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    New Percula Clown

    in Reef Keeping

    Posted · Edited by gordon12345

    Picked this guy up yesterday from Aquatek, already settled well with the previously lonely (for almost 12 months) other male Percula (who is slightly bigger).

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    Best photo of the year award?

    Just happy they took to each other (with only 30 minutes fighting yesterday). Reef rock also from aquatek (last weekend), just finished moving over all my stuff from my original tank to this new acrylic + sump setup. LED lighting (retrofit) also from Aquatek a few weeks back.

    trade/sell: 20G L Tank + PETCO LINCOLN PARK 20 & 29 GALLON AQUARIUM STAND

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Will sell or trade, my interest: red bubble tip anemone, any anemone to host my two percula clowns, zoas, interesting mushrooms, red/pink (not orange/yellow) tubastrea coral, reef friendly star fish, $80 OBO, etc. I shutdown my old tank and started fresh with this one so I'm looking for a lot of variety, I only kept the two clowns.

    I just finished setting up my new 20G long tank and custom stand so I am selling my glass tank and stand.

    The tank is a standard 20G long, the stand is

    PETCO LINCOLN PARK 20 & 29 GALLON AQUARIUM STAND

    http://reviews.petco...ews/reviews.htm

    Pictures:

    Collection only, I live at I-35 @ Airport BLVD exit.

    I paid $159 for the stand.

    PETCO Animal Supplies, INC. shipped the following item(s) in your order

    105-8551582-6301848, placed on July 31, 2010.

    Delivery Estimate: August 10, 2010

    You have been charged for the following items shipped today:

    PETCO Lincoln Park 20 & 29 Gallon Aquarium Stand

    Sold by: PETCO Animal Supplies, INC.

    Condition: new

    Quantity: 1

    $159.99 each

    Item subtotal: $159.99

    New 40B with 40B sump.

    in Tank Builds

    Posted

    Overflow : i now have a stand pipe coming off they hole and a strainer over the top. also i took a peice of 1/4" stiff water line (like the stuff used in a DO/DI system) and shoved it down the overflow and left about 1/2" standing above the water line. this has COMPLETELY silenced the system... loving it.

    Cool, I may try this. Putting together my sump etc this weekend.

    As for the rocks, I doubt they will settle to the bottom. I had a cichilid tank a while back and had the same sort of setup, if anything the rocks come to the top of the sand over time.

    Sundial Snail Killed My ZOAs?

    in Reef Keeping

    Posted

    I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents worth. First, I'm pretty sure Gary accounts for about 900 years, not to detract from Terry and Hunter's experience but it seems reasonable to me that they only have about 20 years each, however, I haven't actually asked them and admittedly I could be off a couple years (just trying to look out for you Gary grin.png ). In my own experience it can take weeks or months from a stress event before a coral shows signs of a problem and not every coral may react the same way. This shouldn't stop us from looking at why a coral died and I like the process you went through Gordon to figure out why, just keep in mind a lot of the time especially with new corals we just may never know. (Here's a thread I posted awhile ago detailing a problem I had earlier this year with a frustrating problem with Fungia in one of my tanks: http://www.austinree...ungia-sp-death/ .) I am really glad to see the discussion about parasite/preditors of coral and quarantining corals. As more and more people are growing thier own coral and swapping stuff this is unfortunately becoming more of a problem. Used to be all I worried about were mantis shrimp in live rock.

    Thanks timfish smile.png. I'll check out the link and read in full in a bit, just looked briefly. I've seen a lot of the same sort of stuff on the other reef forums this week while researching, so I guess it's not really a surprise that I lost one. I currently have 9 different ZOA colonies in the tank and never lost one (3 years), so 1 out of 10 sounds pretty good after reading those links with some even quoting "50/50 chance" with ZOAs.

    Gordon, meet mike, austin reef club's resident (usually well-meaning) ranter. Now that you've had the trial by fire initiation, please feel free to call us if you ever have any questions. And yes, that is a trochus snail.

    Thanks for the ID and advice offering, I always enjoy browsing your store smile.png

    Sundial Snail Killed My ZOAs?

    in Reef Keeping

    Posted · Edited by gordon12345

    ^ thanks to you both. That sounds right then, this probably isn't a sundial.

    Just also read that sundial snails move with their shell perpendicular to the ground and mine isn't doing that: http://www.reefcentr...&postid=5245201

    On separate note: I've been using lugols solution to dip, but I'll check out CoralRX.

    I've put him back in the tank smile.png Appreciate the quick help with the ID and advice.

    Sundial Snail Killed My ZOAs?

    in Reef Keeping

    Posted · Edited by gordon12345

    I don't know if you have some mental issues, are just a keyboard warrior in general but wow, way to go off on a rant like a complete *******.

    Like I said in my first post:

    Don't get me wrong, I like the people at aquadome I previously bought my chili coral and a couple of other pieces there and always like browsing. But I wish they or I had known about this snail issue sad.png.

    Did I blame anyone? No, I didn't so pull the stick out of your ***, and calm down. I clearly stated my lack of knowledge on the matter...which is why......

    I asked three questions, because I'm looking for help.

    • is it a sundial snail? (it's about the size of quarter, or maybe a tad smaller)
    • Did it kill my Zoa?
    • What should I do with the snail?

    Also like I said,

    I've spent all week researching the possible cause (LED lighting, water params, etc). My tank is in perfect condition, KH, GH, PH, CA, temp, all perfect.

    So yes, I have been googling it. I've been keeping fish for about 10 years, I'm not a retard. I asked on a forum about this because it's unusual behavior which doesnt match the 2-10 days degradation of zoas that I see online. My feeling was that the rate of "slime/white foam" was way too fast (overnight) to be degradation from anything other than a physical attack on the coral. I woke up the next morning with film/slime covering it. But again, this is why I'm here asking questions trying to eliminate all causes and become a better aquarist.

    Also back up a minute and stop blaming the store.... There is a very good chance that the small snail came in on your initial rock work, known as a "hitchhiker" Please search previous threads and/or use your GoogleFu skills to read up on this everyday occurrence. It may have even been stashed away in the zoa rock and YOU failed to see it and properly dispose of it before placing it in your tnak. Also known as "quarantining" What is quarantining my new hobbyist with the lack of experience, it's this process of holding new corals and fish in another smaller tnak so that if there is a problem it can be identified before placing the new specimen within the display tnak where it can wreak untold havoc on the entire system.

    What you say, and I'm still not finished. Back up yet again from blaming the store.... You say the zoa slimed over completely within a short period and then died off. Zoas do that. Google it, search function it. All kinds of corals will slime up, turn white before dying, and then be seen covered in snails or hermits. They are eating the detritus just as a good clean up crew should. Am I saying out loud that there is a possibility that for some unknown reason your water did not match the ideal conditions for that particular coral and it just up and died? What? In this hobby? Of course I am. I've spent countless dollars over the years watching a new specimen melt away shortly after placing the coral in the tnak.

    So keep in mind that the Dome is actually your friend, however if you come online and hint around that they dealt you a wrong blow, they may not care to help you in the future. Hunter, Gary and Terry have been in the hobby for a combined total of about 940 years, give or take, and are really great people. If a mistake was made, take it up with them, not here on the forum. If they dealt you a wrong blow by telling you off in the store, scammed you at the register etc, then by all means call a shop out, however there are way to many variables in the hobby to go around trying to lay blame online for a purchase YOU made and failed to quarantine. Can you tell, from a picture, the difference between the snails I posted and the snail you posted? Probably not. Do Doctors sometime see similar symptoms and occasionally misdiagnose something? To be 100% sure all the time is not human, as the saying goes "to err is human".

    I'm not just sticking up for the Dome, I'd do that for any shop you called out as you did in this post. This would not be the fault of any shop. The real issue here is simple "Is this a Sundial Snail? Did this snail eat my new zoas? If this is a Sundial Snail, what should I do now?"

    Again, I never claimed to be an expert. I never blamed the dome. All I asked was my three questions and stated that I could use some help because I'm not familiar with snails.

    Sundial Snail Killed My ZOAs?

    in Reef Keeping

    Posted · Edited by gordon12345

    I bought some fiji rock, zoas, frogspawn, snails, and crabs from aquadome last weekend ( http://www.austinree...-zoa-frogspawn/ ), within 24 hours my red zoa colony ($39!) was covered in a white film and dying.

    I've spent all week researching the possible cause (LED lighting, water params, etc). My tank is in perfect condition, KH, GH, PH, CA, temp, all perfect. I just came across this thread:

    http://webcache.goog...n&ct=clnk&gl=us

    which lead to this page of predators: http://www.coralpedi...2&g2_itemId=384

    which I found this "sundial snail" on: http://www.coralpedi...2&g2_itemId=424

    The guy that pulled my Zoas also selected my snails for me (heck I don't know anything about snails), and this was one of them (see pic below).

    1. is it a sundial snail? (it's about the size of quarter, or maybe a tad smaller)
    2. Did it kill my Zoa?
    3. What should I do with the snail?

    Don't get me wrong, I like the people at aquadome I previously bought my chili coral and a couple of other pieces there and always like browsing. But I wish they or I had known about this snail issue sad.png.

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    New 40B with 40B sump.

    in Tank Builds

    Posted

    Looks good, but a few things I'm not keen on:

    • the sand
    • the black stuff/rocks/pebbles in the sand
    • overflow doesn't seem to have a strainer? Coral only tank?

    I really like the rock work, I like how you did the arches etc. Did you have to glue them together at all, or do they just sit like that?

    110gal shallow reef Volcano Rimless

    in Tank Builds

    Posted · Edited by gordon12345

    cool just saw your video (you just post the url of the video page and it auto embeds it) like:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZGrJtepHX0&feature=channel_video_title

    Not worried about crabs etc jumping off the rocks onto your floor? smile.png

    Zoa + Frogspawn

    in Austin Aqua-Dome

    Posted · Edited by gordon12345

    Thanks, unfortunately it doesn't seem like the red zoas are going to survive, this morning they were half covered in a white film. I've done a hydrogen peroxide and iodine dip, and tried to scrape off the affected polyps. Fingers crossed they pull through. Everything else is very healthy, tank is healthy. Kicking myself for not curing those 3 large "reef" rocks that I got at the same time, as that's all I can suspect as the cause at this point (only other variable).

    Glass Drill Bit

    in Do It Yourself

    Posted · Edited by gordon12345

    Im about to do the same, my understanding is the diamond drill bits don't last long, especially the cheap $20 ones, so may be best to get a new one anyway.

    I'd be happy to pay someone $20 to drill a new tank for me.

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