Small Fry's 120

[CarmieJo]

Josh,

If the brine are not enriched I would only feed them as a treat or soak them in vitamins as they are almost devoid of nutrition. I feed mysis and I always thaw and rinse it first to avoid adding phosphate to my tank.

[Small Fry]

Well, my pink millepora has kind of been declining over the past couple of weeks. Today, i noticed a little hairy crab in the coral. I immediately took it out and i am now keeping it in a container in my sump.

I cant really find many pictures of crabs like it, and my garbage camera cant get a good picture of the crab. A little description: Small, legs spread out like a spiders would. Its brown, its hairy, and its been in my declining pink mille.

So if some of you guys could post some pics and names. And perhaps some advice, it would be much appreciated.

[Phurst]

Brown and hairy may be a gorilla crab.

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[lReef lKeeper]

yeah, it sounds like a gorilla crab to me. definately a contributer to the decline of the Millipora. the only GOOD acro crabs have hairless bodies and legs. they are also kind of pinkish in color.

[Small Fry]

definitely a gorilla crab! thnx alot guys.

[Small Fry]

Well, i went to my first local frag swap friday, and ended up trading four frags, getting two. And then i bought another.

Compared to other frags that were there, my frags were relatively small, so i ended up trading a stylo frag and a birdsnest frag for a green montipora digitata; Which was a good size frag.

Next, i traded a hairy green acro frag and a birdsnest for fairly large piece of cabbage coral. Which is pretty cool.

Then, i bought a really nice frag of montipora capricornus

Cabbage Coral


Green Digitata


Red Capricornus


Overall im very happy with the frags. Soon, i hope to get a blue capricornus frag from the same guy i got the red from. Since it is bigger than the red, i hope to mount it behind to have the Red, against the blue background. Should be cool.

So anywho, thats my update for a while

[CarmieJo]

Nice acquisitions!

[Small Fry]

My reef store is officially the coolest store around!!

They told only the members of the local club about an order coming in. They had about 50-60 pieces.

I got a killer teal acro colony, a Hulk-green Capricornus (bigger than my frag), a colony of fire+ice palys, and some purple zoas,

ALL FOR ONLY $180!!!!!!!!!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT

Pics tomorow, i got home late so lights were off :s

[Small Fry]

woot! Finally got the internet to work on my psp! lol! took me bouta minute to load this pg but w/e. pics of corals come when i find batteries 4 the cam

[Small Fry]

Well, about five minutes ago, i came down the stairs to finish putting an episode of south park on my psp, when i decided to turn on my room lights and look in my tank. I have know about a crab in my system, black, huge, and very hairy, that only seems to come out at night.

Well, tonight, i found him in my stylo. Quickly, i grabbed a net, threw my stylo over it and shook, and plop, out went the crab. After, making it out of the net he made a run for it and tried to jump of the table, but i caught him in a container of water which is now in my sump. Now seeing him clearly, its body is a good quarter and a half in width, including its legs, its span must be around four inches (this thing is a monster!!!)

Anywho, hes safely contained in my sump for the moment and i will investigate his species and stuff tomorow.

As for tonight, i will now go sleep a well earned and victorious sleep

[Small Fry]

further investigating into the container, i realised that i also caught a baby peppermint shrimp, a good 2 cm long

This tells me i have actively breeding pepp shrimp in the system YEY! I know my skunks are breeding cuz they constantly have a clutch of eggs on their abdomen. Its pretty neat tho

[Small Fry]

Hey guys.

Been a while since ive posted and been around here. Holiday bussiness, you know

Anywho, though id update you all on the status of my tank:

Since my last update i have added a few fish-

-a pair of female Lyretail Anthias. Absolutely breathtaking fish. I will be getting more!!!

-Two days ago i picked up a blure throat trigger. Without a doubt, one of the most beautiful fish in my tank. It has the deep blue big eyes, and has a Bright Bright yellow high-lighting on the edges of tis fins. Ontop of all that- its a trigger, They are very cool fish just to watch,

In the past couple of weeks my clowns have started hosting in my "crazy frog" frogspawn. YEY!
no tricks, they just started hosting one day Very cool.

Coral Wise

My bubble coral is definitely coming back. There is about a 2" square section coming back on the skeleton, with tiny bits growing on other parts. Veyr excited for this

Onto the bad news

two points on this list

I LOST MY ACAN COLONY :'(

a month or so ago, it started receeding to a point where i could see the skeleton. I then put it underneath my red cap so it wasn't in the light as much.

After it had "stabilized" i moved it onto the sandbed, half overshadowed by the rock.

thne POOF that night, there was this goo that was covering it. Same thing happened to my goni so i knew what that meant. Then sure enough, the afternoon of the next day, bleached white skeleton

So yeah, there goes $120 My local reef clubbers said they'll frag me up some of their acans for me (love those guys). But still

So yeah, hope you all had a merry xmas, happy new year, and fun reading



Pics of the anthias and trigger to come

[CarmieJo]

I love blue throat triggers. If I ever get a bigger tank I will have one!

[Coreyz]

Thanks for the up date Small Fry. So when will we get to some so new pictures?

[Small Fry]

Thanks for the up date Small Fry. So when will we get to some so new pictures?

as soon as i find my camera. Im also trying to save my torches. they've both lost a couple of heads so im testing and observing and yadda yadda

doin my best

[Small Fry]

i placed a maxi-jet 900 on the left side of my tank and the torches were getting alot of the flow. Overall i have lost 4 heads, 2 on each torch. would this be a reasonable explanation for the loss of the heads?? I testes and all levels are corect and unchanged.

Only thing changed in the past couple of weeks are the MJ and the trigger. Somehow i dont think the trigger could do that.

[cubano2480]

torch are low-medium flow i do belive that was the problem in the other hand what are u water parameters?? how old is u tank ?

BTW very nice tank

[Small Fry]

found my movie cam Guess what that means
gonna take you guys through a tour of my tank. All fish, All corals. everything but equipment. If so needed, i can make a quick vid of the fish-room.

And yess, i got about 40 seconds or so of the trigger

should have it edited within half an hour.

TY cubano. My tank has been setup since june.

levels are
nitrates- 0.0
nitrites- 0.0
PH- 8.4
ammonia- 0.5 (just had a couple torch heads die :s)

and yeah. So levels are where they always are (ammonia excluded). I do believe it was the flow. The mj has been re-aimed at all the sps now. So we should be all good now.

[cubano2480]

what about calcium magnesium phosphate do u text that to???if u want to keep sps u should do and please don`t get me wrong I just want to help

[Small Fry]

my editing software couldnt handle all 15 minutes of the vid for some reason.

But, i have vid of the trigg and a snapshot of the reef. If you guys want more. Say the word and ill try again
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[nay,kid]

very nice fish. whats the dimensions on your 120g

[R. Deschain]

Nice josh, I enjoyed watching!

[Small Fry]

very nice fish. whats the dimensions on your 120g

im a little foggy, but i believe 60"x26"x18

Nice josh, I enjoyed watching!

thnx, i aim to please

[V]

S/Fry, whats shaken bacon?

just updated on your thread, been awhile between drinks, all's looking good my man, & now vids to boot, spoiling us bud!

[Small Fry]

S/Fry, whats shaken bacon?

just updated on your thread, been awhile between drinks, all's looking good my man, & now vids to boot, spoiling us bud!

LOL, try my man. I should be more recent now that my work schedule is a lil bit slower

I have about 15 minutes more film, but my computer crashed halfway thru transferring it, and i didnt want to go through another 15 minutes u know??? i go back to school monday, didnt want to waste the last day

So yeah, once i have spare time ill edit the rest and get it out to you guys