Corals for sale - pickup only - Page 4

StirCrazy · #31 12-20-2004, 07:39 AM

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aparently it is the 6 line that has sucess with this.. don't know how a pipe fish would do in a full blowen reef. they are cool if I didn't think my turn over rate would drive it nuts I would have one.

Steve

I remember reading that dragon pipefish do well in SPS tanks because they swim (slither) along the bottom of the tank rather than swimming in the mid or upper part.

hmm ya but now that I am bare bottom I have a tunze and a reio seio blowing directly on the bottom so my flow is actualy spread evenly through out the tank.

Steve

Orion80 · #32 12-20-2004, 03:15 PM

I actually have one, in my 75gln community reef tank, it has stayed alive so far over the past 2 mnths, and semms to b finding, food as i have never directly fed it, everything i read on them they eat live only, and he/she does slither swin on around the corals looking for food none of my other fish bother and it does not seem to b scared by any of them either. Just as a note my turn over is around 1600 gln a hour but i also have about 120 phns of live rock in the this tank as well.

Adie

StirCrazy · #33 12-20-2004, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Orion80

Just as a note my turn over is around 1600 gln a hour but i also have about 120 phns of live rock in the this tank as well.

Adie

How do you think it would do with 5200 gal/h turnover in your tank?

Steve

christyf5 · #34 12-20-2004, 03:31 PM

Well Brad, thank god you finally figured it out after all this time. I hope you can get rid of the little buggers and keep your tank going

Good luck!

Christy

ldzielak · #35 12-20-2004, 03:42 PM

Brad,

Good news, I would rather you keep your system. I'm sure your corals will end up in with us as frags someday. Glad you picked up the towel.

Now where do I spend that money.....

Lee

StirCrazy · #36 12-20-2004, 06:13 PM

here is a pic for thoes that are interested.

Steve

Chin_Lee · #37 12-20-2004, 07:06 PM

are these guys hit and miss for going after cleaner/blood shrimps? I've got 4 shrimps in my tank and would hate to lose them for a 6-line. I've read many that they leave the shrimps alone and some that says they will attack shrimps.

Aquattro · #38 12-20-2004, 09:46 PM

I just picked up a six line, and i think if it wne t after the cleaner shrimps, they'd eat him!! No worry at all, IMO.
Now, if the pinky yellow fish would stop chasing the six line...

Also, while it's nice to have everyone's support for keeping my tank, I haven't actually decided to keep it. I just can't sell corals right now with these worms. I may still downsize, or go dry for a while. I'm going through my tank and any coral with eggs on it is getting destroyed. The worms themselves seem easily killed with FW dips, but the eggs are not affected by this. I have to figure out the next step.

ldzielak · #39 12-20-2004, 10:46 PM

So if the worms are easily kill, how about multiple FW dips? Every few days, I'm sure if you kill off all the adults, you will beat them before they can reproduce. Also maybe the eggs are still there, but a FW dip could be damaging and they will slowly die. I'm sure you can win and not kill any more corals.

IMO,

Lee

Aquattro · #40 12-20-2004, 10:50 PM

Lee, I'm not sure how many FW dips an acro can take. It does stress them a lot. One colony I dipped a couple of times last night is now dead.

I may move my stuff into the 75g, FW dipping the stronger acros. The rest will go away. At that point, if someone wanted to try some frags that would otherwise get tossed, I would give some away.