Most Fun Shopping Ever

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I spent the afternoon at Jerry's and would have spent my life savings if it wern't for the fact that Jerry takes first born children in trade.

I wont bore you yet with all the pictures I took, but I will post if I can get any good ones

Start off for tonight is a pic of a little hitchhicker I found. Jerry told me to go on the side of caution with it till I get it an ID, so the lucky bugger has a 10g sick tank all to its own for now.

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It must have chamelion like properties because it TOTALY looked like corline when it was... on corline ... very purpple... And I didn't have the tank lights running either, so it cant be attributed to the Flors.

[manderson0805]

If you don't mind having a few hundred of them within a year, I'd recommend tossing it, or confining it to your sump. I started off with no more than a dozen in my tank, and I bet I've given away 100 or so, and thrown away another 200 to 250. They're still everywhere in my tank, and as soon as I get rid of my brittle star, I'll be adding a pair of harlequin shrimp to take care of the rest.

[clyde]

i dont really would be too concerned about it

but i take mine off and dry em off on the top of my tank, they are ALL over in my tank.

its cool picking em off and giving to family memers 'a starfish, want it ?'

[otolith]

I second manderson on this...it's better off somewhere elso other than your tank, but most likely you'll become infested with them. That said, I have a bunch of them, and they don't seem to be harming anything...

[reeftanktime]

Yep, those things multiply overnight. I thruw them out. Mybe I will be putting htem in the sump now.
(Sorry for the bad typing, the light is off in the office.)

[JnS]

yep toss those guys in the sump so the main tank will not get infested....lol
glad you had fun shopping

no more kids for me! fixed that problem long ago

lets see some pics

[ReefSitter]

The round white porcelain corner tank with the 4" drain is the best place to keep these

[HFG]

Hehe Rain and I talked about that with your wife (er whats her name again)? when you were helping mr anenome I fixed that problem before it started

Hmm so when they dry up I could glue them to my fridge? Sounds kind of cool to me, but ya don't want it in the system, I have that 10g running and well it wouldn't harm any one in the Q tank so I will just keep him there. When I finaly went to find him I couldn't it is that well cammo-ed. Finally as I was jamming the coral trying to find a good spot for it, the star fell off

K enough bs here are a few shots

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Most of these shots are from right after I put these fellas in.

This is one of the freebees for my sand. a Brain of some sort...
Jerry prommesed to send the names so this is as good a place as any
I couldn't get a shot of the other freebee because I left it at his house, but I did get the name for that one, Doctorouso Pepperatie.

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Hammer time.

This thing glows so green under my attinic and 2 blue + it doesn't look real. I got a little greedy and have already sent an email trying to get the rest of the batch

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oops totaly forgot the name on this one. I had a hard time learning how to use the glue for the first time. I broke this tiny scrap 3 times before I figured it out. It is a good thing I can type with one hand because my wife is still cutting the other out of the tank ATM.

Yet ANOTHER freebee

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Ricordia

[capman]

Those little asexually reproducing seastars are a mixed blessing. On one hand they are very cool, and I am *sort of* glad they are in my lab tanks because thay can be useful for teaching sometimes, but all in all if I could be rid of them I probably would choose that. Though they mostly seem to eat biofilms (algae and such) off of surfaces, the ones I have sometimes attack certain zooanthids and Tubipora. I have had colonies of zooanthids and Tubipora kiilled by relentless, continuous attacks by these litttle seastars...I'd pull all the stars off the colonies and the next day there would be more seastars...day after day after day, until the colony was too damaged to recover.

Zooanthids (only certain ones, in my experience) and Tubipora are all I have seen them damage. If I had neither of these in my tanks I would completely enjoy having the little seastars in my tanks.

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The blues turned green and red, the greens turned purple blue, the yellows stayed yellow. I got four chuncks of Zoa (which was the main target all along). The ones that were origionally blue have not really come out yet... but, I really had to wrastle with them to get them to stay anywhere.

I think this is the pic of the ones that were blue at Jerrys