lysmata wurdemanni

Greetings fellow The Reef Tank-ers, I figured that a tank profile would make good use of my first post here on TRT. This tank was started in July of 2006 and is my first "real" attempt at keeping a successful reef aquarium (well.. there was a 10 gallon before this one, but it was hardly a...

Help I am looking for a cheap way to kill or get rid of aptasia. My tank has become more of an aptasia farm than anything else. Neglect on my part, you don't have to yell at me... I kick myself everytime I turn the lights on. Some one sugested pulling the live rock out and letting it dry in the...

Finally getting around to posting my specs here, here's the scoop: Tank: 110 Gallon all-glass (non-drilled) on a DIY stand Filtration: 30 gallon sump w/Octopus NW-200 skimmer, 2 Phosban reactors (1 carbon, 1 Phosban, inline), Lifereef dual overflow, Mag 9.5 return. Lighting: 2x250w MH w/ushio...

my cleaner shrimp has a cyst or somethign on his side. it came from the lfs like this. he seems to be healthy and is roaming around and cleaning. and anyoing my blood shrimp. any ideas on what it is? its only on this side, the other side seems fine.

Greetings all! Brand spanking new to the Saltwater world after having kept tropical freshwater off and on or many years. I just purchased an AGA 125 gallon "reef ready sort-of" used tank that is 72"x18"x22". The reason I say "sort-of" is that the holes are drilled (2 in each back corner...

My peppermint shrimp are punks. they are scared of aptasia. Avoid it like the plague. wowww Well let me give them time they have only been in the tank for 24 hours. They are in my sump and they actually run when they accidentally touch one. Is this normal. I guess i will have to go get some...

OK, its been a while, but I wanted to make a selection to what I might or can get and not just leave it up to everyone else :read: I located what I can with the free time which was available to me for I need now to move to the next step and make a fish selection for which SPS corals will be...

I have a sise 8 bio cube and want to put my frist coarl in it.The tank is fully cycled,and holds 5 gallonds.It has the regular lights (2 18w pc 10,000k+03 antic)and no changes.The current stock is 1 pepermint shrimp (Lysmata wurdemanni) 1 turbo snail 1 nertil snail 1 blue leg hermit(clibanarius...

Sorry on two counts. First, I feel liek I should post this somewhere else where only noob's post, and second the picture is poor at best. Nonetheless, I'm hoping someone can identify this little guy for me. It's in a really awkard spot and hard to view and photograph clearly. You can see the top...

i was just looking into my 10g disply tank and noticed the whole top of the feather dusters head was on one side of the tank and the tube was on the other side?..looks like a clean cut too...hmmmm..would a candy cane shrimp do this?

Here's the basic tank specs at start-up (5/14/07) Equipment: AquaVim 93 gallon seamless glass bowfront reef ready tank ~48x18x26 Corner overflow with 1" drain & 3/4" return DIY acrylic sump ~35 gallons IceCap 660 T5 retro kit with 4 x 39W bulbs IceCap 430 T5 retro kit with 2 x 39W bulbs Orion...

Hello All, As many of you know, I've working on a Peppermint shrimp breeding program, and so far I've sucessfully brought 1 larvea into it's 9th week of life, and I believe I've got it past metamorphsis about 2 weeks ago. At the time I started this porject I believed that there were two...

I bought what I thought was a peppermint shrimp for my 29gallon and now my wrasse has been missing for 3 days and my "peppermint shrimp" is always out and follows my mag float around when I'm cleaning the tank. My cleaner shrimp runs from the "peppermint shrimp". This shrimp seems to stalk...

A little under a month ago, I noticed that my peppermint shrimp (Lysmata wurdemanni) were carrying eggs. I decided to try to raise them. This is my second atempt to raise shrimp fry, my first attemp failed quickly due to many issues. I've been recording my progress on a thread entitled "True...

OK, I'm guilty of it yet again, a impulse buy from the LFS. I was hoping to get either a skunk cleaner shrimp or a scarlet cleaner shrimp, but the store was sold out. But they had many true peppermint shrimp (Lysmata wurdemani) and on ale to boot at $4.00 each. I've had one before and don't...

Thanks to Ernesto, I had a power outage when I was away on vacation. (I was in the Outer Banks, and almost got trapped there by a flood, but that is a different story.) Because of this outage, my pump from the sump lost its prime and there was no flow from the sump to the tank for a couple of...

Sooooo... sounds like the start of a potentially night-marish tank story, but it's not too bad.. still and all, I was pretty unhappy last night.. wow. I got a reef janitor package from saltwaterfish.com about 6 weeks ago... in that package was 5 peppermint shrimps.. very VERY small at the...

I "have" a 125 gal w/120 LR. The tank was recently moved from an office to a residence. The whole thing was thriving pretty well. After the move I underwent a major red slime outbreak. It was pretty bad - about 90% of all rocks and sand was covered in that thing. I've been meticulously brushing...

I went today to both places today and are beautiful :agree::agree::agree::agree:... CapBay has a lot of things (corals, tanks, fish, tons of clams, etc) and everything looked in very good shape, they changed some furniture and added more tanks... MarineFish changed many things too, added...

i am now starting the rebuild of the Mantled Monster! i have done some preliminary stuff, but not much. the tank has been removed from its high home for now. <img src="http://www.thereeftank.com/gallery/files/2/0/5/0/20500.jpg"> here is a pic of the top of the mantle. i have already drilled...