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[Üter]

You mean the "Five Headed Granular P***S Starfish. Size: XL 8"+"
I literally laughed out loud!! I wonder if that is real. I'm not showing my wife, we'd end up with 4 of them. :face-with-tears-of-joy:

yeah, I still can't stop laughing.

 

[Rocks reef]

I think he was self conscious about having his picture taken for the thread.

Probably so... he was a trooper though!

 

[Rocks reef]

yeah, I still can't stop laughing.

Oh man! I showed my coworker, she was like "what the heck"!

 

[Rocks reef]

seriously though....imagine having that in your tank? :squinting-face-with-tongue::winking-face-with-tongue::zany-face:

Definately a show stopper. Wonder what happens when the water gets cold?

 

[Üter]

Definately a show stopper. Wonder what happens when the water gets cold?

or the fancy Seastar walks by!

 

[Imrahilwjz]

currently I only have one kid that eats seaweed sheets. this might hurt their teeth. as soon as I get a fish for this I'm 100% ordering it. But my tank needs another octopus first. then a GREAT light.

My algae overgrowth is definitely fading back, so I'm expecting to need supplemental algae for my 2 rabbitfish.

 

[Üter]

My algae overgrowth is definitely fading back, so I'm expecting to need supplemental algae for my 2 rabbitfish.

they have one on 3dprint but it looks big and bulky. not like the one at Rhinos.

 

[tbrown]

No sir, I assume you were consumed with work and did not have ample time to respond in a timely manner. I try to find the silver lining! :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

Nah, I work from home Thursday mornings so I slept in until my first meeting.

 

[kingranch2003]

Absolutely. I remember once my boys and I were playing Helldivers and we had nearly finished a pretty difficult mission when we were all wiped out and failed the mission. Some of them looked grumpy and said, "I don't want to play anymore." Normally I encourage them to curtail their video game time, but in this case I was like, "Nope, we are getting back on this horse!" Fortunately on the second try we succeeded. It was maybe the one time my wife agreed with extending a video game session.

Exactly! No matter what it is, if we start, we have to finish!

 

[tbrown]

Why do you say use a single strain? All I see for sale are multi strain bottles of phyto. I have no idea how to grow your own, I'm just asking out of curiosity. Also, where do you obtain your phyto to seed it with? If I have a bottle of mixed phyto, can I not just use a little of that to start a culture?

Mixed Phyto will cause a crash typically. One strain will almost always win the competition for food causing other strains to die causing the culture to spoil and crash. Same with Copepods - don't mix or they'll fight and both might end up dead.

 

[tbrown]

Why do you say use a single strain? All I see for sale are multi strain bottles of phyto. I have no idea how to grow your own, I'm just asking out of curiosity. Also, where do you obtain your phyto to seed it with? If I have a bottle of mixed phyto, can I not just use a little of that to start a culture?

TSA, Reef Legends, Reef Nutrition, and Reef Plantation sell single strain Phyto. I believe Dinkins does as well.

 

[tbrown]

I believe after some back tracking and talking to some people with Cynarina, that i may have injured mine during the relocation process. They slime like crazy. I kid you not Luis, everything in there was absolutely covered in it. And what else is crazy, is my sps and acans that I already had look fantastic. They never went down at all. And the plate that came in the coral order is absolutely fine. That's why I think it was the coral slime. Only the corals that were covered in it were affected

I was going to suggest coral warfare which would be the slime.

 

[tbrown]

Thank you for the vendors. That makes sense that one will outcompete the others. I guess they grow different single strains and then combine them when they sell it.

Yes. Some will sell bottles of Phyto mixes with Copepods, rotifers, and brine shrimp in the mix as well. You have to mix after and typically it'll only last for a week or so.

 

[tbrown]

Caught up and way behind!

 

[Rocks reef]

they have one on 3dprint but it looks big and bulky. not like the one at Rhinos.

I think fishofhex also has a 3d one. I know kcleven has them, he's on instagram and etsy.

 

[Rocks reef]

Exactly! No matter what it is, if we start, we have to finish!

That's man code!

 

[kingranch2003]

I was going to suggest coral warfare which would be the slime.

Tim what would you suggest? I added some charcoal and did a 25% water change. Some corals are looking a bit better, some aren't. Man my hammers look bad...

 

[tbrown]

Tim what would you suggest? I added some charcoal and did a 25% water change. Some corals are looking a bit better, some aren't. Man my hammers look bad...

Water change and charcoal would be the best I can recommend.

 

[Rocks reef]

Water change and charcoal would be the best I can recommend.

I agree. Some corals may be P**SY (rhymes with hissy) for a bit. It's a natural defense to deflate to reduce intake, but I find hammers are more tempermental.

 

[Rocks reef]

Water change and charcoal would be the best I can recommend.

Totally agree! Maybe a daily water change for a couple days and keep up on the GAC, may even increase it a little bit for a couple days as well.