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mtfish · 08-05-2006, 03:40 PM

05-27-06
Wow, time flys. I've been meaning to update for so long but didn't get to it. Well then here is the long awaited (or not) update

First off I had another death. The emerald crab turned up dead one morning. I was bumed. I checked all the parameters and everything was within acceptable ranges so I figure he must have starved. I feel bad.

But onto better news, sometime around the 10th of the month my LFS finally got Scarlet Hermits in, so I bought two of those, 2 astrea and also a small mushroom rock. The mushroom rock only had 3 shrooms on it but I got a good deal.

Here is a current pic of the mushrooms...

I was so happy to finally have some corals in the tank, my dream was coming true. All was well for about 2 days, then on the afternoon of the 3rd day I noticed the mushrooms were attracting some unwanted attention from the cowrie (ry). They were missing small pieces and balling up all the time. I swear the cowrie didn't leave the rock for 2 days. I finally made up my mind and plucked the cowrie out, put them into some tupperware and drove to the LFS. I informed the owner that I had learned that these cowrie eat mushrooms. Luckily he is awesome. He let me exchange them for this...

Yeah to me! I got Ricordia!

On the Cyano front, I seem to have won the battle. All I did was scrape it up every other day for about 2 weeks, and added the scarlet hermits. The scarlets took off and started on the cyano right away. I did one more major scraping after getting the scarlets then nothing and now I have no cyano. I'm glad I didn't use chemicals, and was able to deal with it naturally.

And on a final note, remember to watch your turbo snails. I had one fall and I found it on it's shell the next morning and it looked terrible. I actually thought it was dead, and as I went to tong it out it kinda slowly contracted. I flipped it and it sat there for about 2 days then took off and has been fine since. Moral of the story. Flip those snails!

Thanks for reading.

08-05-2006, 03:40 PM	#10 (permalink)
mtfish Fire Coral Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Montana Posts: 66 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: 10g Nano - My first SW tank 05-27-06 Wow, time flys. I've been meaning to update for so long but didn't get to it. Well then here is the long awaited (or not) update First off I had another death. The emerald crab turned up dead one morning. I was bumed. I checked all the parameters and everything was within acceptable ranges so I figure he must have starved. I feel bad. But onto better news, sometime around the 10th of the month my LFS finally got Scarlet Hermits in, so I bought two of those, 2 astrea and also a small mushroom rock. The mushroom rock only had 3 shrooms on it but I got a good deal. Here is a current pic of the mushrooms... I was so happy to finally have some corals in the tank, my dream was coming true. All was well for about 2 days, then on the afternoon of the 3rd day I noticed the mushrooms were attracting some unwanted attention from the cowrie (ry). They were missing small pieces and balling up all the time. I swear the cowrie didn't leave the rock for 2 days. I finally made up my mind and plucked the cowrie out, put them into some tupperware and drove to the LFS. I informed the owner that I had learned that these cowrie eat mushrooms. Luckily he is awesome. He let me exchange them for this... Yeah to me! I got Ricordia! On the Cyano front, I seem to have won the battle. All I did was scrape it up every other day for about 2 weeks, and added the scarlet hermits. The scarlets took off and started on the cyano right away. I did one more major scraping after getting the scarlets then nothing and now I have no cyano. I'm glad I didn't use chemicals, and was able to deal with it naturally. And on a final note, remember to watch your turbo snails. I had one fall and I found it on it's shell the next morning and it looked terrible. I actually thought it was dead, and as I went to tong it out it kinda slowly contracted. I flipped it and it sat there for about 2 days then took off and has been fine since. Moral of the story. Flip those snails! Thanks for reading.