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Did you receive my PM? Are the Acans still available?

Looking to sell my Black Sun Coral - medium to large for $50. It is little more maintenance that I would like. Right now, it is eating mysis shrimp but it is a bit of a pain to get them to come out and then accept the shrimp. Anyone interested?

It is a little hard to see but it is on the right of the picture:

Ok, I think I was able to ID it... I believe it is a sea squirt or tunicate... in case anyone was curious...

I just got a brand new black sun coral... I was being very careful handling it, but it slipped and was falling but I caught it. Unfortunately some of the edges around the polyps were damage and showing skeleton and a piece of the branch is showing white underneath... I placed it back up and just left it alone... anything I can do to help it recover?

I saw this and wasn't sure if it is a sponge or not... I placed it on the live rock.. very small like a large kidney bean with two siphons. Any ideas on what it is? Good or bad?

Wow... you guys were right! My LFS told me I did not have to spot feed them, so I would only put some cyclopeze in the water and that is it. It is still early but after a couple of days of spot feeding, the Acans are puffing up and responding well... Thank you.

Welcome... I am also in SW Austin and would love to learn from your experience.

Anyone have any tips or tricks for keeping Acan brains? It is not puffy - just very flat... everything else is doing fine like our trumpet coral...

Here are my parameters:

pH: 8.2

NO2: 0

CA: 480ppm

KH: ~ 12 dKH

Any suggestion on how to save these little guys?

Are selling individual frags?

That is it! Wow... impressive that you could tell from my bad pictures... thank you for the id and the link.

Sorry - bad pics... it is in the center of the pics... you can barely see it...

I noticed this slug/snail looking creature in my biocube tonight... it appears to be growing a shell, but it is pretty big to be without one... looks to have two antennas and a snout of some kind... any ideas?

I am trying to scrap some off and decrease light schedule from 8 to 6 1/2 as well to help it stop form getting worse. I will see if it works.

Wanted to cut it but it is my first time so tend to be hesitant.... amazing how small it gets at night!

just looked it up and it does look like it... it is growing on its side... any feed back on it or any tips on moving it somewhere else (if that is possible)?

I got some green/purple mushroom coral on a rock and found this other coral on the side. Any idea what this could be?

I have read about bubble and hair algae, but I thought it was always green. Is this just a red algae? I checked phosphate levels and they are fine and never use tap water. I have 2 scarlet hermit, 2 margarita, 4 nerite, 3 blue legged hermit in a 29g biocube... anything else I should get?

Ah... I think that sounds like what I have... down to the tube like structure in some places... are they dangerous from an aquarium? should i remove them or is there a CUC that eats them? Thank you for the help and info.

I followed them... they went to several different spots... even what look to be bare rock. The strange thing is now they are all gone. At one point, it looked like there were over 15 different hair like things in the water... now they are all gone.

I notice this hair like stuff in my 29g biocube... it was coming from everywhere... live rock, sand, etc. I thought it was a human hair but it just broke up when i tried to grab it. A one point, the aquarium was covered with it, then it all started breaking off and disappearing... what is this stuff? is it a spaghetti worm?

Update - I check my nitrate and they are definitely rising. I did notice some white, spider web like fungus growing all over my rocks. From the different posts, it sounds like the cycling process is well under way. I have read different things as to leaving the fungus or removing it... lets see what happens.

Also, thank you for the podcast - very nice idea!

also, do you wait for the cycle to be complete before turning on the lights or do you turn on the lights at some point during the cycling?

Just curious as to people's thoughts on clean up crews. I hear everything from the standard snails/hermits to more exotic like the tuxedo urchin. From what I read, it looks like it depends on the type of algae you may have, but I am curious as to what people think is the best, generic (all-purpose) clean up crew. Thanks.

Thank you... it is still sitting in the dark... just curious, I read on some threads that throwing in some raw shrimp and letting it decompose helps as well... any thoughts on that?

greenish slimy huh... sounds like cyano bacteria. is it a disgusting mat that has bubbles in it, or is it green slimy leaves?

Not sure - there are some slimy leaves... but more like a mat covering everything... here are some pics: