Hi from Ireland! Need help identifying somethings in new setup.

[Irish Reef]

Hi everyone,

Recently purchased a 170litre tank from our local saltwater aquarium store here in Ireland (Would you believe there's only roughly 6 stores over here that supply saltwater fish,corals etc )
Its up and running 3 weeks, all parameters have been fine until yesterday ammonia slighly high but shop supplied me with a blocker to add.

We have live rock, 7 or 8 frag corals, 2 pissaco clownfish, 1 chalk goby, 2 cleaner shrimp, 3 snails and 3 hermit crabs.

There's a few things in the tank I'm unsure of and hoping for help in identifying and if its an issue what to do next. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Red polp in green star polp? Shrimp shedding? Some bug on blue zoas and other corals with waving hand type polps growing on the them? Also a few hitchhiker on one of our corals that think might be baby bristle starfish?

 

[MastaMind82]

First off welcome to R2R! Seems you've got a bit of everything going on in that tank. Let's see what @Billldg or @Jay Hemdal might be able to help out with.

 

[WIReefer]

Welcome to R2R!!!

 

[Irish Reef]

Oh dear its all a learning curve I guess and can only better things for the tank by raising the concerns now!

 

[Irish Reef]

Thank you for the welcomes

 

[Cell]

Welcome to the forum!

Crabs and shrimp molt. Their exoskeleton does not grow so they shed it periodically. No worries here.

Hard to see red thing and bug on zoa. Small bugs tend to be harmless amphipods or copepods, but the zoa bug looks like neither to me in that pic. A pest dip might be prudent.

You do have aptasia on the zoa 4th pic. Those are the tentacles. Not sure what is in the other circle. Aptasia has got to go asap.

The brain coral or favites or whatever it is looks like feeding tentacles. No worries if so.

The trumpet looks like its dying for some reason and the flesh may be getting picked at. An iodine dip would be recommended.

If you can, pluck out the red thing and zoa bugs for a closer look and better pic.

 

[Fred2482]

Welcome! The shrimp will shed (Molt). There looks to be aptasia growing on your zoas, and I can't identify the other pics.

 

[Bryn]

Welcome to R2R...

 

[sixty_reefer]

I can see aiptasia and flat worms on the gsp I believe. Welcome to r2r by the way

 

[Peace River]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!!!

 

[jay06705]

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[Reefnman2]

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[rwreef]

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[Hydrored]

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[Funston07]

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[Irish Reef]

Welcome to the forum!

Crabs and shrimp molt. Their exoskeleton does not grow so they shed it periodically. No worries here.

Hard to see red thing and bug on zoa. Small bugs tend to be harmless amphipods or copepods, but the zoa bug looks like neither to me in that pic. A pest dip might be prudent.

You do have aptasia on the zoa 4th pic. Those are the tentacles. Not sure what is in the other circle. Aptasia has got to go asap.

The brain coral or favites or whatever it is looks like feeding tentacles. No worries if so.

The trumpet looks like its dying for some reason and the flesh may be getting picked at. An iodine dip would be recommended.

If you can, pluck out the red thing and zoa bugs for a closer look and better pic.

Thank you for your reply, all information is extremely helpful, I'll dip the zoas and iodine the candy cane today and hope for the best. Ill get try remove the red thing from the gsp too and post pictures

 

[BeltedCoyote]

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[KJ]

Welcome to R2R!!!

 

[SPR1968]

Hi can certainly see aiptasia there

Welcome to R2R!!!

 

[Sharkbait19]

Welcome!! I can definitely identify the Apistas, in which there are types of shrimp such as peppermint shrimp who can take care of those, depending on how many there are.