WANTED: SPS frags/frag pack, can any locals help me out?

[ELCHUPACABRA]

I am looking to start the SPS adventure. I would like some SPS for my 15g nano. I currently have not tried any SPS thus forth but have started to realize recently that they are not little sticks I once thought them to be but miniature underwater bonsai trees, and I must have one to stare at. I can trade some of my corals, or pay $, though I am a U of A student so I am not exactly rolling in the dough to say the least. I suppose I want a frag pack with several varieties if some one wants to make me a package deal, or perhaps individual frags and hopefully I will get several offers so I can have a few different ones. Maybe even a colony, I am not sure what they run? Let me know what you have available. Pics would be appreciated. I am happy I now have a way to network with the locals. Also, does anyone know where I can get 2 onyx clowns, I found 2 for $88 that I may get soon, perhaps someone is breeding them here? Thanks in advance.

 

[Satori]

There's a guy in your neighborhood (UofA) who may chime in if he sees this thread. From looking at your other thread, I would recommend you try out some montipora digitata, elkhorn, or birdsnest. Poccilipora will also do very well.

 

[ELCHUPACABRA]

I hope he does!!! Did I mention I have a 400wMH in my closet and I just need to order a new bulb for it (20k). I am thinking if my current lights don't make the cut I can sell them and put the 400w on it. Hopefully someone will part with some of their SPS, I wanna play too.

 

[majestic sea life]

Man of this was one year ago. You would have loved Ed's tank. Always had tons of frags too.

Mike - Can you hold Ed's Hydrophora(sp?) for me. PM if you can and and ill give you the details.

 

[Satori]

Brian, I'll PM you.

 

[cerreta]

pm sent to chupa

 

[scubabum1983]

Im also interested in learning a few things about the sps game. I am also a UA student. Turbo is in that neighborhood too. hope to meet you chupa and certa.

 

[ELCHUPACABRA]

Awesome I am yet to meet a U of A reefer. I live a few hundred yards from the union, and would love to meet you, turbo also. I hope to get some of these in my tank soon. I will see you tomorrow Scott.

 

[cerreta]

cheers

 

[McCrary]

Hey Chupa,

You will have to stop by some time. I am sure you have seen how cool Scott's tank is. I live right down the street. Drop me a PM if you want the address.

 

[ELCHUPACABRA]

I am excited to see your tank as well, and you both will have to come see mine in person. It is my plasma tv for the soul. I live about 30 sec from Scott who is a amazing individual with an astounding reef to match his great personality. I was truly awestruck when I walked into the door of his house.

Thanks for all the responses, I am happy to now be a part of your online and local community. After talking with Scott I am working on getting my water quality up to par so I can start adding some SPS.

I just got home from snowboarding in Wolf Creek, CO with the UofA snowboarding club (which I am also an exec board member of) and it was epic to say the least, (numerous cliff drops, expert only back country, waist deep powder, no lift lines, liquor, college girls, etc...) and guess what my tank brewed up a surprise for me!!! Thousands of what I am thinking are flat worms, so perhaps Scott or Turbo, since you live so close, could meet up at my house sometime soon and confirm my suspicions.

I am thinking I will blow a glass siphon scraper thing that siphons to a small mesh bag in the sump so I can spend all day sucking these buggers up one by one collecting them in the bag, and then remove the bag and treat the tank with flatworm exit. (Note: I have about 23g water in my tank and sump so this should be fairly easy to crash if I kill to many of the flat worms at once in the display.)

I guess I could also siphon them out with my glass tool, then remove the corals and quarantine them in my 4g (down at moment), treat the live rock in a separate tank (so most of the die off of the supposed flat worms happens here), and then throw it all back into the display and treat it as a whole with out transferring over the polluted water. Hopefully this would allow any extreme levels to occur with just the live rock (where majority of the flat worms are) and the corals would be subjected to less degradation of water quality due to the massive ethnic cleansing of the flat worms that is about to occur.

Some questions:
1. does flatworm exit work?
2. is this my only solution?
3. is flat worm exit only killing flatworms, (or should I kiss my abundant supply off pods. etc goodbye)?
4. does it bother you when I do not capitalize the first letter of my questions?
5. is flatworm exit a good solution to my problem?
6. if you answered yes to number 5, do you think I should go with my first planned option of treating the entire tank, or do you think I should go with my second option and quarantine the corals, kill the live rock colonies and then combine and treat everything?
7. what do you think I should do???

 

[cerreta]

Try to avoid treating the whole tank. I'm not sure if yo ucan siphon the flatworms. Try it and let us know. I think they will suck down on the coral and not come off so easily.

A great way to treat flatworms is to remove infested pieces and soak in a freshwater solution of DI water that has been temp and PH adjusted for a minute. Shake rock or coral vigurously and then move to holding bin with tank water. Treat all the corals and then place them all back in the tank.

Flatworms prefer mushroom corals. What are they on?

Oh, thanks for the kind words. Glad to here snowboarding was so much fun. The season has just begun!

I have PM for ya

 

[ELCHUPACABRA]

Siphoning worked great, I took a tube and rubber banded a fine mesh bag on the end, I started the siphon and threw the bag in my sump. I then took my jolly good time sucking up all the flatworms in the tank, they all got stuck in the bag, and are now living happily ever after in my toilet. I also got a domino damsel that has done a fine job of eating all the remaining flatworms in my tank.

I did a 5 gallon water change this weekend, and am currently building a new stand for the tank and my equipment. Hopefully I am getting closer to starting the SPS adventure. I will keep you posted.

 

[McCrary]

Glad to hear that the damsel and siphoning are helping with the flatworm problem.