Ashley

Would like to sell my 8 gallon Oceanic BioCube. Comes with live rock. Brand-new filter cartridge just put in.

Asking $120.

Thought you guys would appreciate this. Maybe we'll see Mr. Saltwater wearing it in his next video!

I found it on Threadless.

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Congrats!!!

I'm thinking about getting an 8 gallon BioCube. Would a very little yellow watchman goby and a clown goby be okay together?

Thanks for your input!

I'd love some advice on bristleworms. I've seen at least 2 rather large bristle worms in our 24 gallon. I'd say they are at least 6-8 inches long each. I've searched online and find differing opinions on whether these guys are good or bad. Quite honestly, they totally creep me out and I'd like these big ones out of the tank. I spent about half an hour watching them with a flashlight last night and then had worm-filled nightmares all night!!

Has anyone had luck with removing bristleworms? What are the best methods?

A little info about tank: 24 gallon Nano Cube with LPS and zoas, a royal gramma, a purple firefish, a yellow watchman goby, and clean-up crew.

Thanks for any input!!

Ashley

We have a 34 gallon Solana with LPS, 2 clowns, a lawnmower blenny, and a little blue hippo tang. We'd like to add another fish, but need suggestions!! We're hoping to find a fish that will swim in the open water quite a bit. Any ideas? THANKS!

So far, our new skunk cleaner shrimp hasn't interacted with any of our fish yet. The shrimp is out and about and the wrasse is swimming all over the tank. Any ideas on how to get them together so the cleaner shrimp can help out with whatever is affecting the wrasse? Or is this relationship/cleaning thing just something that takes a few days to happen?

A hitchhiker is essentially any organism that you inadvertently added to your tank....could be anything attached to a live rock or in your sand or on a coral. We've found all sorts of worms and sea stars, even little crabs and fish that were hiding in live rock when we purchased it.

We have a bunch of peppermint shrimp. They are mostly active at night, but they are very skittish. I was up last night with a flashlight trying to find something else (probably a hitchhiker) in our tank. The peps were very active, but except for occasionally bumping into something, they didn't go near anybody.

Thanks seahorse! Someone on MAAST suggested that it might be fin rot. We are going to test all the parameters again just to make sure nothing weird has happened.

We set a bottle trap last night just in case, but didn't catch anything as of this morning (of course, I had dreams all night about catching all sorts of crazy things!). We are going to keep an eye on him, continue to treat with garlic, and move him to a QT if he doesn't improve in the next couple days.

This wrasse seems to sleep in the rockwork most of the time...he basically disappears though. We've seen him on the sandbed a couple times, but we've never seen him dig or bury himself. I believe our substrate is Carib Sea Aragonite.

I'm thinking either some hidden, unknown predator or a disease is the culprit here. I don't think any of our known fish or inverts is attacking him.

I'm wondering if it would be better to leave the wrasse in the tank, continue to treat with garlic, and see if we can figure it out. Or, if we should move him to another tank or set up a QT so he doesn't keep getting attacked. He is extremely difficult to catch and gets pretty stressed so I don't want to move him unless it's necessary.

Thanks for your replies. I'll try to get better shots of the spot near his tail when I get home tonight. On closer inspection, it definitely looks more like a hole...like the flesh has been removed in some way. We picked up a skunk cleaner shrimp at Fishy Business yesterday to see if that would help. Based on my description of the wrasse, Shane thought it might be a bristleworm stinging the wrasse while he sleeps. If that's the case, and we manage to find the worm, will the wrasse recover?

Any thoughts on how to find/capture the worm or other predator?

Our half-and-half wrasse has recently started showing some white spots and we just noticed that part of his tail is torn. Our hippo tang has been rubbing against things in the tank and we've been treating with garlic...the wrasse just started rubbing against things as well. Any ideas on whether this is ich? And how should we proceed? We'd like to treat pretty aggressively as this guy is our favorite little fishy!

Pics attached...notice the white spot near where his tail meets his body..that is usually solid black. You can also see in the pictures the missing part of tail.

Thanks so much for any advice!

Ashley

At the MAAST collection trip a couple weekends ago, Bob Fenner was giving some pointers on dealing with a wholesaler/LFS to ship collected items back from dive trips. I'd email him at Wet Web Media to see if he has suggestions.

I know just what you mean, Dustin. Asking for free Cheato or Xenia is very different than asking for free seahorses or free Koralias.

I'll be happy to have some more 401k contributions.

Anyone seen the homeless guy with the sign that says: "Road rage? Yell at a homeless guy for $.25!"? He's got a few others that are good.

I usually wont give to the guy on the corner, but every now and then when someone gets creative I'll throw out something.

I think that's the same guy that has "Family killed by ninjas. Saving up for karate lessons." But my personal favorite is a girl who has only one leg and is on crutches and her sign says, "On my last leg..." So terrible, but at least she has a sense of humor.

Love the jawfish picture!!

I'm going with Friday, July 24th.

Thank you, thank you, thank you....every time I look at the forums page, I get sad for that poor doggie! You mods rock!

Mike,

I'm so sorry to hear about your kitty. Know that you gave him a wonderful home and did everything in your power to take care of him. I talked to you once about your kitty at Prof's house....when my boyfriend and I got in the car, I said, "I like that Mike, he knows kitties come first."

My thoughts are with you. Hang in there.

Ashley

Qua. They had a decent sized tank built into the 'dance' floor. Caused quite the uproar with the PETA types. I think the club caved into pressure and just has it as a display but folks can still walk over it. I know one of the LFS helped supply stuff but would not have anything else to do with it due to animal rights/safety/husbandry issues.

Here's a link:

http://www.quaaustin...UA/welcome.html

I know the animal rights' people were not too happy about the Qua tank, but I also heard that the acrylic was getting all scratched up from high heels!! Oops!

How about...

"forget the 40, I went for the 120..."

gallons that is.

That's hilarious!!

I was wondering about Amazonia...I passed their new location near Mueller recently and wondered what they are up to. Do they still only carry freshwater?

We just left RCA with the cutest, tiniest little porcupine puffer. He's about the size on a nickel!