barderer

cool looking coral. I would be interested in buying a head mike.

Yeah I wonder how the poster who concluded its "garbage" went about making this decision.

You can prove it by having the paper trail that ties you back to the well known original source. Of course, at $70 an inch I would want a DNA profile!

Here are the peps that I KNOW eat the nasties, they also eat the goodies so remove them after they are done.

Lysmata hochi (Can be found all along the southern Texas coast)

Lysmata wurdemanni (Wide range all across Texas and the Caribbean

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Derek,

its very important you get the right type of pep. Often the ones available to us are not the variety you need. When I get home I will send you pics that will help you identify what type you have. Also, mine only come out at night. That is when they naturally come out in nature as well.

N

it blows my mind that people throw stuff like this away on a daily basis. Good job on being adaptable and recycling all that raw material.

I would think that would be a tad risky to introduce to your reef. I would get some peps from someone that has visited the coast lately. My rate of success with Texas peps is 100%.

As pbnj said the reason its good is because of its capability to grow like mad. So just don't dump it in the ocean like an A%% and all will be good. Put me down for a bag. Or I can trade you some dragons breadth?

excellent.

I will take this.

cool, I can also meet you this weekend at RC if that works for you. Or are you avail weekdays only?

ok how about I meet your employee next Friday 9/24 at RC at the time of his or hers choosing.

hmmm, crap my plane does not get in until 9:50pm on Friday. Could I paypal you the money then we can figure something out? I can do Sat and Sun times for sure.

hydro does the spoken for list include my hold? Or did you get others?

you can also try smaller amount of smaller food. Let him float around and find a spot it likes. Make sure to take dangerous power head out of the tank during this period.

Hydro, I would like one of these as well but can't get it until next weekend. If you can sell it to someone else before then by all means. But just keep me in mind for the next round.

if you want to invest the time to do it in a QT tank then you could try. But I agree with everyone, there is always another "deal"

I would take the hard advice and cut the coral on a healthy spot and start over before you loose the whole colony. Give yourself ample buffer of good tissue as well. So many times I thought I could "save" the colony just to watch it evaporate. Cutting a lot of frags when you first start to see it go is the best method to save it.

N

well when you slack off you have to pay the price.

must be nice to know rich people dumb enough to bill them that rate for THAT work.

I have this process down to an science. For tanks 50 gal and under its a breeze. For larger tanks more money should be invested into the design to avoid having to do this.

1) Remove all infested rocks and throw them in a garbage can or bucket full of fresh salt water and let it sit in the dark for a few weeks. Change the water completely a few times to let all the phosphates leech out. The darkness will also kill off the algae.

1b) Remove existing sand bed, clean and dry and store. Run bare bottom.

2) Siphon out as much algae and grim out of the display and do a large 30% water change.

3) Let the tank sit in darkness for 3 days, covered by a towel.

4) Start a new sand bed in a separate tank and seed it. Let it grow for 2 months.

5) Run a media reactor in the main tank with phosphate absorption material of your choice during this whole process.

7) Replace existing sand bed with new seeded sand bed from step 2.

8) Reduce photo period to 8 hours. (My corals do quite well with the reduced period because there is no "slim" for them to fight)

9) Reintroduce rocks, but elevate the above the sanded with smaller rocks or a pvc framework such that flow can get under the rocks and move the whole sand bed around the tank.

10) Mad flow, madddd floooooooooooooowwwww.

Repeat this process every 9 months. If you keep turning over your sand beds (use the same two beds over and over) you won't have to do the rock step again.

Thanks for the responses. Altex does not carry components anymore.

Ok, this used to be so easy but now its not. Where in town do you guys go to buy bare electrical components. I am looking for some power mosfets. Is there a warehouse that maintains a LARGE inventory?

Thanks,

Nick

if the other acan is like the first one I will take it.

that thing is spectacular. I would want to hold it for 6m to make sure it was real before I paid for it hehe.