Rene's 75g Journey
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My snail package from @reefcleaners arrived today! I'm so excited! I ordered the 75g snail quick crew - 74 dwarf Ceriths - 25 Nassarius - 27 Florida Ceriths - 20 Nerites - 4 Trochus snails and just because I think they're cool as well as eat algae 4 Limpets - 1 Fuzzy Chiton - 2 Dwarf Cowrie and a Florida Fighting Conch! Also in the bags I received a small hitchhiker clam, two hitchhiker hermit crabs in dwarf Cerith snail shells, good or bad I don't know, they went into the sump! I also found a very small orange Nudibranch, that is going to Todd @twilliard tomorrow! Pictures to follow!
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I'm having a great day! My pom pom crab showed his cute little pom poms today! As soon as I saw it I ran up to get it some Mysis! Wish the picture was clearer, but I needed to zoom in!
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There is nothing quite like adding new stock to your tank to motivate you into doing some landscaping!
Meet Conch the Bulldozer! He is completely awesome and I love him! This guy is huge and he kept rearranging my frag plugs in the sand. So they are now in their new forever homes! Pictures to follow!!!
Move over everyone I'm coming through!
Meet Conch the Bulldozer! He is completely awesome and I love him! This guy is huge and he kept rearranging my frag plugs in the sand. So they are now in their new forever homes! Pictures to follow!!!
Move over everyone I'm coming through!
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Zoa's and Paly's are now on the rock islands I've been planning to put them on for a month now! They are not very happy yet, but are finally starting to open back up!
Zoa Island
Paly Island
Zoa Island
Paly Island
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I also finally placed my GSP onto my new GSP containment magnet! It also is not happy and hasn't opened at all! I will post another picture once it starts to show it's beautiful green polyps again!
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I found 2 of these in the back of my tank yesterday, I moved them to the front so that we can enjoy them! I'm pretty sure they came in on some Coraline algae plates from IPSF! I thought it was a pretty exciting find!
Hawaiian Feather Duster!
Hawaiian Feather Duster!
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I decided to move my GSP lower, it was open when the lights were off, but closed up when they came back on. I'm hoping this will make a difference and they will open! My Paly's and Zoa's are mostly open in their new spots!
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Hawaiian Feather Duster!
That's lovely! Nice picture too!
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Thank you! I just checked out your tank thread, looking good! I'm going to post on it and follow along! I understand being on the lower budget end of things, I try to find ways to DIY as much as I can, it has saved us a bunch of money. The help on R2R is awesome, so someone always has advice on how to build pretty much whatever you want!
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Thank you Renee! When I first noticed it in the back of my tank I thought it might be a Feather Duster, but I was afraid it was an Aptaisia, it was hard to tell where it was sitting! I was pretty excited when I confirmed that it was a duster! These are the kind of hitchhikers I love to discover!!!
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I'm getting my QT set up for my new arrivals! The Starry & One Spot Foxface will be arriving on Tuesday! My husband is working on a small shelving system to set next to my tank to get all of the equipment that has accumulated in front of my tank, under control! I measured and drew out the dimensions of what I want, showed him my plans, he's on his way to town to pick up supplies. He likes having projects during the winter!
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You are going to LOVE having your stuff cleaned up. It just makes life so much easier.
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I totally agree! Everything is organized in my fish room. The last project was put together fairly quick so that we could go to my sons for Christmas. Now we are trying to catch up! I really don't like clutter and unorganized wiring! This will be much nicer!
On another note, I just found two more Feather Dusters! I haven't moved them to the front yet!
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The GSP is fully open this morning! I will leave it in the lower spot for a few days and then move it up and keep going until I like the position and it likes the position!
Edit: It's still not very happy, it was open for about an hour and then closed! Watching it for now as it's kind of finicky and will sometimes close for no reason I can discern!
Edit: It's still not very happy, it was open for about an hour and then closed! Watching it for now as it's kind of finicky and will sometimes close for no reason I can discern!
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When I received my snail order I found a small hitchhiker clam mixed in. I finally have a halfway decent picture of it next to Patrick Star!
It also appears that one of my Limpets has laid eggs, but I will check to make sure!
It also appears that one of my Limpets has laid eggs, but I will check to make sure!
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Some of my snails didn't survive the trip to my tank! I lost 11 Florida Ceriths, 1 Limpet, both Cowries and some of the dwarf ceriths. The reason I'm posting this is to share how great John from @reefcleaners is to work with. I told him which ones didn't arrive alive and he instantly refunded me for them. I highly recommend this company and will use them in the future!
