so today i was struck with an idea while i was in my lfs while i was out....im going to have an in-tank fuge. i was thinking of takiing one of those little hermit crab plastic cases with the hot pink lids we all had when we were kids....lol and set it up with a piece or 2 or rubble to okeep it from floating around my tank..... the pods will be able to get oyr...but nothin will be able to get into the container....
my nudibranch did it overnight... i looked it up online, and it says nudibranchs lay their eggs in a spiral. so im pretty sure thats what it is....hopefully it was actually able to finish the process.... cause my mom thought it was getting sucked into the overflow box...but it wasnt..so she decided to take her finger and poke him down... =\ but the spiral is big enough to look finished. ill give it some time..i think the hatching takes like 2 or 3 weeks...
if anyone knows a nudibranch fry care site or any info, it would be greatly appreciated! =]
so, last night, my anemone was very droopy looking when i got home....quite deflated and all...and then about an hour after that , he shrunk up, retracted all of his tentacles and then stayed like that for a while.
i thought maybe it was dying, i left him alone, and fell asleep. i woke up this morning, turned my lights on, and WHAM! it looked like he grew 2ce his size that ive ever seen him...lol its tentacles are all inflated and out like twice as far as they ever been.... looks very cool. id say that his longest tentacles are about 5"
im glad he didnt die. =]
yea...so my mag pump is horribly loud..it can be heard from anywere in my house...lol thats not good. my mom tells me she cant sleep at night because of the vibration of it. i have been trying different things to keep it shut..but none seem to work, or even help the slightest bit.....i was reading older posts on this site about the same problem...someone said that a ziptied sponge may work....ill pick one up tomorrow and try that. its a mag 7....so its one of the smaller ones..but the noise is becoming a problem...
=[ i cant really hear it in my room...i have the ball valve almost all the way open...so the sound of the water on the surface kinda drowns the vibrations out..... (no pun intended) lol
its an internal pump...its in the last chamber of my sump..sitting perfectly in the middle of the chamber. it doesnt have any rubber feet or anything, just a plastic base disk. i tried a sheet of filter media that my mom took from her job..its the filter pad that they use in their lobster tank.....i tried that and it seemed like ot made it louder... =\ it is really starting to bug me......and i also really need to get a RO unit so that i can stop taking these trips to the freaking supermarket for water....
i bought a small plastic hermit crab cage and put a bit of sand, liverock and chaeto in there....i guess the population is increasing....for the past few days, the clear lid door has been turning increasingly white...lol so i guess something is going on in there.....and every once in a while when im paying attention to my clowns close enough, i see them eat little white specs here and there....so thats good....
Hello Lil Buddy. Sorry to hear that the issue with your in sump pump has your household in an uproar. Let me ask you this. Is the vibration/noise coming from the pump making vibrations making contact on the outside of it's assembly or is the vibration noise coming from inside it's housing? You might be able to brainstorm and reduce the noise if it's the prior, but if the noise is coming from the inside of the pump itself, I think you may need to buy a new pump. If the pump is expensive, I'd see if the warranty is still good on it and send it back to them and see if they can correct the problem. Whatever you do, do not work on it yourself, as the housing is water-proof sealed and it is an electrical item.
I'm thinking that the pump must have started somewhere recently making this irritating noise, or I believe your mother and yourself, would have complained before now. I hope you figure this out soon before everyone rides your back about the noise.
well...she has complained about it before, shes getting used to it...i tore apart my sump return plumbing this morning to see what was going on and i tried wrapping it in the foamy filter pad stuff my mom brought home...it supressed the noise a little bit...but i think its a combination of both the pump sitting on the glass bottom of my sump...and also the pvc piping...maybe i should have used a rubber hose on the return line...idk....but since i have my tank topped off, i have the pump on full blast and i dont really hear the vibrations....just the "wooshgurglegurglesplashsplash" of the water comin out of my rerturn.... lol
so i went to my lfs earlier today and got 2 new fish. one was a domino damsel (my gf wanted to get him and i kinda miss my old one i had...) hopefully this one will be as mellow as the last one was...lol
and my gf got a Powder Blue Tang for me as an early valentines day gift. since niether her or me knew what i would have wanted...lol im acclimating him now... he seems really healty. i have him in the bucket with the drip line, and i fed him out of curiosity to see if he eats the same stuff as my clowns do....... and sure enough, it was gone within seconds. so thats good that he is eating this fast. idk..maybe some of u might think its normal for your fish to do that....but i never seen it happen with any of mine... hees about 3'' right now...whenever he outgrows my tank, ill find him a happy home. maybe ill donate it to one of you nice folk....lol
ill post pics either tomorrow or the next day when he gets used to the tank and is actually out and about.
well i watched him eat at the lfs, they had just fed them right when i got there ad i was watching him much on the leftover pellets. i wanted to just make sure he would eat the same food that i feed my clowns...and its been at the store for the past week or so. and i inspected it closley, like i stared at him for a good 15 mins, it was between this guy or a b/w bannerfish...and i noticed the banner had a few ick spots on him before i made my decision. and when i acclimated this guy, i made sure i did a drip acclimation and not a quick one like i normaly do, cause i didnt want to wake up this morning and see him dead...so yea. hes doing really well, happily bouncing around in my tank nipping at the rocks for algae, doing a wonderful job at cleaning the extra pellets from my sandbed...haha i feed him 3 times a day, and immediatly eats the food.
my next fish is going to be the bannerfish. i really want one. i also want to get a mandarin dragonet. i saw one but i missed my opportunity at getting him. they only had one when i wet to the lfs, and didnt have the money yet...and then went bck the next day..with money... and he was gone... =[
but before anything...i guess a skimmer purchase is in order.....i saw a used one at the store...seemed like the guy didnt know the price of it so he just told me 125$ ..it was the coralife superskimmer 125... thats good considering its only 10$ more than a brand new 65g one from c.l.
but yea...also i took pics..i have to find the cable to my g.f,s camera cable so i can upload em to post..... =\
I certainly would hold off an additional purchases until you get your skimmer in there. I would also refrain from the temptation of the dragonet until your tank is more mature and/or you have a sufficient copepod population built up to provide it with food. How's Mr. Eel and MHC doing in that sump of yours ?
well, the way i see it, its been about 4 months since i saw a dragonet before the day before yesterday...so by the time i see one next, i wil be able to get it..cause they dont come around here pretty often...
the eel and the MHC are doing great. they get along as far as i can tell in there....the only thing is that the anemone has passed on due to lack of light. yea...i still havnt gotten a light for down there... =[ it sucks...il get it when i get my
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