Randy's Tank and Learn Thread

[areefer01]

Might be a coincidence, but so far the yellow tang is avoiding the back corner with the parrotfish picture. He’s acting more normal, grazing the rock, instead of fighting his reflection endlessly. At least a temporary success!

I may have missed a few entries so my apologies for asking the question. I thought I read earlier that there was a yellow tang missing?

With regards to the page with the fish. You could do a quick test and remove it, see how it behaves for an hour or two, then put it back up :)

 

[rtparty]

Might be a coincidence, but so far the yellow tang is avoiding the back corner with the parrotfish picture. He’s acting more normal, grazing the rock, instead of fighting his reflection endlessly. At least a temporary success!

Next up: great white shark

Really let him know who’s boss

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

The red mithrax crab that came as a hitchhiker on the live rock is doing fine. When I put algae from the refugium into the tank for the yellow tang, it often finds and eats it as well.

Here’s a video of it cleaning the rock. We have named it Ruby.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Next up: great white shark

Really let him know who’s boss

lol

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Green Leather Update

This was a small baby leather, about the size of my thumb nail. I had placed it in a hole in the rock, with a piece of dead rock holding it down in one corner. It was slowly opening up its polyps after shipping.

Unfortunately something knocked the dead rock out of place and the little leather is not in sight. My expectation is that it fell into a gap between rocks and is now sitting somewhere out of sight. Maybe one day it will reappear larger as it grows, but for now I cannot see it. :(

 

[twentyleagues]

The red mithrax crab that came as a hitchhiker on the live rock is doing fine. When I put algae from the refugium into the tank for the yellow tang, it often finds and eats it as well.

Here’s a video of it cleaning the rock. We have named it Ruby.

The crab looks like it has gotten better color since its been in the tank. At least compared to the pic.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Snails

It appears that most of the snails have steadily died off. A few remain, but not many. That may be a consequence of the whelk(s) and mantis(s). So far that’s not a problem as the rock is staying free of algae.

 

[Miami Reef]

Do you plan on filling the rock-work with corals and anemones like your previous tanks?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Do you plan on filling the rock-work with corals and anemones like your previous tanks?

That is the plan, yes. I am close to putting in a hard coral order, saw one soft coral on a local reefer site id like to get if the seller will sell it individually, and am watching the Pacificeast web site to catch possible anemones as soon as they post.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Yellow tang update


Not sure I’ve said this clearly, but for folks worrying about tank raised yellow tangs in looks or behavior, mine is great. Was pale for a bit after arrival, but now is bright yellow. It is eating almost everything, including sheet nori, Sprung sea veggies, prime reef flake, TDO chromoboost, green hair algae and a spiky brown macro that I bring up from the refugium , whatever the thin brownish stuff currently growing in the glass (may be diatoms), and is grazing the rocks.

It does not seem to eat gracilaria, which I don’t want it to eat. :)

I am very happy with it. :)

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Teaser: picking up a large coral colony in a little bit. :)

 

[Miami Reef]

I’m guessing Duncan or Trumpet/Candy Cane.

 

[twentyleagues]

I’m guessing Duncan or Trumpet/Candy Cane.

He said a local soft coral in an earlier post. I am thinking Nepthea.

 

[CNDReef]

I’ll say it’s a classic old school coral

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

All wrong. lol

It’s a milka stylophora that got too big for a local reefer (Chris A)’s 40 gallon tank. He also threw in a couple of other SPS frags. Ruby the red mithrax immediately took to cleaning the end of one.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

The local soft coral I mentioned is still being sold as part of a full system sale. Waiting for the owner to give up on that. This is it:

https://bostonreefers.org/forums/index.php?threads/40breeder-full-setup-800.188884/

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Light intensity raised to 33% all channels.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Polyps are already nicely out on stylophora that has been in the tank for only a half hour.

 

[Miami Reef]

Polyps are already nicely out on stylophora that has been in the tank for only a half hour.

“SPS don’t have much movement and might as well be fake”



Now you are starting to see the appeal!

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

“SPS don’t have much movement and might as well be fake”



Now you are starting to see the appeal!

If the whole thing waved back and forth like an anemone, I’d like it even more. lol