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patsan · #**326** 12/19/2005, 01:50 PM

Could gorillas possibly be eating it? Or any kind of worms? I don't have xenia, so I really don't know. I've had no experience with it.

bobt2 · #**327** 12/19/2005, 01:56 PM

pat,i don't think so

drk70 · #**328** 12/19/2005, 02:09 PM

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Originally posted by bobt2
dennis, i guess i'm going spear fishing tonight. i'll get all the black urchins out.

You haven't seen them munching on them? The one I saw was right on it and then it was gone.

drk70 · #**329** 12/19/2005, 02:11 PM

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Originally posted by patsan
Could gorillas possibly be eating it? Or any kind of worms? I don't have xenia, so I really don't know. I've had no experience with it.

I think if it was gorillas, I wouldn't have any at all.

bobt2 · #**330** 12/19/2005, 06:11 PM

whatever it is it's a night stalker!

patsan · #**331** 12/19/2005, 06:17 PM

What kind of fish do you have in the tank? I think I recall reading that some fish sometimes nibble on xenia.

bobt2 · #**332** 12/19/2005, 07:45 PM

i only have that hitchhicker wrasse and a purple queen anthis.

bobt2 · #**333** 12/20/2005, 08:39 AM

well, i got the 3 urchins out last night and this am the xenia is still there. maybe that was the problem.

patsan · #**334** 12/20/2005, 08:52 AM

Hopefully that was the problem Bob. How much was eaten all together? Have any pictures?

drk70 · #**335** 12/20/2005, 09:23 AM

Keep an eye on them. I thought about putting the urchin I have in my QT back in my main tank but now I may reconsider. I want to knock down my QT and give it a good cleaning and I don't have any place to put the urchin. I should have taken it to the LFS with but I forgot.

BrianPlankis · #**336** 12/20/2005, 11:42 AM

HUM...I never heard of the urchins eating xenia. I put a small pom pom xenia frag in my tank and 2 days later it was gone. I thought it had simply broken free, but maybe an urchin ate it?

My wife loves pom pom xenia, I'll have to get a couple of frags and put them in QT with an urchin and see if it eats it.

BTW...What bags do people use to run their carbon? I had one of those draw string bags for my carbon and it opened up and I ended up with little pieces of carbon all over my sump and in my skimmer pump!!! GRRR!!! I want a bag that won't accidentially open up!

Brian

drk70 · #**337** 12/20/2005, 12:00 PM

I use these 4x6 mesh bags I get at That Fish Place in my Fluval canister filter on my FW tank and have never had a problem. I also tie them about 5 times and wrap the drawstring around then and knot it up real good. There is no getting them undone though so reusing it is out. I just throw them away.

bobt2 · #**338** 12/20/2005, 12:09 PM

those 3 urchins will never be going back in any tank. pat,i will get you a picture of a hitchhicker i got on your rock. some kind of nudibranch. white, about 1" long and hairy

bobt2 · #**339** 12/20/2005, 12:12 PM

with the bags for media, i use a rubber band or nylon ty-wrap to seal the top

BrianPlankis · #**340** 12/20/2005, 12:22 PM

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Originally posted by bobt2
with the bags for media, i use a rubber band or nylon ty-wrap to seal the top

Bob...great idea! That way I don't need to buy anything

Now why didn't I think of that? DOH!

Just goes to show how useful this thread is

Brian

patsan · #**341** 12/21/2005, 08:17 AM

Here is a picture of a creature Bob found in his tank with the rock he got from me. Anyone know what it is? I've never seen anything like it. Is it a nudi?

bobt2 · #**342** 12/21/2005, 08:39 AM

pat, that little frag of hammer you gave me seams like it's growing already. does it grow fast?

patsan · #**343** 12/21/2005, 08:44 AM

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Originally posted by bobt2
pat, that little frag of hammer you gave me seams like it's growing already. does it grow fast?

Mine have grown pretty quickly. I started with 4 heads. Then when I was trying to move it one time, it broke in half, so I had two 2 head pieces. Then I noticed a baby on one.
When I was trying to move the corals around to get the rock we were selling, I broke it again, and that's one of the heads I gave you.
Just keep watching it...you'll see it split and make more heads.

bobt2 · #**344** 12/21/2005, 08:55 AM

i just did some reading on it. i may have my xenia too close to it. only about 8" away

BrianPlankis · #**345** 12/21/2005, 10:45 AM

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Originally posted by patsan
Here is a picture of a creature Bob found in his tank with the rock he got from me. Anyone know what it is? I've never seen anything like it. Is it a nudi?

Pat and Bob,

How large is this thing? Can you get a closer picture? It almost looks like a cucumber to me, but the picture is too fuzzy to be sure.

Brian

patsan · #**346** 12/21/2005, 10:50 AM

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Originally posted by CirolanidHunter
Pat and Bob,
How large is this thing? Can you get a closer picture? It almost looks like a cucumber to me, but the picture is too fuzzy to be sure.
Brian

Bob will have to answer it because I've never seen it. I don't have a clue as to what it is.
I know I did get 2 nudi's from the TBS tank, but they didn't look like that, and it was months and months ago I saw them.

drk70 · #**347** 12/21/2005, 11:10 AM

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Originally posted by bobt2
i just did some reading on it. i may have my xenia too close to it. only about 8" away

Too close to what?

bobt2 · #**348** 12/21/2005, 12:04 PM

dennis, too close to the hammer coral but it has nothing to do with what happened.

bobt2 · #**349** 12/21/2005, 12:06 PM

brain, it's a little over an inch long and barely moves. now that you say it, it may well be a cuke.

BrianPlankis · #**350** 12/21/2005, 12:12 PM

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Originally posted by bobt2
brain, it's a little over an inch long and barely moves. now that you say it, it may well be a cuke.

It looks a lot like one of my filter feeding cukes doing a walkabout. Here is what mine looked like:

What would be interesting, if you still have it, is to place it near a piece of live rock with a hole just slightly larger than its diameter and see if it crawls in and opens up like this:

Brian