Wow he's got some great colors. I can't tell how ours looks from the top cause you never do see it and he's fast. It's crazy how fast he can move around the rocks.
The 75gal reef tank cycle has started!!!!!!!
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I like the pic of Wood's sally but then Ace's remind me why they look like spiders and I have an urge to squish them.
The top pic looks like a branching hydroid of some sort.
The top pic looks like a branching hydroid of some sort.
Ya, just think about him jumping on a fish.. when I throw mysis in my tank sally comes out and leaps at the shrimp to catch them. I can imagine how they could be considered bad if they wanted to be, but I think of they are well fed they won't want to go after fish.
Yup, Grins knows her stuff.. after googling it looks exactly like she said.
Also, don't be suprised when your Sally molts.. they have a trap door on the bottom and they come out, leaving what looks like an entire crab behind. It's scary the first time it happens so be prepared.
Yup, Grins knows her stuff.. after googling it looks exactly like she said.
Also, don't be suprised when your Sally molts.. they have a trap door on the bottom and they come out, leaving what looks like an entire crab behind. It's scary the first time it happens so be prepared.
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I did a search for hydroid and nothing came up about SW. Is there a site you could tell me about that would have something on them?
Ya, I couldn't find anything about it being good or bad. It didn't seem good by the way it releases spores/eggs into the water to reproduce.. seems like it can spread fast and also those stickers/hairs on top might be defensive stingers.
With the Sally? I don't think so.. their primary diet is algae off the rocks. There is always a chance, but I think it is very small. I have had my sally almost as long as my shrimp, about 3 years now, and it never went after my cleaner when it was small. But even my small cleaner it was still 10x bigger than your sexy.
Whatever you do, do not look at these pictures at this link. Ewwwwww.
Good link on Hydroids.
With the Sally? I don't think so.. their primary diet is algae off the rocks. There is always a chance, but I think it is very small. I have had my sally almost as long as my shrimp, about 3 years now, and it never went after my cleaner when it was small. But even my small cleaner it was still 10x bigger than your sexy.
Whatever you do, do not look at these pictures at this link. Ewwwwww.
Good link on Hydroids.
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I put a link up there in case you missed it on hydroids.
Sally's that we have don't get anywhere near that big and I have never seen my Sally try and get out of the tank.. heck, I have never seen it higher than 1/2 up the rocks. That second pic of my sally on the rock was taken last week, and I have had it almost 3 years.. it isn't much bigger than when I bought it.
Sally's that we have don't get anywhere near that big and I have never seen my Sally try and get out of the tank.. heck, I have never seen it higher than 1/2 up the rocks. That second pic of my sally on the rock was taken last week, and I have had it almost 3 years.. it isn't much bigger than when I bought it.
Oh yeah I see it now.
Yeah same here. He comes up but only if you are not close to the tank.
Thanks for the link. I'm going to check it out now.
Yeah same here. He comes up but only if you are not close to the tank.
Thanks for the link. I'm going to check it out now.
Well, I think I am going to have to break down and get a red filtered light. It is too hard, and too bright, to find night critters with a regular flashlight. One thing I find odd is I can't find 1/2 my fish at night. As soon as the lights are out my yellow coris wrasse somehow dissapears. I have no idea where it goes and no matter how hard I look I can't find it. I can't seem to find my yellow watchman, giant engineer goby, blue bar psuedo (actually, I got this fish about 6 months ago and I think I have seen it for a total of 2 minutes in 6 months, I get a quick 1-2 second glimpse of it every few days so I knows it's still in there), also my pistol shrimp, although I hear it all the time.
Fish that stay out in the open at night are my Mandarin, sleeps on the sand, clown goby sleeps in the yellow leather, gumdrop coral croucher sleeps under the leather, lawnmower sleeps in my green clove polyps, and of course, clown sleeps in the anemone.
I found a couple really big featherdusters.. big for the rock kind anyway. It is amazing how many things live under mushrooms and you can see at night when they shrink up. I also see pods running everywhere, both copepods and tiggerpods, so I know the mandarin hasn't wiped them all out.
I also have something bad starting to really get out of control. These tiny clear/white looking rock anemones. No bigger than a dime.. but there seem to be a lot of them, more than I care for, thats for sure. I gotta find out exactly what they are, but somehow I don't think I wanna know.
Fish that stay out in the open at night are my Mandarin, sleeps on the sand, clown goby sleeps in the yellow leather, gumdrop coral croucher sleeps under the leather, lawnmower sleeps in my green clove polyps, and of course, clown sleeps in the anemone.
I found a couple really big featherdusters.. big for the rock kind anyway. It is amazing how many things live under mushrooms and you can see at night when they shrink up. I also see pods running everywhere, both copepods and tiggerpods, so I know the mandarin hasn't wiped them all out.
I also have something bad starting to really get out of control. These tiny clear/white looking rock anemones. No bigger than a dime.. but there seem to be a lot of them, more than I care for, thats for sure. I gotta find out exactly what they are, but somehow I don't think I wanna know.
