OK! Enough chat...Starting a 1000g+ Reef

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mrcrab Doesn't matter to me. After reading those articles and a couple of threads I am going to pluck those suckers off and let them attach to some rubble...BIG experiment!
 
Well after reading all that stuff I decided to do surgery. I ended up cutting the rock just under each ric that I thought might make it. The rock broke apart very easily. I definitely found boring sponges as well as some worms inside a couple of the ricordia. talk abou the rock from hell! There were so many cool things on that rock it was really depressing to screw it up. I had it out of the water for about an hour so I am sure I killed all the sponges. A couple of them blew up with trapped air. I am totally bummed that I lost that yellow sponge too.

Found an SPS nub smaller than a pencil eraser and it had a full compliment of sweeper tentacles 5 times its own size in an attempt to fight off the wicked attack it was under. SO I put what I hope will be survivors in a bowl and I also put the rock back into the QT to see what happens with it. It is possible that something more will pop up that i can save. There are a bunch of tiny feathers on it too.

Interesting to note that as soon as I put the surviving polyps in the bowl they colored up to what they looked like when I bought the rock. Some very pretty brights greens, blues, & oranges, so maybe it is not a total loss.

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Thanks HOP! :D

So I did the night watch and found something swimming around in the QT...

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Sorry about the photo quality.This seems to match one from melev's ID page although he used a general name to ID it. It swims quite fast by waving flagella (I believe) that are down both sides. This looks like a cross between a worm and a larvae and when first observed was very flat. In the bowl it has taken a more tube-like shape. It can really move but I doubt it can aim itself very well if at all. It apeared to be trying to get into the ricordia frag cup but couldn't make it over the lip.
 
I am guessing some kind of polychaete worm, but I really can't tell. The only pictures I have found of these say "unidentified". :lol: It could be even a flatworm in that the only reason I spotted it was that it was very flat and more visible.
 
Thanks Amber, I think! :D

The ric rock came from Ocean Reef Aquatics. I doubt he had any idea what was up and I talked to him today to warn him that something bad might be in his tank as a result of having this rock in it. He said he bought it on the wholesale market which I find strange since it had so many different rics and sponges on it.

I continue to see these long thin worms that are white with dark rings. They kind of look like baby brittle legs but I have yet to see them come all theway out of the rock. I pick at it with a tweezers occassionally but my guess is that the rock with ultimately turn to dust.
 
Found a DOB tonight. A Blue Sided Fairy Wrasse. And believe it or not I am about 95% sure it choked to death. After I retrieved him I pulled an algae & substrate sandwich from its throat. Such a shame. It was a really Beautiful fish. Not so smart though! :(
 
The same thing happened to my red velvet fairy wrasses, found it dead in the back of my friends tank (he was holding onto him for me) with a mouth full of sand, he was thuroughly wedged in too.
 
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