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07-14-2009, 05:48 PM
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Acclimated and got some livestock in the tank. Hopefully not going too fast with a fish, a crab, and a Paly frag... Hopefully the poor little fish makes it... he wasn't too happy in the bag (water had cooled significantly... was sitting around 70 degrees). Paly's opened under the lights once they were in the tank (lights off wasn't for another half hour), came with a hitchhiker fanworm wrapped around one of the stalks. Emerald Crab was acclimated slower than the rest (though I did baby the fish a little more than I would normally with a 'hardy' species), and immediately started attacking algae once in the tank. So far so good... we'll see by morning what has happened.
Pics tommorrow.
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Calvin --- Planning a 29 gallon mixed reef... Last edited by BlueAbyss; 07-15-2009 at 07:48 AM. 
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07-17-2009, 09:28 PM
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Alright, my tank sucks even with livestock
 ... View from the computer...  And when you enter my apartment...  Green Paly...  I should thank Bayside Corals in Saskatoon for some really awesome livestock. Even if you don't see most of it 
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Calvin --- Planning a 29 gallon mixed reef... Last edited by BlueAbyss; 07-19-2009 at 07:05 PM.
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07-18-2009, 06:21 AM
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I knew someone would say something about the GHA. I don't mind it but I would normally have done a 'harvest' when I cleaned the glass (which I did today) before taking pics. When I was on the phone with whoever it was that sold my mom this livestock, I originally wanted a couple different kinds of snails... something that would take care of filamentous algae on the rocks, diatoms and film algae on the glass. They didn't have any snails, but did have emerald crabs... good choice, really, he's interesting and he eats the GHA (which is really only a minor problem), but his carapace is only the size of a nickel. A tiny crab like that can only eat so much algae, though I did watch him clear around 1/3 of the smaller rock island yesterday. I also fed mysis in an attempt to get the Royal Gramma interested in checking out his surroundings, instead of hiding in the back of the larger island (he ate a few pieces very encouraging)... I noted the emerald chowing on some leftovers, then he crawled into the island and I haven't seen him since. Hope he's okay...And they had urchins at Bayside, but I decided I didn't want one and chose the crab instead. He'll get to it soon enough, I'm sure... I don't want the GHA gone, just controlled. It's a natural part of my system and I do like it, there's just too much of it.
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07-19-2009, 07:03 PM
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Alright, so I moved stuff around in my Photobucket and now all my images are broken. Hrm... I'll get to that. Anyhow, FTS after the algae harvest...
 A shot of the blue legged hermit... he's changed shells again.  And a shot of the emerald. I probably took 50 pics of him while I could see him, and a few of them turned out really nice...  And a shot of the setup as a whole, before the algae harvest yesterday...  Thanks for looking
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07-19-2009, 07:07 PM
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Crabs are so cool, I will watch them for hours given the chance. Harry the emerald crab went MIA a couple of months back and I suspect a Xanthid crab I see occasionally that I am too lazy to evict.
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