some new pics of my reef

[fishworm]

I got bored today and decided to snap a few new pics of my reef.

here are the stats: 75 gallon aquarium with about 90 pounds of live rock, still using the awful seaclone 150 skimmer, auto topoff system from autotopoff.com, 55 gallon tank for the sump and refugium. refugium has 4 inches of reef mud and a bunch of chaeto. 96 watt 4 bulb power compact lights.

the livestock: 1 cleaner shrimp, 1 clownfish, 1 coral beauty angel, 1 yellow tang, 1 dragon goby, 1 sand sifting star and 1 firefish. corals are a bunch of different mushrooms, 3 different SPS, 2 kinds of frogspawn, a galaxia some pulsing xenia, one bunch of zooanthids, and a bunch of weird looking anemone things.

overall tank shot:

bad pic of my cleaner shrimp

2 of my SPS and the galaxia. anyone know what those anemone looking things are???

the xenia with more anemone looking things. what the heck are they???? are they bad orgood or indifferent?

 

[fishworm]

the SPS, galaxia and zooanthids

my big frogspawn, leather coral, and more mushrooms

the green frogspawn colony broke in half, but they are dooing good apart

my clown, loving his home in the giant mushroom and hairy mushrooms

 

[triggerjay]

Talk looks good. Your "Nem" looking things are more than likely palys.. They don't look like aptasia from the pics.... have a closer shot of them?

Jason

 

[Grunt]

Type of Palys (zoanthids) are to the left of the galaxea.

Now to the left of the xenia, those look like majanos to me.

 

[fishworm]

here is a closer pic

 

[aquaconnect]

Those are 110% mojo's as I call them. Type of anemone, cousin to the apastia and harder to kill, can sting other corals. I would extract them if possible little by little, especially those closer to corals. Some people have luck with joes juice or similar product, but I always try to get them at the base with tweezors and pull them out, just make sure you get all of it or they will regenerate.

 

[fishworm]

luckily, they are only on that one rock. only other thing on there are my pulsing xenia. I can scrape off the xenia and drop the rock in a nice pot of boiling water and listen to the little bastards scream as they die.

 

[SoupySteve]

just stay clear of the fumes of the boiling water over your LR - never know what chemicals may come up... (poisonous palythoa, etc...)

 

[triggerjay]

lol... cooking rock, and boiling rock are two different things....
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=485572
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=437342

Jason

 

[JFristoe]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13083125#post13083125 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by triggerjay
lol... cooking rock, and boiling rock are two different things....
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=485572
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=437342

Jason

Sounds like an episode of Cops in here...