Recent content by discordipinna

Kat you've invaded my other forum! Maybe this thread will move a bit slower and I can actually keep up with your awesome pics. -Vicki

If you can, I'd remove everything that looks alive to a separate tank with all new water. Even if you remove the obviously dead things and do water changes, you might have enough die off in the sand and LR to cause continuing problems. Better to know the live things are safe while you try to...

Hey trio, I'm in union county too. I have most of a sheet left over that I'm probably never going to use. PM me if you'd like it.

Pretty much all of the shrimp we keep in the hobby release pelagic larvae. In the wild they become part of the plankton and float around for weeks until they're ready to settle. Raising them in captivity is actually pretty difficult and won't happen just by accident. (Check out MOFIB...

Yeah they creep me out every time I see them. The way they move is just so... unnatural.

It is an epitoke, not a full worm. Basically, when certain worms, like bristleworms, reproduce, part of the worm that is specialized for reproduction breaks free and swims off. They swim in crazy patterns and are attracted to light. Here's a fuller explanation...

Gorgeous photos! You have everything I want, I'm jealous. I miss my flaming prawn gobies so much. I really want to try an amikami, but the only place I've seen them is DD and I'm not ready to pay $99 for a fish people are finding for around $20. And the bumble bees shrimp... and the anemone...

Ocean Gallery had some dry rock last time I was looking for it. It wasn't Marco Rocks, but they had some decent pieces. That was a while ago, so I'd call them to check before going over.

I had an army of rissoids before my tank crash. I never saw them hurt anything, just clean the rocks and glass. Your pictures match mine pretty exactly, so I'm sure yours are rissoids. I really don't think you need to worry about them hurting anything. I actually wish I'd been able to save...

Definitely collonista in that pic. I had dozens of them come in on the LR of my first tank. When they're really small they tend to be all white, and the red mottling comes in as they get closer to pea-sized. They basically max out at about the size of a pea.

A guy on another forum I'm on actually taxidermied a few fish. There was a yellow tang and a clownfish, I think. It looked really good, but he was basically hounded off the site by people who thought it was weird before he could tell us more about it. When I lost my fish during the hurricane...

I have collumbellids (from IPSF) and they do that all the time! I was super surprised the first time I saw it! The snail fell off the rock and dangled from the string, just like a spider. I don't know anything about it, but it does happen, and I've seen a few posts on other forums about it...

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So I have a chunk of live rock that didn't make it into my display tank, and that has been hanging out in a holding tank under low light for a month or two now. Inside that rock is a brown pistol shrimp. I don't know the species, because I've only gotten a few quick looks at it, but it is not...

I am so glad I just watched that. One of the dorkiest, and funniest things I've ever seen.