New Corals

[wea747]

Few pics of the new corals I picked up tonight

Maxima Clam and Purple Tort

Blastos

What do corals like this usually cost?

 

[alan214]

Those are nice! I'm guessing about $100 for the tort?

 

[AquaReeferMan]

Looking good. Do your sexy shrimp bother your zoanthids. I recently have to remove 2 of them for that reason. None of my zoanthids would stay open and for a week or so I would watch over them and noticed the sexy shrimp digging into them all the time. They started this after 4-5 months of being in my tank. I removed them and all my zoanthids opened back up. I placed them into a different tank and the same thing happened in there. The zoas would stay closed. So just watch over them.

 

[kingfisher62]

I noticed that with my coral banded shrimp. He crawls over the zoos poking and foraging between the polyps but never seems to hurt them. They open up shortly after he passes!

 

[AquaReeferMan]

Yeah thats what I thought they were doing at first. In time they wouldnt open and thats when I started really looking over the shrimp. They would get on the polyp and dig in the center of it. Now they are open and when my cleaner shrimp do what your CBS does they open right back up.

 

[kingfisher62]

Wow AquaReeferMan, looks like you have a bad case of MTS
(Multi Tank Syndrome)

 

[supervdl]

do you have enough flow and light for your tort and clam?

 

[AquaReeferMan]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9186838#post9186838 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kingfisher62
Wow AquaReeferMan, looks like you have a bad case of MTS
(Multi Tank Syndrome)

OMG I know. My girlfriend bought me a 5g tank 3 years ago. I never wouldve thought it would go this far. Everything minus the mantis tank and getting combined into a 125g. I cant wait.

 

[AquaReeferMan]

Wait is that clam really in a 3g tank? They can reach sizes of 12 inches.

 

[wea747]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9187119#post9187119 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by supervdl
do you have enough flow and light for your tort and clam?

Tort prob not for it to do any good, but just keeping it for a buddy till he works some problems out with his tank. The clam should be ok, it's high up and in pretty good flow

 

[wea747]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9187318#post9187318 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by AquaReeferMan
Wait is that clam really in a 3g tank? They can reach sizes of 12 inches.

Yeah it's actually 3.8 gallons, and it's not like they can get to 12" over night so I think It'll be ok

 

[AquaReeferMan]

I wasent saying that it did just wondered if that was its final spot and if you new it got that big.

 

[wea747]

Prob be the spot for a while, I think they grow fairly slow

 

[porky]

If that clam grows out to 12" you are a Master Reefer! :thumbsup: