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Sending PM regarding trading for some nuclear green CC's.

I had a little frag of this that was sold to me at Aquatek as Meridiona (I think, something like that) but I had already figured out it wasn't that. Unfortunately my little frag that was on a plug got misplaced in my tank. I guess it fell down into the rocks. I was wondering if I might find it alive when I go to move my tank in a few months or if it will have died from lack of light by then.

Funny you made this post today because just this morning (or maybe over the weekend) my redfin wrasse went through the overflow and into my sump. Funny thing is that I immediately knew something was up because although he's new to the tank (got him and a flame hawk at the same time about 3-4 weeks ago so Derek your post got my attention) he is almost always out front, so I checked behind the tank to see if he went "carpet surfing" and didn't see him. A little while later, one of my patients who is interested in salt tanks was looking at my sump and noticed him in there. I still haven't caught him. I think I'm gonna have to take the protein skimmer out to get him, so he's just hanging out for now. I might try using a soda bottle trap before I go to the trouble of taking out the skimmer. What a pain! But I've had the tank for over 10 years and rarely if ever had any jumpers, even though the hood I had until last September was wide open in back. My new hood has two openings about 2"-3" wide where the pipes exit. I have a regular Mandarin who's been in there at least a year and a half, a flame angel (bout a year), two PJ Cards (probably 8 years) and new to the tank are the flame hawk, redfin wrasse and Diamond spotted Goby.

I still haven't seen him since I let him loose Wednesday. I hope he's still okay. If he's a goner, I'm gonna have to blame the Flame Hawk and his lease may be up soon. First thing the hawk did when I got him a week ago was to kill my firefish who had been there for 5 years!

I just got him today, so I know I should just be patient, but does anyone have one that "nests" back behind all the rocks or do they almost always find a spot out front to tend? When I let him loose, he sat on a rock for a few minutes, then hid behind the rocks. I know he's doing something back there because the sand is all stirred up so the water looks cloudy, but I haven't seen him since he ducked behind the rocks. There is the slight possibility that the sand is stirred up because he and my new Flame Hawk are fighting back there, but I doubt it because I have been seeing the hawk off and on. I've been wanting a sand sifting goby for a while to keep the detritus and cyano from accumulating on the sand in front. I'm just hoping he's not going to decide to just tend the sand behind the rocks so I won't ever see him.

I think this says it all. Subsea's beautiful tank aside, most of us end up having more problems in the long run if we don't use RO/DI. Even if you go to the trouble of obtaining a water quality report on your source, who's to say the water will be the same each time you use it? I do trust the public water supply for my own consumption and that of my family. I think it's silly that so many people insist on buying bottled drinking water or doing the heavy filtration for regular drinking water. I will buy it for the convenience of being able to grab a bottle of water and go, but at home or restaurants I just drink tap. That being said, I don't trust it for my tank for the reason Liz stated above. The organisms are far more sensitive with their little delicate bodies than I am to small impurities and the system is contained so what may be a small amount of something going in can concentrate to higher levels as you keep adding it. Also, the problems people tend to have from water quality are sometimes slow to evolve and hard to determine the cause of. Bad stuff soaks into the rock, then slowly leeches out of it for a long time after you start using RO/DI.

I've never heard of a mushroom eating a fish. Do you have a link to the post? I've got a lot of fuzzy mushrooms in my tank (as you saw when you came by the office) and never thought they were in any way dangerous for fish, but I don't have clowns.

I've read in several posts here that Prof is a good source for low priced live rock and dry rock. I haven't looked at his rock myself, but I know he's a good guy.

I might have to have some of those Hawaiian zoas. PMing.

Actually, now that you say that, Dave I think that was the idea. It's been so long ago, I don't remember exactly, but it seems like someone told me a specific amount of time to wait between treatments. Like I said, it's been years and I haven't seen a FW since.

I had to use the flatworm exit several years ago, and my experience was similar to yours as far as how amazingly quickly it worked. However, I think I did have to repeat the treatment a while later. I didn't have as many delicate corals at the time as you do, so I didn't have any die off, but I do remember my GSP was mad for a long time. It wasn't nearly as bad with the second treatment. I agree with the others as far as just keep skimming, filtering with carbon and changing water til you come out the other side. Good luck!

If you still have the Monti's, I may have to take them off your hands (or off your frag rack). Not sure if I want the red or the undata. sending PM. edit: Oops, just saw you had already sold the red one. I may still come by to look at the undata.

I'll take a dozen glazed. You can deliver them to my office at Parmer and Mopac...