in_a_days
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Hello all. I have a 56 gallon corner which houses a Volitan Lion. It's a species tank and I don't intend to stock it with any other fish. I have a blue damsel that seems to be too much trouble for him to eat, but other than that the tank is all his.
So I just acquired a little 10 gallon with the intent of setting up a small refugium. I know that main reason for a 'fuge is to raise the pod and brine shrimp population for feeding. But I'm really just trying to bring the nitrates and phosphates down ever so slightly if I possibly can, as my lion seems to produce a ton of both.
I recently noticed what looked like a little worm hanging out of a piece of cured live rock I got from the LFS. After further examination I thought it looked like a brittle star arm and sure enough I found a couple more arms hanging out of the rock and eventually found a section of his body with a flashlight through a hole in the rock. Guy has been in there for at least two weeks without me ever having noticed. I've read in a lot of places that you need to be very slow when acclimating stars to a new tank, but this guy speaks to the toughness of his species as I just dropped this piece of rock right into my tank. But regardless, there must be a cavity in the rock in which he resides 'cause I've never seen him during the day, at all, and at night I only ever see a few arms reaching out from different holes in the rock.
So what all this leads me to is the question of whether or not I should move this piece of live rock in to my new refugium... My lion has eaten pretty much every addition I have attempted (with the exception of this stupid damsel) and I don't want the brittle to get gobbled. But at the same time I had intended to put a small Goby in the 'fuge and if the brittle is likely to make dinner out of him, I don't want to do that either... So I guess the question this is all boils down to is this... which is more likely, for a lion to eat a brittle star, or for a brittle star to eat a Goby?
Thanks in advance.
So I just acquired a little 10 gallon with the intent of setting up a small refugium. I know that main reason for a 'fuge is to raise the pod and brine shrimp population for feeding. But I'm really just trying to bring the nitrates and phosphates down ever so slightly if I possibly can, as my lion seems to produce a ton of both.
I recently noticed what looked like a little worm hanging out of a piece of cured live rock I got from the LFS. After further examination I thought it looked like a brittle star arm and sure enough I found a couple more arms hanging out of the rock and eventually found a section of his body with a flashlight through a hole in the rock. Guy has been in there for at least two weeks without me ever having noticed. I've read in a lot of places that you need to be very slow when acclimating stars to a new tank, but this guy speaks to the toughness of his species as I just dropped this piece of rock right into my tank. But regardless, there must be a cavity in the rock in which he resides 'cause I've never seen him during the day, at all, and at night I only ever see a few arms reaching out from different holes in the rock.
So what all this leads me to is the question of whether or not I should move this piece of live rock in to my new refugium... My lion has eaten pretty much every addition I have attempted (with the exception of this stupid damsel) and I don't want the brittle to get gobbled. But at the same time I had intended to put a small Goby in the 'fuge and if the brittle is likely to make dinner out of him, I don't want to do that either... So I guess the question this is all boils down to is this... which is more likely, for a lion to eat a brittle star, or for a brittle star to eat a Goby?
Thanks in advance.