My 28G JBJ AIO Journal

[myjohnson]

Where did you get the shrimp from?

There are some bad@$$ shrimps out there.

Harlequins look pimp!

[Darbex]

It was cool seeing the banded shrimp go at the dead zoa. He wasnt even afraid of me when I realized what he wanted I let him go at it and when he finally walked away i ripped up the rest.

[myjohnson]

Yeah, you still got a lot then.

Hopefully they make it. I always wonder what pops up on LR.

Sometimes marco, shrooms, and all kinds of stuff can grow from the LR.

Theoretically they just need one cell to grow from. I got some marco that popped up from nothing (that I could see) on my LR.

[Darbex]

nah the pics are after I ripped some out. So there is still tons left. I pulled like 6 buds

[myjohnson]

Dude, wtf?!

How much did you kill?

[Darbex]

Guess I should have given them some more time. I will change the water tomorrow so they can have a chance.

[myjohnson]

Those are zoas for sure. Keep them low on the sand bed. Keep the water clean and they will come back to life.

Could be some expensive stuff dude!

[Darbex]

Here are some pics of the pink polys in the LED the pics dont do it justice the pink glow is a lot brighter.


A pic of the banded shrimp next to the pink poly. When I was trying to take one of the "dead zoa" the shrimp darn near attacked me so he could start chowing down on the insides.

[Darbex]

Its a little hard to see. I didnt want to turn on the MH for this but here goes. I googled Aiptasia and it doenst appear to be it but they are closed and I didnt see any pics of closed aiptasia.

[myjohnson]

Google "aipstasia" and see if it looks like that.

A bunch came in with CP's last LR shipment from what I hear.

I didn't look to check when I was there yesterday.

[Darbex]

I can take a pic but they are not opening so I really have no idea. I am pulling them off with the long plant twizzers.

[myjohnson]

Jokes aside, a squirting zoa is not a dead zoa. Zoas can come back from a lot. But it's hard to tell from what you are writing.

What you have might not be a zoa. Can you take pictures of it? What color is it?

Be careful when handling zoas they are poisonous (some more than others).

[myjohnson]

So if you barely touch a zoa and it squirts brown stuff it is dead correct? Some of the hitchhiker zoas when touched squirt brown stuff so I rip them off when they do. I think all of the additions has caused a mini cycle in the tank. NH3 .25, NO2- .25, & NO3- 5.0

lol, you got skeeted on!

[Darbex]

So if you barely touch a zoa and it squirts brown stuff it is dead correct? Some of the hitchhiker zoas when touched squirt brown stuff so I rip them off when they do. I think all of the additions has caused a mini cycle in the tank. NH3 .25, NO2- .25, & NO3- 5.0

[myjohnson]

Trust me you got all kinds of things in your tank you don't know about.

Check at night cause that's when they all come out.

They will multiple at a decent rate too.

Lots of fishes will eat them.

But do keep your eye out for bad things man.