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  1. irishkiddo

    Green Mile Lithophyllon

    Good afternoon, Been away from this forum for a while but decided to post about a coral I'm struggling with. My tank is a innovative marine 30L. The coral is directly under a kessil 360X about 6 inches from the bottom of the tank. When I bought the coral from IJAM corals he said he had it...
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    elegance yeeted its skeleton

    My elegance coral never liked the place i put it but it was far enough away from everything as to not sting everything. It literally just detached from its skeleton, like clean, and started floating around like a anemone. Seems to be doing just fine, picture is one week later. You think You've...
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    Small open brain

    Good Afternoon All, I keep finding large bites taken out of my small open brain. It regrows back but it stunts its growth. Caught my large sea urchin munching on him. Maybe there was some algae and then the urchin got hungry for flesh! Anyone experienced this before? The urchin got kicked...
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    Aptasia solution leads to fish food

    Hey all, I got a peppermint shrimp, medium, to help em with my aptasia problem. I used to have a cleaner shrimp but he went missing. As soon as i put the guy in the tank my orchid dottbacky came out and took a bite out of his head. He died shortly after. Do you think a large peppermint shrimp...
  5. irishkiddo

    Monti eating nudibranchs

    Got monti eating nudibranchs again. Had them like six years ago. Got them from a local LFS. I always struggle with dipping corals. They usually struggle after. But I guess I need to start uuugh. It was a jedi mind trick. it was maybe 1/4 eaten. Did a coral RX dip and brushing the infected area...
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    Petco filefish and my acan lords.

    Hey all long time no talk, I got a teenny tiny filefish from Petco about 4 months ago. Destroyed all my aptasia! He's doubled in size since I got him. Over the last couple months only my acan lords have been going downhill. No extension, lost like 3 colonies so far. Just saw the little bastard...
  7. irishkiddo

    Selco

    Been reading up about jellyfish and nutrition. Been feeding them newly hatched BB Has anyone used Selco with good results, any tips? What difference did you see in your fish?
  8. irishkiddo

    Moon Jellyfish

    Good afternoon all, A bar I frequent has a beach theme and she really wants jellyfish. She bought the jell cylinder 5 and quickly killed the 3 jellfish that were shipped to her after two weeks. From what i gathered the tank wasn't cycled and the salinity got off frequently because no one...
  9. irishkiddo

    Failed heater, just when you think your safe.

    Disaster! feel my pain! I lost all of my LPS corals and I moved them here from Florida 10 years ago. Stupid me. I walked into the apartment and smelled that smell. The smell of algae and coral stewing. My auto top off died yesterday, so I had to pull it out from the mess of wires. I have an...
  10. irishkiddo

    Help, Cyano?

    I have three tanks and the oldest one is having an algae problem,which I would classify as Cyano. It reappears in force every morning coating everything, actually killing corals such as zoas. Vibrant seems to slow it's progress, but my lps are not liking it. Any suggestions to solve this...
  11. irishkiddo

    Small bite taken from open brain

    Small bite was discovered this afternoon taken out of my week two week old open brain. The only suspects are a orchid dottyback and a sea urchin that was hanging around him. Thoughts. The flesh isn't receded, looks like an actual bite.
  12. irishkiddo

    Downtown market fire =(

    Hey all, I got the text from my tanks at 9:45 AM yesterday that my tanks lost power. Click to the news and the neighboring dollar store is on fire. They couldn't figure out how to turn off the power to that building so they cut power to our side of the block. The 3 alarm fire was a pain to put...
  13. irishkiddo

    My clownfish ate my new neon Gobi.

    Just got an ora neon Gobi, little small. Put him in the tank, clownfish immediately eats him wtf lol
  14. irishkiddo

    New baby ORA Gigas

    So in love, I have a large deresa and a Maxima in my 70 gallon. Once this baby gigas grows up it can join it's brothers.
  15. irishkiddo

    Clown trigger mysteriously died

    My neighbor gave me this clown trigger 4 weeks ago. He was eating like a pig. He is in a tank with a damsel and an engineering gobi. I still can't believe he died. The last owner had him for 4 years. He always seemed hungry. I was feeding the three fish the pellets the first owner said was the...
  16. irishkiddo

    New tank upgrade from 22 gallon to 30 gallon innovative marine!

    Loving the new tank. Still debating what to do with the old rank once repairs are complete
  17. irishkiddo

    True superman encrusting Monti RTN

    I've had a nice colony of true superman encrusting monti. Over the last 9 years its grown out, died off, grown out and it always looked nice. Lots of Xenia around it. This morning it was white. Rapid Tissue necrosis. Very sad. =( My hologram monti is huge and winning against an acan for...
  18. irishkiddo

    My 22 gallon 10 years old

    Struggled getting this gif off of my iphone. Had to just transfer the live photo and then upload. 22 gallon cadlights. https://gfycat.com/EveryDearGrassspider
  19. irishkiddo

    Struggling with branching SPS in 70 Gallon

    Hello all, I'm having success with branching SPS in my 22 gallon tank. I have a ton of encrusting montis that are doing fine in both my 22 gallon and 70 gallon. The 70 gallon is hosting 2 really big clams, anemones, 5 fish, 3 encrusting montis, and some other softies. I went to college in...
  20. irishkiddo

    ICP for my 70 gallon

    Too much calcium oh my. I have to really large clams. Is it that bad? ICP-ANALYSIS.COM 70 gallon - 70 Gallons Test 2018-09-23 first column, my tank, second reference Silver 0.00 ppm 0.00 ppm Aluminum 0.05 ppm 0.05 ppm Arsenic 0.02 ppm 0.01 ppm Boron 4.63 ppm 4.57 ppm Barium 0.03 ppm...
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