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03/14/2006, 01:48 PM | #151 |
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Last night I gave the brittles star a small piece of shrimp(raw) because I figured he was hungry. All sorts of strange worms started appearing. I saw a few red ones, and one or two that were bright yellow. I also found a grey one with spaced out black stripes moving accross the bottom. He was about 8 inches long!
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Wow,
Get pictures of those worms! Sounds very interesting! Most worms are usually beneficial for your tank, but some can become problematic. If you see them again, try capturing them and taking pictures of them in a very shallow bowl of water. Be very careful trying to capture them though, they can sting/be poisonous. I wear thick dishwashing gloves whenever handling worms. Brian
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Like Brian said get pictures. Not that I'm any good at ID'ing anything but you generally won't get an ID on a description alone.
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Looked all over for the yellow worms but couldnt find any. Ive seen a few of these, what is it? Seen them on the rocks, the gravel, and walls.
Found this snail. Only a couple of centimeters long, but is it a whelk? |
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The first critter is what is commonly called a hair worm or spaghetti worm. They are beneficial creatures to have in your tank. Once they settle in they will generally stay in one area and clean the sandbed or rocks.
As far as the second critter, I've never seen a snail with a shell like that. I would suggest going to Marine Depot and asking Dr Shimek what it is. However, you are going to need to get at least one more picture with the snail withdrawn into its shell and showing the opening of the shell. Similar to this picture: Brian
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jezzeaepi-Dr Ron has an article on whelks in the November 05 issue of Reef Keeping.
I am having trouble finding the link to the DJ switching outlet. It's the thing that several people bought to plug everything into with individual on/off switches at each outlet. Can anyone help me. Thanks
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does anyone have any acropora? i bought a tiny frag and a week later it looks the same, just a tiny piece of white coral. do any polyps show?did i get taken? or is this the way it should be?
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No acropora for me. At least not yet. Not sure how they would do under T-5's.
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You are going to get me started into something that will get me in trouble.
Next I will be having acro frags all over my tank.
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I was jsut looking at some tanks lighted by T-5's with acros. I know where I'm going this weekend!
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it was white when i bought it at nerac .this weekend and it's high in a t-5 tank. reefgeek told me 6x54 t-5 would support sps
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Yep, T-5s should be fine for acroporas. But I would start off small with acroporas, they can be real sensitive depending on the species you get. I tried a tiny 1/2" frag of acropora in my tank and it did fine for the first month but then went downhill after that. It just slowly bleached away into a skeleton I've decided to try montipora (I just found out from Eric Borneman last weekend that it is pronounced mon-tip-ora, not monti-pora) digitata first and make sure that grows well for a year or so before I try acropora again. Brian
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brian, so if mine is all white did i get taken? i only bought it because it was $15
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Look at this guys tank. Only T-5's for lighting. http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...5&pagenumber=1
I got a montipora digitata not long ago. It is doing OK. The guy at the LFS said it may not get real purple under T-5's but I figured I would try anyway. The place I go has lots of small frags of acropora and montipora so it isn't so hard on the tank or the wallet if something goes bad.
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for some reason those colors don't look real!
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Hard to tell without pictures, very close up pictures. Most acropora is not white, unless it is dead and only the skeleton. But there are some fairly rare (in the hobby) acropora that are white. They generally cost a LOT more than $15 though. I would put the frag near the glass and use a magnifying glass and see if you can see any polyps or flesh on the skeleton. Once you've seen a dead acro skeleton you can usually tell if one is dead or not easily. Brian
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well, after looking hard at my frag, there is a hint of blue color and it is a small piece so maybe theres hope.
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I've heard stories of acros coming back from almost nothing left. I left mine in my main tank for 2 months in case it came back, it isn't like it has a ton of flesh to pollute the tank like a dying leather or colony of green hairy mushrooms. When it started growing coralline algae I knew it was gone Brian
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Are decorator crabs bad? I found mine today sitting on top of one of my cup corals, and there was a white spot on it where there was no more coral flesh showing. The rest of it looked perfectly fine. Should i kill the decorator? =(
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I spent $12 for my decorator crab at the lfs. Mine is at least 5"across covered in my zoos and kenya tree frags.
Before you kill it try to sell it. Maybe you can get credit for him at your lfs.
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