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08-30-2004, 05:21 AM
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Citizen
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Los Angeles, California
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Need an help with ID
Can someone tell me if this is actually something growing out of my LR?
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08-30-2004, 09:26 AM
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Governor
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Lakeland, Fl.
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Button polyps, zooanthids....
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08-30-2004, 01:26 PM
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Owner
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: new jersey,usa
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Ditto what saltjunkie said. Looks to be some type of Palythoa polyps.
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08-30-2004, 07:05 PM
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Citizen
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Los Angeles, California
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I thought at first of Polyps but didn't want to get too excited. COOL. They just grew out of nowhere. Can they get as big as the ones you purchase at LFS?
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08-30-2004, 09:03 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: new jersey,usa
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 Try feeding them with some mysid shrimp or formula one, gently drop some food onto a polyp with a turkey baster and watch it close up on the food.When it re-opens the food will be gone 
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08-30-2004, 09:50 PM
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Tenant
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: NY
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Don't worry. Soon they will spread like hair algae on a phosphate farm. They'll be everywhere... taking over your stonies and you will curse the day you ever saw them. I can't get rid of them. I even got a racoon butterfly to clean them off my rock. Colonial anemones too. Then someone on this board told me to sell them on eBay and now I have two hobbies. #$%* zoos. I hate em. I gotta scrape them off my hydrophora every month. If I ever buy new rock and re do my reef, I will never, never, never ever put a zoo or colonial anemone in my tank again. EVER! I cut em. I inject em. I scrape em. They are growing up the walls covering everthing. Feed em? Screw that. Kill them while you still have the chance.
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08-31-2004, 12:01 AM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Michigan
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What are your system specs/water params? I'd love to develop that kind of trouble
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08-31-2004, 12:25 AM
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Citizen
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Los Angeles, California
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Man, I thought they were kind of cool! LOL. Well im going to try to feed them but the things are so small.
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09-03-2004, 02:50 PM
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Council
Join Date: May 2004
Location: York, PA
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I'd like to know what your parameters are too Lazy Reef! I can't seem to get mine to do crap. First of all, my live rock ain't growin' nothin' (sic)....and...when I buy plants to try and add color to my tank, the damn crabs and snails knock it over and bother them; made my first set of zoos wither away. They're just about to all take a ride on the BTC (Bathroom Toilet Current)!
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09-04-2004, 02:53 AM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Michigan
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May I suggest you give them back to the lfs, or a friend or something rather than flushing? Would be a much kinder response.
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09-04-2004, 01:09 PM
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Council
Join Date: May 2004
Location: York, PA
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Lol...saying "flush them" is kinda my way of venting. Same way as when you're so upset with someone that you could "kill them".
I had actually gotten the suggestion of gluing them down in another thread I started. Problem is, mushrooms are so slimy it's difficult to attach them to anything. But in keeping with this thread it's amazing to see how many different ways people "scape" their tanks. |
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09-04-2004, 02:20 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Michigan
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Get some small pieces of rock (rubble, or maybe some larger pieces of shell or aragonite) Put them into a shallow plastic or glass container, put the mushrooms on/in the container, then put a piece of pantyhose or fine mesh over it, then put the whole container in your tank..... Within a week or two, the mushrooms will have attached themselves, and you can glue them into place using whatever they attached themselves to. The container keeps them from being knocked/blown around until they get a chance to get hold of something, and still lets thru enough light to keep them happy. Probably not the best description of this method, so I hope you understood what I said Oh, and... *whew* on the flushing Thanks!Good luck!
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09-05-2004, 06:23 PM
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Council
Join Date: May 2004
Location: York, PA
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Awesome. I'll give that a shot. Wish I read this before I hit the LFS..could've picked up a specimen cup.
Thanks for the tip. |
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09-07-2004, 12:23 AM
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Tenant
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: NY
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As far as my water parameters, I have no idea. The calcium and the alkalinity are high and I balance my magnesium. I add strontium, iron, managnese, zinc, and iodine. I have an old well established reef. It just runs. I use a reactor and a scrubber. My stonies do great too.
Regardig placing them, use a plastic toothpick and just jamn it through the anemone into the rock. Regarding Crabs. The only good crab is a dead crab. NEVER keep crabs in a reef. I mean really, if you were a hermit crab and you saw a lunch and a brand new home crawling buy could you resist? All other crabs I have tried killed and ate one or another. One time out of nowhere this hermit who I had for months deceided to eat my green gorgonian. Lil scum ate the whole rock bare in two days. If they ate colonial anemones I would have a use for them.
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