Brand New 8 gallon bio cube

[Magellan]

What mine is looks nothing like a feather duster. I have a few feather dusters in the tank. This is a specific geometric shape.

This is what it looks like, no feather duster heads come out, no tubes.

Oh man! Definitely not what I have. That’s interesting though, not normally a lot of straight lines in nature.

 

[Why-Me]

That Miami hurricane is looking beautiful! Send some full tank shots, I want to see how much gha is left.

From the pictures you provided, it looks like very little.

 

[Tumey]

So I was talking to Derek at Miracles Aquariums today looking at maybe grabbing a second tank for my setup. I've had a hankering for Garden Eels lately but they won't do well in my shallow tank so I need something a little deeper. I'm still in debates over adding a second tank but when we were talking he mentioned the fact that I might have started a bit of a trend with my One piece Eurobracing, he's had 6 orders for tanks with the one piece on them so far, some of which have mentioned my name directly.

I never thought I was cool enough to start a trend but here we are, now to come up with a catchy name for it, any ideas??;Bookworm;Writing:p

Probably can’t use it for copyright reasons but call it the Joshua tree! Lol

 

[living_tribunal]

Oh man! Definitely not what I have. That’s interesting though, not normally a lot of straight lines in nature.

It’s bizarrw indeed which is why I’m questioning whether it’s living or not. It’s kind of large: 2 inch diameter and those spikes we’ll call them extend out about an inch. It hasn’t done anything but I don’t know where it came from.

 

[living_tribunal]

Looking excellent man!

 

[Magellan]

You want to borrow my tuxedo urchin? He would mow that down!!

 

[Why-Me]

Looking excellent man!

Thanks.
That's why I'm trying to avoid doing anything major and letting it go with just simple vibrant once a week.
It looks so much better than it did just 2 weeks ago.

 

[NY_Caveman]

Ninja throwing star?
Seriously, could it be a Tunicate? It seems to be in a spot one would find that or a sponge.

 

[living_tribunal]

Thanks.
That's why I'm trying to avoid doing anything major and letting it go with just simple vibrant once a week.
It looks so much better than it did just 2 weeks ago.

Now all we really need to do is have me send you some hermits to complete the lt feeding regiment.

 

[living_tribunal]

Ninja throwing star?
Seriously, could it be a Tunicate? It seems to be in a spot one would find that or a sponge.

It might be! It holds very still and does fluoresce a tad with that blue. Not sure how whatever it is squeezed itself between the goni skeleton and plug.

This frag tank is starting to have a ton of critters. There are frags from about 10-12 different sources in here, most from hobbyists.

 

[Why-Me]

Now all we really need to do is have me send you some hermits to complete the lt feeding regiment.

I have cuc in there most my hermits are little guys and only have 5 or 6 left of the 10 I got

 

[living_tribunal]

So what you’re saying is we just have to get you a trachy now?

 

[living_tribunal]

Ninja throwing star?
Seriously, could it be a Tunicate? It seems to be in a spot one would find that or a sponge.

It’s not a sea squirt unfortunately, looked from the side and it’s completely flat, not tubes.

 

[living_tribunal]

I can’t get good pics cause of all of the microbubbles.

Whatever it is has potential polyps extended on the sides of each blade.

Each blade tip has a little blue line.

 

[Magellan]

Update on 2 part dosing: whatever is in these bottles my tank NEEDED. More
Polyp extension on my sps than I’ve ever seen, my Burnin Banana frag has grown overnight, my zoas and acans have significantly better color, and have immediately starting growing multiple new heads.

i was really nervous to dose anything when I first started out, but so far this seems like something I should have been doing a long time ago.

 

[living_tribunal]

Update on 2 part dosing: whatever is in these bottles my tank NEEDED. More
Polyp extension on my sps than I’ve ever seen, my Burnin Banana frag has grown overnight, my zoas and acans have significantly better color, and have immediately starting growing multiple new heads.

i was really nervous to dose anything when I first started out, but so far this seems like something I should have been doing a long time ago.

Excellent news! I’m sure your calcium and alk discrepenay was a product of calcium testers being more inaccurate or a temp difference.

 

[JoshH]

I can’t get good pics cause of all of the microbubbles.

Whatever it is has potential polyps extended on the sides of each blade.

Each blade tip has a little blue line.

I really wish I could help with an ID but I've got nothing on this one ...

Update on 2 part dosing: whatever is in these bottles my tank NEEDED. More
Polyp extension on my sps than I’ve ever seen, my Burnin Banana frag has grown overnight, my zoas and acans have significantly better color, and have immediately starting growing multiple new heads.

i was really nervous to dose anything when I first started out, but so far this seems like something I should have been doing a long time ago.

What dosing provides that you may not have had before is stability. And I don't mean just the big 3, other trace elements play a crucial roll in stability as well.

 

[Magellan]

Excellent news! I’m sure your calcium and alk discrepenay was a product of calcium testers being more inaccurate or a temp difference.

I tested at 78.3 degrees, twice. Got the same result with Salifert. (I’m at 1.026 salinity) Had previously only been dosing Alk. The bottle claims that it wouldn’t mess with my Ca but I don’t know how that would work.

What dosing provides that you may not have had before is stability. And I don't mean just the big 3, other trace elements play a crucial roll in stability as well.

@JoshH I agree! My guess is Magnesium, it’s something I don’t have a test for and have never added to my water in the past.

 

[Tumey]

It makes me feel bad for the corals when I see all of these people running 0 nitrate and phosphate.

I just don’t get it.

They’d freak out if they saw the pic of my tank I recently posted along with my parameters. My nitrate hovers at 50 & phosphate never gets below .5 but is normally 1 or better

 

[JoshH]

They’d freak out if they saw the pic of my tank I recently posted along with my parameters. My nitrate hovers at 50 & phosphate never gets below .5 but is normally 1 or better