jamesnmandy
In Memoriam
please follow this link to a small collection of crappy pictures i took with my crappiest camera and uploaded to this crappy hosting site because i accidentally plugged my rechargeable batteries into the charger backwards and left them there until the batteries and the charger smoked....so i have no batteries for my good camera....
http://s34.photobucket.com/albums/d116/jamesnmandy/ID pics/
sorry, as you can see it has been a crappy evening, but i would appreciate an ID on these two items, one appears to simply be an oyster or clam...pretty easy stuff there, it came on the live rock and survived the entire process
the other is something that is bothersome, over the past few weeks i have noticed these and they seem to be propagating at a very fast pace. they appear to be snails or slugs...the hump on the forward portion of their back seems to have a hard looking glossy look to it, but their entire body is covered in tiny spines, several have a bright reddish-purple spot on them (thought it was corralline on one, but now i see more than one with spot in same place), they have features exactly like my other snails, perhaps they are breeding in my tank?
oh yeah, they also spurt some sort of white milky substance sometimes, seemingly at random, not when harassed, like one was making the span from one rock to another and he suddenly spurted.....
i have a 35 gallon hex, 150W HQI MH Sunpod for light, live sand, live rock (45lbs), skimmer, etc.....typical setup, no sump, no overflow, two blue damsels and about a dozen red legged hermits, about a dozen narcissus snails, and about 5 margerita snails, one peppermint shrimp, and one skunk cleaner shrimp
water params stay 0 or very low, regular H2O changes with RO/DI and Reef Crystals, alkalinity around 3.5 meq/L and calcium around 400-420
also noticed what appear to be a couple of starfish, extremely small, way too small to get a picture of, rarely uncover themselves, small 1/8" diameter dark round body with 5 or 6 white legs in each direction........didnt know these could survive a cycle and so forth
http://s34.photobucket.com/albums/d116/jamesnmandy/ID pics/
sorry, as you can see it has been a crappy evening, but i would appreciate an ID on these two items, one appears to simply be an oyster or clam...pretty easy stuff there, it came on the live rock and survived the entire process
the other is something that is bothersome, over the past few weeks i have noticed these and they seem to be propagating at a very fast pace. they appear to be snails or slugs...the hump on the forward portion of their back seems to have a hard looking glossy look to it, but their entire body is covered in tiny spines, several have a bright reddish-purple spot on them (thought it was corralline on one, but now i see more than one with spot in same place), they have features exactly like my other snails, perhaps they are breeding in my tank?
oh yeah, they also spurt some sort of white milky substance sometimes, seemingly at random, not when harassed, like one was making the span from one rock to another and he suddenly spurted.....
i have a 35 gallon hex, 150W HQI MH Sunpod for light, live sand, live rock (45lbs), skimmer, etc.....typical setup, no sump, no overflow, two blue damsels and about a dozen red legged hermits, about a dozen narcissus snails, and about 5 margerita snails, one peppermint shrimp, and one skunk cleaner shrimp
water params stay 0 or very low, regular H2O changes with RO/DI and Reef Crystals, alkalinity around 3.5 meq/L and calcium around 400-420
also noticed what appear to be a couple of starfish, extremely small, way too small to get a picture of, rarely uncover themselves, small 1/8" diameter dark round body with 5 or 6 white legs in each direction........didnt know these could survive a cycle and so forth
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