55g reef build
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kdpuffer
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Oh I want a unique fish, that's blue small an easy to feeder and awesome and unique lol.
kdpuffer
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Mrc8858 said:
Tribal blenny looks sweet but I have a starry blenny and that would likely cause issues. This is proving more difficult than I expected lol.
kdpuffer
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Not entirely sure what the deal is here but it appears like my nassarius snails are feeling frisky. I looked up and BAMB a ball of them.
Schism
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kdpuffer said:
Probably eating something, scrap food etc. Mine all camp out together, they all sleep in the same spot together. Really weird. I feed and they all coming crawling out of the sand under my toadstool like an army lol
kdpuffer
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Normally I would agree but I haven't fed the tank in about a month other than phyto on like Tuesday. My vote still goes to orgy!!!!!
kdpuffer
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Well I got all my fish back in and it looks so lively again. Everyone is happy and eating well. I also think my clowns are turning black. I bought them and they were bright orange and just keep getting darker and darker. I had initially grown concerned as it started as black spots then spread out, hopefully they do turn fully black cause the blacks looks awesome. All I know about them is they are tank raised misbar oscelleris clowns so who knows what genes they carry.
kdpuffer
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So nothing New added to the tank but I did find some interesting things. First off on my torch it looks like part of the skeleton is flaking off, on closer inspection it moves!!!!!. I suspect it's a clam or something as it appears to have a mantle, it's usually open but closes when disturbed. The other find was some tiny little shrimp/lobster looking things. They are about an eighth of an inch long and transparent, they move very fast so I couldn't get a picture but they have a tail just like a shrimp/lobster.
Flreefer
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Hey Kd,
The small shrimp-like things sound like Copepods.
The small shrimp-like things sound like Copepods.
kdpuffer
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Yeah I think your right, I'm just used to seeing them as tiny white dots on the glass. I looked up images and there are some that definitely fit the bill. I always wondered how a mandarin can stay fat and full on such tiny bugs, they ain't so tiny lol.
Flreefer
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kdpuffer said:
There are so many different types of pods, it's crazy! I think Mandarins prefer the smaller sperm-like Amphipods and such. And they eat so darn many, it's like us surviving on popcorn. We would have to eat 3000 kernels a day to live. I've often thought the same about the Copperband, how can a fish that big survive on pods alone? When I got mine, it was eating Mysis, and it still cleaned out my 180, in about a month! Luckily, I've got a fuge to steadily replenish, but there was a massive population reduction!
Best of luck with your tank, Kd.
kdpuffer
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Ya I want a mandarin eventually. I am thinking of building a DIY hob fuge then I'll get one.
kdpuffer
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so i was just looking back through this thread and realized i havent added any pics in a while other than my torch coral. i will take some tonight after water change and upload them. while i was looking back i stumbled across the section asking for input on gobies and after another look that rainfords goby looks pretty sweet.
kdpuffer
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no i dont have an engineer, but im guessing you would recommend it lol. yours is awesome. i want something small as i want to keep bioload to minimum. on another note i stumbled across something on the weekend that i started a thread about but was quickly buried in the ongoing "is this aiptasia" or "is this bad" battle for supremacy. as many of us know its a royal pain to capture the full color and magnificence of our corals in pictures to share with the world. well i stumbled across an aid in that department. while waiting to leave i was looking at my tank with my sunglasses on and noticed the colors to be very vivid, this was under actinics btw. so i then thought " i wonder how this would work on my iphone?" well long story short it worked awesome and ill add some comparison photos when i upload pics later.
