Barry's 29gal Coralife BioCube

[lu9103]

Your tank is really nice. On my 14g nano I have led's as well, bu5 I just set up another 29g Nano and have PC but I will be replacing them for LED's.

[BarryV]

Just saw this this morning. It growing under one of my mushrooms.
At first I just thought it was another shroom, but it's the wrong color.
Any Ideas???
Barry

[homer1475]

The red thing?

Perhaps its a vermatid snail? Although it doesn't really look like it. Does it have a spider web like stringy stuff coming off it at times?

[BarryV]

The brown oval thing above the red arrow, just below the red mushroom.
Barry

[soulpatch]

it looks like a small shroom of some sort but hard to tell.

[BarryV]

Originally Posted by soulpatch

it looks like a small shroom of some sort but hard to tell.

Thanks soulpatch. That's what I kinda thought, but only have a red and
purple shrooms. I'm going to let it stay now.
Thanks again,
Barry

[ReefWreak]

I would call it another mushroom. They'll split and bud and add trails of the self nearby in my experience. It means that you have a happy healthy tank!

[BarryV]

Thanks ReefWreak. Last night when feeding I turn off my main pump and my power head as I always do.
Well forgot to turn on the main pump back on. Just turned it back on this morning. Hope I don't have any
problems............
Dumb Barry

[soulpatch]

so long as you had a power head running you should be fine. It is what many of us would do in a power outage powering just heaters and power heads as opposed to the entire system.

Well most. I have a huge geny for my tanks now so I can power everything for them plus my comfort items like my fridges, tv, internet, ect. LOL.

[homer1475]

Originally Posted by BarryV

The brown oval thing above the red arrow, just below the red mushroom.
Barry

ROFLMAO

I just realized you put the red arrow on the picture.

A power outage for 4 days is what stopped me in this hobby some 20 years ago. I have a small generator that will run my fridge, freezer, water pump, TV, heater, and tank if it happens again.

Barry, I've done the same thing, but my powerheads were off too. This is one of the main reason I'm buying an apex. If I forget to turn them on, feed mode turns them back on for me.

[BarryV]

Hi All,
New today. Just acclimating. Will get more photos in a few day.
Guess what it is.... I have been looking for one for a few months
Barry

[ReefWreak]

Black sun corals?

Glad you found a coral you've been looking for! Now have fun keeping them fed

EDIT:

I think they're just dark and/or closed up FROGSPAWN! You have been looking for them for a while! Congrats either way!

[BarryV]

Originally Posted by ReefWreak

Black sun corals?

Glad you found a coral you've been looking for! Now have fun keeping them fed

EDIT:

I think they're just dark and/or closed up FROGSPAWN! You have been looking for them for a while! Congrats either way!

BLACK SUN CORAL.............Your correct.
They are kinda hard to find. At least for me.
Barry

[ReefWreak]

Originally Posted by BarryV

BLACK SUN CORAL.............Your correct.
They are kinda hard to find. At least for me.
Barry

I've been around and seen (almost) them all

I'm glad you found them! Just keep them well feed, and they'll grow like crazy.

I like that they're the branching type. Usually you just see them grow into the mound shape. I've never found a good way of feeding corals individually. I guess a pipette? very cool and sorry to ruin the surprise (if you were trying to surprise anyone in particular)

[BarryV]

Well after acclimating my new Black Sun Coral for about two and half hrs.
Then dipping it in ReVive for 10 to 15 minutes, this was all I found. One Bristle worm I think. Check the photo below and let me know what you think it is.
Barry

[ReefWreak]

Eiew the face of it! (that's a very good closeup shot of that, btw)

Yea, looks like a bristle worm. You probably have a million of them anyway, but I would toss out any hitchhikers anyway unless you know you specifically want/need them (i.e. pods).

Usually they're more pink/black/grey, he looks kind of orangey. Call me a racist, but I'd toss him.

[BarryV]

Tkanks ReefWreak, I though it was a bristle worm but I was not sure.
Barry

[soulpatch]

Yeah bristle and most likely bleached a bit from the dip.

I would suggest switching off of revive though as it does not catch red/black bugs as I have recently experienced. I am making the switch to Bayer pesticide which apparently is the preferred dip these days since it gets those buggers....

[BarryV]

Originally Posted by soulpatch

Yeah bristle and most likely bleached a bit from the dip.

I would suggest switching off of revive though as it does not catch red/black bugs as I have recently experienced. I am making the switch to Bayer pesticide which apparently is the preferred dip these days since it gets those buggers....

Well it's a little late now, but I have Bayer pesticide ordered
Thanks for the input.
Barry

[BarryV]

Hi All,
Here is the first glimpse of my new Black Sun Coral.
They are a little worse for wear from shipping. I took them out
of my tank in a small bucket and fed them or tried to feed them.
It took about a hour but the finely poked their heads out a bit and ate.
It's going to take some time before the look good. But they are alive.
Barry

[homer1475]

LFS I went to today had a 350G display tank, and had a huge colony of black sun coral. I so want one now!!!

Nice looking specimen Barry. I'm so jelous now after seeing one up close and personal.

[BarryV]

Hi All,
Friday is tank cleaning day for me. Check out the photo, in the center of the blue circle is some sort of algae. This is the first time in over eight months I seen any thing like it.
Problem? and cure?
Barry

[ReefWreak]

cyano/diatomes. Probably cyan.

Siphon it out, increase flow to the area, decrease feeding/nutrients. :-/

[BarryV]

Originally Posted by ReefWreak

cyano/diatomes. Probably cyan.

Siphon it out, increase flow to the area, decrease feeding/nutrients. :-/

Thanks ReefWreak. I increase the flow. I think my problem is my two sun corals.
They are hard to feed with out over feeding. I guess there going on a diet
Barry

[soulpatch]

I am having a cyano outbreak at the moment. I guess killing off my bryopsis lead to extra nutrients for cyano. It is always something.

I just suck it out using my awesome battery power vac in between water changes. I also need to get back up to speed on some of my nopox dosing. I had cut it which has also led to the excess nutrients in the water.

And I suffer for the same reason you do. Coral feeding. I want my acans to grow quickly so I need to feed each head individually. Takes forever and the food that they dont hang onto is excess for the tank. I have cut down their feedings to a couple times a week in an effort to minimize this all.