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Old 08/11/2005, 11:46 AM
BrianPlankis BrianPlankis is offline
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Wow Pat! Your tank is awesome! How do you keep it so clean?

According to what I've read online the nudis will lay 1 string of eggs every 1-4 days per individual. Mine aren't quite up to that rate yet, but the eggs were laid on 8/5, 8/8 and 8/10, so pretty good rate so far. My second nudi is 1/3 the size of the larger one so it might not be laying egg masses as large as the larger one and I might be missing those. A couple more egg masses in the white bucket and I'm switching the adults to my blue bucket so I can see them easier.

One of them decided to crawl across the water surface last night:



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Old 08/11/2005, 11:50 AM
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Okay, so you're keeping them in a bucket. What are you using for filtration then? Aren't you afraid they will die?

I don't do anything special with the tank. Just try and keep good water parameters and do water changes faithfully. I'm happy with the tank so far. I'd like a little more color in it, but in due time....it will.
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Old 08/11/2005, 12:07 PM
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Brain, all those things coming out of that worm makes it look like a spaghetti worm. I don't know what a full spaghetti worm looks like though.....just the spaghetti part.
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Old 08/11/2005, 12:08 PM
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Okay, so you're keeping them in a bucket. What are you using for filtration then? Aren't you afraid they will die?
According to what I've read online you don't really need filtration with these guys. Basically you can't have filtration when the babies hatch or they will be destroyed by anything mechanical, including a sponge filter. I also can't put a powerhead in there because that will chew them up, they are very small and can easily get around a sponge on the intake.

Instead I do about a 5-10% water change every day by skimming off the surface of the water with a cup and replacing it with freshly mixed saltwater, I also try to aerate the water with a chopstick each night before bed. I'm slowly increasing the volume of water so evaporation changes the salinity less. The temp is a rock solid 77 which is fine.

Some articles suggest that vigorous aeration will kill the babies as well. I'm considering doing a very slow air bubble drip, but so far they have been fine in the bucket. When I switch the adults to a new bucket I'll drip acclimate them to new about 90% new saltwater so I will effectively do a 90% water change once a month or so.

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Old 08/11/2005, 12:45 PM
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Brian, the first critters are tunicates and the second is a spaghetti worm.
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Old 08/11/2005, 12:45 PM
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no i used metal tweezers.
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Patience...... Patience.......uuuuhmm is that in the produce dept.?
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Old 08/11/2005, 06:16 PM
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Pat,
i didnt get to go by the LFS. i ended up at work until almost 7.

i looked up on google Japanese swallowtail and got a return of Genicanthus semifasciatus.

fishbase shows this fish as i think, based on S. Micheals fish ID book. i could look it up on amazon if you are interested in which book it is.

a quick google search turned up tons of images of female japanese swallowtails. it also shows this fish listed as a "masked angel", which is a precise reason for not using common names at all

wetwebmedia shows the Genicanthus melanospilos as the black spot swallowtail. when i searched for "black spot swallowtail" petsolutions is the only one that comes up i guess this is proof that we should go by scientific names.

another google search turned up nice photos of female Genicanthus melanospilos.

so we can call it as we wish, but i believe we both have Genicanthus melanospilos.
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Old 08/11/2005, 07:39 PM
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Clown Fairy Wrasse

Does anyone have one of these in there tank? Cirrhilabrus solorensis or Clown/Painted Fairy Wrasse? I think they're really colorful and only get to be 3.5 to 5 inches long, depending on who/what you read?

I did a search on Yahoo Images and came back with a bunch of pics.
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Old 08/11/2005, 07:42 PM
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Pumps/Powerheads

Pat,

Are you using the SEIO pumps in your tank? Is that what is in your pics?
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Old 08/12/2005, 08:20 AM
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i don't know about pat but i just ordered 2 seio powerheads. i'll get them tuesday
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Old 08/12/2005, 08:33 AM
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Re: Pumps/Powerheads

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Pat,

Are you using the SEIO pumps in your tank? Is that what is in your pics?
Pat has a Tunze and a Seio in her tank. She added the Seio just a little while ago to supplement the Tunze.
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Old 08/12/2005, 09:00 AM
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Thanks Landon....it does say on the Pet Solutions page that it is Genicanthus melanospilos sp.

Those are beautiful fish Brian.....did you get one?

Yes, I have one Tunze and one Seio. I like the Tunze better for the flow, but I like the seio better for mounting, even though I have the magnet to mount the Tunze. I just find it a PITA to get that Tunze back onto the holder in the magnet when I clean it out. It's quicker than unscrewing the Seio, but sometimes my magnet slides a little.
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Old 08/12/2005, 09:52 AM
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pat, what seio do you have?
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Old 08/12/2005, 09:54 AM
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pat, what seio do you have?
1500
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Old 08/12/2005, 09:58 AM
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i just ordered a 620 and a 1100
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Old 08/12/2005, 10:00 AM
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i just ordered a 620 and a 1100
I got mine from ReefExotics. He said the 1100 and 1500 were good. He said the 620 wouldn't do anything and the 8 something wouldn't be much better.
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Old 08/12/2005, 10:03 AM
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I got mine from ReefExotics. He said the 1100 and 1500 were good. He said the 620 wouldn't do anything and the 8 something wouldn't be much better.
Yeah, I've felt the flow from a 620 and it is fairly weak, but I bought an 820 for my 75 and it definitely was plenty strong. I'm actually thinking of dialing it back because with my return(~400gph), the 820 and 1100 I'm up to 2320gph in my 75 and there aren't many low flow areas, even with the rock breaking up the 820 flow. I think a 55 should be OK with a 620 and 1100.

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Old 08/12/2005, 10:03 AM
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i just ordered a 620 and a 1100
Bob, I have a 620 in my FW tank and it doesn't do too much. If you are looking for any measurable amount of flow don't get the 620.
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Old 08/12/2005, 10:07 AM
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Yeah, I've felt the flow from a 620 and it is fairly weak, but I bought an 820 for my 75 and it definitely was plenty strong. I'm actually thinking of dialing it back because with my return(~400gph), the 820 and 1100 I'm up to 2320gph in my 75 and there aren't many low flow areas, even with the rock breaking up the 820 flow. I think a 55 should be OK with a 620 and 1100.
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How can I dial mine back? I think I have too much flow with the 1500. I'm kind of wishing I had gotten the 1100....but too late for that now.
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Old 08/12/2005, 10:09 AM
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the 620 is going to go across the back of my 33. i want a little more flow there in addition to the two maxi 900's. the 1100 will go in my 75
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Old 08/12/2005, 10:18 AM
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How can I dial mine back? I think I have too much flow with the 1500. I'm kind of wishing I had gotten the 1100....but too late for that now.
Right above where the flow comes out, where the intake is. You rotate that and it opens and closes the slits to change the amount of water sucked in.
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Old 08/12/2005, 10:20 AM
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the 620 is going to go across the back of my 33. i want a little more flow there in addition to the two maxi 900's. the 1100 will go in my 75
Just to give you an idea. My 58g FW tank has the 620 on one end and I can barely feel the flow if at all on the other end.
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Old 08/12/2005, 10:26 AM
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actually i think it is going to work out well. i don't want a lot of flow. it's a softy tank and they all do better in low flow, but i do have a small dead spot i want to eliminate.
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Old 08/12/2005, 10:32 AM
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actually i think it is going to work out well. i don't want a lot of flow. it's a softy tank and they all do better in low flow, but i do have a small dead spot i want to eliminate.
Just don't want you to expect to get more flow than you will. It may be the exact amount of flow you are looking for.
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Old 08/12/2005, 10:43 AM
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thanks for the heads up. i'm not that happy with the flow from the maxi's. too narrow a stream. the hydor deads help but cut down the flow rate
 

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