my tank

[steelcity]

here's some pics of my tank as requested. all were taken with my iphone so not the greatest. New pick up today was a small rock that had some blue xenias on it. When I got home i noticed on the side a hard coral on it. Looks like a small brain perhaps, not sure. Only paid $5 for the small xenias and i got an extra bonus.

First pic is general one of my 16 bowfront

Second is a little closer, can see my lone mushroom and six line

Third you can see the black clown and six line with mushroom

Fourth is the new pickup. Hard to see the xenias but you can see the bonus pickup on the side

Fifth is my small colony of button polyps

Sixth is just a general one

 

[steelcity]

one question i have is about one of my mexican turbos. I have two larger ones and a medium size one. I dont know if the smaller is one is "slow" or a little off but I always find him flipped over at some point during the day. I don't know if he gets tired of sucking to the glass or what. I flip him back over and away he goes.

Will he flip himself back over without me doing it or will he be stuck and eventually get picked at by the hermits and the peppermint?

 

[yote]

So clean and new looking:D
Looks great and you got some great color on those rocks.

 

[yote]

Turbos aint very smart.:D
They cant right themselves on sand.They cant get enough grip.So if you dont flip them over,they die.

 

[mblack]

turbos can be a right pain, you've got to keep an eye on them.

nice tank, never thought I would say this but I actually like it without a background colour, looks nice and open.

 

[Smitty]

Beautiful tank...to answer your question, you'll have to keep flipping it back up or it'll die.

 

[steelcity]

can anybody verify if that's a brain on the side of my rock with the blue xenias?

 

[Bifferwine]

It definitely looks like a brain, but it's hard to tell if it's actually alive, or if it's the skeleton.

 

[yote]

Try googling siderastrea and see if that what it looks like.

 

[mennazeher04]

that is some beautiful dark purple coralline going on there. Very nice tank. Those damn turbos are a pain in the butt, mine keep falling over all the time too like sometimes twice or even three times aday.

 

[mblack]

not sure it's alive tbh, a couple of things that definitely are alive are the two aiptasia anemones in pic 5. I would keep an eye on them and try and get rid if they get any worse, they're a right pain because if you try and kill them now you risk them multiplying due to attacking them and if you don't kill them they are very unsightly.

I started off with one which just got bigger for months, one day I tried to kill it, now I have hundreds :(

 

[steelcity]

I had about 18 or so of them. Then last week I went down to the Keys on vacation. When I came back there are only those two and 1 more on the backside left. I guess my peppermint had a feast while i was gone. I guess because I didn't feed them for a few days, he went looking. Might have to not feed the tank for a couple days to get him to finish the job.

 

[steelcity]

yote, it does look like siderastrae. Looks like a small one of these http://www.bios.edu/research/images/siderastrea.jpg

Now how do I determine if its living or just the old skeleton?

 

[mblack]

hopefully they'll disappear then. I'm off to get myself some peps this weekend, I'm praying they do the job.

 

[yote]

yote, it does look like siderastrae. Looks like a small one of these http://www.bios.edu/research/images/siderastrea.jpg

Now how do I determine if its living or just the old skeleton?

Rub your finger across it and see if its slimy feeling.If its slimy,its alive.,if rough,then its just the skeleton.

 

[daugherty]

look at pictures of camel shrimp and pepermint shrimp they aften get sold as the same thing and you dont want a camel in your reef

 

[dcantucson]

Beautiful CLEAN tank! Don't think mine looked that way except the first week I had it. I concur those snails are a bit of a pain.

 

[swninja]

i haven't had any problems with my turbos (yet), they definitly do some damage on algae. those little bastards are non stop eating machines