Greg's 75g

gregzz4 · #1 04-13-2015, 04:32 AM

Forgot to mention ...

I've had longspine urchins for years now, and the only problem I ever had was when one got big and started eating tiny SPS frags. I solved that issue by feeding it nori and shrimps whenever it would climb the front glass.
It became a routine. He climbs and I feed.

I returned the large longspine when he outgrew the tank and bought the smallest one I've ever seen in my life. Was about half the size of a ping-pong ball. Seriously was super tiny. I never saw it for months while it grew.

Then I finally see it out roaming around and think, good, now it'll start to eat some algae.
Well, months go by and it grows. I try to hand feed it as I did with the first one, but this guy will have no part of feeding tools. So I figured, meh, and let time go by.

Forward a bunch of months and my flaming sun zoas start to disappear, then my watermelons.
I looked for nights on end for predators ...
Move forward a week and I catch the longspine on the watermelons before lights on.
I thought maybe it's just cleaning the newly exposed LR.
Then a few days later I see my lemon drop zoas are gone, and the urchin is sitting on top of my la lakers.
I push him off and see I've only got 3 polyps left

Son Of A Coral Eating Couldn't You Have Continued Eating The Watermelons ?

So, after a short time of thinking about putting the longspine in the garburator I returned it to J&L, along with the 2 pincushion ones that were killing my snails by up-rooting them from the sand and carrying them around for days without food.

I've gone back to Strawberry tophat snails
I couldn't do this back when I bought the urchins as I killed off a lot of snails by dosing too much peroxide to kill the hair algae.

Live and learn
So many things to NOT do in this hobby

Ram3500 · #2 04-13-2015, 05:04 AM

Greg, I think that dam urchin ate all the frags you got from me

I know he ate two setosa frags and now the la lakers wth they are little bastards.

gregzz4 · #3 04-13-2015, 05:15 AM

Yup, they ate all my setosas, and most of the lakers from you.
Plus almost all my flaming suns. And all my lemon drops.
And my prized turaki from rich (nm the setosa I got from him for my birthday)

Looks like I'll be driving to Langley some Saturday soon ..

Ram3500 · #4 04-13-2015, 05:34 AM

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Originally Posted by gregzz4

Yup, they ate all my setosas and most of the lakers.
Plus almost all my flaming suns. And all my lemon drops.
And my prized turaki from rich (nm the setosa I got from him for my birthday)

Looks like I'll be driving to Langley some Saturday soon ..

Lol !! I have a baseball size setosa it is indestructible I call it "Original Bblinks setosa " grows like clover any time greg

Samw · #5 04-13-2015, 07:16 AM

Looks great Greg. The frag looks happy.

gregzz4 · #6 05-24-2015, 04:20 AM

Been awhile
I can't believe how bad the blue is in the pictures

Sorry for the quality ... camera doesn't like blues

Got a nice gorg from Sam, and another pair from Cathy
Both have opened up nicely
Thanks Sam it's looking great

Thanks Cathy

Bought some new fish
In QT I have a 6 spot sleeper, an orange spot sleeper, a Carpenter's Flasher, and a Flame Angel
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6 Spot sleeper goby

Got some frags from Peter
Some Red Planet, Lemonade something, and another we don't know the name of.

Also, from J&L I got a deal on an Acro that will need to be identified at some later date.
It was so receeded and bleached ...
I dipped it to no end and cut out what I could save

Other pics will have to follow later and that will cover my "it didn't happen" portion of my build

gregzz4 · #7 05-24-2015, 04:27 AM

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