Elizzy

See second picture here. The strings reminded me of spaghetti worm. (I know I'm a little late with this, just came across it today.)

Sorry to hear it -- was following your thread because I had the same thing happen to me early on. You'll want to do a water change right away if you can.

Well I just bought new bulbs for the Coralife to last me until I pick up the two other LEDs. (Hopefully just a couple of months.) You interested in the Coralife?

BTW, love the car pic...I have one just like it, but it's white & orange.

Odd, never had chemi clean -not- work. Are you stopping your filter/skimmer and adding an air source for 48 hours? What's your nitrate at?

Their acans have flourished in my tank, and I'm a newb. They're doing even better now under the new LEDs.

Try craigslist. I sold a 55 on there within minutes of posting it.

Picked up the Truelumen Current USA strip and all I have to say is, it was one of the best purchases ever! I'm thinking I'll get two more and max out the power supply, but ditch the coralife...One 24" strip does what the coralife does. Thanks so much for pointing me in the right direction, Timfish, Aqua-Dome & Ludakris!

Heck yeah I want the Xenia! At the moment, you do not want anything out of my tank. I've got mysterious leather coral eaters I'm still trying to identify. So let's hold for the moment. If you need any hardware, I've got a fluval, and a couple of hob filters (emperor, and double something) from my freshwater days. I also have cash...but we can talk about it later after I catch this (these?!?) dang flatworms. Bottle trap set tonight.

Hey Bige, I don't know what is eating what in my tank of late. Supposedly the polyclad flatworm doesn't eat corals, but then I saw a post where a bunch of them were attacking fish... I'm going to remove the rock I think it lives in and try to get it out today. If that fails, I'll make a bottle trap... I really, really wish I had started off with dead rock.

Yesterday I saw a brittle star arm pulling pieces off the leather coral - sigh.. Now I understand why people give up (if it's not one thing, it's 400,012). I promptly grabbed my forceps and removed said arm, but as I was exacting my anger on the long, skinny arm, one of my fat clownfish attacked me. Already being on edge about the flatworm, I nearly had a coronary. The noise I made startled my boyfriend awake who was napping on the couch.

I loved the xenia...the way it pulsed and moved like fields of wheat...well minus the pulsing part, but that would be cool if fields of wheat did that. If you'd like to get rid of some, please let me know

If you do not want to mess with a wrasse I have used an arrow crab which was easy to catch once the job is done.

Ah thanks, but those arrow crabs scare me so much. (I have a huge fear of spiders, and anything that looks like them)

Those are crazy. I don't think I'd know what to do if I found that either. They look exactly like nudi's at first. I just read about an 8" one in a nano tank.

Well it's a good thing I didn't use tweezers as they are built like smoke and fall apart easily - and the parts live - agggghhhhh. They reproduce by splitting... Aggghhhhhh. So either I net it, trap it, or try to suck it up in a turkey baster. If all those methods fail, I'll remove the rock and dip it in FW. Also I did a search on these worms here at ARC, NOT ONE POST. Maybe this is the first one in Austin!

Due to my indecisiveness I have decided to do black and white sand.

That's exactly what I did

It looks a lot like these. It's very flat and moves fast!!

I remember when this guy came in...I misidentified it as a stomatella because it had a half shell. AGGGGHHHHHH.

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Further update...

Well...after further research I might have a polyclad flatworm (which probably ate the stomatella, lol). It would explain all the snail deaths (which I attributed to having an unseen predator like oenone worm). It looks exactly like this and moves like

Whatever it is, I will try to trap it. Will post pictures!

Thanks Aqua-Dome I dipped the corals last night and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.

Checking the tank this morning, noticed big bite marks up the stalk of my leather coral…then I see IT. O.M.G. The king daddy of all nudibranchs. This sucker was 3.5” (yes, inches) long and 1.5” wide. I ran to grab my extra long forceps, but then I hesitated to find something big enough to put it in. By the time I got back to the tank, it was out of sight.

It’s dark grey with blue spots and a dark brownish black line running down it’s back. It doesn’t have any frills, very smooth. Small antennae. It moves quickly over the rock work.

Has anyone heard of anything like this? I am so freaked out. I’ve got to remove it, but how? Just pull an all nighter and try to catch it with tweezers? Set some kind of trap? Will a wrasse even touch something this big?

TGIF.

Remember awhile back, when my xenia just mysteriously died (see sig). I chalked it up to beginner’s unluck…

Over the past few months, I noticed my little zoa plugs were disappearing…Again, I figured bad lighting, asterinas, something was killing them.

Now, however, my beautiful large leather corals aren't opening anymore and there are bite marks around their edges.

I believe I have a Coral-eating nudibranch (or 5 million)

Obviously, I've had it for some time now, considering when the xenia died.

I’m going to dip my leathers in a solution similar to lugols (can’t recall the name, but it’s iodine based and was recommended when the store was out of lugols). Will pick up a wrasse too. I kind of wanted to stay away from wrasses because I’ve heard some horror stories about them – does anyone have a recommendation of a nice wrasse? Yellow coris? (Other inhabitants: yellow watchman goby, firefish, 2 clowns, cleaner shrimp, emerald crab, 2 hermit crabs, large snail).

Since this nudi appears to be attacking all my soft corals, if I remove the leathers to a QT, should I be worried about the myriad of mushrooms, frogspawn, acan, or even plate?

Any other thoughts?

Thank you!!

Thanks for the info! I went ahead and ordered the marine fusion (mix of blue and white) true lumen. Will let you know how it works out! I'm assuming I should work with a reduced lighting schedule in the beginning?

p.s. The failures seem to result from not following directions with the power supplies - so you were right there.

Thank you!!

I did some prelim net research and found a few folks rejecting Current USA due to issues with product malfunction 6mos - year into use. Have you had any experience with that? Obviously, they're very cost-effective -see this. The Current USA downers recommended Reefbrite - I liked the 30" as opposed to 24" only because my tank span is 30. If y'all haven't experienced any problems with Current USA and think it's the way to go in conjunction with my current lighting - I'll do it!!

Hi there,

Wanted to get any opinions on switching from Coralife Aqualight High Output T5 Aquarium Lighting Fixture, 2X31W, 30 inch to Marineland Reef Capable LED Light - 24 in. to 36 in.

As it is now, the Coralife is sustaining my corals (acans, mushrooms, frogspawn, gsp, orange plate coral, zoas), but everything is dull (except for the plate coral who is amazingly happy). I want to see more color in the tank, so if you have any recommendations --- please let me know!! (29 gallon high/30" length)

Much thanks!!!

-Elizzy

Thanks for asking For the most part, he still looks the same. The hole is a tad bigger, but there is flesh starting to build up in it, which makes me hopeful. He definitely doesn't look like http://www.marineaquariumsa.com/showthread.php?t=24318, but I was surprised to find a few links to the same thing on google search. I'm just waiting to see what happens. I don't want to medicate the tank as I don't have a hospital tank.

Recently used chemiclean to get rid of the cyano, at the moment nitrates are less than .5.

Hi all,

Here's a picture of my watchman goby with a hole in his side. For a week or so both of his sides have been whitish, but not like a classic fungus - I thought he just scraped himself, but as of this morning, there is now a hole. Other tank inhabitants: 2 clowns, firefish, cleaner shrimp, emerald crab (new as of yesterday), bristle worms

Any advice?

Thanks!!

Thank you all so much!! I was sooo worried! I have a metric ton of pineapple sponges, but then these yellow guys just started showing up.

Breathing a huge sigh of relief,

-E

Please see next post for pic, sorry about the double post.

Mod, please delete this

I've done some research and can't seem to find anything on these eggs. Can anyone id them? I'm worried they belong to oenone fulgida, which could explain my dead snail count.

Sorry about the blurry pic. The egg case seems to have a tube attached.

Thanks so much!!

-E

I've done some research and can't seem to find anything on these eggs. Can anyone id them? I'm worried they belong to oenone fulgida, which could explain my dead snail count.

Sorry about the blurry pic. The egg case seems to have a tube attached.

Thanks so much!!

-E

Thanks SO much for all of your help. I believe the red gunk was there when I purchased the live rock. We simply got a pair of tweezers and really gently pulled it off. Everything looks good now. We will keep checking all levels, but for now everything is hunky-dory.

Thanks again for all of your advice!

The cyano I have dealt with had to be siphoned out - I could've never pulled it out with tweezers which makes me think maybe you were removing coralline algae -- my coralline starts off red and then turns pink.