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mystery grasse

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About mystery grasse

  • Birthday 10/27/1984

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  • Location
    Indianapolis-South Side
  • Interests
    high-end reef systems, 70's and 80's toys and collectibles, magic the gathering..
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    a few reefs

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  1. wonderful job, with plenty of shelf space! i can't wait to see the rest!
  2. while we were away on a weekend visit with the family we had a power outage, the rio pump (main pump) didn't restart, and the koralia powerheads which weren't aimed at the water surface (i'm thinking) didn't create enough oxygen....came home to a dead fish\friend. p.s. later when i took down the tank i noticed a little piece of plastic missing from the powercord where it attached to the rio pump, so the pump was discarded...to this day i still wonder if it was lack of oxygen, or stray voltage.
  3. sorry just reread your post, the stuff will continue to come back until you halt the operation. flow doenst alway's matter, cyano is photosythetic and can stretch out into an area with flow, but most likely won't start growing in an area with alot of flow. if you siphon the cyano off and then add more flow this might help, or by adding a little natural predation (after siphoning) which you are of course limited on consindering the size of your tank, this might help. the color pigments of the cyano is determined by light spectrum and intensity. the media bags probably weren't the reason you got cyano, like i said it can grow in poor-nutrient areas with low flow, and bright illumination. however, both longterm cyano, and exhausted mechanical filtration, can bring you heavy nutrients with will indefinately promote algal growth. there are a few herbivorous and omniverous blennies that might eat cyano (hit or miss), aswell as most conchs (which will grow to large for a 30g, or eventually starve), and a few other crabs and snails.
  4. sounds to me like it's cyanobacteria (Phormidium sp) which can proliferate in brightly illuminated aquaria with low nutrient levels or even in a nutrient poor environment. it is quite common for mesh bags, canisters, and other mechanical filters to develop aerobic bacteria overtime that digest trapped material such as detritus, which consumes oxygen, and returns dissolved inorganic nutrients back into the tank, which promotes algae growth. you might want to start using your media's in smaller quantities and changing them more often, small doses weekly or bi-weekly will bring you better results than large does every 6 weeks, and will also reduce the chance for them to go aerobic. cyanobacteria also smothers life and creates nitrates or ammonia which is utilized by plants\algae. a snowball effect really! you'll either want to manually remove the cyano with a siphon, or buy a couple clibanarius tricolor hermit crabs, maybe both. hope this helps, Drew
  5. it will be a great day, i'm getting together with the family for beer and a bbq!
  6. very nice! especially the watermelon chalice and the flames from hell leptastrea. where did you purchase them, if you don't mind me asking?
  7. sometimes they only split seasonally, it all depends on how often you feed them and what you feed them, aswell as a few other factors including: lighting, flow, ph, food, and host. imo it's not necessary to feed them very frequently, unless you want them to grow really large, which they can and will. i never really feed mine more than once a week, but when i do i feed them shrimp with tail and all. also, vho's do seem to be they're preferred lighting, and they seem to grow the quickest and look the nicest under this lighting. they also love a host but don't like to be smothered all the time. it seems to me that it's usually the anemones that haven't been dubbed the clowns favorite (but still get some love) that split first. i've also noticed 1 of my true perculas helping the anemones along by nipping at it and starting the split. i purchased a rose bubble tip a little over a year ago, and i currently have 7 of them. i'm about to build an anemone grow-out tank for them, so they can quit stingin' everything. i actually just lost a pretty large colony of beautiful blue\purple\teal mushrooms to 1 of my rose bubble tips while i was out of town for a few weeks (my wife was fish sitting).
  8. tropic marin is my favorite mix. iv'e used seachem reef salt, and instant ocean aswell, imo they dont compare.
  9. what were some of the more impressive and most memorable coral species you saw?
  10. awesome video pizza guy! can't get the song out of my head . gotta love those puffers, i once had a porcupine puffer that we named puff, we loved that fish. by the way!
  11. thanks again for your generosity! the frags are looking great!

  12. exactly like noodlenugs said, low light\moderate flow and lots of small food items. these guys are commonly found in cave entrances, where they receive the largest populations of zooplankton and other micro crustaceous life, and little light\moderate current. they require daily target feedings to be happy and grow. like all LPS if they're happy they will extend polyps at night to feed. if you feed during the day you might need to feed them 1\2 hour after you feed your fish, in order to lure the polyps out. they'll taste the traces of food in the system and polyp up enough for you to target feed with small foods like cyclopeeze, reef chili, and other zooplankton products. deja vu, i feel like i just said the same thing to somebody else about a similar coral...
  13. yeah like katrina said low light\moderate flow, they're azooxanthellate. these guys are in the same family as tubastrea and are commonly found in cave entrances, where they receive the largest populations of zooplankton and other micro crustaceous life, and little light\moderate current. these guy's really do require daily target feedings to be happy and grow. like all LPS if they're happy they will extend polyps at night to feed. if you feed during the day you might need to feed them 1\2 hour after you feed your fish, in order to lure the polyps out. they'll taste the traces of food in the system and polyp up enough for you to target feed with small foods like cyclopeeze, reef chili, and other zooplankton products.
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