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one is just life in college, sometimes when somehow i have 5 test in a week i hardly get a chance to feed them. much less remember that hey today i forgot to check salinity, or wc, or clean the skimmer. but the bigger is the breaks. for holidays i have to pack and move them. tanks and fish are not designed to be "moved" much less moved and stored in a bucket for a week or whole systems like this holiday break. and every 3 months a move happens. that means the tank is basically always cycling to some degree...

are there other clubs like this for austin? like for planted tanks or fresh water? or it just us salties that congregate virtually?

so im looking at my ponies now and im starting to really concider if i have to give up on my ponies for the time being. in the move i think i just lost a seahorse. now im down to half of what i started with only a few months ago. so i dont think this college dorm llife is stable enough to maintain these seahrses. im thinking i may have to leave the be for the time being. i may look at sellling them. this saltwater and moving the tanks. it just doesnt seem so honestly doable with this dorm living. i may have to try something that will do ok with less "stable" conditions. especially since im starting to apply to work abroad next year and this summer. my family doesnt have a clue how to deal with saltwater. so i;d have to give them up anyway near may. if i reallly care about em i should do in thier best interest and not risk them the dorm conditions. i have 2 comes, some coral, 50lbs of rock, 20lbs of sand, lots of macro, and a handfull of little crabs and snails.

welcome!

ok this may sound odd buti am not sure if i lost a seahorse. she was wiggling around under all the macro algee. i thought abye she got pushed under it. so i moved it and she stoped movin too uch. now she litterlally looks like a dead horse, no movement and just is floatin along the sand? did me moving her shock her into death? or could she be in like a coma? im ganna let her sit here for an hour see if she recovers. good lord at this rate im loosing one every 3 months. i dont know what about this move killed her. everyone else is doing just fine. eating just fine. she was doing fine then the moment i move the algee off her she stopped moving... ill see what happens.

i moved the tank and the sand bed was thrown up. how long should i wait before stuff goes baack in? so far its been 24 hours. i know i have to wait for stuff to settle. im goign to go test the water for the ammonia etc but for the hydrogen sulfide. how long does that take to disolve\settle\disapate?

if you want you could always buy a larger one and break it off into many smaller pieces and place around the tank. the sponge wont like it but it should recover well enough. just dont expose it to air. or buy a few different ones and break off what you want. then return the rest...

i think i would be more than happy to chip in.

ok, so the porus and stuff on it makes sense. which is which? what are porus on what scale? as far as stuff on them, is one more likely to have something on it that others, or just more suprises? and someone said shape? what are they known for? ive only ever bought rubble or bits that come with coral.

i have a plug of xenia that is not doing so terribly well in my tank. i know it is not the most wanted deal, but in a good quality tank supposedly it should do well. i just cant seem to keep it alive. all my other corals are doing just fine...

does EVERYone live in george town?? or just ppl who give stuff away? but hey thats cool. its worth the drive.

i thought tunicates where for the most part colorless? and relivitily small? or is there a specific kind of tunicate you have in mind? the ones in lab we looked at were only mabye 2 inches. im sure there is more out there.

so i finally got home. wow i need to learn to tell girls no and not volunteer to stay and work an extra 4 days at school than need be. but i made it. packed up the tanks and animals and went. of course it did not go easy. one of the ponies fell out into the sump and was wigglin around on dry rocks for 15 min. but after she coughed up some bubbles today she seems just fine. im letting the tank cycle for a day or so to let aything disturbed settle etc. so now its watch some lost while i wait for the tank to cycle. plus any chores mother comes up with. dont tell her that... alright!! christmas time. merry christmas yall.

dont suppose you would trade a sataite dish for it?

hey sand soudns good! 10$ ? when and where can i pick up?

have none showed up on your live rock? if none show up try lookin ath te stores on the live rock. in the live rock rubble. all my sponges have been from the rubble.

i get the concept of live rock. i use it. what i dont understand is sthe marketing,, or the names whicehever you call it. i see figi rock. togo rock, etc. what is the differences between the different "live rocks" is it all basically the same or some have diffences that make it worthy to give it different names or is it just people who want to specify where they got it from so it sounds cooler?

http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/water/downloads/wqr_oct07.pdf that one up there just didnt copy right...

this is from austin city. for industrial. i assume its darn near the same for locals? what do yall think? Drinking Drinking Water Quality Report Parameter Units Method Cd Green WTP T1 Davis WTP T2,T2H Ullrich WTP T3 ----------------- ----- --------------- ----------- ----------- pH SU SM 4500-H B AVG MAX MIN 10.2 10.3 9.9 AVG MAX MIN 9.7 9.9 9.4 AVG MAX MIN 9.6 9.8 9.1 Total Alkalinity MG/L SM 2320 B AVG MAX MIN 50 64 42 AVG MAX MIN 48 56 43 AVG MAX MIN 54 60 47 Total Hardness MG/L SM 2340 C AVG MAX MIN 83 94 73 AVG MAX MIN 72 78 67 AVG MAX MIN 78 85 72 Total Solids MG/L SM 2540 B AVG MAX MIN 143 160 128 AVG MAX MIN 126 152 116 AVG MAX MIN 136 168 112 Total Chlorine Residual MG/L SM 4500-CL F AVG MAX MIN 2.13 2.55 1.80 AVG MAX MIN 2.29 2.75 2.00 AVG MAX MIN 2.18 2.50 1.85 Sulfate MG/L SM 4500-SO4 E AVG MAX MIN 32.0 32.0 32.0 AVG MAX MIN 30.5 32.6 28.4 AVG MAX MIN 42.0 42.0 42.0 Total Organic Carbon MG/L SM 5310 C AVG MAX MIN 2.16 2.62 1.87 AVG MAX MIN 2.94 3.09 2.8 AVG MAX MIN 3.10 3.31 2.91 Conductivity UMHOS/cm SM 2510 B AVG MAX MIN 250 250 250 AVG MAX MIN 230 230 229 AVG MAX MIN 233 233 233 Total Trihalomethanes UG/L EPA 502.2 THM AVG MAX MIN 47.1 52.3 40.8 AVG MAX MIN 44.6 52.3 37.6 AVG MAX MIN 54.7 59.1 52.0 Turbidity NTU SM 2130 B AVG MAX MIN 0.07 0.11 0.05 AVG MAX MIN 0.09 0.12 0.06 AVG MAX MIN 0.05 0.08 0.02 -----------

heh e. sorry that sounds funny to me. they are nice as long as no one comes near em. sorry the way that was worded it seemed silly.

plenty to update. ill finish from the last blog. so thanksgiving went well. they ponies did alright in the bucket. but that was a pain in the butt. i didnt have any sort of filter and just a heater. i forgot the bubbler down here at school. but they did alright i shook up the bucket twice a day. and feed them once every 2 days. they survived just fine. i dont think they liked it but they did alright. when i got back home however all the xenia had died. i dont know what the deal is. ever since i moved up to a thirty gal tank i cant for the life of me keep the xenia alive. in the ten gal i had no problem. i dont have a clue. not a clue at all. so between thanksgiving and now nothing happens. now i have the BIG MOVE! i have to leave the dorm for 3 weeks. so now the tanks ponies everything goes! so now i have a big plan. get mother's dorango. take all 60 gal and transfer into 5 gal buckets. remember to keep the pepermint shrimp seperate for joe. so load all htat, the tanks, my speaker system, projection system, clothes, etc. that should be a load of fun. then go home and then reset up the tanks. let it recycle for a week. then have it set up till the third. then i move back to campus. but i cant take them yet because ill have a roomate. so i may have to go 3 weeks without my babies. oh man this is so not cool. the campus is empty as of wed but i have to stay here till fri. and i have to be back on campus on the fouth when school starts on the 17th or somthing close to that. its amazing how no one will tell you stuff about a job untill after you have it. man what a week eh? anyone else had a week that just wont end? I did pass chemistry 2! 76! ho rah only took two tries! that was good. but then i got rejected by a crush, boo... but im goin home soon! oh boy i cant wait for real food. im here working the desk watching lost eating a can of mixed fruit... alright, i will try to post after i get home. these ponies are near military brats being moved around so much.

technically its a polyp. medusa is the free floating part. all tha same thing.but wow if that is it then soon it will start asexually reproducing medusa! so you may soon have many little jellies. here is a pic of a simple life cycle. the polyp asexually reporoduces the free floating medusa. are you going to try to keep them if they do start to budd?

if you need something for just a short time you might try just picking up something from petsmart that will "work". you can aalways return it saturday when you have time to find something that will correctly fiit the bill?

mabye thats why im so polar to yall. i dont think they are an eyesore.

has anyone ever had them reproduce that much? and the toxin your talking about an ammonia spike with rotting bodies?