Pole dancing nem?
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Topic: Pole dancing nem?
Posted By: fishoutawater
Subject: Pole dancing nem?
Date Posted: December 19 2009 at 8:10pm
Here is my little dancer, embracing my seaswirl. It is a clone from the following,..
 While I find it peculiar that it has picked a spot right in front of the other seaswirl and gets blasted with every oscillation, it has been there for a couple of months and appears to be happy. The other keeps wandering. Any body want a gbta? Why would one wander and one settle?
Next question. Shouldn't this:
 Look like an all you can eat buffet for this guy?
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Posted By: jwoo
Date Posted: December 19 2009 at 8:33pm
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I'd throw some ones at it! Also the tang may be eating that hair algae it just may grow faster than he can eat it. I also find that they tend to not like the longer stuff. If you pull a bunch of that out by hand and just leave the smaller base he'll probably devour it. < id="gwProxy" ="">< ="jsCall;" id="jsProxy" =""> ------------- None at the moment Soon: 72 Gallon Bowfront |
Posted By: fishoutawater
Date Posted: December 19 2009 at 8:40pm
| Thanks, did not know that. First tang, first outbreak of hair algae too. |
Posted By: jwoo
Date Posted: December 19 2009 at 9:05pm
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Oh and to preempt Mark make sure you have one snail per gallon with half as many hermits - that way you shouldn't get a hair algae outbreak. Also make sure you don't over feed. < id="gwProxy" ="">< ="jsCall;" id="jsProxy" =""> ------------- None at the moment Soon: 72 Gallon Bowfront |
Posted By: fishoutawater
Date Posted: December 19 2009 at 9:34pm
| Besides the mexican turbos, which are little tanks, and astreas, which are crabfood as soon as my clown fish knock them off the rocks, what are a good snail to have? All I have now are a couple of turbos, and a few nassarius. How bout cerith? |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: December 20 2009 at 1:01am
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Yep. Snails are the best prevention for algae problems.
Astrea have trouble righting themselves when on their back on the sand. Cerith and Margarita snails are great algae eaters and can easily right themselves.
If hermits are eating snails it means they are too hungry and there are too many of them, or the sanils are dieing and that's why they are easily pushed off the rocks. Seems like Astrea come to us in good batches and bad batches. I'd try some more again.
To stop that algae growing on that rock on the sand could you cover it with a good pile of sand for 7-10 days? That might be all it takes to eliminate the problem in that specific area. I would also consider eventually setting the rock up off the sand. It's covering a lot of sand and keeping it from doing it's job. The more open sand the better for the general health of the tank. ------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member 
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Posted By: fishoutawater
Date Posted: December 20 2009 at 11:06am
| I want to rescape the tank, to get all the rock off the sand, maybe after all the chaos of the holidays is over. Btw Mark, the two turbos have taken care of that red algae I talked to you about on the reef tour. |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: December 20 2009 at 5:36pm
Great.
Like I said, covering that hair algae with a pile of sand will cause it to die. You could move some sand from the left front of the tank along the glass. ------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member
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Posted By: fishoutawater
Date Posted: December 20 2009 at 6:23pm
| Yes, it would take hours for the pistol shrimp to fix it again, lol |