Our Tbs

[patsan]

Well that would be normal Dennis....to only get one email...until you open and view the post. But I never got any email that there were new posts since I last viewed.

Tom, much better with the pictures. I see all these new TBS pictures and they don't look like the TBS we got before all the red tide hit. The new TBS has lots of algae growth all over it. It almost looks like keys rock.
That cup coral is awesome....I never saw one shaped like that before out of all the TBS pictures I've seen.

Peggy, love the clown goby. I want a green clown goby. I actually did get one, but never saw it once Bob put it in the tank months ago.

 

[bobt2]

pat, rid of the gorillas, i doubt it! i thought so too. 4 months later i find one in my orignal 33 over a year old now.

 

[patsan]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7236028#post7236028 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bobt2
pat, rid of the gorillas, i doubt it! i thought so too. 4 months later i find one in my orignal 33 over a year old now.

I sure hope I'm right and you're wrong on that one Bob.

 

[drk70]

I still have a few of them and the last one I saw and couldn't get was full of eggs.

 

[Grand Wazoo]

Hi all--I am new here and new to the hobby.

I am a TBS guy who hase been up and running for about 2 months with TBS rock and critters. I have no fish yet but have added a few frags. I have a question:

I have two toadstool leather frags that I've had for about a month and were doing really well with their polyps fully extended and blowing softly in the flow. I did a 25% water change Saturday and ever since they have closed up and have no exposed polyps.

Is this normal or are they on their way out?

TIA

Wazoo

PS--I know you guys like pictures so I'll put some up tonight.

 

[patsan]

Not sure about toadstools, but my finger leather sheds occasionally and won't have any polyps for a few days, and it always comes back to normal. It doesn't do it on any specific schedule.....just does it once in a while......

 

[BrianPlankis]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7236895#post7236895 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Grand Wazoo

I have two toadstool leather frags that I've had for about a month and were doing really well with their polyps fully extended and blowing softly in the flow. I did a 25% water change Saturday and ever since they have closed up and have no exposed polyps.

Is this normal or are they on their way out?

This is fairly normal behavior for toadstools, especially if the water change water parameters were significantly different from your tank water (in terms of pH, Alk, Ca, salinity, etc). I try to get my WC water to the same temp and salinity and similar pH and when I do that my corals actually look BETTER after the water change.

Brian

 

[skippy2]

Your toadstool sounds normal to me. The first time mine closed up it freaked me right out. It was a matter of a few days before they opened up again.

 

[Grand Wazoo]

As promised--beginners tank

As promised--beginners tank

using TBS rock-sand-critters as a basis.

That toadstool I asked about

And the tank today...

 

[patsan]

Oh, I love the color of your tube corals!! Mine were all brown.

What lighting do you have?

I like the way the tank looks now. Looks like lots of those fuzzers are gone now.

 

[Safir]

wazoo - are any of your tube corals turning white? mine were almot all that color to begin with, and about 30% are white now...

also, do you know what those orange polyps are? i've got some on the back-ish of one of my rocks and i've bene trying to figure it out.. at first i thought they ere a sponge, but then i saw them opened up one day.

 

[joaquin1119]

I really enjoy looking at those pictures guys..Dennis and Pat...nice tanks..

 

[Grand Wazoo]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7239388#post7239388 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by patsan
Oh, I love the color of your tube corals!! Mine were all brown.

What lighting do you have?

I like the way the tank looks now. Looks like lots of those fuzzers are gone now.

Hi Pat, thanks--the lighting is the Current Nova Extreme--T5 HO 2X24w 10,000k Daylight and 2X24w Actinic--comes with white lunar moon light too. It's over a 20g tank.

What are *fuzzers*?

Wazoo (from Bethpage)

 

[Grand Wazoo]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7239837#post7239837 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Safir
wazoo - are any of your tube corals turning white? mine were almot all that color to begin with, and about 30% are white now...

also, do you know what those orange polyps are? i've got some on the back-ish of one of my rocks and i've bene trying to figure it out.. at first i thought they ere a sponge, but then i saw them opened up one day.

Yes--parts of my tube corals are turning white. It seemed to stop though. Looks like they were bleached. The orange polyps are the tube coral fully opened. They are an orange/brown and when they are fully open the tips are GREEN!

 

[Safir]

the polyps i have look exatly like that, bright orange, but have no tube on tehm - we have tons of dark red tube corals that open up their polyps probably 1/4" long though, like the pic i posted.

 

[Grand Wazoo]

Where is your picture?

 

[Grand Wazoo]

Anyone know what these things are????

They look like baby stars.

I've never seen them in my tank before. Where did they come from?

Could they be the reason my toadstool won't open>

Darn blue legged crab just has to get in every picture.

Sorry for the poor quality--lousy camera.

 

[Safir]

some of my red tube corals open wide

yes, those are little stars - i have htem ALL OVER in my rocks - at first we only saw a few legs sticking otu of the rocks here and there, but now ther eare probably 10-20 of them and some are getting to be a few inches across.

I can't get a good pic of a blue leg if i try, and you try not to and you get some - that figures.

 

[patsan]

Wazoo...those are baby stars. You'll have tons of them in the tank. Many of mine never seem to come out of the cracks and crevices of the rocks fully....I usually only see little tips of their arms.

Fuzzers are all the macro algae all over the rock. I don't know the technical name of what it all is....it looks like fuzzy stuff, so I just call them fuzzers. It seems like all the "new" TBS rock has that. Most of us that have the old TBS didn't have all that stuff on our rock when we got it.
I'll have to find some old pictures of when I first got mine. It looks so different from what all the new rock is like.
I know it was posted in our original thread titled, "Name that thing (or stuff) on my TBS" I can't even remember what the name of the thread was.

 

[patsan]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7239964#post7239964 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by joaquin1119
I really enjoy looking at those pictures guys..Dennis and Pat...nice tanks..

Thank you!