New Tank!

Okay... so I've got a new question.

I just saw something I havn't seen in my tank before. Stopped to take a look at everything and all of the sudden, out of one of the small rocks I've got in the sand at the bottom, this spiny arm (probably about 4 inches long) came out of a piece of rock onto the sand. It was bristly all over, white with an orangey-brown tip. It was gone before I could get a photo, but any ideas on what it is? It looked like the arm of a starfish. Is it a type of bristleworm or some kind of star? I picked the piece of rock up to see if I could get a better look, but it disappeared inside the rock. It was kinda creepy looking hehe
 
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Okay, so I was reading in the other post about a 90gallon reef about dumping the bioballs and turning that part of the sump into the refugium?? Sorry if this sounds stupid, but if I did that wouldn't any small critters get hurt in the protein skimmer and how would they get through my pump back up into the tank without being caught by the filter on it or again by being injured?
 
I've been reading kind of a two sided thing where people will get them out of their tank at all cost and others will keep them. What should I do?
 
Faygo? Thats funny! I'm from Detroit and now live in Georgia and I keep a stock of Rock-n-Rye and Black Cherry whenever I go back! Cant find Faygo anywhere in the south! Good luck on the 90! I've got one and its a great size tank!
 
Thanks Hulley!

I'm not from Detroit.. actually Canadian, but stuck in Indiana. Dollar store is the only place to find Faygo in the big bottles anymore.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8609527#post8609527 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Dan9
Ms. K could you post a picture of your refugium and tank setup. I want to get a fuge going and like the way yours sounds. I'm trying to decide how I want to set mine up. Thanks
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I'll try to do that as soon as possible, but it will take a couple of days.
 
Yep, sounds like bristleworms. Some people will try to get rid of them ( I think because they do not look all that appealing ) but they are very good for your tank.. they will scour your rock for pieces of food your other livestock will not eat or find.

Did it look like this?

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It looked like the bottom end of that but the body was more pinkish white than black. I keep trying to catch it out again so I can get a photo. It's fairly long but very skinny bodied, like that one. I don't mind it being in my tank as long as its not going to harm anything. Seeing it just creeped me out a bit because I wasn't sure what it was!
 
Update!!!

Update!!!

Update!!! The tank is about 3-3 1/2 months old now and is doing very well. I've slowly been soaking up more and more information.

So far I've added a GSMC, a CBS, and a Burgundy "linckia" (even though I've read the ones with 6 legs aren't true Linckia). All three have been doing extremely well and the CBS just molted for the first time. The Clown just came out of QT a few days ago, and doesn't seem too worried about the couple damsels in there.

I also bought my first coral about 3 weeks ago. It's a Tonga mushroom rock. The photo is from the person that sold it to me so it's fairly old. They are all growing and I went from 16 polyps to start to 22 polyps, so they are doing well :) (My camera is broken and will not focus if I zoom in so I can't really take a current photo of the shrooms until I send it in to get it fixed)

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I learned very quickly with my first water change that mixing salt into 5 gallon jugs of RO/DI water just wasn't going to work.. AT ALL. My boyfriend was laughing at me because I was rolling the jugs up and down the hall trying to get the salt to dissolve into the water.. that didn't last long. So... to much avail we are now in the beginning stages of making an automated top off/refill system in the basement (mind the cobwebs, it's a 100yr old house). We managed to find 35g storage tanks for $33 a piece from a naval store here in town. They're a bit dirty from being outside but I assure you are new and completely clean on the inside :) In the next couple days here we should have most of the basement plumbing done for it. We'll also have it hooked up so that we can have it pump water into my freshwater tanks as well.

The float valves, switches, pump etc.. are in the mail so they should be here in the next day or two. More photos soon!

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These are of the last things we got done today. Got the waterline run to the RO and the RO system hooked up to the freshwater barrel :) Don't worry about the copper lines, any water that runs through them that'll end up in the aquariums goes through the RO first

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Only thing left now is to do the plumbing to the tanks and hookup the top off switches and pump!
 
Well my camera decided to co-operate slightly. If they are blurry at all sorry.

I've gotten quite a bit more coralline in the last month or so :)
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Couldn't get a good one of my clown though :( Stupid broken camera!!!
 
Oh I know, thats one of my biggest worries. As it sits, I'm using about 10g/week for topoffs then another 15gal/week for a waterchange so it shouldn't be that bad. Just to be careful though we're going to have powerheads running in them for some water circulation and then a heater running in the saltwater tank for when we decide to mix some up.

Our basement is about 15ft underground and is about 3ft of concrete all around so it stays really cool down there all year round. Partially why I'm not too worried about a large bacteria outbreak.
 
I let salwater and RO-DI water sit for weeks without troubles. I wouldn't worry about bacteria at all. The powerhead isn't needed after the first few hours of stirring saltwater.
 
Cool :) I think the RO/DI filters strip so much out of the water that it makes bacteria tough to grow, although not completely impossible.
 
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