TheClown
Active Member
So, it’s been a while since I have posted here. I have a 20g tall here, and after a terribly long period of imbalance due to the chaotic nature of all the lifeforms I got on my live rock from TBS, I figure that I’ll share what’s happening here. I used to have more corals, little 5$ frags, but my pistol shrimp stole them. The point of the tank though, has been biodiversity and thus I will try and document each species I see in this tank, after almost all of them have died over a one year period, in which a whole bunch of strange things happened. What seems to enjoy the tank best are fan worms, there are dozens of different species which have done quite well. I’ll try and get a picture of each, though I don’t have a real camera. I have several anemone species, chief among them being the giant aiptaisa we see in the background. It’s not evil like the smaller relatives, and hasn’t spread much, but has gotten larger than my toadstool leather. I finally managed to get some hydroids going though, and a moderate sized colony of green ones has arisen, probably hitchhiking from mosaic macros live rock; as I bought some macro rocks from them. I like these hydroids personally, and they are a nice add to biodiversity. There several types of LPS corals, like the hidden cup corals from Tampa bay, as well as their octulina coral and another type that glows.. (I don’t know much about, check out TBS for information) this glowing coral has not really grown much given the one year I’ve had it, but it hasn’t died back either. Likely they require spot feeding. For macro algae, I used to have a ton but for whatever reason a whole bunch of it melted away; tragic. The sea grapes have survived though, as well as bits of pink feather and some branching coralline.
I could really go on all day about this tank, and I hope to do so later, but for now my most surprising discovery was that a huge population of Medusa worms appeared after my algae died; I was quite surprised. They can be about 4 inches and have a feather head which they use to filter feed; they also are very successful at spawning and in my tank; indeed their appearance was what inspired me to make this post, cause I think they are quite cool.
