glparr's NPS project

[glparr]

Roman,
In this case, yes; remote and diffused. But not diffused enough. A little hot in the upper portion. Will try again when I can take more time.
Gary

 

[klepto]

...Uhuru, just got it Sat. at Diver's Den.
Gary

I bet you are pretty stoaked about the new NPS section on DD! :thumbsup: I wish I had a Non-photo tank! Someday...

 

[coltrref]

Mike, was going to photograph my crinoid tonight, but it's doing a little traveling. However, my first Dendronephthya was standing proud, so here's a shot of it.
Gary

Amazing :thumbsup:

 

[glparr]

This is my crinoid. It's still alive after a week. Yay! In the past two days its movements when food is in the water have been much stronger and quicker. I was excited about this clear improvement then, to mock me, most of today it has sat all curled up and hasn't responded to food squirted at it. Is it possible to overfeed them?

It's also frustrated me because it has oriented itself perpendicular to the glass and, not surprisingly, facing the main current. This makes it very difficult to get any decent photos, so here's the best I could get so far.

Gary

 

[Luca_]

Ciao, compliments, also for the pictures! :thumbsup:

 

[Terryz_]

Your tank is a inspiration for me.. Love Dendro and Sclero and have a few with me.. Seems to be doing fine..

 

[Aquabacs]

Gary, the majority of them are gluttonous feeders. They will eat until they can't eat any more, close up, then they will be back at it again. There are times the fill their guts so far they will be on the brink of exploding...that is after some serious feeding of course. The center of the crinoid will look like a small Hersey kiss when the gut is completely full. If the center of the crinoid pops, you will see a white plate structure (the aboral cup, any biologists step in if described the area incorrectly or identified it incorrectly). What is interesting the crinoid will live for a period of time if the gut pops but I have not read of this area regenerating. I actually have one crinoid in my possession now that this happened to and trying to observe if some how it will regenerate or not. It has been 39 days since this happened. When this has happened in the past, I would euthanize the crinoid. Normally a stressed/starved crinoid with drop arms and completely falls apart and dies, in this case when the gut pops, arms and cirri stay in tacked, the tips of the arms drop, crinoid functions normally like nothing happened. Now with the food having no where to go, it is either going to starve itself, find some alternate way to intake food, or use energy from other parts of the crinoid to regenerate itself if it can not intake food.


Mike

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[glparr]

Thanks, Mike. Very helpful. It was open again this morning and got coated in food. I think it's fine. I'm very pleased that, so far, it has only dropped one arm and that was the day after I brought it home. I chalk that one up to shipping. I was very nervous about buying one because I had visions of waking up the next morning to a pile of crinoid rubble. It was SaraB peer pressure that pushed me over the edge and, so far, I'm glad I made the purchase. If this one continues to show positive behavior, I just might be in the market for a second. Here's a lame, and poorly executed, attempt at an "art" shot that shows structural detail in the arms.
Gary

 

[SaraB]

I was very nervous about buying one because I had visions of waking up the next morning to a pile of crinoid rubble. It was SaraB peer pressure that pushed me over the edge and, so far, I'm glad I made the purchase.

Glad to add the peer pressure Gary! Now I just need to clean all my chalices out of your tank so you can turn this tank into a full NPS tank! I'm now sort of worried about my chalices starving once they come back home to my system after they've gorged on food in your tank!

 

[glparr]

Yes, your chalices will be asking some serious questions about the food supply when they go back home. They are digging the Buffet for Gluttons.
Gary

 

[glparr]

One of my Archohelia colonies. Hoping it'll show more color as it adapts to the tank and food.

Gary

 

[Trichome]

Great picture as usual. I hope to own a colony of Archohelia for myself some day. It will be neat to see a before and after picture in about 6 months.

 

[glparr]

I'm next on the bio-pellet bandwagon. Ordered my reactor, pellets, and nitrate and phosphate test kits from Premium today. If holiday shipping doesn't hold things up, I should have pellets soaking Thursday night. Yay!
Gary

 

[slapshot]

Gary, you won't be sorry. Especially since you are keeping feathers. I lost mine during the nitrate spike. I think they are very sensitive to Nitrate.

 

[glparr]

Thanks, Don. I'm excited to get things set up.
Gary

 

[SaraB]

You must have forgotten about the Lamotte nitrate test kit here? You can grab it tonight.

 

[glparr]

I did forget. I'll be happy to borrow it.
Gary

 

[glparr]

I am officially aboard the bio-pellet bandwagon. I set up a Vertex UF-15 reactor and started with about 80 ml of Vertex Pro pellets. This is for a 40-breeder w/sump. I'm estimating 45 actual gallons of water. My phosphates were 0.2-0.3, but nitrates at 20+. The pellets are tumbling now. I'm hoping to get the same exciting results as Don got.
Gary

 

[flying_dutchman]

Nice! be sure to keep us updated.
Only 80ml? Do you mean 800ml?

 

[glparr]

No, 80 ml. According to the package, I'm going to top out at about 350 ml. Starting small and slow.
Gary