:biggrin: True enough, thanks deacon and fish for all your help, I'll wait and see what happens (I'd take another picture, but there really isn't any point at the moment, my camara just can' handle close ups). Maybe in a month or two we should be able to solve this mystery!!

LOL sorry fer showing too much interest in this,i like weird things like this! If its yellow polyps that would suck!

hehe, thats okay deacon, :wink: I'm very curious what they'll turn out to be. I'm almost positive they are sun corals too, but b/c I'm so new at this I have to leave room for errors. Ah, well. I think this is what makes reefing so much fun; finding things you've never seen and trying to guess what it is. It seem like everytime I look at my tank there's something new and I look at my tank a lot!! I thought I loved the hobby of FW keeping, but now reefing has become more than that, my BF thinks it's an obsession, haha. :mrgreen:

Oh it is an obsession for sure! :) and that how i started too with freshwater setups. I still remember the dude at king ed's pets telling me i was crazy for setting up a 18 gallon with MH lighting like 4 years ago! LOL

Im still sticking to my story as they are baby suncorals! lol :)

Haha, me too. And some more proof they are suncorals, I was looking under one of the rocks and I found a bunch more, see if you can see them all! They look orange!! And just a reminder, I don't have zoom so this is as good as it gets, sorry.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...suncorals4.jpg

This one is a little better.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...-suncoral5.jpg

Almost looks like aptasia... :eek:

Haha, I guess that picture sorta makes it look like an aptasia, doesn't it? I'm 99.99% positive that's a sun coral (I hope the other 0.01% doesn't prove me wrong :eek: )

Totally sun corals ....they are popping up on undersides that would be a postive match,cant wait to see them when they grow up...

Tanks are looking great. I just started up a 20 gallon in addition to my 5 gallon nano. I have 5 sexies in my 5 gallon and they are great little shrimps... they sometimes bug my mushrooms though.

Good luck on the baby sun corals, i LOVE those guys. Been waiting to find some decent ones around here.

-Diana

I don't want to rain on your parade, but Yellow Polyps will leave the rock they are growing on, and pop up somewhere else. However, if you don't have any Yellow Polyps in the tank, it could be a bit of a stretch to have them show up. :eek:

Thanks Diana, I also have five sexies in the 10 gallon. They are very cool little guys and they hang out in the back of the tank mostly. The only problem I have with them is they bother and eat my zoos! But I like them (tried to name them all, but I still have a hard time telling them apart).

Thanks deacon, I'll for sure keep you posted on the sun corals (I think you might be more excited them me :eek: ) Just to give you an update, I've been feeding most of the little ones (the ones I can reach) and they love the cyclop-eeze! And....I can see their bright orange mouths!!

Hey bob, no worries :wink: I don't have any yellow polyps in the tank, if they are, they may have been dormant in the rocks when I got them. So, there is always that 0.01% doubt lingering.

Oh, I love sun corals! Mine have little tiny babies too, but I only find them on the rock around the mature ones. Perhaps if I dug around a bit I'd find more . . . Yup - cyclops are the food for them - they grow like little weeds! Enjoy them :)

Thanks snailbuddy!!

Some updated pictures. Enjoy!! :D

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...usual-shot.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...other-shot.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...een-Cloves.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...pt-27-2005.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...rl/Skunky2.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...ual-shot-2.jpg

Nice shots :cool:

I really would like some sexy shrimp in my tank... they don't seem to be too common though :sad:

What a pretty tank! I love the mix of mushrooms, everything looks great! I really love everything about it :)

To the person that came to the store today, I got the measurement of the bakpak skimmer. It's 7.5 inches, so this would definitely fit your tank!!

Thanks aquariumgirl, much apprec:)
By the way I rounded up a spare 60cc Syringe for you to make a feeding/cleaning/pick-up tool like I mentioned to you when we had our talk about skimmers.
I'll drop it off for you next time I come in to the store.
ps. Let me know when you are getting the new feather dusters in. Thanks.
Dave.

Okay, thanks!! I'll pm you when we get more featherdusters :biggrin:

Well, got a new camara today!! hehe, works great!! I was so excited, but I think my BF is now holding it hostage :eek: Managed to get a few shots and got one of the suncorals, take a look:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...-suncorals.jpg

I haven't had the chance to really get to know the camara yet (it held hostage :confused: ) but so far this is the best shot. So what do you think, looks like sun corals??

Can you get a closer pic of them? if the BF is holding it hostage ask him if he thinks he can get a clear macro shot for you (makes him feel important :mrgreen: )

Steve

He tried, and sadly (considering the amount of time he spent with it) the picture above was the best. I will see if I can get a better shot :wink:

By the way Steve, you were in the store today and you didn't introduce yourself :frown:

Didn't know forsure who you were, I though Japarto might have but he was to busy selling me stuff :mrgreen:

Steve

Ah, okay. Well, I think that is the best picture I can get. The largest of these suncorals is probably only 5mm wide, so they are very small.

Hi I've been following this thread with interest as I think it is so cool to have your suncorals reproduce like that.
It would be nice to see a better picture tho cause in the one you just posted they look suspiciously like majano anemones. I'm sure they probably are not as you would probably recognize them.

Alright, here's another picture and I've circled them. If you look closely you can see their orange mouths. I think maybe I should have gotten a better camara :confused: ah well, these guys are very small, maybe only 5mm for the largest ones. This is probably the best I can do, sadly, I really wanted to post a good picture of them.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...mber-23562.jpg

And here is the mommy picture, just so you can see the orange mouths.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...r-35489598.jpg

Very cool. And your right you can see their orange mouths! Are you feeding them?

Awesome....i knew they were baby suns,keep up the good work.

Thanks deacon and ruth, I try to feed as many as possible, but some are in unreachable places. Leslr gave me a syringe to help with feeding (thanks again Dave) :biggrin: . It looks like a few have disappeared, but the majority are still there. I do, however, am battling with this bristleworm, he keeps covering some of the polyps with pieces of crushed corals :mad: . But I think I'm winning;he moved back downstairs :smile:. These little polyps are very slow growning, but I'm starting to see a small skeleton growing on the largest one :biggrin: .

Anyway, I've entered for tank of the month on saltcreep.com soooo, if anyone would like to vote for me; http://www.saltcreep.com/forums/show...st29110&conly=
here is the link!!

You got my vote, AG. Hands down, the best.
Question, though. What's up with the 29galkid tank? Is that a joke?

Good luck! :biggrin:

He submitted so his tank s entered. I let the members decide what deserves totm.

AG your tank is rocking!


I would vote for you if I could....

Haha, thanks Mike and Mark...I know what you mean mark, I was thinking the same, but the kid submitted and I couldn't see his tank winning so I submitted my tank too :lol:

Mike welcome to canreef!!

Well, I put the cloves into the three gallon last night and about and hour later I found three nudibranchs crawling on the glass. So...today after work I did a reef dip to see if there were any more of these suckers in the cloves. After about five minutes all these nudibranchs came falling out and after about an hour of picking through the coral I came up with 31 nudibranchs!! Plus the three I found last night.

I think I know what the problem is ;) Unfortunately I had the healthy bunch of cloves originally in the three gallon and and now they became infested. I think I got all of them and some egg patches as well. This should be a road to recovery from now on :D

Why I didn't see these guys, I do not know :frown:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...dibranchs2.jpg

Thanks to everyone who voted for me for TOTM on saltcreep!!

http://www.saltcreep.com/forums/show...9871#post29871

Just got a small tripod today for $12, so I had to test it out!!

As you can see the clove is recovering well and I see more and more polyps opening!
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...irl/Cloves.jpg


http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...ushrooms-2.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...enbrains-2.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...rl/Snail-2.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...mgirl/Zoos.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...irl/Zoos-2.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...irl/Zoos-3.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...irl/Zoos-4.jpg


This is the newest additon, a black suncoral. So far I see about 15 polyps and they are growing.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...k-Suncoral.jpg

i have having the same thing with my sun coral!!! they are springing up in diffeent spots!!! is this normal? apperently it doesnt happen often??

Really?? That's great!! No, it doesn't happen too often, so consider yourself lucky. Well, congratulations NanoReef :biggrin:

Got some more little critters in my tank, took a picture as soon as I added them (probably the last I'll see of them too).

Can you see the blue shrimp?? Anyone have any idea what kind of shrimp it is??
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...lue-shrimp.jpg

Cowrie.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...irl/cowrie.jpg

An unusual picture of all five sexies in a single shot!!
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...exy-shrimp.jpg

pics look really good. sorry, dont know the mystery shrimp though? also what is the second picture??? type of haire?