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

[jnarowe]

Well there was an Ag Hold on the corals at the airport last night so I didn't get to pick them up until this morning.

I did a 30 min. Flatworm Exit dip and a 7 min. Lugol's & Reef Dip.

Here are pics of some in the Flatworm dip:

Here's a pic of some in the Lugol's and Reef Dip:

Here's a pic of some of the crabs. I found at least one crab in each acropora colony and some had two:

Here's a pic of an invert hitch-hiker:

I also found a couple of other hitch-hikers. One is what appears to be a serpent star and the other is some sort of fish. And you know you have it bad when you see a tiny finned creature go down your drain, and you remove the sink drain loop to rescue the fish. Unfortunately it was exposed to varying water temps., salinity, and I could not acclimate it. I am assuming it will not make it. For now it is in the QT with the corals. Can't get a pic of either of them. The fish has sort of a mud skipper form to it. I hope it makes it!!

 

[Sparkss]

from the picture most all of those crabs look like the "good ones", but it is hard to tell from that picture... nice score of corals I'm jealous

 

[Enderrea]

poor fishy........ you could feed it to the Purple monstrosity

 

[jnarowe]

Here they are in QT:

 

[jnarowe]

I am really interested in getting an ID on the fish. I have never seen anything like it before. And the purple monstrosity is too busy tasting corals to bother with mere fish! :lol:

 

[Hop]

WOW! Jackpot. That is a nice score! And who knew you had such a nice QT set up for your corals! I'm envious!

 

[jnarowe]

I forgot to mention that these came in from my LFS at $25 per coral.

 

[Enderrea]

You suck comes to mind! Heehee Congrats! they look great!

 

[KEEPERZ]

no problem on the missed post, I think my timing was bad, I hope your tank is back to making you happy again,nice corals brudda.Here's the link to the show times and a description- http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/shows_hlwid/episode/0,2756,HGTV_24156_47116,00.html

 

[jnarowe]

Thanks guys.

Hop: What I like about this QT is that is is slowly filling with system water drawn off my fuge. Every so often I pull out a couple Qts of water and it refills with a float valve. So the corals can become acclimated to the tank conditions more easily. This helps because they will have to adjust to some seriously different lighting.

James: Yes I do!

KEEPERZ: Thanks for the link. I am really interested in seeing that.

 

[Bax]

Wow, great idea on slowly introducing fuge water!

Nice corals too!

 

[jnarowe]

Thanks Bax. I set up the QT to be topped off with either RO/DI for evaporation, or system water for acclimation. Makes the whole deal a lot easier mentally for me.

 

[melev]

Awesome pieces for an awesome price! :thumbsup:

 

[jnarowe]

That's how I roll Marc. Sherman took his and we will frag them so that each one of us gets a piece of every coral. The fish ended up in a coral he took so it is now in his 75g. It was visible in my QT for a while but quickly wedged itself into an acropora colony. It must be some kind of symbiotic situation.

Can't find what I now think is a brittle star. It probably took refuge in the rock.

 

[Hop]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9195738#post9195738 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jnarowe
It was visible in my QT for a while but quickly wedged itself into an acropora colony. It must be some kind of symbiotic situation.

My luck would be that the symbiotic relationship is the fish thinks the coral is yummy

 

[Sparkss]

LOL.. I hear ya Hop

 

[jnarowe]

It's much too cut efor that! :lol:

 

[sherm71tank]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9195894#post9195894 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Hop
My luck would be that the symbiotic relationship is the fish thinks the coral is yummy

Not that it didn't cross my mind but you know that is bad karma for you right? :eek2:

 

[WAGERJA]

did it look anything like this?

http://www.reefermadness.us/RMD_Paragobius_lacunicolus.htm

they are tiny (1/4" to 1" max) and they host in Pocillopora Sp. corals...

just a guess.

-J

 

[Sparkss]

that pict looks like a panda goby..

edit : according to the link that is what it is. I was told by an LFS owner that they are rather delicate critters, with a higher than normal mortality rate, even when everything is in the "green", much less as a hitchiker, left overnight at a shipping facility, so I would be surprised if it is what you have Johnathan, but anything is possible