I purchased a purple carnation yesterday. I know they are difficult but am willing to give it a try. My concern is there is a small brittle star living in the branches. It is mostly white and has small red rings down the arms. Should I be concerned with this star in my main tank? Also this morning there is another little creature living there which looks like some (very small about 1/4 inch) pistol shrimp. Again should I be concerned putting this in my main tank. Also I haven't dipped this coral, should I? I have some sps, mostly lps, a sun coral which is doing very well, and a crocea clam. My tanks is 1 1/2 years. Thanks for all your help.
Purple Carnation
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Hormigaquatica
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Carnations often come in with commensals- it's very likely neither will ever leave that coral (especially the starfish). Neither should be any danger to any coral in your tank.
Dipping is up to you. Personally I dont like to dip any type of carnation, Ive seen them react poorly. By the time it gets to your tank, the coral is already very stressed out for a long- foodless-collection and import process. I would place it in the tank directly. Im sure others may disagree though, just my take on it.
Good luck with it!
Dipping is up to you. Personally I dont like to dip any type of carnation, Ive seen them react poorly. By the time it gets to your tank, the coral is already very stressed out for a long- foodless-collection and import process. I would place it in the tank directly. Im sure others may disagree though, just my take on it.
Good luck with it!
I've never seen a brittle star eat corals like that, have you?
Kreeger1
KING LEAR
It was more of a serpent star then brittle star, I also notice it sort of squeezing a branch that just didn't look right to me. Chuck had one as well, he removed it too. I should of got the camera out. If you notice a branch looking like a rubber band around it take some action
Kreeger1
KING LEAR
5h3r how mucj experience do you have with dendros? I've experienced opposite what you've posted. When I first started with them I thought the same as your post but to find that they curl themselves back towards the light or towards a upward postion. Every dendro I've owned and mounted upside down was clearly unhappy that way.
Erik
Erik
uhuru
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Erik do you have experience mounting dendro frags?
I may have lost mine. When I first got it, it was still in the process of attaching itself to a very, weak porous rock. The rock would literally sway back and forth with the current. I glued the rock to another rock in hopes that it would help - which it did, until last night. The original rock finally broke into pieces and my dendro floated into my rhizo. After that trauma I had to peel away the broken rock from the attached base of my dendro, and cut most of the base away. Then I used some fishing line and a needle and poked through it a few times to "sew" it onto a new rock. I'm hoping to see it form a new attachment but no signs yet. It's not inflating well at all but most of the polyps are open for the first time since last night. I'm really really bummed! It was doing so well. Something always has to happen! I'll take some quick pics in a bit.
I may have lost mine. When I first got it, it was still in the process of attaching itself to a very, weak porous rock. The rock would literally sway back and forth with the current. I glued the rock to another rock in hopes that it would help - which it did, until last night. The original rock finally broke into pieces and my dendro floated into my rhizo. After that trauma I had to peel away the broken rock from the attached base of my dendro, and cut most of the base away. Then I used some fishing line and a needle and poked through it a few times to "sew" it onto a new rock. I'm hoping to see it form a new attachment but no signs yet. It's not inflating well at all but most of the polyps are open for the first time since last night. I'm really really bummed! It was doing so well. Something always has to happen! I'll take some quick pics in a bit.
slapshot
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The real solution is to give me your Rhizo. That way it won't happen again. If your interested in me doing this charitable act I will PM you my address and shipping info. It is the responsible thing to do for your Dendro. Please, please..... no need to thank me. :wavehand:
uhuru
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Haha. My rhizo is a murderer. So far it has killed 1 baby black tubastrea and 1 small dendrophyllia - both of which I thought were well out of its reach. It's also started burning some of the tissue off my larger black tubastrea colony. It's pretty much too big for this tank and will probably be relocated to my new tank.
I think I can add my dendronephthya to its murder list. It just doesn't look good at all. :worried:
