Brand New 8 gallon bio cube

LadyMac · Dec 17, 2019

He gets an A for effort?

SashimiTurtle · Dec 17, 2019

sebaseau said:
Yup it was the only way he would even make it to the main tank , he was in an infested flat worm aquarium. Everything from there had been dipped , even the fish and the snail

Probably why its dying... inverts tend no die in dips, it's actually the intended purpose of the dip. To kill things.

living_tribunal · Dec 17, 2019

Second side note: these two are homies now.

living_tribunal · Dec 17, 2019

LadyMac said:
He gets an A for effort?

The shell has been upside down for like 3 weeks. It moves, ever so slightly, all the time.

This blue legged hermit has been putting in a lot of effort.

living_tribunal · Dec 17, 2019

Magellan said:
Did you see where the post (with someone who had one like yours I think) mentioned that lowering his temp to 75-76 helped it? Seemed like DKh is pretty important too (NSW is about 8) and low flow is important as well. That was actually a really informative read, just piecing together what everyone said. Wouldn’t want to keep one tho! Low flow, low light, low temp, high nutrients...you would almost be forced to give it its own personal tank!

I give all of my lps this already! I can’t imagine what it’s like having a mixed reef, it’s hard enough with 3 super easy sps in this lps haven. Too much to balance.

Props to all you weird mixed reef people out there.

Magellan · Dec 17, 2019

living_tribunal said:
There are a bunch of posts where you can get tidbits and piece them together as you mentioned, the issue is there’s nothing definitive like there is for monticap digitatas for example.

The other issue is people have two types of wilsonis that require very different care, similar to the difference in Indonesian and Australian gonis.

The very broad guidelines seem to be very carb/amino acid levels, low tank temps (74-76), low par (this one is mixed and a few with cold water Wilson’s have success at higher par), more importantly higher blue spectrum to white, and low flow.

I haven given this to him, at least I feel like I have. The only consideration is previously a lot of the high flow at the top of my frag tank got to him, potential alk swings from high to very high in the little frag tank from water changes, or phosphates bottoming out.

It’s too difficult to really pinpoint given how I’ve paid all of these pointers quite a lot of attention in my care of him so far. If any of those points are the cause and I got them wrong, my plan for him in the display should solve them.

I really hate breaking qt this early. He’s only been in quarantine for 3 1/2 weeks :/

He’s worth it though, even if the fish get sick sorry to say.

The only reason I’m considering this is tomonts don’t swim when they fall, and they can’t attach to lps tissue, only skeleton. Since his tissue covers all of his skeleton, it would be an amazing feat for a tomont to have landed on his skeleton.

Cleaner shrimp would love to feast on some tomont snacks

but speaking of crabs...

Little guy has made me think he was dead about 3 different times now! Picks the strangest places to molt lol

living_tribunal · Dec 17, 2019

3rd and final side note, for now:

Feeding obnoxiously large pellets to incredibly small frags has led to probably the fastest growth compared to anything else I do. It’s kind of insane tbh.

This one favia has already splitted and created the tissue for 3 new heads, this all occurred in 3 weeks:

This acan pushed its first pimple less than a month ago, I think this photo was on the 23rd of Nov:

Here are those heads now:

Here is a new blasto head:

This trachy has just about doubled in size:

living_tribunal · Dec 17, 2019

Magellan said:
Cleaner shrimp would love to feast on some tomont snacks

but speaking of crabs...

Little guy has made me think he was dead about 3 different times now! Picks the strangest places to molt lol

You should push the white paper for science daily about this. You’d alter the course of multiple marine industries...

Magellan · Dec 17, 2019

living_tribunal said:
You should push the white paper for science daily about this. You’d alter the course of multiple marine industries...

I’m all about results. My cleaner shrimp got them!

SashimiTurtle · Dec 17, 2019

living_tribunal said:
I give all of my lps this already! I can’t imagine what it’s like having a mixed reef, it’s hard enough with 3 super easy sps in this lps haven. Too much to balance.

Props to all you weird mixed reef people out there.

Mixed reef is the hardest to keep... even harder that full blown SPS reef. So much balancing of flow, light and nutrients for corals that do not grow in the same places in the wild.

SashimiTurtle · Dec 17, 2019

To valentini, or not to valentini... that is the question.

Magellan · Dec 17, 2019

Robin Haselden said:
Mixed reef is the hardest to keep... even harder that full blown SPS reef. So much balancing of flow, light and nutrients for corals that do not grow in the same places in the wild.

Of course that’s what i started with ;Dead

living_tribunal · Dec 17, 2019

Robin Haselden said:
Mixed reef is the hardest to keep... even harder that full blown SPS reef. So much balancing of flow, light and nutrients for corals that do not grow in the same places in the wild.

I don’t doubt this at all. The difference in treatment for lps vs sps is too much, mainly flow and light.