Gaz'z RSM

[Bifferwine]

I would skip the berghia nudis. They specialize on aiptasia (that's the only thing they eat), so once they clear out your tank, the starve to death. The only time a berghia nudi would be a good choice to get rid of aiptasia is if you have a friend or an LFS that has aiptasia that you can pass the animal on to when it's done.

[reeffreak]

Yes avoid Berghias,if your ammonia and nitrite is zero then get peppermint shrimps.

[MikMcgyver]

Nice setup Gaz, dig the shrooms... Thats a heck of a lot of aitasia... try a lil joes juice and they will be toast... Shrinp after levels are stable..

[Gazdac]

The levels were all looking pretty good, so the LFS and I decided it was time to get the shrimp. They only had 3 of them in total, so I took 2. I also took a bottle of "aiptasia killer" (no Joe's juice around) ... I know it might not be as safe as Joes, but heck I dont have much of anything in my thing to kill.

The killer definatly worked well on the things. you squirt it on them and it sticks to them ala-napalm One of them I missed, and only hit half, so he sort of half retracted with the rest of him hanging out kinda limply. Since it's late, I don't get to stay up and see what the 30 minute and hourly results are.

The shrimps seemed happy, they freaked out and ran around like crazy for a while, then settled in crawled around and then found a cave.

Pics tomorrow, stay tuned. Oh, if anyone needs one my LFS "knows how to get a hold of a reef shark, just need 20,000 gallons or so to put it in" LOL

[reeffreak]

Let the shrimps do there thing first before using that product.You may kill the shrimps by accident.

[Gazdac]

Originally Posted by reeffreak

Let the shrimps do there thing first before using that product.You may kill the shrimps by accident.

Lol... oops A litle late for that. The shrimps were floating in thier bag when I used the product, and most of it was dissapated before they were free. The product listed a PPL/Hour to not exceed and I came no where close to that amount since i only dosed the 5 gigantic ones. Hoping the shrimps can do the rest.

20 hours later they look fine still. If they start acting strange I'll make sure to try to rescue them.

[RigoSharon]

great pics gazdac!!

[Gazdac]

Well A small update.. My shrimps are doing good. One shedded and I took pictures... but alas he's too see through to show up lol.

My big crab still hasnt ever come out of his cave, but he's still alive.

Found some new stuff recently:

My mushrooms doing pretty stinking good. the 2 small ones were basically non existant when I got the rock. Yay for growing things. A new find is the crab next to the mushroom. I can never get a good enough look at him, he darts out snaps at something and then back into his hole so quick. only about a CM in size or so.



Why just have one? Why not have an entire forest?
My aiptasia seem to be growing into forests now. Luckily this seems to be the only place I see them in the tank currently. Whenever one becomes visable it dissapears the next day. Shirmpies go to work!

I haven't seen any spikes in my tanks levels, and the purple alage seems to be thriving. Course my hair alage seems to be thriving too, yet my levels aren't even registering in the tests. It's only growing in half the tank, so maybe ill cover that half to shield it from external lighting (stupid hydroponic garden in the room.

I think next time I'm in town I should hire some cleaners. The tank is starting to look filthy.