Turtle's Fairy Tale

[SashimiTurtle]

The snowflake eel ate a small piece of LRS chunky tonight. I couldn't find it(not really all that hard for it to hide) so I used my extendable turkey baster thing to squirt a cube of mysis into the cave I saw it yesterday. Put a bunch of food where it hangs out and hopefully it'll eat some, right?

I then fed the fish, and saw it pop its head out with that excited look all eels get when they smell food in the water. It wasn't in the cave, but UNDER my trachy. I guess that's a pretty good hiding spot. It's very cautious right now, but I did get to see it pop out and swim over to the cave after eating.

 

[Magellan]

The snowflake eel ate a small piece of LRS chunky tonight. I couldn't find it(not really all that hard for it to hide) so I used my extendable turkey baster thing to squirt a cube of mysis into the cave I saw it yesterday. Put a bunch of food where it hangs out and hopefully it'll eat some, right?

I then fed the fish, and saw it pop its head out with that excited look all eels get when they smell food in the water. It wasn't in the cave, but UNDER my trachy. I guess that's a pretty good hiding spot. It's very cautious right now, but I did get to see it pop out and swim over to the cave after eating.

It’s just a baby!!! Wow, didn’t realize how small it was until it had something in the picture for scale. Those pictures are amazingly cool

 

[SashimiTurtle]

It’s just a baby!!! Wow, didn’t realize how small it was until it had something in the picture for scale. Those pictures are amazingly cool

Yea, tiny guy. LFS said it was eating mysis from tweezers. Anything bigger would be too much for it to eat, really. It's smaller than the night crawlers that come in the blue plastic cans at the bait shop. Probably 4" long and about the size of a fettuccine noodle? Maybe a bit thicker, but not much.

 

[Magellan]

Yea, tiny guy. LFS said it was eating mysis from tweezers. Anything bigger would be too much for it to eat, really. It's smaller than the night crawlers that come in the blue plastic cans at the bait shop. Probably 4" long and about the size of a fettuccine noodle? Maybe a bit thicker, but not much.

Are they born from eggs or live birth? I mean that sounds like an actual baby!

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Are they born from eggs or live birth? I mean that sounds like an actual baby!

I have no idea, actually...

 

[crusso1993]

Yea, tiny guy. LFS said it was eating mysis from tweezers. Anything bigger would be too much for it to eat, really. It's smaller than the night crawlers that come in the blue plastic cans at the bait shop. Probably 4" long and about the size of a fettuccine noodle? Maybe a bit thicker, but not much.

I think you stmbled on a great name for it; Fettuccine!

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Are they born from eggs or live birth? I mean that sounds like an actual baby!

Just found this...

"Snowflake eels are protogynous, meaning the more dominant eel will change from female to male. Gender changing can take several months to a year.
Snowflake eels are egg scatterers that produce eggs often in midwater mating rituals. Their eggs and larvae drift with plankton in the water column and settle back onto a reef at about the time of hatching."

 

[Magellan]

I think you stmbled on a great name for it; Fettuccine!

Or...wait for it...Alfredo!

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Or...wait for it...Alfredo!

Fredo!... no wait, he was the coward.

 

[Fudsey]

Do you still have the golden?

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Do you still have the golden?

Vanished a few months ago... looked all over never found it.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

It appears we have the tank back on track. That last water change really was the ticket. GFO may be helping some too. I need to test all my parameters, but everything looks great. Well, that is everything the angels arent eating. The wife and I talked, and she understands they need to be traded in. I told her she can pick out some replacements that will fit better. As far as what they like to eat, my green trachy, scolys and the acans. The trachy seems ok right now, part of the croc scoly is dead, the other scoly is severely tucked and all of the acans have been dang near inside out since the angels went in.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Well, we had to sump the two angels. They turned out to not be able to reside the sweet temptation of my LPS. Acans, scolys and trachys were on the menu. Oddly, trumpet and blasto were not at least not yet. Acans took the hardest hit and are still completely closed. Not sure what is going to recover or how long it will take. They look like they all stil have polyps. Next they went after the two scolys. Theres a pizza slice shaped dead spot on the croc island scoly. It's small, and I've read they recover quickly when small... hopefully it will regrow over the dead area. The Trachy was next. The bicolor angel really hit it hard, but I dont really see any permanent damage. Hopefully in a few days it's back to being open.

 

[Magellan]

Did they just randomly go postal?? How long had they been in the tank?

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Did they just randomly go postal?? How long had they been in the tank?

They were in the Reefer 250 as a FOWLR. My wife proved incapable of keeping it in any shape other than what I would describe as "fuzzy" and 4 seems to be my limit on caring for tanks. They moved over a few weeks ago? The orange butterfly was the first to prove that it ate coral and was traded for the snowflake. The angels followed suit right after removal of the butterfly.

 

[Magellan]

"fuzzy"

I apologize for laughing way too hard at “fuzzy”

 

[SashimiTurtle]

I apologize for laughing way too hard at “fuzzy”

Imagine attaching a green shag carpet to the glass. I'm still scraping that stuff off preparing it to hold my blackwater setup.

 

[Magellan]

Imagine attaching a green shag carpet to the glass. I'm still scraping that stuff off preparing it to hold my blackwater setup.

jeez! I bet those fish never went hungry though

 

[Katrina71]

My clown recently tried 2 murder 2 plate corals in my tank. They are finally starting to recover after 4 weeks. She decided she wanted to nest in the sand under her Duncan.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

My clown recently tried 2 murder 2 plate corals in my tank. They are finally starting to recover after 4 weeks. She decided she wanted to nest in the sand under her Duncan.

My clowns will keep the sand clear from the base of their trachy. They do what I call "swimming in place" and wag their tails in the sand. Blows sand everywhere but keeps their trachy clean.