The Twins Aquarium thread
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Jacob D
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FYI the ricordias at Twins are R. florida, nor R. yuma. I know someone heard 'pink ricordia' and got excited, but they are just the standard variety. He does have quite a few of them and some nice colors. If you're an NVR member the pricing was better than previously reported.
Also me and John talked for a little bit. It looks like they are sticking around for a while. He is getting ready to put a HQI over one of the tanks. Should be interesting.
Also me and John talked for a little bit. It looks like they are sticking around for a while. He is getting ready to put a HQI over one of the tanks. Should be interesting.
Jacob D
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...cruised over to Twins again today. John agreed to let me feed some Artic Pods to the mandarins he has (all recently imported). There were a few reports of mandarins eating this food and I wanted to see for myself. Well out of 7 of them, one had 'some reaction' to the food. But not enough to convince me that I could sustain it with prepared food as primary food source. Possibly in the long run they would catch on and eat it but there was no interest at all in most of the fish.
Other than that not much to report, coral selection is not the greatest right now, didn't see anything out of the ordinary fish wise either.
Other than that not much to report, coral selection is not the greatest right now, didn't see anything out of the ordinary fish wise either.
gklompen
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I haven't been to Twins in a couple weeks so forgive me if this is old news, but he had some nice looking encrusting montis yesterday. They were baby blue with green polyps under his halides. Under my T5s the piece I got is more light purple with yellow-green polyps.
He just gotten a bunch of small crocea clams for those interested.
He just gotten a bunch of small crocea clams for those interested.
gklompen
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Encrusting Monti
Encrusting Monti
Mine's looking great too. Actually looks like it's starting to grow which I didn't expect to happen for a while. Mine didn't stay blue under my T5s, instead it's a nice purple color with green polyps. If you look close, the polyps are orange in the center.
Last time I was in Twins it looked like some of his pieces had lost a bit of color, or it could be that mine colored up. Either way, it's probably going to be a better color in people's home tanks than what they see in the store.
Encrusting Monti
Mine's looking great too. Actually looks like it's starting to grow which I didn't expect to happen for a while. Mine didn't stay blue under my T5s, instead it's a nice purple color with green polyps. If you look close, the polyps are orange in the center.
Last time I was in Twins it looked like some of his pieces had lost a bit of color, or it could be that mine colored up. Either way, it's probably going to be a better color in people's home tanks than what they see in the store.
Jacob D
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Well I broke down and got a piece of that monti too. It is a little browned out but I'm sure will make a come back in no time. One thing I noticed about it is the orange polyps aren't necessarily on the new growth. Mine has patches of different color polyps, is everyone elses' that way too?
Oh yeah, the main tank(s) are looking pretty good right now. Most of the nicer corals are under the halides and there's a decent selection right now. I saw the green base and pink tip acro that Bryan mentioned, they still have a nice red acan, some palythoa grandis, a lot of clams, and also a yasha goby and randall's pistol shrimp (like Sandra's in her nano tank).
Oh yeah, the main tank(s) are looking pretty good right now. Most of the nicer corals are under the halides and there's a decent selection right now. I saw the green base and pink tip acro that Bryan mentioned, they still have a nice red acan, some palythoa grandis, a lot of clams, and also a yasha goby and randall's pistol shrimp (like Sandra's in her nano tank).
Bdimas
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Sweet. It should color up just fine. The one i got for Jesus colored up in about a week.
My orange polyps are kinda spread out but mostly around the edges. Also i just lowerd mine to the middle of my rockwork because i think the lighting was a little too intense where i had it. It was about 6" away from my bulb.
My orange polyps are kinda spread out but mostly around the edges. Also i just lowerd mine to the middle of my rockwork because i think the lighting was a little too intense where i had it. It was about 6" away from my bulb.
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