Melissa

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Trying to make some room in the cube, so I have a few things up for grabs.

Torch Coral: $20 SOLD

One large head. Skeleton is about 3 inches long. The base of the head is about 3 inches when inflated, and the tentacles reach about 6-7 inches across, very long. Also, some tentacles have multiple bubble tips on the ends, kinda looking like frogspawn. It's just growing too big and starting to reach my other corals.

GSP Plug: $5

A plug covered in GSP.

Devil's Hand leather $10

Frag is about 2-3 inches. Already attached to rocks.

This is one of the best videos you have made. Great "set".

Nobody wants to try it? What about spam? I can make spam musubis a hawaiian favorite

Spam Musubis is one of my fave foods. So easy to make, and so yummy. Do you have the actual mold that is made for it?

Check out Marks vid. Go to 2:15 (though the whole video is awesome) It pertains to your question.

http://www.mrsaltwatertank.com/i-kill-red-bugs/

Omg, I love the pony that is upside down. How long do you raise the babies for before you are able to start moving them out?

Check this out - Mark's link - it's awesome.

was just about to post that! lol

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Had this set up for freshwater and shut the tank down a couple weeks ago to make some room. I thought I would offer it here up for trade. It is the tank only.

Looking for a frag or two. Interested in acans, neat zoas, duncans, ricordia... just no GSP, Xenia, Kenyas etc.

Thanks for looking.

You guys are the bestest and I can't thank you enough for all the help and knowledge (and rescues) you have given me over the years.

Your PMs are full I think. Do you still have the blue spot goby?

I hear ya lol. Mine wedged itself into a hold in a rock right near my Supermans, and a few others I care more about. Once he started walking I peeled him off with no problem.

Is it possible to get a larger piece of PVC pipe to put the heater inside of so that it isn't exposed? Maybe the pipe would be too thick to hitch onto.

I used my small powerhead in our BioCube when our GBTA wouldn't budge from a spot that I couldn't have him in. I pointed the stream closer to it to make it mad and it moved within a couple hours,

After your tank is empty, ( you can reuse the sand) soak your tank in vinegar for a while, like overnight. After, the coralline will wipe off and you can rinse the tank out until it’s clean. You can rinse the sand and then boil it, then rinse again afterward. (I just use the hose outside).

What type of filtration do you want to use? And what types of inhabitants do you want to stock?

What do you want to know? Saltwater, I never really can pipe up on, but freshwater I can more.

WOOHOO!! A Southside meeting! We will be there! I the Dome

Ok, update time. After a second molt last week, I noticed new pinchers on the little guy, or gal as I am now thinking. She is continuing to eat very well, and I am starting to see more Asterinas with missing legs than before, and I always see her on one munching away. She doesn't go into hiding at all, which to me is nice, but always stayed in one of two places. Either the far right, back corner under the leather, or front and center, under her mushroom.

I was up North over the weekend and found another one for a great deal, that I thought was male, so I took it home. After acclimating, I released him about a half inch away from the rescue, who "puffed" up (made herself as big as she could) for about 5 seconds. The new one just walked a little closer, and then started cleaning his antennae. She deflated and watched for a few minutes, still munching her star. After that, I kid you not, the she took the new one on a tour of the tank. I had never seen her in some of the areas they traveled to. Newest spot, on top of all the rocks. I turned on the lights at lunch today, and found them like in the photos below. Again, my camera broke, so my iPhone was all I had at the moment. They are never apart, and that alone made me happy. But they were "holding hands" and when I finally got my head between that tank and my 75, I realized they were sharing a starfish that the new one was carrying around. Anyhow.

I believe I may have one Hymenocera picta and one Hymenocera elegans. Their colors are similar, though different. . The new one has a more brownish hue to it's spots, while the other is a much brighter purple. I will see if I can borrow a camera that can capture these guys. I think I have fallen in love.

I found a really neat article relating to these guys while I have been trying to learn more about them. I hope it's ok to post it.

http://www.chucksadd...quinshrimp.html

I accidently knocked some off our light into my tank, right over my 4 headed hammer coral. I lost all of them over a few days. I know they are more sensitive but still thought I would throw my 0.02 in. I hope it pulls through.

Dave, how long does it take him to eat the CCs? Do your water parameters change while he's eating one, since it takes them a while to finish one?

Mike and August, thanks. I keep holding my breath when I look in the tank, because I've never had an such an expensive invert, ever lol. I'm scared I will do something wrong. I just want to make sure he gets whatever he needs.

I stopped by the Dome last week, and when wandering upstairs saw a Harlequin shrimp that had been there since Christmas Eve. But he had been laying on his side the whole time. No one was sure what was wrong, so Hunter gave him to me. I didn't hope for much since he was on his side for over a week, his mate had been purchased already, and well, no one knew exactly what was up. The only thing that came to mind was maybe he was trying to molt, which Hunter agreed with, but it hadn't happened.

After acclimating him for about an hour, I picked him out (still laying down) and put him next to a rock in the biocube. I started to realize part of the reason he was on his side. All his legs on his left side were broken and twisted in every direction. My husband thought maybe he would be ok, since we have rocks he can "lean" against. Sure enough the shrimp hung out under my leather, leaning against its base and standing as much upright as can be expected.

I figured since my pep molts just fine, that he would be able too as well at some point, when he was comfortable. I woke up the following morning to find him as he was just emerging from his shell, laying on his side, and stretching out his legs. My pep got curious about the shell and came over and started picking it, and accidently touched the Harlequin, who immediately spooked and popped up and started walking around. I noticed one leg still funny looking but the others seemed to have repaired themselves with the molt. He's very active now and stays mostly in the front of the tank and isn't afraid of my hands when I have to go move stuff around due to the bubble tip relocating.

I found a rather large (to me) Asterina star about the size of my thumbnail making its way into my powerhead, so I plucked him and flipped him over in front of the Harly who instantly started going to town on it. He was working on it for hours! I thought that they only ate the sucker feet off the stars,but no, he was eating it arm by arm. Even when he goes home, he comes back to the same spot and finds the star, and continues.

I have read about some peoples Harlequins eating other food aside from Stars, does anyone else have information on that? I have no issues supplying CCs for him, once he clears out my Asterinas. Just to me it seems like they would need something else in addition, kinda like how we vary food for the fish. Also does anyone have a good way of supplying the CCs to them? Do you keep a lot of CCs in a sump and cut the legs off alternatley, or do you put a whole one in? ( I don't want to chance a whole one with corals though).

Also, please add anything else about them that you would like to share. I would like to get another but don't know the right way to sex them and I don't want them to battle. Some sites say you can't sex them, others say females have blue legs/males have clear ones.. Mine has blue and white striped.

Thanks for reading

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Joseph, thank you so much. The hammers are beautiful. I can't believe the chalice "frags" haven't been snatched up yet. They are more like chalice CHUNKS. They are are huge and the colors are amazing. Even the mushroom tree was awesome.Thank you again!

I have the Seaclone myself, and while it's not the best, it was a freebie lol. I had to take out the hosing that came with it, and replace it with a silicone airline hose. I also have the air valve shut off, (bc it didn't seem to make a difference , it still sucked in air) but i tied a knot in the hose and I can adjust the looseness of it. I will try to get a picture of it to see if it would help you in the meantime. It really helped the suction after that.