This Board's Generosity

[eengmd]

I have been impressed by the generosity of the people on this board and at the LFS in helping other members and myself. It is a pretty unique community and reminds me of why my family decided to move to the Roanoke Valley. Anyway, my tank sits empty minus a few snails, a few hermits and a peppermint shrimp (my aiptasia have gone crazy). I do have two polyps from UA that Sam gave me to test my water parameters. It has opened up nicely. I have resisted the urge to stock amazingly since it has only been three weeks. Nitrates going down and the algae is lessening.

Anyway, I would love to contribute to the community as well. I have no frags but I have a rock, that was previous live, then turned white in my move, and now re-cycled in my tank and was starting to grow little spots of coralline. I re-aquascaped today and did not need this rock. It is from the Marshall Islands. It is essentially white and measure 9x9 inches or so. I have it sitting in a bucket of tank water for anyone who is interested. I can also get people needles and syringes for killing aiptasia or whatever you can think of. Finally, our surgery center gets rid of expired suture every once in a while and I have used this in the past to frag softies by placing one pass through the base of a softie then tying it to a rock. Some of the sutures are dissolvable and some are not. After several days, the coral attaches to the rock. After doing ER surgeries, I usually keep the disposable suture needle holder and forceps which I can start re-collecting for those who may find this handy fragging.

I plan on trying to make it the meet this week so B-burg let me know. I have no suture right now but I may after my OR day Tuesday.

 

[SS7]

Well I'm glad to see you're nesting into the group! Even better to hear your tank is doing well!

From what I gather, the group tends to be tight.. but I haven't shared needles with anyone, yet. Thanks for opening up that avenue of growth. I'm excited to share that experience with this group of friends..

How is the display planning going for your business?

SS

 

[mike68]

when you are ready for more corals let me know. i have plenty of free stuff thats easy to keep.

 

[pprmntshrmps]

Are you ready for your mushrooms back yet? Just let me know when you are.

 

[ade]

There are a lot a realy nice tanks in the valley and even though it is hard for all of us to get togeather at one time my tank is always available for viewing with or without a meet. Hope to see you at the meet or another time.
IMO if you a bunch of aiptasia I would kill them outside of your tank or see about getting a butterfly before you place corals in your tank to rid the pests and then trade the butterfly. If you don't have too any power heads you could try a nudi.

 

[dadyoj21]

I happen to have a true falcula butterfly working on majano. He is going to town on them and may be available in a couple of weeks if you are interested we could work something out. he has eliminated several hundred since christmas, But your tank may be to small if it is just the 28.

 

[eengmd]

Dadyoj21, thanks for the offer but I do believe he would starve after two days. I took out the two offending rocks and squirted them with kalk paste. Many are dead but I still see 5 that survived. They are are fairly tiny. I am afraid a nudi may not make it since I have 600 gph turnover of the water from the sump to main tank for the 28 gallon. I can turn off my additional powerheads. I appreciate everyones input. None of the remaining aiptasia are larger than a pencil eraser.

 

[ade]

Jorge I am so glad that the butterfly is working for you, isn't it great to see the fish rid your tank of those jems.

 

[dadyoj21]

yes he is doing a great job, but he picks on pretty much every coral as well, so I had to do some shuffling around between tanks.
Hopefully I will be ready to part with him in a few more weeks. I really like the butterflies and will hate to part with them. maybe I should set up a fish only system lol.

 

[ade]

With you on that one, they are great looking fish. When all my majano were gone the fish wouldn't eat anything else for what I could see and then it was gone.

 

[ktnjer]

I had aiptasia starting and after i got my 2 peppermints, they totally disappeared and still none to this day have ever been on any rock work since. The peppermints are hearty eaters too and feed well on mysis and brine. I've had them in my tank for about 7-8 months now and they are still going strong.