New Seahorse tank Diary

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Originally Posted by TeresaQ http:///forum/thread/382639/new-seahorse-tank-diary/360#post_3361276
you should have a lot more nassarius. 5 in a 65 gal isnt really doing any good. They cant keep your sand clean, I would add about 20 more. I would also add some differant types. cerith and nerite. They all eat differant things.
I have always read 1 snail per gal.
LOL...it's 20 Nassarius snails
25 Cerith snails
20 Nerite snails
All total is 65 snails in a 30g tank.
 
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TeresaQ http:///forum/thread/382639/new-seahorse-tank-diary/360#post_3361276
you should have a lot more nassarius. 5 in a 65 gal isnt really doing any good. They cant keep your sand clean, I would add about 20 more. I would also add some differant types. cerith and nerite. They all eat differant things.
I have always read 1 snail per gal.
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Originally Posted by Al&Burke http:///forum/thread/382639/new-seahorse-tank-diary/380#post_3361320
Thanks, I will get more once my upgrade is done.
I didn't know T was talking to you...OOPS
Anyway Peka has seahorses available she lives so close, I can go and hand pick my horses.
 
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Flower, for you, I would do the 20 nass, and half of each of the others to start. Throw the rest in the 90 until you need them. lol
 
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UPDATE:
New stuff has arrived. Nothing is open, but here are some pictures. I just set the snake locks on the sand..LOL..I can’t tell which end is up. The red frilly sponge is orange, and the orange tree sponge is more red. I spied a small blue legged hermit crab among the snails..he now lives in the refugium. I made an egg crate and pond foam canopy over the sponges to protect them from too much light to fight algae and it gives a shady area for the horses if they don't want the bright lights.

The round item with a butt is the snake locks, the Kenya is just above the green nepthea..everything is still mad.

The sponges.....also the are snails just starting to move.
 
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Originally Posted by meowzer http:///forum/thread/382639/new-seahorse-tank-diary/380#post_3361810
The sponges look great!!! What the heck is a snake lock?
LOL...Another name for a Medusa coral..Christmas tree coral (Studeriotes Sp.)
The red frilly was on a nice rock, but the tree sponge had almost nothing attached except some gravel on the bottom. I wedged it in place..I hope it holds.
When everyting blooms I will take another picture. I also got a little cleaner shrimp for my 90g... I had two big ones in there, then one of them disappeared about a month ago, I think the anemone had a snack.
 
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Originally Posted by meowzer http:///forum/thread/382639/new-seahorse-tank-diary/380#post_3361828
IIRC my tree sponge didn't come with a rock either
Everything seems to be opening up up just fine, the tree sponge is holding in place and I aquascaped a little. This snake coral is the ugliest thing I have ever seen...it looks like worms....LOL..No doubt it will be the healthiest coral and outlive everything. It isn’t out completely but I don’t think time will help this thing look any better. It has no color and looks like somebody threw up on it.
 
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Pictures of the ugly coral... those dark spots are raised up and looks like chunks of oatmeal or something on it...It's fun to laugh at.

This picture was taken in the dark..
 
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LOL...Here is the picture SWF has. That is fully open...that is what it looks like, with little chunks on it's worm arms OMG it so ugly ...It make me laugh every time I look at it..I paid $30.00 for it. It looked better as a little round pucker
 
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Well this ugly coral is nocturnal, so in the day it’s a butt, and at night it gets ugly...LOL..It is the first coral I ever had with a personality. My research said low light which is why I chose it for the seahorse tank. Most of them are white, but I got me a butt ugly brown one. As odd as it sounds...I like it, I never had a coral that caused me to smile so much and laugh. I may write a review on it.
EDIT:

For the record...snails do not clean as well as the hermits do. When I had a diatom bloom in my 55g, I added hermits and it was clear the next day, sand and rocks had not a bit of the ugly brown left...

The snails did a great job on my sand and side glass, but not the rock background. With 65 different snails surely they can clean my rock wall. I dare not add any hermits or the snails will become lunch. My 90g has mostly hermits of all types and just a few snails that escaped them..the seahorse tank has only snails, as a result I can compare their efficiency.
 
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Originally Posted by novahobbies http:///forum/thread/382639/new-seahorse-tank-diary/380#post_3362668
LOL That may be one of the fugliest corals I've ever seen! It's seriously weird.....and kinda cool!
LOL...Somebody had to really hate Chritsmas to call it a Christmas tree coral. I thought it was nocternal but it isn't...it closes up and reopens like an anemone for no reason, nothing is in the tank but snails and nothing crawled over it to make it close up. It likes the shade, I don't blame it, if I looked like that I would want to stay where it is dark too. I have seen other pictures of this coral and none of them are as ugly as this one...Also my GREEN Nepthea is not green at all. It is a bit more purple than my kenya tree but green is no where near the color.
Kenya tree is behind it...
 
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