35gcube
Community Member
Hello,
I've recently got myself some coral and inverts (a small emerald crab, skunk cleaner shrimp, 3 zoa heads, a double candy cane head [one is splitting], "branching" gsp and a pinnigorgonian). I have doubts about some.
To start, my candy cane's flesh is really small in volume. I guess it could have been fragged but it showed it's tentacles. Also the zoas look a bit extended. Should I feed any of the corals now or is it better to wait some time?
The gsp and pinnigorgonian look healthy but when attaching the first one, I accidentally detached something looking like a black tube. After some hitchhiker reaserch I found out that it may have been a pest snail. Will it go back to where it was? Additionally, when looking at the zoas yesterday night (just after I bought them), I noticed a small (ab. 1cm) black, hairy, worm-like thing sticking out of the rock beneath. I worry that this is some kind of a parasite or worse, a bristle worm.
Unfortunately I was too slow to snap any pictures.
I would be more than happy if someone could help me anwser these questions.
Thanks.
PS: At noon my pH is about 7.9 to 8 (depending on how you read the colors), should I worry? I can crush some corals if that's the solution.
Edit: my gsp now retracted all of it's polyps for no reason
I've recently got myself some coral and inverts (a small emerald crab, skunk cleaner shrimp, 3 zoa heads, a double candy cane head [one is splitting], "branching" gsp and a pinnigorgonian). I have doubts about some.
To start, my candy cane's flesh is really small in volume. I guess it could have been fragged but it showed it's tentacles. Also the zoas look a bit extended. Should I feed any of the corals now or is it better to wait some time?
The gsp and pinnigorgonian look healthy but when attaching the first one, I accidentally detached something looking like a black tube. After some hitchhiker reaserch I found out that it may have been a pest snail. Will it go back to where it was? Additionally, when looking at the zoas yesterday night (just after I bought them), I noticed a small (ab. 1cm) black, hairy, worm-like thing sticking out of the rock beneath. I worry that this is some kind of a parasite or worse, a bristle worm.
Unfortunately I was too slow to snap any pictures.
I would be more than happy if someone could help me anwser these questions.
Thanks.
PS: At noon my pH is about 7.9 to 8 (depending on how you read the colors), should I worry? I can crush some corals if that's the solution.
Edit: my gsp now retracted all of it's polyps for no reason
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