Bearfan
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Excellent! Did you have it on a normal light schedule and all? Did you dip the rock, or just place it direct?
Did you dip the rock, or just place it direct?
I agree..highly recommend you have a couple 5g buckets on hand, one mixed to the proper SG (using carbonated water) and one mixed to the appropriate SG using RO/DI water. Dunk the rock in the carbonated SW first and let it sit for a minute, the fizzing will drive mantis and other unwanted hitchikers nuts and cause them to flee the rock to get away from it. Then dunk the rock in the RO/DI SW and place it in the tank. Be prepared to put the beneficial hitchikers back in the tank, they don't like the fizzing either
Hey Kevin wanna put some money on it??? lolI suspect it will go higher than .25
normal light schedule
I would want to remove the mantis shrimp and pistol shrimp and bristle worms
Is there anything else I should look out for?
If there were ones I could not recognize, could I house them temporarily in my 3 gal tank until I could get them Identified if the water conditions were the same as my tank?
Would the dips hurt the other life forms such as the sponges, corals, feather dusters, nudibranch or whatever has decided this rock isn't too bad a place to live?
How long would they survive in the carbonated water before causing damage to the beneficial species?
Oh yeah, and I was kind of serious about what kind of carbonated water, or does it matter.
The pistols, I was more concerned about the noise. This tank is in my bedroom.
That's what I was thinking. So, you're not a crab fan?
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The pistols, I was more concerned about the noise. This tank is in my bedroom.
Oh yeah, they wopuldn't be in my tank if they were anywhere near the bedroom
I placed them in a 29gal tank that I had that was empty then I traded all of them for some frags.. However 1 mantis ate the other lol...How did you dispose of the crabs and mantis shrimp?