KevinB

23 hours ago, Timfish said:

Welcome back!  Thin Stripe Hermits from the coast are great herbivores and quite comical.  Actinodiscus sp. mushrooms would be a good first coral to add to your system.

Sounds good, I love shroom corals too

bump!  lol!

My son will be studying marine biology or ecology at Texas A&M Corpus Christi, and we visited the campus last weekend.  Of course we went searching for marine animals and shells...we came away with a few lightning whelk shells that were empty, until we got home and the next day realized all 3 had hermit crabs in them!   My wife insisted we go buy them a tank immediately, so now we are set up with a 20 gallon long saltwater tank...so I guess my hiatus is over lol!   But I'm definately keeping things small and simple this time.

The tank is fresh so not much to look at right now, but the crabs are happy!

If anyone has a piece of dry rock they wouldn't mind donating to my new tank, I'd appreciate it!  

i;m hoping some do walk, so i can split that rock up and spread em out but they do look awesome as a carpet like this.

Oh ok! Well just be careful, they can multiply a little fast under certain water parameters, seems like mostly when lots of nutrients are available

Looking good! My clowns loved rolling in them. Just keep an eye on them so they don't walk somewhere you don't want them

Those candy canes should puff up more in a day or so as well, they should fill to the point where there's no spaces between them, if they don't then you might want to adjust their position

Btw I'm pretty sure they are rhodactis shrooms

By the way, those candy canes love mysis! A few will put out tentacles every night, once you feed them usually more come out from others

I just always called em hairy or fuzzy mushrooms lol! They should open up by tomorrow

I'm heading to either Aransas Pass or Rockport to try to catch something big. I plan to go either June 14th or June 21st, and stay overnight. Anyone want to head out with me and split the cost? I plan to fish the jetties, or perhaps a pier. PM me if interested.

Sorry! I'm out for now!

I still have plenty of frags left over. Pm me if interested

If you come by the meeting today you can get a few freebies

Cool, thanks em!

My birdnest colony collapsed a few months back, I'm hoping someone might have a frag I can have to get a new one started, hopefully something like a bright pink one. I'll be at the meeting tomorrow, so if a generous soul doesn't mind, that'd be awesome.

I can trade a fuzzy mushroom, some caulerpa or halimeda, or a devils hand leather piece

Well I don't know, but for whatever reason the white part looks smaller than it did a few days ago, is that possible?

It happened over the course of a week or so

Alk burn usually presents in the tips IME.

That's a thought, but the thing that's got me perplexed is that so much of it is white, and yet the rest didn't turn white, and the polyps acting normal.

this tank is like that locked safe on Reddit that kept coming up over and over.

Being new to SPS, some of my frags have died, some are doing great, then there's this slimer. I've had it for at least 4 months now, and just a couple of weeks ago it started turning white...It's 4 inches long, and half of that is now white. The white area has stopped expanding. At night poylps still come out all the way to the tip of the white half. I know rapid growth can often be white, but I wouldn't expect 2" of white growth out of a 4" coral.

There have been no recent lighting changes.

Thoughts?

I don't think id be able to find it again

Ha! I found a 6" one the other night!

If the question was to me...yes, I had a wet float fail and a dry backup fail

I did something similar after I had two float switch failures... I don't use a reef controller though. I bought a low flow sprinkler timer from Lowes and put adapters on it to go from garden hose threads to 1/4 push connectors. Right now my timer allows water to flow for 5 minutes every 8 hours.

The level stays fairly good, once a month I might have to run it manually for an extra 5 minutes, but that's two buttons.

I usually have to adjust the timing as the weather turns twice a year.

Sure, just find me at the meeting