Turtle's Deep Blue Sea

[Katrina71]

I fed Maui either today or yesterday... I've been off since the 27th, days are running together. He says hidden until he's hungry... I made the cave too good this time. Too much experience keeping eels I guess. I had a dream last night after watching "Tanked"(love hate relationship with that show) that I had a huge species tank with eels... I may be obsessed with morays.

I've got three rhodactis mushrooms, one I cut into two so technically 4, that are up for claims... @Katrina71 gets dibs because she's sent so much stuff this way... I need to cut the other two so I have clones. One is orange, one is green and the one that's blue I cut and it's grown into the size it was when I cut it.

No room for mushrooms in the Deep Blue Sea so....

Yes yes yes. I love them. I will buy them from you. I haven't sent much.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

So, who knew zoas moved and why? My incinerator has moved and almost tucked itself into a hole...

 

[Katrina71]

So, who knew zoas moved and why? My incinerator has moved and almost tucked itself into a hole...
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Is it jealous of the new acans?

 

[SashimiTurtle]

It's back open, but it's completly moved from the tiny piece of rubble it was on... I didn't know zoas could move.

 

[Second Shot]

Mine have come loose from the superglue and drifted around until they got stuck somewhere. They would then attach or sometimes get dislodged and end up somewhere else.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

This one walked, like an anemone. I guess it wasn't happy where it was. The rasta still isn't open yet...

 

[sfin52]

I’ve heard about them floating away never walking. That’s really cool.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

So I decided to try and feed my BTA, acans and duncans tonight after work. Turns out, mysis will just fit in a pipette.

The BTA got a pipette full of mysis right in the face, and immediately pulled everything in and started chowing down. First time I've fed it in a LONG time. It was HUNGRY.

The acans got a few pieces of shrimp on each head. They also pulled in and started munching.

By the time I got to the duncans, I had so much mysis and oyster feast in the water, fish going nuts eating, Maui trying to figure out where the squid was, and I also caused my sump to go high from my arm being in the tank which was making a ton of micro bubbles, I didn't bother taking a picture. They responded in their typical, very slow feeding where they gently pull in. Not near the responce of the nem or the acans. They've never had a crazy feeding responce tho.

 

[sfin52]

Those acans and bta are happy now.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Those acans have their feeders back out begging for more.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Best part about having a waterproof cellphone? Underwater coral photography! Special treat for my minions tonight.

 

[Scurvy]

All looks pretty happy in those shots!

 

[sfin52]

Tank is really coming together

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Yep... my rasta zoa still hasn't opened. I think it may be a gonner. The neon green birds nest is toast. The blue stylo would have followed suit but I moved it back into the frag tank. Its slowly looking better. My trumpet coral keeps growing GHA on the skeleton. I think I'm going to remove it this weekend and give it a good dip in Coral RX. That one trumpet has been thru hell. I've had it since I started my 75 up, and I did almost every noob mistake you can think of with that tank. I also had no dirrection and started with a much larger tank than I ended up wanting... this 35 is perfect. For now that is.

 

[najer]

Got a pic of the rasta dude please and an fts to judge where it is?

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Tonight when I get home, let's see GMT-5 and I get home at 7pm... you'll see it tomorrow morning but I'll be sure and update you.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

@najer
Here's some really crappy photos of the rasta. It's been closed tight since I fragged it and is now collecting some algae on the piece of rubble and perhaps on the body of the Los itself. There is one polyp on the original frag that's slightly opening back over in the frag tank, the other 3-4 polyps stay closed. The one in the 35 is in the red circle. Incinerator zoa is a few inches behind it on the same rock and open every day.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

We got out latest auction coral in too... New acans to add to the garden. Can't wait for these to open all the way. So many colors in there.

 

[Katrina71]

Robin, my Rastas like it best low and slow. Very little flow has been best for mine.

 

[najer]

I would get it out and clean it and pop it in the frag tank.