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Yes best around here,and be even better once I see grand opening of the extended bit.watched a video on stock they got in other day.they got just under 200 torches in alone starting from £45 a plug which some got 2 heads going upto the insanely priced ones.
That reminds me maybe I get a rfa or a mushroom
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Well went to this lfs with new extension,was proper jam packed with people there and the amount of corals they got is unreal and seen one big not sure what was like big acan/ scolly/ Trachy thingy me Job £ 1475.00 which is like $1800 pffft
Anyway got a.......
chalice frag
2 head ricordea mushroom
5 head acan
2 coloured frag monti
And meant to be a gsp but as my bags all around floating in different coral tanks and so many staff/ customers getting there's bagged up same time it didn't get put in my bag at checkout but I paid for it as arranged price as bagging up,but guy came out to car as packing it up in boxes and says did you get gsp and snails,realised then nope so he went in and got them but looks like 2 of the 5 trouchus are astrea and my gsp looks more like a cabbage leather and unsure which way round it should be so rested it in its side to see if opens to work out ha ha .
Got some cuc also....
4 red legged hermits.
4 blue legged
5 trouchus but think at least 2 are astrea.
Another conch.
Didn't have any halloween urchins so will get that another time.
Got 2 little sea slugs/ nudi or maybe cucumbers I don't even know,I've left them on what's meant to be the gsp frag anyway and some blue tubular things on bottom off it ,maybe some kind tunicate/ sponge but again have no clue lol
Anyway got a.......
chalice frag
2 head ricordea mushroom
5 head acan
2 coloured frag monti
And meant to be a gsp but as my bags all around floating in different coral tanks and so many staff/ customers getting there's bagged up same time it didn't get put in my bag at checkout but I paid for it as arranged price as bagging up,but guy came out to car as packing it up in boxes and says did you get gsp and snails,realised then nope so he went in and got them but looks like 2 of the 5 trouchus are astrea and my gsp looks more like a cabbage leather and unsure which way round it should be so rested it in its side to see if opens to work out ha ha .
Got some cuc also....
4 red legged hermits.
4 blue legged
5 trouchus but think at least 2 are astrea.
Another conch.
Didn't have any halloween urchins so will get that another time.
Got 2 little sea slugs/ nudi or maybe cucumbers I don't even know,I've left them on what's meant to be the gsp frag anyway and some blue tubular things on bottom off it ,maybe some kind tunicate/ sponge but again have no clue lol
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Well ended up pulling this gsp frag and pulled 5 maybe 6 these sea slug things, vetteguy says possibly could be a bunny sea hare which extremely toxic and mibu says sea hare so after re- reading up on sea hares alot being very toxic from stuff they eat ( usually sponges and stuff) thought wise to pull what I could find off.
Also the blue tubular things on underside of gsp,probably sponges/ tunicates I pulled them off as I know Paul b got sone very invasive blue sponge and very toxic and killed few his sps when he trimmed alot back so had to go lol
Pretty sure 2 of my 5 trouchus snails are astrea as one been savaged by hermits/ nass snails as couldnt flip itself over and had to flip another over.
Main staff member who helped me bag my stuff today usually works in warehouse and didn't know prices/ or name of any coral/ snail I asked and had to ask other staff members and with being in a rush and not checking my bags before left properley ,ended up paying for and leaving the gsp and bag of snails,luckily another staff member came out and asked me then went back in for them for me.
But my favourite lfs store now got even bigger and much much more stock and even met a r2r member and his partner there today @SubParReefer pm me other day asking recomend a lfs near us and just over heard him mention something to a staff member what he mentioned to me in pm so I'm like no way can this be same guy but it was ha ha.
Aw and atoll went to lfs yesterday and took picture of this big basket ball size acanthylia I think it is,30cm wide,20cm high and probably 20cm deep £ 1450.00 which is a no way I spend that much money on a coral lol.
I was gutted when my £ 120 torch died ^_^
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Well just looked in tank at my gsp frag ( yeah defo gsp now ha ha) to see if anymore slugs which none so that's good but noticed my tail spot blennie on sandbed in corner,I'm hoping he just got spooked by a snail or crab or something,his face/ whole head plus them 2 little tentacle things look grey and got his grey line stress/ hiding camouflage on him,he came to middle of tank resting near the rocks,breathing doesnt seem hard or laboured,just seems normal,no spots,mucus or anything like that,went out room and now can't find him so will have to see what's happenning tommorrow as 10.15pm now.
Ovbiously my brain going through all sorts thinking he going to die lol.
Is there a massive eunicid worm in there ( mother or father of little one I found last week) and got a grip of him,but would be damage so unlikely.
Has he eaten one them little slug things and they toxic ( coral was in tank few hours before removed and took 5- 6 slugs off)
Put another cheapo power headcin tank earlier as one my main ones need go back to manufacturer for testing,( was there excess oils on it idk) can't see other fish other than cbb as lights out)
As putting powerhead in I had lots empty clam shells in hood of tank so removed them and did excess salt from salt creek drop in and land on his head or he ate some ( unlikely )
Just a simple bacterial infection affecting only him ( but the other bi colour blennie in tank I can see his hi-de-hole and see just his face in the rocks and his face goes mottled/ different colours at night )
Probably first thing I think off and just startled and jumped out the rocks and all will be OK tommorrow, I did add new corals,snails,crabs yesterday so chance if them bringing a diesese in and it hitting my blennie so quickly is unlikely ( 2 hours ago when lights on didnt notice nothing wrong with him) so much ado about nothing I think now I've wrote all this and thinking rationale.
There a little white spec/ maybe 2 just near his gill to right if sone these pictures but more than likely grains of sand as to big to be a parasite,well unless its some mad isopod,but again my mind going off from sense lol
Ovbiously my brain going through all sorts thinking he going to die lol.
Is there a massive eunicid worm in there ( mother or father of little one I found last week) and got a grip of him,but would be damage so unlikely.
Has he eaten one them little slug things and they toxic ( coral was in tank few hours before removed and took 5- 6 slugs off)
Put another cheapo power headcin tank earlier as one my main ones need go back to manufacturer for testing,( was there excess oils on it idk) can't see other fish other than cbb as lights out)
As putting powerhead in I had lots empty clam shells in hood of tank so removed them and did excess salt from salt creek drop in and land on his head or he ate some ( unlikely )
Just a simple bacterial infection affecting only him ( but the other bi colour blennie in tank I can see his hi-de-hole and see just his face in the rocks and his face goes mottled/ different colours at night )
Probably first thing I think off and just startled and jumped out the rocks and all will be OK tommorrow, I did add new corals,snails,crabs yesterday so chance if them bringing a diesese in and it hitting my blennie so quickly is unlikely ( 2 hours ago when lights on didnt notice nothing wrong with him) so much ado about nothing I think now I've wrote all this and thinking rationale.
There a little white spec/ maybe 2 just near his gill to right if sone these pictures but more than likely grains of sand as to big to be a parasite,well unless its some mad isopod,but again my mind going off from sense lol
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Well much ado about nothing, tailspot out and about with no spots or nothing,and eating,now I'm laughing to myself and thinking some ( maybe even me ,at a push) would of disrupted all the tank with hands/ arms/ shoulders in tank and tried catching him to give him a bath in melafix,methalane blue,prazi) or even put him in qt tank ,maybe even put all fish in qt tank and ran dt fallow ha ha ( over reacting,as sometimes best to do nothing )
But anyway one my oldest fish is ok lol
But anyway one my oldest fish is ok lol
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Well gsp got dipped and lightly brushed with toothbrush and then few hours later pulled out dt and pulled the sea hares off,and brushed little harder and was out water in very small container which obviously went cold so thought be a week or so before opened but quarter opened after a day not so bad,
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Well last 2 nights,the new acan putting its tentacles out to feed so that's a good sign and by looks of the frag plug being gleaming white,it been fragged very recently, the staff member did say every frag in this coral frag tank been fragged a week ago and left to heal all week ready for the event they had at weekend,but anyway at night can't hardly see the spikes from skeloton sticking up through the flesh ( but the tentacles make it hard to see) but when seen flesh it didn't have spikes through flesh apart from outside where band saw been .
This 5 head acan was £ 20 and all the other acan frags was 2- 6 heads but got best looking one and didn't notice the spikes coning through at lfs,but as said above I've noticed my bi colour blennie nipping at it,and as there no algae on plug and guess none on skeloton spikes,I think he nipping at the flesh,which read they reef safe with caution but also read a healthy mixed reef tank with corals should be able to handle odd nip here and there,but as tank newish ( 13 months) and only handful of small corals ,all bought as cheap frags or one head lps etc,that's a bit different than a fully stocked coral tank as I've got less so the fish can give more nips to them and little frags just had stress of being fragged so thinking should I spend little more and buy bigger corals rather than the cheaper smaller frags.
Example of sps frags at lfs £ 10 and having 1- 3 small 2- 3 inch nubs/ branches or they had mini colonies at £ 45- £60 and having 8-15 branches so maybe need look and think if that be better course of action. ^_^
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Well been nearly a week and all corals still alive, ( blasto showing Skelton after one day in tank so either acclimintising,getting nipped by bi colour blennie or receding or all 3 lol.
I picked one with most heads but also looking the best,I'm thinking in future to buy more bigger mini colonies rather than small frags as they seemed to be in better shape and longer since they fragged so less stressed kind of thing. Gsp opened up fully after 2 days which is good,this time will leave alone for few weeks then move to back of tank so hopefully it grows up the back overflow,as last time cut it up and all died lol
Tank starting to look like reef tank now more corals but still very very bare so slowly slowly will add more
I picked one with most heads but also looking the best,I'm thinking in future to buy more bigger mini colonies rather than small frags as they seemed to be in better shape and longer since they fragged so less stressed kind of thing. Gsp opened up fully after 2 days which is good,this time will leave alone for few weeks then move to back of tank so hopefully it grows up the back overflow,as last time cut it up and all died lol
Tank starting to look like reef tank now more corals but still very very bare so slowly slowly will add more
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Just missed my gsp spawning,seen the little red balls and thought at first maybe snail eggs but then thought umm red balls so googled it and looks identical to other people's threads and an article I found so kinda cool I guess ^_%
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Yeah very cool,I'm just glad it's opening and not dying like last time I bought gsp and cut it up to stick on back walls,got told it bullet proof but nope I killed it .
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Well wavemaker packed in about 3 weeks ago.manufacturer sent me new impellar and worked again for a week but tried changing speed and it stopped again so had to send it in for testing and they sending me new one tommorrow,but since wavemaker went down,had cheap powerhead and filter without a sponge just for some flow but the stylo getting brown/ red algae on tips but last month or so noticed it getting lighter/ brighter in colour so maybe bleaching ,the green slimer now covered completely on its underside and still the little bugs eating it.
So put some eggcrate on glass under t5's as guessing getting to much light and change in flow threw it over edge even more.
So going stay away from sps sticks for awhile to let tank mature some more and really want change my 2 white t5's for 2 blue or blue and purple, bot decided yet ^_:
So put some eggcrate on glass under t5's as guessing getting to much light and change in flow threw it over edge even more.
So going stay away from sps sticks for awhile to let tank mature some more and really want change my 2 white t5's for 2 blue or blue and purple, bot decided yet ^_:
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I would be sad if my odd ball birdnest died. I do need to move it to better water flow, as the branches are very gnarled.
I do worry about my urchin undoing my work. Only reason I have not yet moved the birdnest.
I do worry about my urchin undoing my work. Only reason I have not yet moved the birdnest.
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How is the gsp now?I know gsp can just close up for days or even weeks then re-open for no apparent reason but today it closed all day and look on it at night and seen 3 them little sea bunny slugs or whatever they are on it so pulled it out and picked off 5 ,been exactly 3 weeks today since added to tank ,2 of them quire big at nearly a cm long,so either eggs and grew or missed the first time,but when pulled it last time give it a good inspection and blasted with coral feeder and picked off a few also that time.good thing is they easy to spot and remove.just hope they only eat gsp so stay on gsp so can just keep removing lol1 May 2022
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Still mainly closed,between 3- 6 polyps out each day for last week and a half.
But won't help with me every other day pulling it out water and pulling at begginning 4- 7 off it each day to last week pulling 1 or 2 every other day .
Thinking maybe best to take gsp off the large round frag plug/ rock and put on clean rock and dip it and give light scrubbing with a toothbrush, to hopefully reset it ,only works if all these slugs,or eggs are on the gsp or the frag plug/ rock,if any in tje sand or surrounding rocks then I'm snookered lol
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Yeah got gsp nearly 4 weeks ago and dipped/ Inspected the gsp and noticed no slugs,bit 2 hours in tank noticed 3 slugs,so took out of tank and removed 7 I think,then next week amd half removing 2-5 slugs every other day,then this last week removing 1-3 every other day and gave gsp a second dip and a scrub with tooth brush.
So constantly irritating coral by removing from water etc,
At first I thought great as it fully opened after like day or 2.
I don't even know if these slugs are eating the gsp ( only see on gsp) or if eating algae/sponges on gsp,or if was already in tank and just went on the gsp ( but again never seen anywhere else in tank ,but they super tiny)
But think best thing is to remove gsp from plug and dip and scrub it and hope not left 2 in tank lol
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