OK! Enough chat...Starting a 1000g+ Reef

JohnL · #1 04/22/2006, 09:54 PM

This thread was automatically split due to performance issues. You can find the rest of the thread here: http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...91#post7228791

jnarowe · #2 04/22/2006, 09:54 PM

mrcrab Doesn't matter to me. After reading those articles and a couple of threads I am going to pluck those suckers off and let them attach to some rubble...BIG experiment!

jnarowe · #3 04/22/2006, 09:58 PM

Uh, why thank you John!

tinygiants · #4 04/22/2006, 10:28 PM

Frag off the rock piece with a chisel.

sharkinsand · #5 04/22/2006, 10:40 PM

pound it with a bigger rock........
this will fix or smash everything, solving the problem

jnarowe · #6 04/23/2006, 12:29 AM

Well after reading all that stuff I decided to do surgery. I ended up cutting the rock just under each ric that I thought might make it. The rock broke apart very easily. I definitely found boring sponges as well as some worms inside a couple of the ricordia. talk abou the rock from hell! There were so many cool things on that rock it was really depressing to screw it up. I had it out of the water for about an hour so I am sure I killed all the sponges. A couple of them blew up with trapped air. I am totally bummed that I lost that yellow sponge too.

Found an SPS nub smaller than a pencil eraser and it had a full compliment of sweeper tentacles 5 times its own size in an attempt to fight off the wicked attack it was under. SO I put what I hope will be survivors in a bowl and I also put the rock back into the QT to see what happens with it. It is possible that something more will pop up that i can save. There are a bunch of tiny feathers on it too.

Interesting to note that as soon as I put the surviving polyps in the bowl they colored up to what they looked like when I bought the rock. Some very pretty brights greens, blues, & oranges, so maybe it is not a total loss.

Hop · #7 04/23/2006, 12:52 AM

Congrats! You got a split thread

jnarowe · #8 04/23/2006, 02:07 AM

Who'd a thunk!

Hop · #9 04/23/2006, 02:12 AM

Here is to many more

jnarowe · #10 04/23/2006, 10:51 AM

Thanks HOP!

So I did the night watch and found something swimming around in the QT...

Sorry about the photo quality.This seems to match one from melev's ID page although he used a general name to ID it. It swims quite fast by waving flagella (I believe) that are down both sides. This looks like a cross between a worm and a larvae and when first observed was very flat. In the bowl it has taken a more tube-like shape. It can really move but I doubt it can aim itself very well if at all. It apeared to be trying to get into the ricordia frag cup but couldn't make it over the lip.

NexDog · #11 04/23/2006, 11:07 AM

Schweet, so what is it?

jnarowe · #12 04/23/2006, 11:21 AM

I am guessing some kind of polychaete worm, but I really can't tell. The only pictures I have found of these say "unidentified".

It could be even a flatworm in that the only reason I spotted it was that it was very flat and more visible.

sharkinsand · #13 04/23/2006, 03:59 PM

Is this from a frag that you bought at a local store or come with the IM
If a local store, which one?

Cutiewitbooty · #14 04/23/2006, 04:45 PM

weird wormy thing lol Congrats on your thread being split!!

jnarowe · #15 04/23/2006, 06:16 PM

Thanks Amber, I think!

The ric rock came from Ocean Reef Aquatics. I doubt he had any idea what was up and I talked to him today to warn him that something bad might be in his tank as a result of having this rock in it. He said he bought it on the wholesale market which I find strange since it had so many different rics and sponges on it.

I continue to see these long thin worms that are white with dark rings. They kind of look like baby brittle legs but I have yet to see them come all theway out of the rock. I pick at it with a tweezers occassionally but my guess is that the rock with ultimately turn to dust.

jnarowe · #16 04/23/2006, 10:45 PM

Found a DOB tonight. A Blue Sided Fairy Wrasse. And believe it or not I am about 95% sure it choked to death. After I retrieved him I pulled an algae & substrate sandwich from its throat. Such a shame. It was a really Beautiful fish. Not so smart though!

Hop · #17 04/23/2006, 11:17 PM

DOB? Dead on Bottom? Dead over board? Dead on belly?

jnarowe · #18 04/23/2006, 11:29 PM

Right the first time...Dead on Bottom, as apposed to "floater" or "fish stick"!

Opcn · #19 04/24/2006, 01:20 AM

The same thing happened to my red velvet fairy wrasses, found it dead in the back of my friends tank (he was holding onto him for me) with a mouth full of sand, he was thuroughly wedged in too.

jnarowe · #20 04/25/2006, 10:36 AM

Found some pods in the fuge this morning. That's good nes since I hadn't seen any since I put them in!

NexDog · #21 04/25/2006, 10:42 AM

See you managed to post to your thread. mine remains busted.

jnarowe · #22 04/25/2006, 06:12 PM

Based on a discussion with Dale (tinygiants) I made the following mod to my return line. This should keep me from losing any more jewelry! This is not the cheapest way but I just happened to see this at Lowes and thought I would try it. The screen was $29 and I am sure it could be found for less. Adding the fittings and this mod is about $35.

It did not work at first and still created a cavitation so I added the rubber shield and that forces the return to suck through a larger area.

jnarowe · #23 04/25/2006, 06:25 PM

Tank Pics...

Cutiewitbooty · #24 04/25/2006, 07:18 PM

looking good

I think you should get an atlantic blue tang though, so pretty

jnarowe · #25 04/25/2006, 07:41 PM

I don't think I have seen one of those. Got a pic?

Funny some guests ask why there are so many tangs...I really don't have an answer for that, at least not one I can say out loud.