Dweezil
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That's what I would do Kyle ~ Especially if you have colonial hydroids. You do not want those in your tank. They spread easily and are quite difficult to get rid of.
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That's what I would do Kyle ~ Especially if you have colonial hydroids. You do not want those in your tank. They spread easily and are quite difficult to get rid of.
I have read that freezing rock, is like boiling it. Will kill everything... always though about that & a freezer, on a real cold night, that would work !
David Shaw
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I once was preparing to put a frozen cube of mysis in the tank for feeding, and when it defrosted one of the shrimp started to move and came back to life.
Was very freaky.
Was very freaky.
kyley
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The pistol shrimp are back at it already - and my wife saw two at once. Doesn't sound like the long freshwater dips did any lasting damage to them! So - about this freezing idea... I'm sure that would kill the pistols. But would it also kill off the coralline and bacteria? If you think those would survive, I might try that method... Either way, think it would kill off enough that it would cause an ammonia spike in my tank? I don't really want to nuke the rock and lose out on that much of my biological filter... Thoughts? Thanks,
--Kyle
--Kyle
kyley
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Hi All,
I got some new coral today (more on that later). One of them was a torch coral, and on the skeleton I saw a *lot* of tiny anemones, polyps, or something (all much smaller than an asterina star). Here's a pic, showing a bit of the torch tentacles for size perspective. Do you think these are baby majano anemones?
I tried scraping them all off the skeleton in a bucket, but not sure if that will do much good (they'll probably come back?). I've avoided majanos so far - hope I didn't just start another problem with this coral
Thanks,
--Kyle
I got some new coral today (more on that later). One of them was a torch coral, and on the skeleton I saw a *lot* of tiny anemones, polyps, or something (all much smaller than an asterina star). Here's a pic, showing a bit of the torch tentacles for size perspective. Do you think these are baby majano anemones?
I tried scraping them all off the skeleton in a bucket, but not sure if that will do much good (they'll probably come back?). I've avoided majanos so far - hope I didn't just start another problem with this coral
Thanks,--Kyle
pocketreef
Member
Hi,
I think they are baby torch.
I think they are baby torch.
kyley
Active Member
Hi Leigh, no, not yet. They keep clicking away even after a night of intended torture (freshwater dip, hypersalinity dip, oxygen starved bucket with no flow, and vigorously shaking the rock in a bucket to simulate a hurricane)
All, I'm going to show my newbie status (
) and ask what is this in the middle of my torch coral's skeleton. This was taken in the dark at night [with flash]) so the tentacles had receded. Is this the torch coral's mouth?? It goes in and out and grabbing at stuff like a hand (it looks like tiny finger bones!)
Or do I just have a feather duster in the middle of my coral? Thanks,
--Kyle
All, I'm going to show my newbie status (
) and ask what is this in the middle of my torch coral's skeleton. This was taken in the dark at night [with flash]) so the tentacles had receded. Is this the torch coral's mouth?? It goes in and out and grabbing at stuff like a hand (it looks like tiny finger bones!)
Or do I just have a feather duster in the middle of my coral? Thanks,
--Kyle
I think so...
kyley
Active Member
Yes, it was doing that a lot last night while the torch's tentacles were retracted. So, my question is - is it irritating the torch coral? I mean, it is right in the middle of the one torch coral head! When it was out, the tentacles were all the way retracted on that head, while the other heads were still out a bit... Thanks,
--Kyle
--Kyle
I suppose it might be irritating, but since the barnacles usually live inside a hard calcium based "home" it's probably been there a while. I'm not sure it could be removed or killed without harming the coral. Maybe it could be safely popped of with a knife? If the torch still extends it's tentacles when the lights are on it's probably nothing to worry about - just my opinion.