Starting a 6 gallon.

Looks pretty common to me honestly. Iv been waiting on it to go on sale for 3 months. I remember the day they put it in the tank at a half inch long.

lol ^

You go by "flower color". Leathers come in all different colors and by tube anemone do you mean feather duster?

No, I mean it looks like an anemone. And the flowers opened up finally, There tan. Il get pics up later tonight I got plans in about an hour so.

Sounds more like an xenia.

Well, Whatever either of them are I like them. Plans drug on a LOT longer than expected so the lights are out and hes closed up. Tomorrow if I get up in time.

looks good!!!

Any Idea what the mysterious red stuff is? And you can see w.e they are (anemone or tubes) in the pics of the tree left side of the rock its on.

it might be a small worm...

This rock has a small pest anemone on it. Take this rock out immediately and chisel that part of the rock of if you don't want your tank filled with rapidly reproducing pest anemones. The red stuff is cyano. The hole in your substrate is from a little critter that buried down into it and the cyano just followed and grew there. I like the taro tree .

the taro looks nice...

WILL DO!!! Glad you told me. Been wondering. Thanks by the way. I will do that tomorrow. Been a little busy sorry I havent been on. Il try and get on soon and update.

It's all good. Yeah those aiptasia are nasty nems. Kill zoas they do . If you check the berghia banner in our sponsors you can learn a little more about them.

Well. The zoa was almost dead. So a little vodka tap water and I ended his pain about 5 days ago. Going to get a peppermint shrimp in just a minute. Heard they would kill them off and are 100% reef safe.

Not 100% reef safe. Maybe 99.9% but you don't have much in there so it shouldn't be a problem. What was wrong with the zoa?

I counted 6 anemones on its TIIIINY rock. I had already fragged it down to about 1/2" by 1/2". I couldnt risk chopping more off there was barely anything there. And it was turning REALLY white so I figured knock 6 birds out with 1 shot of vodka.

Thats a lot . Just take the rock out. Is it the one with the taro? Taros are hardy. Just stick it in a cup and aerate so it doesn't spread. Once one of them decides to leave the rock (they can swim) and place itself somewhere else its over with (really hard to get rid of).

Honestly, I would rather go with the shrimp. Got to get another nass snail to. One fell on his back and died. Then I got to rescape the tank because of a rock falling. I dont have any place to put it. So, Today is tank day I guess.

Yeah. Get a good one and be sure to acclimate them slowly. Use the drip method for about an hour.

Also working on the shrimp tank. Picked up the last 2 today at pet smart. Figured out why they arent breeding and im fixing that too. Got to check out the 6 I just rescaped it a little bit and had to save 2 nass and a turbo already.

Are you sure they are nass? Or are they astrea snails. IS the shrimp tank for the puffers? FW or SW.

The nass im talking about is the 5 I have in the SW with the damsel and the turbos. The peppermint is for the SW. The shrimp tank is the 10 snail/shrimp breeder to feed the puff. Got another variety of snails today btw.

What kind?

I dont know, Just some pest snails. The pointy ones. Anyway back on topic, After the first night all that was left of my $7 shrimp was its empty head. D**n damsel.

He must have molted and since shrimps usually eat the molt he's not dead most likely. Damsels don't eat shrimp anyways.