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fualku

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My tank is about done cycling with all of my live rock. Things are looking pretty good and i dont want to loose anything. I have a few things in my tank that i don't know if they need special attention. I don't plan i getting any fish for a while. Is there anything i should do other than bi-weekly water changes. I'm also getting some alk/cal sup.
 
1 is a feather duster, 2 may be some type of zoo, 3 looks like a anemone of some kind maybe a flower anemone? not 100% on 2 or 3. 2 is hard to make out.
Feather dusters are filter feeders.... I would add some phytoplankton for it. If you have a SB it is good for that also... how about a full tank shot..
 
You got that LR from liverocks.com, didn't you? I did recently and I have all the same stuff. That anemone looks like aiptasia. It spread quite fast on me and I've been trying to kill them all.
It's been 3 weeks now and the only thing I've added is a tiny amount of Cyclop-eeze about once a week (other than weekly water changes). Everything seems to be doing very well so far.
 
I agree with seaham, number 2 looks like polyps, they get most of their nutrition by photosynthesis (Light Energy) but they will eat cyclopeeze :D Number 3 looks like a flower anemone, or maybe an aiptasia, im leaning towars aiptasia, which is a pest anemone, it has a very powerful sting, and will over populate corals, and kill them as well as fish if touched by the anemone. 1 is definately feather duster, they also like cyclopeeze. HTH
 
I have the same anemone from my rock. Its not your basic glass anemone, but another type of "pest' anemone. I did get a few glass ones which my peppermint shrimp took care of.
The anemone pictured has not hurt a thing or spread and its been 3 months. I killed 2 off and kept on to see what it will do.
I'm watching it close, but so far so good. Little too big for my peppermint shrimp to eat. :lol:
I'm not suggesting keeping it, by all means zap it. I just wanted to watch one for a while.
 
I don't think i can bring myself to getting rid of him just yet. I did notice i have probably three other much smaller ones. I looked around for Cyclop-eeze and i saw some freeze dried. I also saw some DT's Live Marine Phytoplankton. Will a protien skimmer remove this quickly or should i not really worry about it and just dose every week? I also noticed some pretty cool looking light purple stuff! Must be some kind of coral.
 
No 1 is for sure a feather duster. Number two looks more like the skeleton of a small LSP coral, perhaps a sun coral colony at one time. pretty common on LR from the keys, Gulf and Carribean. No. three is a pest anenome. They can spread pretty quickly so you may want to get rid of it.
 
Number two looks more like the skeleton of a small LSP coral, perhaps a sun coral colony at one time.
If you look to the ones on the right, you can see their little yellow center, I believe those would be zoo's
 
I still think tye look like LPS skeletons. Faulku...is that little colony shown in pic 2 hard or does it feel soft and mushy?
 
Great pic, it helps out a lot. That is definantly the skeleton of a LSP coral. I think it is Phyllangia americana (hidden cup coral). I got a ton of it on the Caribean LR Iget from the LFS. I just bought an orange cup coral, or orange sun coral (Tubastrae faulkneri) a couple of weeks ago. There is a pic in my gallery if you wanted to know what yours use to look like. Mine is of a different genus, but within the same family. so they would look similar. QuarryShark is right...LR is WAY cool! :lol:
 
You speak as if it were dead. Mine has feelers that come out when the lights come on or when I put cyclop-eeze in the water. They've also been growing.
 
I als have a couple that put out clear feelers at night. I looks like some in the pic are pretty bleeched. Not to say some may still be alive.
 
lando said:
I still think tye look like LPS skeletons. Faulku...is that little colony shown in pic 2 hard or does it feel soft and mushy?

It is soft, Some of them open and close up a little.
 
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