a side note, it took me almost a year to cure this out good). I also have about 50-60 lbs of live rock from the LFS that came from their display tank which has been there for several years. And about 10 hermit crabs, 50 mixed glass snails, astrea and some black shelled snail which i dont know the name. Also about 12 sand sifting snails.
Ok, today I recieved my first Zoathid frag pack, acclimated and placed in the tank. Within the first few minutes in the tank, some polyps were already opening, less than two hours later, all the polyps were open on all fifteen frags. Needless to say I was very happy about the condition of the frags I recieved.
Later this evening (after the lights went out in tank) I walked into my office and had to turn on the light in the room to find my laptop powercord. I looked in the tank and my peppermint shrimp was on top of one of the frags picking it like a mad-man. I pulled up a seat, got close to the tank, and watched him for about 15 minutes. He appeared to be picking in between all of the closed polyps and for a few minutes while he was digging, he would jump back, as if whatever he was digging at bit him back. It really didn't look like he was picking the zoas, just between them....i am perplexed.
Anyway, i just want to make sure that he isn't gonna eat my zoas. Anybody ever seen this happen? Are pepperment shrimp reef safe? Any comments or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Anyway this is my first real post, but wanted to say that I have been getting valueable info from everyone here for a long time, love this site!
Thanks,
Nathan
Second, a quick report of tank parameters. ph 8.2-8.3, amm,nitrate,nitrite,phosphate, all at 0ppm, cal 380, alk 9-10.
Tank has been set up and running for 14 months. 75gal, 330watts of VHO, coralife superskimmer220, eheim 4chamber canister filter, 2 maxijet 1200, 2 eheim powerball powerheads.
Third, lifestock. 1 Kenya tree 5 inches, 4"x4" piece of green starpolyp, 5 red/green mushrooms 1-2" each. 1 peppermint shrimp, 1 sand sifting star fish, 1 brown sebae anenome 6" across, 1 Scopus Tang medium size, 1 2" maroon clownfish, 1 blue with yellow tail damsel 1-2" long, 1 cleaner wrasse. I also have about 50lbs of manmade live rock (by me, and on a side note, it took me almost a year to cure this out good). I also have about 50-60 lbs of live rock from the LFS that came from their display tank which has been there for several years. And about 10 hermit crabs, 50 mixed glass snails, astrea and some black shelled snail which i dont know the name. Also about 12 sand sifting snails.
Ok, today I recieved my first Zoathid frag pack, acclimated and placed in the tank. Within the first few minutes in the tank, some polyps were already opening, less than two hours later, all the polyps were open on all fifteen frags. Needless to say I was very happy about the condition of the frags I recieved.
Later this evening (after the lights went out in tank) I walked into my office and had to turn on the light in the room to find my laptop powercord. I looked in the tank and my peppermint shrimp was on top of one of the frags picking it like a mad-man. I pulled up a seat, got close to the tank, and watched him for about 15 minutes. He appeared to be picking in between all of the closed polyps and for a few minutes while he was digging, he would jump back, as if whatever he was digging at bit him back. It really didn't look like he was picking the zoas, just between them....i am perplexed.
Anyway, i just want to make sure that he isn't gonna eat my zoas. Anybody ever seen this happen? Are pepperment shrimp reef safe? Any comments or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Anyway this is my first real post, but wanted to say that I have been getting valueable info from everyone here for a long time, love this site!
Thanks,
Nathan
