JamesL
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Kkiel is right. I watched a large nassarius once lay eggs on the glass. Yeah, cerith eggs are more stringy. Here is a picture of when my nass was laying eggs:
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Very nice empty looking tank, which I am sure is going to be a fantastic looking filled tank
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Pretty much. It is a tough coral, espicially if it is spreading a lot in your tank. I have lopped off stalk down to the smallest pieces of base on the rock. And new stalks have grown back from those itty bitty pieces.
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Ah right, it was you vwmike that had the problem. Thank you very much for chiming in the with great response!
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Normally not. It seems to be a bacteria infection where the polyp heads kinda of melt away.
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Yes, very normal.
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As a father of a young one, my thoughts and prayers go out to not only your step-sister, but also to you.
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Merged the two threads together.
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Yeah, my brown algae attack come a bit later in the cycle when I first set up my 75g last year. It will eventually works it's way out.
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I have seen mine do this when his is bothered by hermits. It is neat to watch them move that fast
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Weird, I have never seen nassarius eggs look like that. When mine where laying eggs, they left large spiral patches on the glass, not encapsulated in a protective pouch.
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If you are wanting a tang, I would suggest either a Scopas or a bristletooth tangs. These stay smaller than a lot of other tangs. I have both a scopas and a twinspot bristletooth tang in my 75g. While the scopas is not very colorful (moth cream/brown color), he is very entertaining to watch cruising the tank. He has fins like a sailfin tang that he can flare out when surprised. The twinspot is a blusish color with blue dots along his top. Also very active.
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Yes, it definitely sounds like a result of your tank being new. Give it time, once the tank matures, the algae growth will slow down.
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I like the vacuum/scissor method! I just went after mine with a razor blade to trim it away from some other corals. I was not able to get it all off the rocks, thus the little bit lef ton the rocks started sprouting back polyps. It is funny, in my 24g I could not keep xenia alive. In my 75g it is growing, but not a super fast rate (which is fine with me).
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Not much to add other than my own story. Over the many years I have had various fish jump. The worst was probably a snowflake eel that I raised form a pencil thin 6" guy to a 2 foot guy. One night he decided to venture out of the tank... made it partially across the dining room floor before drying out.
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I really like the layout! My only concern is that it looks like some of those bottom pieces are really close to the sides of the tank. This will make it hard to keep those areas clean.
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I believe most hawkfish are somewhat aggressive. At least I know they are not the best to mix with inverts as they hunt them. As far as location, burrowing fish/inverts will make their burrows where they think the food/flow/etc is best. I think a lot of time they build up front as they learn this is where most of the food come from.
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I agree, the top picture looks like a hairy mushroom. The bottom, at first I though kenya tree, but looking at the larger picture not so sure. Are the stalks somewhat rigid? My kenya tree deflates to about 1/4th of it's size at night. Most leathers just retract their polypls, yet retain their size.
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You have to keep in mind too, a lot of urchins are rock borers ... I had some pencil urchins that liked to eat through the rockwork, coraline, rock, and all.
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I agree with everyone in that the Maroon might bully the others. But I have to add that I have a maroon and a skunk clown co-existing in my 75g. My little pink skunk is the last of 3 I had gotten, and he was in there first. The maroon was added later, and while is rules the tank and sometimes chases the skunk, he never does any harm. In fact the skunk lives in the same section of the tank as the maroon (due to viscous talbot damsels ruling the other side).
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Hmm.. just noticed nobody responded to this. Did things eventually get better? I don't really have any advise for you ... another member here (RobInAustin I think) had a brown slime problem with a torch or hammer coral. I think the solution for him was to cut off the infected heads.
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Welcome!
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Hope they are not blocking any vents
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Sorry I missed it ... we had company come over. Will definitely try to pop on next week.
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If your little tike comes a bit early, he could be a Mother's Day baby (which I was ).
