tunicate help
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jeff240gallon
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tunicate help
I could be wrong but you feed them similar to what you'd feed a feather duster.. I've had small colonies pop up before and I think it's cause I was over feeding my corals. They seem harmless and weren't difficult to keep as long as you spot feed plankton or add small quantities of plankton to the tank. Not too much though (especially if you don't spot feed) or you can get aptasia
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I could be wrong but you feed them similar to what you'd feed a feather duster.. I've had small colonies pop up before and I think it's cause I was over feeding my corals. They seem harmless and weren't difficult to keep as long as you spot feed plankton or add small quantities of plankton to the tank. Not too much though (especially if you don't spot feed) or you can get aptasia
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cloak
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Sounds Fishy
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One thing to be careful about them is that you should not disturb them as they may respond defensively,and release some acid into the water,which,depending on your water volume can affect your water chemistry.I had some of these I purchased about 4 years ago.They lived about a year,and are veryinteresting creatures.I believe as they develop into adulthood they eat their own brains,prior to adulthood.
no, actually they don't have a brain during larvae stage (at least that what the internet says):fish1:
Sounds Fishy
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They are interesting creatures with or without brains...:rollface::rollface:
Dmorty217
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If you haven't got the tunicate, don't. You won't be able to keep it alive for very long. They are best left in the ocean or as food for a stubborn angelfish that eat. You would need a dedicated tank just to them to keep them alive and even then its a stretch you get it to live a few months.
Ron Reefman
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They are an interesting group on an evolutionary scale. They belong to the phylum Chordata, which along with us , means that at some point in their developmental history had a backbone. The tunicates have a primitive backbone, a notochord, during their free swimming larval stage before settling out into what we would think a more primitive sessile stage, but which seems to have worked for them for 700 million years.
