jagermeister
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I recently just bought 50 pounds of live rock for $50 from a guy's tank. He just doesn't have time for it anymore and really wanted to get rid of it. It came from a very established reef tank and has variuos polyps and mushrooms on it. I'm afraid I may have introduced some stuff I may not want however. So hopefully someone can take some time and answer my questions to see just what I have.
1. There's these round balls that look like grapes over some of the rock. What are these and are they o.k. to leave in.
2. I got 3-4 frags of "acro's" (I think that's what he said) that were attached to the rock. The guy said they should do ok in my 55 gallon under 440 watts of vho. They're a type of coral that is branching. Two are brown and two are purple. Are there specific things I need to do for the care of these corals?
3. As I was placing a piece of live rock into the tank all these "creatures" started bailing out and taking off into the rock in my tank. There were 4-5 of them and after looking around on the web today I've determined they're probably cowries. What benefits/detriments do these guys have in a reef tank?
4. There's a couple of pink sponges on the rocks. I've heard that if these die they really screw up the tank. Should I get them out of there?
5. Attached to a piece of rock was a clam. The guy called it a bearded clam. Any special requirements.
6. I couldn't find it when I got home but when loading the rock into the cooler the guy said 'oh look, a gorgonia'. What exactly is that? Probably doesn't matter because I didn't see it when I was placing the rock in the tank so I'm afraid I crushed it, or it's on one of the piece I put in the refugium.
That's it for now. Hopefully someone's able to help out!
Thanks.
1. There's these round balls that look like grapes over some of the rock. What are these and are they o.k. to leave in.
2. I got 3-4 frags of "acro's" (I think that's what he said) that were attached to the rock. The guy said they should do ok in my 55 gallon under 440 watts of vho. They're a type of coral that is branching. Two are brown and two are purple. Are there specific things I need to do for the care of these corals?
3. As I was placing a piece of live rock into the tank all these "creatures" started bailing out and taking off into the rock in my tank. There were 4-5 of them and after looking around on the web today I've determined they're probably cowries. What benefits/detriments do these guys have in a reef tank?
4. There's a couple of pink sponges on the rocks. I've heard that if these die they really screw up the tank. Should I get them out of there?
5. Attached to a piece of rock was a clam. The guy called it a bearded clam. Any special requirements.
6. I couldn't find it when I got home but when loading the rock into the cooler the guy said 'oh look, a gorgonia'. What exactly is that? Probably doesn't matter because I didn't see it when I was placing the rock in the tank so I'm afraid I crushed it, or it's on one of the piece I put in the refugium.
That's it for now. Hopefully someone's able to help out!
Thanks.
