Peredhil 55 Gallon Thread

added a rubble pile today to help with the pods... i've started searching for a tiny mandarin among my LFS




this sponge thing I posted about elsewhere... it's gettin hella long



it's "tentacles" are longer than my hammers (gah, I can't get my hammer to extend very much!)



I got me some Yellow Star Polyps today and inadvertently epoxied some polyps down :-/ they grow fast though, so I ain't worried ;D








I'll upload more after they open

And then I found this little turd runnin around (after I tweezered one out of the frag (not that I am against having them or anything)

multiple angles

 

Cool

 

ugh, how irritating. epoxy just does not hold to this texas holey rock.

polyps came off the rock. Will get back in there today and try some gel super glue.

 

I moved and super glued the polyps.

Can't really tell in the pic, but the epoxy made a sort of ledge base, so it is hooked on the end of that hole. there is actually a lot of space left for smaller fish to swim through... through the polyps that is (very much looking forward to seeing a head popping out)

 

super glue get didn't hold either...

i think i'm going to move this little frag to my newly added rubble pile (for pods) and let it grow up over that... (bc i can just wedge it in there, no glue required)

don't see any reason that would negatively impact as a pod breeding/safe area.

 

several updates to my tank thread.

First, I fragged my hammer! First LPS frag job.



This is why I did that

http://www.3reef.com/forums/inverts/under-attack-need-advise-72729.html

And this is the new cleaned up sponge I had reported on earlier






The Yellow Star Polyps that I couldn't get secured... they're now leisurely laying in a pod breeding rubble pile. that should be nice.



And last, my dendro is doing awesome since I moved it here and started with the cyclo-pleeze every few days.

 

i was thinking u could put the yellow polyps on a dry frag disk with superglue first and then use putty and superglue to attach it to ur rocks

 

updated pics of my hammer frag job











and for comparison, this coral when I first got it. It's quite a bit bigger now.





And this stupid hermit (it's a striped hermit) is kind of big and is always messing with stuff he shouldn't be messing with. Digging up feathers, knocking frags over. So I have put him in prison.

 

Good looking hammer frags.

 

I like it peredhil! I remember when you did that "just finished cycle/full of algae" thread with your CuC...such great progress!!!