Turtle's Fairy Tale
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Yea, it's this one. UV isn't super powerful for the ol' "hotel room inspection" thing you see on TV, but I have to adjust the exposure on the camera app or the corals are too bright.
(I swear I didn't shine it on my rug looking for pet stains ;Facepalm)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07568DFCH/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_NXp6Bb3R0BFXG
Well, darn. It's unavailable. I just bought the thing too...
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Also got a red flashlight so I could check on things like this...
And this
They don't seem to be bothering the corals. The first one is just hanging out, trying to catch food in the water. The second one was picking at the rock between the Stargazers.
Oh, this button scoly has some crazy feeders at night. The whole thing looks like it turns inside out.
Yea, pictures are really red. The phone color adjustment is set to 2300K and they still turn up really red.
And this
They don't seem to be bothering the corals. The first one is just hanging out, trying to catch food in the water. The second one was picking at the rock between the Stargazers.
Oh, this button scoly has some crazy feeders at night. The whole thing looks like it turns inside out.
Yea, pictures are really red. The phone color adjustment is set to 2300K and they still turn up really red.
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I also wanted to mention that while looking at the tank with the red LED, the water and rocks are teeming with amphipods and copepods. The water looks like a twitchy, wiggling snow globe in the lower flow areas. Evidently, amphipods can see red light as they were scattering when I would shine them.
This makes me feel really good about the longevity of my black leopard wrasse, and some of the copepods I have coming next week will most likely get put into a grow out system.
This makes me feel really good about the longevity of my black leopard wrasse, and some of the copepods I have coming next week will most likely get put into a grow out system.
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Long night cruising the forums. Gotta love being a night owl...
Got involved in a thread with AEFW. Learned that most dips won't knock them loose and only Melafix is proven to knock them off. Got me thinking about those corals I got from my friend, especially that tricolor. I don't have any pictures of it, but it got fragged, the base tossed and I tossed the whole blue tip stag.
This is a close up of the bonsai.
The little light dots on the skin are bite marks from the AEFW.
And here are all my acros after dip in melafix. Luckily, I had some on hand. I'll have to order the higher concentration formula as I'll run out of what I have on hand before I'm done with the 6 weeeks.
The 4 in the middle row, as well as the 3rd and 4th from the left on the front row are what I saved of the tri color. It's the worst off, then the bonsai altho it still has good color. Nothing else appears to have any bites.
I was lucky I caught it when I did. All acros are able to be removed from the tank easily and dipped. Melafix is also cheap.
Oh, here's the bottom of the bucket after the dip. I originally dipped the whole tri color because I wasn't sure what I was dealing with. After seeing all the flat worms that fell off it, I got the bone cutters and frag plugs.
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Got involved in a thread with AEFW. Learned that most dips won't knock them loose and only Melafix is proven to knock them off. Got me thinking about those corals I got from my friend, especially that tricolor. I don't have any pictures of it, but it got fragged, the base tossed and I tossed the whole blue tip stag.
This is a close up of the bonsai.
The little light dots on the skin are bite marks from the AEFW.
And here are all my acros after dip in melafix. Luckily, I had some on hand. I'll have to order the higher concentration formula as I'll run out of what I have on hand before I'm done with the 6 weeeks.
The 4 in the middle row, as well as the 3rd and 4th from the left on the front row are what I saved of the tri color. It's the worst off, then the bonsai altho it still has good color. Nothing else appears to have any bites.
I was lucky I caught it when I did. All acros are able to be removed from the tank easily and dipped. Melafix is also cheap.
Oh, here's the bottom of the bucket after the dip. I originally dipped the whole tri color because I wasn't sure what I was dealing with. After seeing all the flat worms that fell off it, I got the bone cutters and frag plugs.
View attachment 20181112_013744.jpg
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Long night cruising the forums. Gotta love being a night owl...
Got involved in a thread with AEFW. Learned that most dips won't knock them loose and only Melafix is proven to knock them off. Got me thinking about those corals I got from my friend, especially that tricolor. I don't have any pictures of it, but it got fragged, the base tossed and I tossed the whole blue tip stag.
This is a close up of the bonsai.
The little light dots on the skin are bite marks from the AEFW.
And here are all my acros after dip in melafix. Luckily, I had some on hand. I'll have to order the higher concentration formula as I'll run out of what I have on hand before I'm done with the 6 weeeks.
The 4 in the middle row, as well as the 3rd and 4th from the left on the front row are what I saved of the tri color. It's the worst off, then the bonsai altho it still has good color. Nothing else appears to have any bites.
I was lucky I caught it when I did. All acros are able to be removed from the tank easily and dipped. Melafix is also cheap.
Oh, here's the bottom of the bucket after the dip. I originally dipped the whole tri color because I wasn't sure what I was dealing with. After seeing all the flat worms that fell off it, I got the bone cutters and frag plugs.
View attachment 20181112_013744.jpg
Wow. That could have been terrible. Glad you were cruising the forums.
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Yea, tell me about it...
I never thought to use a regular flashlight on them to look for bite marks. As soon as I saw that post I went to my tank. The stag, and bonsai had a few bites. The tri color was eaten up. Just to be sure I dipped it and they started flying off everywhere. The stag I wasn't too thrilled about anyway, so I tossed it. Then I fragged as many tips of the tri color as I had empty spots on my rack. The base got tossed as well.
All acros got dipped in regular melafix at 50ml per gallon of water for 5-6 minutes. The bottle I ordered is a higher concentration, and gets mixed at 10ml/g. That 16oz bottle will last for 47, 1 gallon dips.
I dip one more time this week, then once a week for 5 more weeks. 7 more if I want to be paranoid.
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I might have just tossed them all. Be sure to warn your friend, as I am sure you will.
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I should be about to save close to $500 in acros for $12.63.
I warned her already. A lot of her stuff is encrusted already. Only option I see that isn't a reboot, is that new in tank stuff... if it works.
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It's tea tree oil in rodi. Kills harmful stuff and promotes healing. I've used it as a fish dip for a severe case of velvet in an Atlantic blue tang. Fish had so many sores I didn't want a secondary infection. Evidently, planaria can't stand the stuff. Took seconds and they were bailing left and right. The red planet had full night time fuzzy feeding polyps minutes after placing it back on the rack too so evidently it's easy on acros.
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@Katrina71, and everyone else... he's out and swimming around. You can kind of tell the other fish give him space, but no aggression out of him.
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I just looked at the pictures on my laptop, and they are dull. He's closer to the pictures I had of him in the QT tank. Very vibrant and contrasted colors.
I just saw the tomini put him in his place, after pushing the leopard out of the way. Usually the tomini is really passive, but he is making his territory known. Pecking order is having to be re-established, but so far so good.
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Awesome! Sharing since I know you want another Radiant.
I added my Melanarus and Yellow Tang to the 40B last night after moving some of the Fairies into the big tank and well...we havent seen the Blue Throat or Linespot since. I think theyre scared of the new comers. Anyway, The Melanarus is getting along just fine with the Radiant who's also still in that tank.
I added my Melanarus and Yellow Tang to the 40B last night after moving some of the Fairies into the big tank and well...we havent seen the Blue Throat or Linespot since. I think theyre scared of the new comers. Anyway, The Melanarus is getting along just fine with the Radiant who's also still in that tank.
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