adhoc
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Hello all, been lurking off and on for a while. Had a funny incident tonight that finally made me pull the trigger and log in.
When I first bought my live rock I noticed a small shrimp-like thing that would dart out of sight when I approached my tank. I have been trying for almost a year to get a photo of this, unsuccessfully. Finally today I figured out it's a mantis shrimp, and learned they like to eat. So I decided to try to feed it a piece of frozen krill I still had from an anemone. What do you know, as I walk up to the tank there it is, peering out at me; I run to the freezer and grab a piece, and just reach in up to my elbow to put the krill in the LR near where I saw the mantis... the darn thing pulled the krill out of my fingers!! That was too much for me. I feel kinda silly that this caused me to post, but hopefully all you enthusiasts here know my feeling.
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So here's a photo of my "old" setup; it's tough to see detail in this small photo. I had an unfortunate turn of events shortly after this was taken, while away from town for a few days. Still trying to figure out what triggered it, I'm thinking power outage, but the only survivors in my tank were some invertibrates, my clown fish, and the foxface. Even most of the coralline algae died off, turned completely white. I almost wept to see everything rotting away before my eyes when I got home. So much time put into building that tank, and the corals had been absolutely thriving, most doubled in size since I bought them.
Now I'm rebuilding, about a month into it, and loving that I can do it from the start with the resources on this site. I went ad hoc (hence the screen name) on my first salt water setup, using only "The Concientious Marine Aquarist".
So just saying hi.
When I first bought my live rock I noticed a small shrimp-like thing that would dart out of sight when I approached my tank. I have been trying for almost a year to get a photo of this, unsuccessfully. Finally today I figured out it's a mantis shrimp, and learned they like to eat. So I decided to try to feed it a piece of frozen krill I still had from an anemone. What do you know, as I walk up to the tank there it is, peering out at me; I run to the freezer and grab a piece, and just reach in up to my elbow to put the krill in the LR near where I saw the mantis... the darn thing pulled the krill out of my fingers!! That was too much for me. I feel kinda silly that this caused me to post, but hopefully all you enthusiasts here know my feeling.
:jumping:
So here's a photo of my "old" setup; it's tough to see detail in this small photo. I had an unfortunate turn of events shortly after this was taken, while away from town for a few days. Still trying to figure out what triggered it, I'm thinking power outage, but the only survivors in my tank were some invertibrates, my clown fish, and the foxface. Even most of the coralline algae died off, turned completely white. I almost wept to see everything rotting away before my eyes when I got home. So much time put into building that tank, and the corals had been absolutely thriving, most doubled in size since I bought them.
Now I'm rebuilding, about a month into it, and loving that I can do it from the start with the resources on this site. I went ad hoc (hence the screen name) on my first salt water setup, using only "The Concientious Marine Aquarist".
So just saying hi.