SOVIETTACO's 24g Nano-Cube Diary

soviettaco

soviettaco

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Originally Posted by Posiden
http:///forum/post/3165134
I am not sure how to get a crab out of the tank. Maybe try and trap him somehow. Let us know cause I have one too.
Good luck on your test.
Thanks! And yes If I get the little punk out I'll let you know, if he lets me
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soviettaco

soviettaco

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Devistating events have taken place in my tank, The D@mn gorilla crab has attacked, killed, and eaten both my fiddlers, and now one of my electric blues.
I have been trying to get him for weeks now, lately he has been extremely elusive, so I will be doing a salt dip to get the b@st@rd out. I'm pretty sure I am going to smash this thing with a hammer once i get my hands on it.
If he gets to my poms or sexys before I can get him out I will freak!!!!!!
 
soviettaco

soviettaco

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Parameters 11-06-09:
Temp: 78
S.G.: 1.025
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate:0
Updated List:
red = new purchase
blue = new hitchhiker discovery
Inverts:
3 nassarius snails
3 astrea snails
3-5 stometella snail (hitchhikers)
6 medium blue leg hermits
2 scarlet hermits
1 emerald crab (hitchhiker)
3 Sexy Shrimp
2 Pom Pom Crabs
1 Porcelain Anemone Crab
1 Purple and Yellow Feather Duster (anyone know the proper name?)
1 Electric Blue Hermit
B@ST@RD GORILLA CRAB AHHHHHH!!!!
Fish:
2 ocellaris clowns
Green Clown Goby
1 Bangaii Cardinal
Coral:
1 green torch coral with 4 heads
Red brain coral
piece of rock with a ton of purple/blue mushrooms
Brown button polyps
Fire and Ice Zooanthids
Green Star Polyps
Blasto It was just listed as a blasto, but is it supposed to be called a "green blasto"?
LR/LS:
about 12 lbs LR
20 lbs LS
Future:
BTA
MORE AND MORE CORALS AND MORE CORALS AND EVEN MORE CORALS
Crab replacements
 
nolanrob123

nolanrob123

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I had an emerald crab that started in my tank the size of a penny and turned into a quarter sized monster! He would "EAT" my dendro's, duncans and some zoas. I could never catch him as he would run away when I would try to get him with the tweezers. Long story short I noticed every time I would feed the dendros or duncans some shrimp he would come out and nab it from him. I learned his weakness and waited for his punk self. I set an entire shrimp out as I knew he could not get far with it. Once he grabbed it I just got his claw with the tweezers and removed him from the tank. Maybe it is worth a try, some of those b******s are awful!
 
nikesb

nikesb

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what do you feed your pom pom crab. ive been thinking of getting one to finish my collection of crabs
 
soviettaco

soviettaco

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Originally Posted by nolanrob123
http:///forum/post/3168347
I had an emerald crab that started in my tank the size of a penny and turned into a quarter sized monster! He would "EAT" my dendro's, duncans and some zoas. I could never catch him as he would run away when I would try to get him with the tweezers. Long story short I noticed every time I would feed the dendros or duncans some shrimp he would come out and nab it from him. I learned his weakness and waited for his punk self. I set an entire shrimp out as I knew he could not get far with it. Once he grabbed it I just got his claw with the tweezers and removed him from the tank. Maybe it is worth a try, some of those b******s are awful!
Yeah I am going to take my emerald crab too, I really don't think he is the culprit but I want to be safe, I don't need anymore deaths in my tank.
Originally Posted by nikeSB
http:///forum/post/3168531
what do you feed your pom pom crab. ive been thinking of getting one to finish my collection of crabs
They are scavengers and they use their poms to mop food that is not eaten by your fish and corals. If you want you can add dried seaweed strips to your tanks diet, but don't overfeed
. Hope you get one they are so cool!! If you want you can check out the pom pom crab thread in the invert section of this forum, heres the link https://www.saltwaterfish.com/vb/showthread.php?t=365812
BTW I love your avatar picture, what type of zoo is that?
 
nikesb

nikesb

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Originally Posted by SOVIETTACO
http:///forum/post/3170183
BTW I love your avatar picture, what type of zoo is that?
The person I got it from has named them Toxic Lava PE's. I got it from the guy who was the first to start selling the Purple Hornets and also the guy that named them.
 
soviettaco

soviettaco

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So yesterday I went to both of my LFSs and got some new stuff for good prices. So here's the pics!! Oh and I'll need some help on ID-ing some of these zoanthids.
Moonstone

OK now for the things I need Identified:
This was sold to me as "Green Lanterns" is that what they are?

OK these are something I got a very long time ago, I was told they were "Fire & Ice" so I just want a confirmation I guess

Back to new things, These sort of look like Fire & Ice, but I am certain they are something else anyone know? Oh and the story behind these is pretty awesome. These are two different frags, but thy were sandwiched together with the disc with the most polyps hidden under the top rock with the least, I didn't know it and the guy selling them to me didn't know it either, I got the sandwich for $10 when I got home I realized it was two pieces loosely attached so I pulled them apart to find a whole crap ton of polyps!!! pretty awesome. So once again any ideas as to what they are? Maybe orange delights?


And the last frag I got was this, I know its a pretty bad pic I will try to get a better one, They look olive greenish with yellow splotches, anybody know what they are?

Updated stocklist:
red = new purchase
blue = new hitchhiker discovery
green = removed
Inverts:
3 nassarius snails
5 astrea snails
3-5 stometella snail (hitchhikers)
12 medium blue leg hermits
1 scarlet hermit
1 emerald crab (hitchhiker)
3 Sexy Shrimp
2 Pom Pom Crabs
1 Porcelain Anemone Crab
1 Purple and Yellow Feather Duster (anyone know the proper name?)
1 Electric Blue Hermit
B@ST@RD GORILLA CRAB AHHHHHH!!!!
Fish:
2 ocellaris clowns
Green Clown Goby
1 Bangaii Cardinal
Coral:
1 green torch coral with 4 heads
Red brain coral
piece of rock with a ton of purple/blue mushrooms
Brown button polyps
Fire and Ice Zoanthids
Green Star Polyps
Blasto Merleti
Moonstone
Green Lantern Zoanthids (need comfirmation)
Orange Delight zoanthids? (need ID)
Olive and yellow zoanthids? (need ID)
LR/LS:
about 12 lbs LR
20 lbs LS
Future:
BTA
Obviously I want more crabs
Blue Acro
And much much more
ENJOY!!
p.s.
Not enough room on this post so I need to make a new one for my next subject
 
soviettaco

soviettaco

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Ok so I attempted to get the gorilla crab out with a salt dip but it didn't work so I am looking into getting some extra long surgical tweezer/clamp things to help myself out. I did remove the emerald though so thats good.
Ok so because I had to move rock around to take rock out for the dip I decided to redo my LR layout. And I think it looks amazingly better then before. It's funny because everytime I redo it it looks better and more like a real reef tank. So I thought it would be fun to post a timeline of my Tank's FTS pics to show you how its come along its pretty cool.
Ok literally the first day haha:

Some coral additions:
:
Finally got rid of the stupid arch and its starting to look more legit:

Rock was too unstable so I changed it again:

and the up to date FTS, I love how these two look so much more color now with the new additions and the LR setup looks soooo good!!

slight overhead

So what do you guys think?
 
troy989

troy989

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Originally Posted by SOVIETTACO
http:///forum/post/3161080
yep the fattest and fluffyiest, and thats really too bad about the pom, how long did you have it for?
oh ok troy...
tooo bad i typed your adress into google earth and found THIS you crazy cat lady!!!!

haha, just kidding.


i only have fish and a gunea pig but if they came into my dads hous i think hed pull out the m16
 
troy989

troy989

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id have to use the gun my dad got for varmit(cats that come on his yard) he gave it to me... i might buy a 1911 anyway but its only gots 7 rounds but my dad said hed make me a 20 round lol
 
new2salt1

new2salt1

Member
I just read this diary from start to finish too. And I kept waiting for the "oh no, full system collapse" post, and I'm glad that hasn't happened. I was shocked to see clownfish in a pic, only to have it followed days later with a post that said, "Ok, hopefully my cycle is over; I'm going to do a test finally..." Uggghh. Whether this system is successful or not, newbies should still understand that they shouldn't be following your lead. I just felt that needed to be said.
I know what it's like to initially catch the bug and go to the LFS 4x a week, but I felt like things were being added way too quick, specifically all the crabs. I don't know what species of fiddler you got but I know of NO fiddler crabs that are considered reef safe. As a rule of thumb I won't keep aggressive foragers (ie emerald, gorilla, fiddler crabs) in the same tank as inverts that I actually care about (sexies, pompoms, etc). I know they say emerald crabs are reef safe but they have attacked more living things than any other inhabitant I've kept over the last 5 years!
I know you are excited to add, add, add, but my favorite part has been when I finally got OVER that "bug," and I gave my reefs a chance to get comfortable, that's when all the really cool things started to happen: clowns begin hosting, inverts get their favorite "spots," and territories get developed. In my opinion, that's success; all the little predictable interactions show the critters are comfortable (like my clown waiting until the shrooms have the shrimp halfway digested before he makes his move to steal it away! Or how my only orange crab will roll down the live rock - instead of crawling - when food is introduced).
SO I guess what Im saying is try to give everything a chance to make a home before more and more variables are added.
 
soviettaco

soviettaco

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Originally Posted by troy989
http:///forum/post/3172529
id have to use the gun my dad got for varmit(cats that come on his yard) he gave it to me... i might buy a 1911 anyway but its only gots 7 rounds but my dad said hed make me a 20 round lol
I would use an airsoft gun not a real gun or even a bb gun. When your neighbor realizes you killed their cat stuff might go down. Nothing beats the hose!! Haha
Originally Posted by redsea
http:///forum/post/3172639
I just read you whole thread, beautfiul fish tank, I love all the corals!

Thanks, I don't think its worthy of the bowdown yet but maybe soon
, i need to get more coral and more color in there.
Originally Posted by New2Salt1
http:///forum/post/3172890
I just read this diary from start to finish too. And I kept waiting for the "oh no, full system collapse" post, and I'm glad that hasn't happened. I was shocked to see clownfish in a pic, only to have it followed days later with a post that said, "Ok, hopefully my cycle is over; I'm going to do a test finally..." Uggghh. Whether this system is successful or not, newbies should still understand that they shouldn't be following your lead. I just felt that needed to be said.
I know what it's like to initially catch the bug and go to the LFS 4x a week, but I felt like things were being added way too quick, specifically all the crabs. I don't know what species of fiddler you got but I know of NO fiddler crabs that are considered reef safe. As a rule of thumb I won't keep aggressive foragers (ie emerald, gorilla, fiddler crabs) in the same tank as inverts that I actually care about (sexies, pompoms, etc). I know they say emerald crabs are reef safe but they have attacked more living things than any other inhabitant I've kept over the last 5 years!
I know you are excited to add, add, add, but my favorite part has been when I finally got OVER that "bug," and I gave my reefs a chance to get comfortable, that's when all the really cool things started to happen: clowns begin hosting, inverts get their favorite "spots," and territories get developed. In my opinion, that's success; all the little predictable interactions show the critters are comfortable (like my clown waiting until the shrooms have the shrimp halfway digested before he makes his move to steal it away! Or how my only orange crab will roll down the live rock - instead of crawling - when food is introduced).
SO I guess what Im saying is try to give everything a chance to make a home before more and more variables are added.
Thanks for the concern, but I really have spaced out my purchases a lot more then you think, My tank was started around August 11th (sure that wasn't that long ago but its not a few weeks ago) I don't impulse buy I ask so many questions when I go to my LFSs (and cross reference) to guarentee the smallest amount of impact on my tank. Trust me if I wasn't using caution you would have seen the "Oh NO" post. My last purchases were bought together, but seeing as the biggest thing I got was a moonstone about the size of half a deck of cards I didn't really see a problem with that. I also, pretty much do tests every week even if I don't post test update everytime I do it. And for the fiddlers it doesn't matter they were eaten by the gorilla, the emerald is gone, and I am still working on getting the gorilla out. I don't just throw things in my tank and say "ok there you go now I can just sit back and look at it", I regularly do water changes now, (just did one saturday, but didn't see the point of posting that) I also clean my filter media regularly as well. I do observe all that goes down in my tank when I want to check on something I know their spots extremely well. I have even figured out the tunnel system in one of LR pieces that the gorilla crab uses. I am also aware of night behavior I spend 20-40 mins a night just looking in my tank occasionally breaking out the flash light. I will say that I am a newb but I wouldn't say that I am not knowledgeable on the basics and the pretty normal stuff. If you were to ask me about stuff in my tank I could tell you all about it but if you ask me about MH, or clams, or vodka dosing I won't be able to tell you a thing. So once again thanks for the concern, and expect to see more additions
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Hope you stop by again
 
new2salt1

new2salt1

Member
"Trust me if I wasn't using caution you would have seen the "Oh NO" post."
I never meant to lecture you, but I will just add that your above statement is just not true. Anyone who has been on these boards for a few years has seen tanks start ok even if the bioload is excessive, and then fall apart.
Im just saying...your tank has been in existence for 13 weeks and you are already at (or past) max fish capacity. I dont consider that cautious.
 
soviettaco

soviettaco

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Originally Posted by New2Salt1
http:///forum/post/3173526
"Trust me if I wasn't using caution you would have seen the "Oh NO" post."
I never meant to lecture you, but I will just add that your above statement is just not true. Anyone who has been on these boards for a few years has seen tanks start ok even if the bioload is excessive, and then fall apart.
Im just saying...your tank has been in existence for 13 weeks and you are already at (or past) max fish capacity. I dont consider that cautious.
Ok well I will let you know as soon as my tank dies and I lose all of my money I put into it. Jeez.
 
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