Greetings

[guba807]

I've been a lurker for a while, occasionally posting in the other parts of the board but never wandering over to the club section.

About me, I upgraded a 20 gal long to a 75 gal about 2 months ago. Things are going well but I haven't set up the refugium and skimmer yet so my nutrients aren't being controlled. I have 2 mushrooms, brown and some green zoas, a palythoa colony, 2 large star polyp rocks, and a branching frogspawn. I also have a 9" snowflake eel, watchman goby (missing at the moment ), emerald crab, peppermint shrimp, and a pistol shrimp. I'm sure the shrimp will end up gone due to the snowflake, but I'm hoping to keep my pistol (red striped w/ blue legs). Plus I will probably get rid of the peppermints soon.

I have 2 problems right now. What fans are you using to cool your tanks. I want to avoid using the 4" PC fans because of the need for a fairly large amperage AC-DC converter.

Second, aiptasia. I caved in finally and started doing boiling water dips of my none coral occupied rocks. However, now I have aiptasia surrounding my zoas and palythoas and a withering patch of Xenia (Doing better in this last week with a new position). Does anyone know where I could locally pickup some Berghia Nudibranch? I was hoping to get 3 and let them control the aiptasia rather than eradicate it.

Finally, Is there an actual club that meets? I checked the website for it, but it's out of date and only says to go to the Florida Aquarium. That's kind of a large place to just start wandering about looking for a meeting.

 

[dmbedard]

Welcome to Tampa bay area. Yes there are meetings, I beleive, but I am just to the north, in the ANCHOR club and we were having regular meetings, but just kind of slowed to nothing over the holidays. I believe we are trying to get one together for FEb. if you want to drive north a bit.

Meanwhile, I have had nothing but good karma with the TB club. Someone will chime in with local meeting info. If I can help with anything in the meantime, just let me know.

No experience with the nudibrachs, but I have had some success with Joe's Juice on the Aiptasia.

Again, welcome,

diane

 

[boydx6]

Welcome aboard

Welcome aboard

guba807,
Welcome, unless you keep the eel WELL fed, you will probably lose anything he can get in his mouth. I have had success sneaking up on the aptasia with the (don't know the technical word for them) extended grabbers that I have. It is basically a plastic set of pliars that allow you to grab something in the tank without putting your whole arm in. I didn't have a lot but I got rid of 2 out of 3 that I had in my 20 gal. The other one was too quick for me but I haven't tried since. That was a couple weeks ago and I haven't seen any more or noticed any problems from doing this. Someone else will more than likely chime in with better ideas than mine.
Get a clamp on fan from WalMart and attach it to your refugium when you get it set up and point it at the surface of the water. Some on here claim a 1-3 deg lowering temp from that alone.

They do have club meetings usually once a month. They will post the times and location on here when the next one is scheduled. I haven't had a chance to go to one yet but plan to soon.

Stephen

 

[mflamb]

Welcome to the bay area. Meetings are usually the 2nd Saturday of each month. Keep an eye on this forum and you'll see the info. I'm a fan of Joe's Juice for Aptasia. I am a believer in skimmers for nutrient control, and if you're going to keep that eel healthy, you will have nutrients.