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David7773
Cassandra1840
the same questions about coral compatibility... recently there was a beautiful dense colony of clavularia. after adding the tubastraea, the colony started to thin out significantly. the water parameters, light, etc. did not change. there is nothing else in the aquarium except for the invertebrates.
maybe it's not tubastraea, but then what?
Anna9752
Until today, I considered ophiuroids to be the sanitarians of the aquifer... but according to your theory, where do they fit in SAMPS? Or did I misunderstand something?
Cassandra1840
Good afternoon! How are you doing with the clavularia?
Michele
Good day. I pushed the tubastria into the far corner. The draft is blowing on the keyboard... It's flourishing, my dear))) It has risen. Could it be that the tubastria was oppressing the keyboard?
Debbie3587
Oh, this is information! I will now follow the specified course......... Thank you!
James1625
The answer has been supplemented)))) Probably some sclerosis, dear)))
Melanie
By the way, I remembered... sometimes I intentionally blow on the stones for a short time. Or I turn the pumps in different directions. The current changes - the Tubastrea just goes wild. It opens up "to the max." You can see the plankton rising - the coral senses it and waits for more))
Vanessa
Good day! How is your clovularia doing, any other news?
Heather
Klava is living... slowly spreading. Very sensitive to changes in water composition. Requires only good parameters. And stable ones. If something is off, it immediately panics and hides. Tubastrea is blooming and fragrant. Caught a terrorist crab. On a glass with bait. A healthy, hairy creature. Off to hard labor for him, 10 years without the right to correspondence in the sump.
Christopher
I put the caught shaggy one in a plastic ditch... left it in the aquarium, thought I’d show it to my daughter. But that bastard escaped at night, the scoundrel. I’ll have to catch the little bugger again.
Anatoly, there's a link about tubastrea. Check it out, it might be useful.
By the way, weren't you the one who gave it to me?
Adam4310
Yes, your guy is quite a handful! But that's okay, there's a fool for every wise man. The link to the tubas is not mine. However, it needs to be figured out. I will take care of it, thank you.
April3499
Today I caught it again, and this one))).. it sits in a glass, a snake of fungi... you can't understand what it wants. Sometimes it puffs up into a beautiful emerald cushion with a pink border, opening its little tentacles - so beautiful... then it deflates into a small leathery disc and sits there like an old woman on a doorstep. ...It can sit like that for a day... then it starts to "wiggle" again. It begins to eat. The temperature, the water parameters - they don't change. What else does it need? Jelly?))
Jeremy
There is an opinion that anemones can adequately respond to weather anomalies, and lately, we can't make sense of what's happening with the weather. There is no stability in atmospheric pressure. Right now, I have two anemones, E. Quadricolor and H. Malu, that are partially closed. So I think there is no reason for concern.
Rebecca1419
only at night do they reveal themselves... who knows what they need
Adam
I need to order a Malu for myself. I've wanted it for a long time. Just a small one.
Amy5070
Did you have to manipulate the flow before the fungus started to periodically deflate? I have something going on with my nemenzophilia. I needed to adjust the flow two days ago, the water parameters were absolutely unchanged. It reacted by shrinking 2-3 cm of its inflated body, and sometimes it inflates that area, sometimes it deflates... This is about turbulence. And what about the lighting? Has anything changed in the past few days? These guys might react differently to changes in lighting...
David7773
neither light nor current... nothing..
the temperature at night is 3 degrees lower than during the day..
I feed them every two days - maybe they are starving?
Tanner
I would like to note...
Are there any KP near the fungi?
I would recommend reducing the feeding.
Daily temperature fluctuations of several degrees... Is that too much?
Courtney
Today I came home from work - the beauties are lying around. They have sprawled out, puffed up, turned green, lifted their pink edges, and their tentacles are up - "the ladies have laid down and are asking..."
Fluctuations of three degrees have always been there. No one was against it... maybe it's the atmosphere. The frost is intensifying - the pressure is jumping.
Diana3118
I'm happy for "the little lady," let them ask....... I think the weather will stabilize in the near future.... Soon I will post photos of some new items..... Let them take a look..... Although I'm sure there will be some malice, but I don't really care......
Guy
Here are some photos of the reef at this stage that I promised to share. LPS corals and some soft corals. To the great displeasure of some forum members, the aquarium is running on 30% live rock from the Black Sea.
Kenneth7331
Below is a fragment of some inhabitants of the "fish pond."
Tasha
Okay. I can open the topic "Supply of Black Sea J.K. (live stones) and Crimean shell rock." Orders are being accepted.
Cheryl9296
You are late, dear, the train has already left.
Jasmine
What a pity, I thought. I see that the line for the Black Sea Housing Complex (living stones) has thinned out. Well, never mind, there will be enough smart people for our lifetime.
Rick
The aquarium should bring pleasure from contemplation and design, satisfaction from the work done primarily to the owner, not to the forum members.
We are not choosing girls on the bypass... but sharing experiences.
Caroline1599
There is one like that in Crimea! One of a kind. For everyone!......Super smart!
Amy5070
Igor, today I decided to move the tubastrea to the back, where the lighting is weaker and the current is stronger. I didn't even think the creature would react like this. In its previous spot, it wasn't very eager to open up, but here, after about 10 minutes, it fully opened and doesn't seem to want to close... The reduction in light and the increase in water movement definitely played a role. The polyps are larger than before, swaying in the current—it's amazing. The coral is incredibly beautiful...
I've wanted to ask for a long time: what size and color are they for you, and how long have they been living with you? How many do you have? Sorry, I went through the posts and realized—1.
Julie4738
The little animals are great. Regarding live rocks from the Black Sea, I support this idea. The composition is almost the same, just the strains are different. After some time in the aquarium, such live rocks are indistinguishable from tropical ones. Of course, the Crimean ones are worse, but not as much as many say. Sorry for not being entirely on topic.
Stefanie9771
Tropical stones can also be different. Once I took a stone from a well-known supplier. Just randomly. I called, paid. The stones arrived... oh... I would have been better off, fool that I am, taking one from my own place in Donetsk.
Aaron
Yes, they, J.K. (living stones) C.M., if in good condition, quickly start to get covered with inlays, and then it becomes difficult to even distinguish where the J.K. (living stones) are from the Papuans and where they are from grateful Crimeans... Of course, they are inferior in porosity, but that's not a reason not to use them. The trouble with tropical ones often happens because you don't see what you paid for...
Gabriel
Anatole, ... today I checked the tube colony.. there are no holes on the side of the main one. Only on one polyp, the one I mentioned. Definitely a puncture from the hermit. The polyp seems to be eating normally and opening up.. but it's a matter of principle - "we don't take prisoners and we don't leave our own behind."
That's it, damn it, I'm going to kill this gang!!!... or I'll give it to someone.
Or I'll buy myself some glasses)))))))
Martin3206
Igor, they should be sent somewhere far away instead of being put against the wall, those miserable bastards, but after all, they are still our own...
Christopher
Good afternoon, I would also include Rynchocinetes durbanensis in the group, I couldn't figure out who nibbles on Parazoanthus, it turned out they are paired with a hermit crab, and they also enjoy nibbling on protomollusks and clavularia. In short, be vigilant, citizens, but these little creatures are amusing, though in my opinion, not suitable for reef tanks! I will catch them and trade them for something!
Robert
Exactly... as soon as they catch the smell of food, they charge through like tractors with their shells. They move across mushrooms, across the keyboard... pushing fungi aside. They take and eat... to Solovki with them. I didn't know about Rynchocinetes. Thank the Almighty I don't have them, and I didn't want those pests...
William
Yesterday, Rynchocinetes durbanensis was spotted in a confrontation with Trachyphyllia sp. The molted hermit crab went into the sand, and I haven't been able to catch these two thugs for a week; they are too quick. Maybe someone can suggest a method? Sorry for the off-topic.
Bethany
I caught my own, really, on a glass jar with bait... a piece of fish. The jar is placed at an angle, let's say to a stone or buried in the sand. The angle is 45 degrees... In the morning, the bandit sits in the jar as nice as can be.
Natalie
Yes, the "cheerful" landscape with the still life turned out well. In our work, anything can happen... So my condolences for the "cherry," but the sea is nothing particularly terrible - once the temperature regime normalizes, everything will return "to its place."
As for the clavularia, I am surprised myself; it turns out that temperature collapses do not bother them!
Regarding the "Bubble," I will need to ask around at the market; not long ago, I saw it for sale... Right now, there are three beggars at the market, and they are drowning in icy mud.
By the way, the premnas was asking if I will be going to Donetsk soon?
Michelle9986
Regarding compatibility.
The mushrooms in the background were just wilting. They started to turn white and were constantly oozing brown slime. Following Anatoly's advice, I removed them from the sinularia. It's been about 2 weeks since then. Now the mushrooms have started to regain their color and are feeling much better! Is sinularia that toxic?
Stephen5857
Usually, to avoid wondering why a particular animal is stressed, there is a rule to keep the inhabitants at a distance of 8-10 cm from each other; however, sometimes even this is not enough. It all depends on the specifics of the species. Sinularia dura, when releasing polyps, can sting some that are too close. However, it often happens that some completely different species coexist well even when touching each other, but it is still better to arrange them according to the rules.
Melissa1838
8 - 10 cm in a marine aquarium is already a critical distance. You can't move the tank, but you want a lot. Why are they so aggressive, huh? Fighters, damn it. In freshwater, well, almost all are friends. But in the sea... The game is "who eats whom first."