Rodan76

Do we order through you or through the website?  does the free 2 day fedex apply if ordered through the site?

So since the preorder was missed...will there be any extras brought in that will be available?

2 hours ago, loverland said:

Can anyone tell me if she's berried? [end sarcasm]

what is she?  a rili?

do you have any available still?

14 hours ago, 35ppt said:

whatcha got in the salty tank? hopefully something shrimpy

ive got a couple sexy shrimp, a couple skunk cleaners, and a peppermint shrimp... a maroon/yellow clown, mandarin, linkia starfish, and a handful of corals...

the shrimp are definitely the a-holes in that tank...always stealing food from everything else!  

4 hours ago, countryboy12484 said:

Hey man! Saw this on my taptalk feed! How ya been? It's been a while!!

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good bro!  how about you!!  are you back in the game?

Hey yall it's been a while!  i hope everyone's tanks are still flourishing...i haven't been around in a while...still have a couple tanks going at home...i started a saltwater tank in the fall and that sucked all my shrimpin money away for quite some time, but am stopping back in..both eric(discobee!) and han started following me on IG today so i figured i was missing something and wanted to say hey and see how is everybody!

I might be one of the few who likes damsels , lol .

 

Granted the less combative types .

 

I had a Beau Gregory which I caught as a baby a few miles from here by a dock in the 70s .  Boy what a mean fish he turned out to be , lol . 

 

Lots caught tiny Domino damsels who as you know are nice looking with a black/white contrast but as bad as beau Gregory and loss all their color as adults  , lol.

 

We didn't know that damsels lost color or how mean , there was no internet back than .

 

I imagine you have the blue damsel ,

 

I like them and they hold their color unlike probably most damsels .

i honestly cant remember if it is a 3 or 4 stripe damsel.  i basically got it to use to help cycle the tank and it was cheap.  he/she is cool though..definitely fun to feed.  The guys at the lfs were like get one of these..it'll die soon but whatever...so i did...but it is kickin around no problems.  i think as far as most of us aquarium folks go...we must be OCD about having more tanks...i am slowly planning a 14gal in my mind because i am afraid of whether the 3 gallon is sustainable and i don't want flush all that living cash down the toilet....my wife will kill me though.  i shouldve stuck with shrimp hahah

where are you guys getting the galaxy tigers from?

As the saying goes ''You want a nice reef tank or an estate on several acres?''  .

 

lol perhaps bit exaggerated but you know what I mean.

 

Nice inverts , any fish ?

hahah no kidding.  there is a damselfish, 2 sexy shrimp, and a couple snails...looks like my 2 hermit crabs flew the coop and are rolling around somewhere in my house...or should i say...dead somewhere in my house

1. Vshrimp
2. Shrimp lady
3. Sarah
4. Soothing Shrimp
5. svetilda
6. 9thdragon
7. BigXor
8. Pescador
9. Jimko
10. Pokeshrimp

11.Wet Green Thumb

12. Bigbluefrog

13. Rodan76

thank you!

Some beautiful corals.  How do you acclimate them?

 

Do you have to do some type of dip to avoid critters that hitch?

same as shrimp for the most part.  what i have been doing is hanging the bag in the tank for 15 min, then drip acclimate for an hour or so. 

I haven't been too worried about hitch hikers since the live rock was direct from the ocean...it already came with them....so there are a couple pest stars in there, but i havent seen them do anything damaging yet...plus they are tiny and kind of cool.

Never heard of super red taiwans before...sounds like the seller mixed a bunch of names up or just made up their own name.   those are definitely cherry shrimp.  maybe someone else can chime in on the grade as i haven't had cherries in a while...i had some sakuras a while back and i'd say they looked a lot like that

ok so i am no pro. and i have slowly been adding stuff but this is where i'm at:

I really want to get some brighter corals, but most of the really cool ones are crazy expensive....slow and steady i guess...

Looking forward to seeing them.

 

Researching today, I found shipping frags is like shipping shrimp, only without the moss. Awesome!

 

I guess many sellers will only ship the frags and you have to mount them yourself.  Otherwise, if mounted- they make break during travel.

from what i have seen they always come on a little plug that you can remove or leave them on it...i have left mine on so far because i am afraid to hurt them...

yeah the zoas got me turned on to start a reef tank.  i started a 3 gal a few months ago.  so far it's been fun...about as challenging as when i started shrimpin....so much to learn and keep up with, and even more expensive.  i'll try and get some pics of the few things i have tonight.

1. Vpier
2. Glasshalffull
3. Lyana
4. Shrimp lady
5. Sincitybet
6. Loumeer
7. Pokeshrimp
8. Shrimple Minded
9.pescador
10. NeMox69X
11. d0pey
12. Kikojaharo
13. shouu
14.ANBU
15. Thekonexperiment
16. Nick_R
17. Vshrimp
18. jimko
19. stangmus
20. Mengyone
21. GBR
22. Pmoua

23. Greenteam
24. ShrimpNoob
25. Dcw
26. lloyd wang
27. Epitaph
28. svetilda
29. tienhuynh
30. Sandovalsbco
31. Duff0712
32. Airriick
33. Mlsthuy1
34. _ontherocks
35. Soothing Shrimp
36. Eloodaku
37. DETAquarium
38. dazalea
39. mayphly
40. Jesseter
41. davesays
42. 240ric
43. Rockadoodle

44. Jaykidding
45. Steve R.
46. Shrimp lover
47. Tyler44
48. Jledermann
49. Adrand
50. Quyvan5186
51. Mike7381
52. Dr0p
53. Slycat929
54. r45t4m4n
55. StarryNight15
56. Toads74
57. Flytrap
58. Veneer
59. Elle23
60. NWroostin
61. Allicat
62. Omgfrog

63. puffpuff

64. Rodan76

I fixed the formatting for those other 2 folks.  

Thanks for the RAOK!  Super good one!

welcome back!

yeah some of my first TBs were from Speedie as well.  And my original oebt are from him.  I had been wondering lately where we was too. 

yeah i try lowering their feeding schedule and see if it helps...it definitely is weird...and i hate the thought of having to cull these guys if its genetic.

probably more protein than anything else... i rotate shirakura ebi dama special and bw multipara once a week, bw barley twice a week, sl aqua more meat once a week...

i'll cut back on feeding..maybe just do snowflake and barley for a while with a treat every other week...

but now im thinking about that here's the rub.  i feed the same food to my TBs and they all seem fine.  this is only showing in the OEBT.  Basically i have 2 daily medicine dispensers that i have the food sorted out in and i rotate them between tanks each week.  i feed on M, W, F, Sat.

I added a photo..... Bump

no much lower than where the saddle would be.  but think how the head starts to seperate from the body before a molt, but closer to the tail than head (about 3/4 down the body) and it's always there...like it looks like they broke their back...pics will definitely come but after work...

i would suggest 10 Gal.  because of its size... and you will eventually (sooner than later) have multiple tanks.  it is inevitable   so then 2 or 3 or 6 or 10 10 gals...haha.