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[NaCl+H2O Fish]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12948228#post12948228 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DontXtripNfall
Hi Kent, your tank isn't the only one with growth. A few pages back you can see mine.
I raised a robin once.. it was trained but as it got older instinct came over it and would only fly to my shoulder for food, so I released it during the summer last year.
Yup everyone thats Smurf (I was telling Terry that there was also a gray one which I found interesting anyone ever hear of these colors being available?) Doesn't it look like a blenny in the second pic? Any word on yours Terry?... Thanks again Terry!
Matt - I'm still not to sure what to do with the media, its still inside but I'm considering taking it out because it seems everyone has eventually trashed it. The skimmer is pretty good I must say, I guess I got a good one because the skim-mate goes into the lower collection part. The stock lights are definitely under rated as Terry said. I have a few types of SPS corals and my hydnophora seems to do better near the bottom surprisingly. I use a chiller but thats because my house can get hot. I don't the lights should force you into a chiller.

DontXtripNfall- :lol: Julian! We set up our tanks te enjoy them NOT TO WORRY OVER EVERY LITTLE THING ABOUT THEM..... IMHO!

My two basic principles are:
1. Is the water testing well???????
2. Is everyone doing well and EATING????

I am not a fanatic GLASS CLEANER.... My snails need food too!
I am also not a fanatic water changer if chemistry is testing well and all my critters are doing well!!! I clean the skimmer and the canister filters....

So..... Bottom line is everything in my RSM is doing GREAT and eating like "Fishy or Invertebrate Pigs"! :lol:
Keep in mind that my bio-load is less than most.....

I recently had a "Red Cyano Bubble Algae" outbreak and DID NOTHING.... It's now gone thru and completed its natural cycle and has disappeared! My Royal Gramma developed ICH...... I did nothing but hoped he would continue being active and eating! The Gramma lost some weight but has fought off the parasite! Sometimes we can do more harm with treatments.... IMO!

Your new Blue Blenny "Smurf is fantastic!
Kent a.k.a. NaCl+H2O Fish

 

[Reefmack]

DontXtripNfall - no sign of the algae blenny last night. I'm guessing that the cleanup crew is busy somewhere behind my rock, but I'll keep looking for him. That "grey" clown goby may have been a Citron or some other type. I still haven't found any references to a blue clown goby though. Let us know if the color shifts on it with time. If you could find an opposite sex blue one and successfully raise some you might have a goby gold mine!

Titans I can't see your pics since they blocked images here at work. Are there any fish that eat Caulerpa. I got my small Foxface as a last resort to successfully eat all of my Bryopsis algae, but I'm not sure if they'll eat Caulerpa?

dartmti - you're welcome. This is the place to ask about the RSM! You might want to just start up with the bio-media, then slowly remove it after the tank and rock gets a few months worth of age on it. When I started up I innoculated the tank with Bio-Spira (live refrigerated bacteria innoculant) and never saw a measurable cycle, other than nitrates.

NaCl+H2O Fish - good advice, and good to hear the tank is doing well. I had the same situation with the Cyano - it eventually disappeared as the tank matured.

 

[StevieTdrill]

Plans for my RSM, figured I needed a little flare in the middle since I lost my leather a while back.

 

[snake plissken]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12949229#post12949229 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dartmti
I forgot to add that I'm in central NC and TN, so it's not very cool.
In NC, the town is called Gibsonville and it's about 2 hours from Charlotte, an hour from Raleigh, and a half an hour from Greensboro; I'm right in between the latter two.

welcome to the fun, dartmti !
Gibsonville!?!?!? holy cow!
my college roomate at Appalachian State was from gibsonville. I don't remember seeing too many salt water suppliers in the gibsonville/elon/mebane metroplitan area!
do you have to go to greensboro for livestock, supplies, your RSM tank itself?

 

[snake plissken]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12950889#post12950889 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by StevieTdrill
Plans for my RSM, figured I needed a little flare in the middle since I lost my leather a while back.

WAY too much time on your hands stevieT!!!
get back to making media racks!

but you know, if youre gonna put a pirate ship in there, isnt there a rule that says its gotta have capt jack sparrow hanging off of it?
:rollface:

 

[donna53w]

Reefmack: I am late in answering your question re if I noticed any difference in the lighting when I changed my bulbs on Saturday. I can't say that I can 'see' the light difference, but my corals are all fuller. I really do believe that it has made a good change on the tank's inhabitants.
Is your blenny still with you? If so, have you tried to feed it sinking algae wafers?

NaCl+H2O FishNaCl+H20 Fish .... Kent: hey, your RSM is looking great ... I'm glad to have you back here, too!:thumbsup:

dartmti: Welcome ... this is a great place to be!! I kept all the stock equipment lights and skimmer until I replaced the skimmer a week or so ago. I now have the Tunze 9002 because my pump went on the original one. I am very happy with the stock lights & keep an assortment of corals under them. Like Terry, I have removed all of the media, replaced with some LR rubble under the pumps & Chemi Pure in there, too. I keep RowaPhos in the skimmer compartment, on the heater side of skimmer.

Titans: I had a bit of caulerpa too. I found that by harvesting it by hand, using my fingernails to get right to the base of it, worked. I also removed the rock that I could and placed it in a bucket of tank water water & scrubbed off any remainder I could see. Be sure you have water made up to replace what you take out for 'scrub water'. Try placing the rock with Xenia in the bucket & scrubbing with a toothbrush, use tweezers to pull what you can. After I had done this, I kept a close eye on it, and repeated the process on any new growth that showed up - it is now all gone.

 

[Reefmack]

Donna - no sign of the lawnmower last night, so I have a feeling "ugly fish' has become CUC food. It would never touch the agae wafers or the algae sheet - I tried those a few times.



Titans - if you tear the Xenia apart trying to pull off the Caulerpa I doubt the Xenia will be harmed much. You may however end up with new Xenia colonies all over the place if you knock a lot of small pieces loose - grows like a weed!

 

[xdfireguy]

StevieT I'm glad to see that the shark police haven't given you a hard time yet. A Great White can do well in our RSM's but please stay away from the Megalodon's they are indeed rare and need a little more room, perhaps a 40B would be a good choice!

 

[StevieTdrill]

Thanks for the heads up, it was on my list.

 

[donna53w]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12951597#post12951597 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Reefmack
Donna - no sign of the lawnmower last night, so I have a feeling "ugly fish' has become CUC food. It would never touch the agae wafers or the algae sheet - I tried those a few times.

Mine wouldn't either, but thought maybe the wafer was something you hadn't tried. It saddens me to know that he is in trouble ... maybe gone. I know he was your 'character' & his personality was a great addition to your tank.

 

[StevieTdrill]

When I transfered my lawnmower from my old tank to the new I lost him. Not enough natural algae for him to eat. They don't often take to provided foods. Sucks too sine they are so cool looking, I miss the "kiss" marks on the glass

 

[StevieTdrill]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12951455#post12951455 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by snake plissken
WAY too much time on your hands stevieT!!!
get back to making media racks!

but you know, if youre gonna put a pirate ship in there, isnt there a rule that says its gotta have capt jack sparrow hanging off of it?
:rollface:

In stock my friend!! worked my butt off to get to this stage of actually having product on the shelve!

Na, he is marooned on ricordea island, hanging out drinking rum with my hermits and fighting.

The treasure chest is still in the ship, hopefully it falls out with a sucba guy that bubbles

 

[Brent F]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12946218#post12946218 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Reefmack
Here are Julian's pictures of the Green Clown Goby that is actually very blue! I did a search earlier and couldn't come up with anything on Blue Clown Gobies - a new color morph?

Green Clown Gobies are striped red and green where most other varieties don't have stripes. It looks like there is a stripe throught the eye.

From the picture, this looks more like a very light Black Clown Goby (which are usually dark purple or dark blue and not really black at all) than a Green Clown Goby.

Regardless of which type of Clown Goby it is, Julian, you have a very interesting fish.

 

[Reefmack]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12952024#post12952024 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by StevieTdrill
When I transfered my lawnmower from my old tank to the new I lost him. Not enough natural algae for him to eat. They don't often take to provided foods. Sucks too sine they are so cool looking, I miss the "kiss" marks on the glass

Hi StevieT. Mine was eating flake and pellet fish food, and used to even go up to the top and outcompete some of the other fish in grabbing it out of the water, and even off the surface. But, maybe there just wasn't enough of the right nutrients to sustain him, and zero algae even on the glass, although he was always chomping away at the glass & rock looking for some. I have some spirulina flake - maybe I should have fed that more often. Now I'll have to keep an eye on the rest of the fish & hope it wasn't an internal parasite that came in with a coral.

 

[NaCl+H2O Fish]

F L U K E S....!!!

F L U K E S....!!!

Hey Everyone...!!!
In reference to Reefmack's comment about hitch hiking parasites on corals, etc. I was discussing my Royal Gramma's ich outbreak with the owner of a large, highly regarded LFS. When I asked about ick treatments, he immediately replied by asking if I treated my fish or tank for flukes! Hmmm?

Basic cause and effect folks.... internal and or external parasite weakens the fish! Weakened fish become vulnerable to ick, stop eating and die!!! I am a HUGE believer in water quality and fat healthy fish that eat good stuff like pigs! Hmmmm? They never seem to get sick!

Pretty logical stuff in my opinion! He told me that ALL the fish they sell have treatment in the bag water and recommended that I take the treatment with me when I buy fish elsewhere for the bag water.....

www.hikariusa.com "PraziPro" completely safe for use in freshwater and marine aquariums. Kills flukes, tapeworms, flatworms and tubellarians.

Anecdotally.... my Royal Gramma is fighting off his ick and still eating very well. I'm thinking that flukes may be a less discussed KILLER or our fish!!!

Opinions????
Kent a.k.a. NaCl+H2O Fish

 

[Reefmack]

Nice to get home and be able to see the posted pictures!

Titans - The Caulerpa is a bummer. I hate to see you have to start over again. I did some searching and a small Foxface (sorry Donna) might eat that stuff like mine ate all my bryopsis. Here's one link that sounds hopeful:

Caulerpa and Foxface

Never a guarantee though, and the Foxface will get too big for the RSM. Thank goodness mine is not growing fast.

StevieT - I saw those tank "decorations" on your N-R thread - pretty cool imagery!

Brent - maybe that is a "black" clown goby. It'll be interesting to see if it ever darkens up or stays that light bluish color.

NaCl+H2O Fish I'll help out here at post a link that should take people direct to the Prazipro:

PraziPro

Sounds reasonable even as a precaution. I've also seen a few things that recommend a garlic additive to kill internal parasites.

 

[NaCl+H2O Fish]

Kent Marine GarlicXtreme

Kent Marine GarlicXtreme

NaCl+H2O Fish I'll help out here at post a link that should take people direct to the Prazipro:
PraziPro
Sounds reasonable even as a precaution. I've also seen a few things that recommend a garlic additive to kill internal parasites.
Reefmack - Thanks!
As you know I also use Kent Marine GarlicXtreme which I understand improves immune systems in fish.

Strong appetite, good diet, strengthening immune systems and eliminating "weakening" parasites.... Hmmm!
Sounds like a good thing to me.....

Kent a.k.a. NaCl+H2O Fish

 

[Tylt33]

Re: F L U K E S....!!!

Re: F L U K E S....!!!

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12952921#post12952921 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by NaCl+H2O Fish
Hey Everyone...!!!
In reference to Reefmack's comment about hitch hiking parasites on corals, etc. I was discussing my Royal Gramma's ich outbreak with the owner of a large, highly regarded LFS. When I asked about ick treatments, he immediately replied by asking if I treated my fish or tank for flukes! Hmmm?

Basic cause and effect folks.... internal and or external parasite weakens the fish! Weakened fish become vulnerable to ick, stop eating and die!!! I am a HUGE believer in water quality and fat healthy fish that eat good stuff like pigs! Hmmmm? They never seem to get sick!

Pretty logical stuff in my opinion! He told me that ALL the fish they sell have treatment in the bag water and recommended that I take the treatment with me when I buy fish elsewhere for the bag water.....

www.hikariusa.com "PraziPro" completely safe for use in freshwater and marine aquariums. Kills flukes, tapeworms, flatworms and tubellarians.

Anecdotally.... my Royal Gramma is fighting off his ick and still eating very well. I'm thinking that flukes may be a less discussed KILLER or our fish!!!

Opinions????
Kent a.k.a. NaCl+H2O Fish

PraziPro works well from what I've heard; but be careful, "reef safe" is very situational; PraziPro also kills Coco Worms, Feather Dusters, Christmas Tree Worms, etc.! I know a few members on this board have them.

 

[Tylt33]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12952540#post12952540 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Reefmack
Hi StevieT. Mine was eating flake and pellet fish food, and used to even go up to the top and outcompete some of the other fish in grabbing it out of the water, and even off the surface. But, maybe there just wasn't enough of the right nutrients to sustain him, and zero algae even on the glass, although he was always chomping away at the glass & rock looking for some. I have some spirulina flake - maybe I should have fed that more often. Now I'll have to keep an eye on the rest of the fish & hope it wasn't an internal parasite that came in with a coral.

The day you posted yours was sick, mine was going downhill as well, and I thought I was going to lose him. His ribs were showing a bit, and he was all black (his unhappy color). He started eating though, and today he is looking much better. He is easily the most popular fish in my tank with visitors, they have SO much personality! I've actually got a LM Blenny and a Starry Blenny in the tank... don't tell anyone though :rollface:

 

[Tylt33]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12948328#post12948328 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Titans
The Beginning:

I might start my tank over soon. If you notice there is Caulerpa growing over everything!!! It even grows on and THROUGH my xenia to the point if I were to rip them off it'll leave cuts in my xenia =( And if you were curious to where it had all started take a look at this picture from a month after I started my tank...look at the circled area:

You can try doing what I did when I started; I let the my Caulerpa get REALLY big to the point where it was pulling phosphates and nitrates out of the water, and then I just plucked it all out. The water was balanced at that point, so it didn't make a comeback; and I made sure to keep my nitrates down and my phosphates minimal. I can see you have chaeto, which is very good. How long are you leaving your lights on for? Are you testing for Nitrates and Phosphates? Any idea what specie of Caulerpa you have? Some are nearly impossible to get rid of no matter what you do (hence why they're illegal in California, lol).