help anyone? Newbie looking for supplies.

[hellfish01]

haha funny you should ask..... i broke it

i added a valve on the drain pump as well.

im going to be going up to pnx today after work to get one like it. aside from that i had the plumbing up and running everything was ready to go but when i was fine tuning the drain and fill valves to get it a bit quite (as my beautiful wife insisted). Murphy decided to pay me a visit. I think it was a combination of over tightened bulkheads, frustration, eagerness to get it going, and my shear stupidity.
the return pipe popped off and in my panic i gave it a slight tap, nothing i hadnt done before but it was enough to start a small crack that with the water pressure turned into a giant one.....

hopefully ill have it up and running by wends.... fingers crossed

 

[hellfish01]

Here's an example of some shelves on my 30, before and after.

thats very impressive. at the moment due to the situation i may not focus as much attention to setup as i was planning to. but i will rearrange the rock latter once i can see were all my $$$ went. but thank you, thats very inspiring.

 

[hellfish01]

Also quick question, i got some live rock from Miguel and found 2 of these little guys and i dont know what they are. i havent bugged him about it yet, just saw them a day or two ago. These pictures are of the same one open and closed about a quarter inch big. Theres another one about a half inch big as well but its in an area were the camera doesnt get it. that one has a light blue hue to it but that can also be a reflection of the lights...

oh btw i have a 30g full of live sand and live rock.
Special thanks to David and Miguel.

 

[Raptor72]

Those are Strawberry Anemones, filter feeders.

 

[hellfish01]

very cool! do they get big, or spread?

Never mind i think i found some Information.

 

[savageAJC]

Yea I would kill those things as soon as you can. I would scrape them off completely (screwdriver chip the rock under them off)

 

[hellfish01]

so there not good to have? why is that?

 

[phenom5]

IDK, looks like a little ball anemone. Generally pretty harmless.

 

[Raptor72]

I've never seen mine sting anything, especially since they grow in the shade where nothing else does.

 

[hellfish01]

I was thinking of just isolating them. i found this article assuming this is what everyone is talking about and assuming its correctly id-ed. I have no idea about any of this so i have no say....for now.
im going to just isolate it for now and once it gets bigger and we have a def id ill see what needs to be done. remove, it keep it, separate it, or what have you. But if it is the cold water anemone and its alive and growing along with its friend with a slight blue tint to the transparent tentacles then it sounds like my water cycle is going well (?) i wonder if once its set up the temp may rise and kill them off. either way im not going to worry to much about them just yet.

 

[phenom5]

Personally, I don't think that's a strawberry nem. I think it's a pseudocorynactis or ball anemone.

 

[hellfish01]

you may be on to something phenom5 i found this picture that someone saying its a ball anemone

and thats what the bigger one looks like, keep in mind bigger is still smaller than a dime... thank you all for the feedback.

side note: they open nicely on mid to low light. When my bright lights in the mid of the day turn on they tend to close a bit, i fed them with a turkey pastier but they didnt like how much current it made and when i did it slow the tentacles closed a bit slowly and opened back up like it was eating.

 

[hellfish01]

btw i got my second tank yesterday.

ill try not to break this one.....

 

[savageAJC]

They spread pretty rapidly in one of my older tanks, Ive never liked them since. they do look cool under blue less though

I think I saw a corner on CL that was drilled, not sure how many holes/location. But i think it had tile glues to the back or something. Although I could have been dreaming I was up browsing late last night lol

 

[azdiver]

So hows the tank going along?

 

[AZWREEFER]

It could also be a majano anemone.

 

[hellfish01]

No dream its a 55g I think. As for the tank. Thanx to Miguel's help with drilling. This is corner tank 2.0

Im waiting for the overflow box silicon to dry and it will be freshwater tested tomorrow for leaks and if it passes ill start the rockscape. Cross your fingers for me.

 

[CReyes350]

Someone has been busy! Looks good, Bro!

Use R.O. water so when it passes the test you just need to add salt! Ha!

 

[hellfish01]

Im finally up and running!

 

[hellfish01]

im still having issues with the bubble catch waterfall being to loud. anyone know what to do to cut down on that sound? i think i got everything else to a reasonable volume but thats still annoying.