swfloridareefer
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I just moved into my new house, and decided it was time to take the 90G tank out of storage after 4 years. I drove up to Tampa on Tuesday morning and met Richard and picked up part 1 of my package.
Like all of you say, this rock does not look anything like what you see in a LFS. It is covered with various plant life. I am several years removed from this hobby, so am not good at all when it comes to identifying things. I will post a couple of pics and if anyone sees something they know the name of I hope you will share.
I do know I have at least 1 tiger goby that hitched a ride in. There may be more than one, although I have never seen more than one at any time, I see him at different times on and around every rock, that is why I think there may be more than 1.
The constant popping noises have been narrowed down to 1 or 2 rocks, but I have yet to see it. Hopefully a pistol and not a mantis, but we shall see eventually.
When emptying the bags, I found several VERY small crabs. One was on my finger and I did not even know it. he was orange and less than half the size of my pinky nail. Into the tank they went, but I have not seen them again yet. I did have a few snails and welks that came in on the rock and along with the goby they are the only active things I have actually seen so far.
A couple of the rocks have some barnacles, but I can't tell yet whether theyt are alive or not. I do have one area of what I think is some kind of encrusting yellow coral that has brughtened up in the last day or two.
I did not try to aquascape yet, just wanted to get everything in the tank and get it cycled. I had an ammonia spike on day 2 to just over 1 ppm. Made a 50% water change, and it has dropped off to zero since Friday.
Well, I am a newbie at posting pics but here goes nothing.
Like all of you say, this rock does not look anything like what you see in a LFS. It is covered with various plant life. I am several years removed from this hobby, so am not good at all when it comes to identifying things. I will post a couple of pics and if anyone sees something they know the name of I hope you will share.
I do know I have at least 1 tiger goby that hitched a ride in. There may be more than one, although I have never seen more than one at any time, I see him at different times on and around every rock, that is why I think there may be more than 1.
The constant popping noises have been narrowed down to 1 or 2 rocks, but I have yet to see it. Hopefully a pistol and not a mantis, but we shall see eventually.
When emptying the bags, I found several VERY small crabs. One was on my finger and I did not even know it. he was orange and less than half the size of my pinky nail. Into the tank they went, but I have not seen them again yet. I did have a few snails and welks that came in on the rock and along with the goby they are the only active things I have actually seen so far.
A couple of the rocks have some barnacles, but I can't tell yet whether theyt are alive or not. I do have one area of what I think is some kind of encrusting yellow coral that has brughtened up in the last day or two.
I did not try to aquascape yet, just wanted to get everything in the tank and get it cycled. I had an ammonia spike on day 2 to just over 1 ppm. Made a 50% water change, and it has dropped off to zero since Friday.
Well, I am a newbie at posting pics but here goes nothing.
