Thank you Richard!

[Jay_1966]

I have had part 2 in for about 2 weeks now. Everything doing great!

Richard, Thank you for all the extras!

Everyone else get this. I was expecting about 40lbs of rock + my cleanup crew in part two. I inquired about a dwarf octopus.

What I got was:
40 lbs of really nice rock - lots of coral, etc.
Silver Gorgonian
Clean up crew(hermits, snail, stars, cucs, peppermint shrimp)
Extra shells for hermits
2 extra large ball sponges (one red and one orange)
Two large branch sponges (one red and one orange)
A shaving brush plant
An unidentified plant - not macro algae
A nice rock anemone
a nice condy anemone
an O. Mercatoras Octopus

Here is how everything is doing:

Silver gorgonian died right away.
Clean up crew and shaving brush thriving.
Jury is out on the sponges. So far looking good. The red branch is diminishing a little and I had it next to (touching) the orange one. I think the orange one was winning because it started growing orange sprouts on the red one. Curious!!
Anemones are good but puzzling behavior. The Condy moved a bit but is settling in now right in front of the display - likes the sand better than the rock. The rock anemone insists on perching upside down under a large ledge (away fromthe lights) It is pretty bleached out - looks white - but eats well and looks really good, except for being brilliant white, which looks good but I understand is not.

Octopus disappeared 20 minutes after very lengthy acclimation - went behind the rocks and no sight of him since. Not even with late night lights out feeding time does he pop out. Wondering if he is OK.

All parameters good so far.

 

[liverock]

Re: Thank you Richard!

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10529594#post10529594 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Jay_1966
I have had part 2 in for about 2 weeks now. Everything doing great!

Richard, Thank you for all the extras!

Everyone else get this. I was expecting about 40lbs of rock + my cleanup crew in part two. I inquired about a dwarf octopus.

What I got was:
40 lbs of really nice rock - lots of coral, etc.
Silver Gorgonian
Clean up crew(hermits, snail, stars, cucs, peppermint shrimp)
Extra shells for hermits
2 extra large ball sponges (one red and one orange)
Two large branch sponges (one red and one orange)
A shaving brush plant
An unidentified plant - not macro algae
A nice rock anemone
a nice condy anemone
an O. Mercatoras Octopus

Here is how everything is doing:

Silver gorgonian died right away.
Clean up crew and shaving brush thriving.
Jury is out on the sponges. So far looking good. The red branch is diminishing a little and I had it next to (touching) the orange one. I think the orange one was winning because it started growing orange sprouts on the red one. Curious!!
Anemones are good but puzzling behavior. The Condy moved a bit but is settling in now right in front of the display - likes the sand better than the rock. The rock anemone insists on perching upside down under a large ledge (away fromthe lights) It is pretty bleached out - looks white - but eats well and looks really good, except for being brilliant white, which looks good but I understand is not.

Octopus disappeared 20 minutes after very lengthy acclimation - went behind the rocks and no sight of him since. Not even with late night lights out feeding time does he pop out. Wondering if he is OK.

All parameters good so far.

Cool, glad all is well!

octo is most likely in hiding....eating your crabs!

Thanks for all the good words, was a pleasure doing business with yall!

Thanks
Richard TBS
www.tbsaltwater.com

 

[Spiffyguy]

if you want to remove the octopus the easiest thing I found was to just take the rock it shacked up in out of the tank. within a minute or two he came crawling out.

 

[75Gallons]

Did you order the octopus or did it come with the order in the rock? I'm probably going to order in the next few weeks and I'm curious as to what hitchhikers I could get. Also I've heard a lot of bad things about cuc's what your experiencen so far.

 

[tangafish]

i got 2 cukes with my package and i havent had any problem, they are kinda reclusive but they are steadily on the move, of course at a snails pace. i am amazed that even though i have alot in my tank and i feed it pretty heavily as far as the gongorians and making sure my corals all get what they need, my water perimeters stay dead on perfect. definitley something in the rock and all the right critters included with the package.. there are some cucumbers that you have to be concerned about but i dont think that any that richard sends you could be potentially harmful to the tank..after all he stocks your tank just the way he would want his :rollface: