Saltwater & Reef

**Zer0** · 09-10-2009, 11:54 PM

Alrighty, heres ALOT of pictures. Ill be walking you through them. ;D

Here's my battered up Zoos that aren't looking to good. Don't know why. :/

Here's my purple firefish that i've come to like. He chills outside the rocks now.

Here's my emerald crab next to my candy cane coral:

And here's my candy cane coral next to my emerald crab.

A couple snails and my green birdsnest frag which i think looks awesome.

**Zer0** · 09-10-2009, 11:55 PM

Here are my Xenias that seem to not want to open up anymore..

Here's my hammer coral that has 4 heads:

Tried to get a good picture of my cleaner, but was a little tough because hes a quick one.

You are looking at the tube of my poor decimated feather duster. :'( Shed a tear for my poor duster that became snail food.

**Zer0** · 09-10-2009, 11:56 PM

Here are my green stay polyps which are my favorite coral so far. Love these. And they're doing awesome too.

If you look next to the ball of cheato, you'll find my 2nd emerald crab.

FTS:

Side Shot:

Just a little feather duster and some plants taking root into my sand.

So anyways, other than my GSP's, you guys think my other coral look ok? Besides the Xenia and the Zoas. Do the rest look healthy?

Etunes · 09-11-2009, 12:06 AM

Like it all. The zoas do look rather beat up though, but give them time. I like your emerald crabs and your teeny weenie feather duster.

**Zer0** · 09-11-2009, 12:20 AM

Thanks dooood.

thominil · 09-12-2009, 11:23 AM

That's the amount of pics we want! Now if you could just put up that many each day.......

Looks great!

Any update on the killer snails?

Tank2379 · 09-12-2009, 12:00 PM

Are you eventually going to move the Cheato down to a Sump or Fuge?

**Zer0** · 09-12-2009, 12:02 PM

Yeah, so the snails produce slime.. and a lot of it.. and it stick to the sand, and then it like floats up in the water current.. so now i have like sandy strings of slime just floating in the water.. its weird. And yes.. once i get a sump or refugium, im going to put the chaeto in that.

Tank2379 · 09-12-2009, 12:12 PM

What salt mix are you using?

**Zer0** · 09-12-2009, 08:24 PM

Oceanic. Why?

Etunes · 09-13-2009, 02:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Zer0

Yeah, so the snails produce slime.. and a lot of it.. and it stick to the sand, and then it like floats up in the water current.. so now i have like sandy strings of slime just floating in the water.. its weird.

Thats weird, are you just letting it get sucked up by the filter or are you picking it out? Kinda makes me want hermits instead of snails in that case.

thominil · 09-13-2009, 11:26 AM

Hermits don't do half the work that snails do. You will have to have snails at some point. Hermits will kill those snails for their shell if they feel that they need a bigger one. Adding extra shells may work, but the problem is that the hermits need to find the shells first. Those shells will become buried by sand over time and will not move, a moving snail will be easier for the hermit to find. HTH.