Patrick's 75 Gallon

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Otherone said:
Looks good so far - Mom might like a rose BTA for the anemone - condy's can be more difficult and might eat that fire fish, also might damage corals with it's long tentacles. Probably a stupid suggestion cause you already know - a lot of star fish eat corals try - Blue Linckias, Serpent stars, sand sifting stars, + bristle stars.
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I wish so many starfish don't eat corals... I was about to get a chocolate chip starfish...


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Big news! I got some corals! I got a rock with 3 Kenya trees ($15) a rock with some sort of colony coral ($10) and green star polyp frag ($10)

One of the hermits walked all over the Kenya trees and pretty much destroyed them :( :( :( Don't worry, the hermits will be rehomed ASAP...

Pictures will be posted in the morning when the lights are on.


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mr.bigglesworth said:
How old is your brother? Younger or older?
Are the hermits doing any physical damage or do you just not like them? If they aren't doing any damage or harming anything I would suggest leave them alone. These guys can be a pita to catch especially in a tank that big. Imo just leave em.
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The real question is how old are YOU??? Haha

Love the maroon man, One of my favorite clowns.
 
Jamesy said:
The real question is how old are YOU??? Haha

Love the maroon man, One of my favorite clowns.
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How young* are you? Here's my story, get ready, it's going to be a long one :)

I am 13, got the SW tank right before my birthday on a Craigslist deal :p Took me all summer to save up for the big tank supplies! Worth it though, so many more options on livestock!

I got my first FW tank when I was either 11 almost 12 or just became 12... I wasn't too good of a fishkeeper till I stumbled upon the monster aquaria app, and joined AC on February 2nd 2012... That's when I realized that I needed to step up my game, and do more for my fish than feed them and change 10% of their water every month. I eventually rehomed my Mbunas from the 20... I had them since they were fry, and I knew they wanted a bigger home. For a while I only had the 20, then I researched what I wanted next, I was wanting a 55 gallon FW tank, then one day I searched up SW fish... I was amazed you could keep such amazing creatures! (Still am amazed by some of them) I researched it... Then the price :( (told my parents about 1/4 of what the people on AC told me :p One of the guys on AC found me the "deal" (got some good stuff, but not everything)

At that point I pretty much had no idea what I was doing, but was determined to get a lionfish, I got some of the essential parts over the summer. A bit after school started again :( I got the tank and stand (my mom didn't like the one from the "deal" so it took weeks to redo that)

I filled it with some "live rock" that I thought was curing all summer... And some water from the LFS. (Most of the homemade stuff, if not all of it, is out of the tank :) )

I didn't cycle it properly, but my mom wanted a fish :( I had to get a blue damsel... It lived until it was returned to the store (a month or two). A few weeks after returning the damsel, the cycle completed and I started buying real LR. Right before fish I got some inverts (snails, crabs) Then I got a maroon clown and the foxface. Then some more inverts. After that I got more LR. Then I got my shrimps, and 2 large white spotted hermit crabs.

By then it was November, and I decided to try out mosquitofish from my mom's pond, only half of them survived the first 24 hours in the tank.

I also got a coralife super skimmer in November. Also I was researching a Christmas present by then :) I discovered that corals would be better than a lionfish, and found a nice LED light on eBay. I got it and a week later it was time for corals! I got corals, and that is where I am today!

I am sure I forgot stuff, I was typing away on my iPod for about 10 minutes... It is a bit longer than I expected, so if it is too long, and you didn't read it:

Got fish at age 11 or 12ish, got 20 gallon at age 12, joined AC in February, got SW tank "deal" in May, joined MFK in July, got fish in October , got coral in December :)




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your misc colony of green polyps look like star polyps due to the membrane layer it looks like
 
Otherone said:
Looks good so far - Mom might like a rose BTA for the anemone - condy's can be more difficult and might eat that fire fish, also might damage corals with it's long tentacles. Probably a stupid suggestion cause you already know - a lot of star fish eat corals try - Blue Linckias, Serpent stars, sand sifting stars, + bristle stars.
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mom might like a RBTA until she sees the price tag lol.
blue linckia...or linckia in general for that matter aren't hardy at all, and are kind of hard to keep...so i would suggest avoiding them...
+1 on the brittle/sand sifting stars...those two are probably going to be your best bet.
 
Jrob said:
mom might like a RBTA until she sees the price tag lol.
blue linckia...or linckia in general for that matter aren't hardy at all, and are kind of hard to keep...so i would suggest avoiding them...
+1 on the brittle/sand sifting stars...those two are probably going to be your best bet.
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Every month the LFS has a 20% off all livestock deal for a few hours, and usually they have BTA's for $35, but the problem is that they are usually too small for the clown...


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