cloudy water

[apet66]

I would assume distilled water would give you a definite zero starting point. But you know what happens when you assume.

 

[kwandrsn]

Yeah true. Can't wait till I get it.

 

[apet66]

Yeah its all so cool because everything is new. I've had fresh water aquariums for the last 30 years. This reef tank has been a new and exciting experience. Seriously, you will find yourself sitting in front of it with a flashlight at night looking for new creatures that just appear. Heck it was almost 4 months before I saw a crab that had hitch hiked in on my rock.

 

[kwandrsn]

Lol yeah I've been looking so far no crawling critters lol

 

[apet66]

Lol they are there. Just hiding.

 

[kwandrsn]

I only bought 2 1/2 lbs of live, rock to seed my dead rock

 

[apet66]

Ahhhhh, well I'm sure there is still some hitch hikers in there. Is it still cloudy? Picture?

 

[kwandrsn]

Ok I found a white wormy things sticking up when I shine light directly on them they disappear when I take the light off they come back

 

[apet66]

They have to be some form of feather duster or tube worm. Pulsating zenia doesn't retract like that. I have some.

 

[kwandrsn]

Ok well I'm not talking about the growth thing I shined the light in and there were small white things sticking up moving around and when I shined the light on them they disappeared. The growth with the "hands" doesn't seem to care about light or dark it stay out unless you touch out

 

[apet66]

Weird! Some form of a worm.

 

[kwandrsn]

There are several and they are really small and when you shine a light thru glass you can see them wiggling around but they don't actually move. When you shine light from top the disappear lol

 

[kwandrsn]

As for xenia looking thing its some sort of xenia I think everyone I've showed pictures too say it is

 

[apet66]

Sounds like you have a lot of cool stuff to keep you interested. I'm sure you will find lots more.

 

[kwandrsn]

Found a third thing coming out of rock. It has several tenticles coming out of hole and they have stripes and kinda hairy and long :-(

 

[kwandrsn]

Really freaky stuff I haven't looked in it in the dark. And I actually handled the rock with my bare hands :-(

 

[apet66]

Found a third thing coming out of rock. It has several tenticles coming out of hole and they have stripes and kinda hairy and long :-(

I'd lay money on a brittle star. I have 6 of them. Almost looks like octopus tentacles? White with brown stripes?

 

[apet66]

Their good. Part of the cleanup crew.

 

[kwandrsn]

Yeah they are like tan with brown stripes it looks I thought they were just algae but with the lights, out they, stretch out and when on they pull back almost all the way in

 

[kwandrsn]

I also have a, little white rock like tube with 2 hairs sticking out spionidae worm maybe