Hello all,
I have a few questions for all you experts to laugh at. First off, I have positively identified a hydroid colony growing on my live rock. Well, actually a few, but they are small. First off, I am curious as to where they came from. I have not added anything living for nearly 4 months. I use synthetic salt water, but I do feed frozen mysis, brine, krill, etc. Could eggs (sorry, I forget the proper stage name) have come in with the food? I also have noticed that I now am the proud father of a nice population of some type of mysid shrimp that have also appeared long since my last addition to the tank. From my understanding, even if these hydroids progress to a free-swimming stage, they will not survive because they will bump into the glass and die, right? I am not looking to raise them becuase obviously its next to impossible, but I don;t want any harm to come to my fish. One last question. I was lucky enough to get a Stomatella varia as a hitchhiker and have watched him grow for a few months now. Well, I had to move my tank yesterday (everyone is happy and doing well, thanks) and he ended up crawling around in the bucket that his rock was placed in. I went to ease him off the bottom when he curled up. I figured, great, that was easy. But as i placed him in his acclimation bag, he dropped a significant portion of his foot. I am assuming it is a similar defense mechanism to lizards dropping their tails. Has anyone else heard of this happening. He resumed his travels after being placed in the tank as happy as a well, stomatella. Thanks for the input guys and gals, but now I must be going.
Chris
I have a few questions for all you experts to laugh at. First off, I have positively identified a hydroid colony growing on my live rock. Well, actually a few, but they are small. First off, I am curious as to where they came from. I have not added anything living for nearly 4 months. I use synthetic salt water, but I do feed frozen mysis, brine, krill, etc. Could eggs (sorry, I forget the proper stage name) have come in with the food? I also have noticed that I now am the proud father of a nice population of some type of mysid shrimp that have also appeared long since my last addition to the tank. From my understanding, even if these hydroids progress to a free-swimming stage, they will not survive because they will bump into the glass and die, right? I am not looking to raise them becuase obviously its next to impossible, but I don;t want any harm to come to my fish. One last question. I was lucky enough to get a Stomatella varia as a hitchhiker and have watched him grow for a few months now. Well, I had to move my tank yesterday (everyone is happy and doing well, thanks) and he ended up crawling around in the bucket that his rock was placed in. I went to ease him off the bottom when he curled up. I figured, great, that was easy. But as i placed him in his acclimation bag, he dropped a significant portion of his foot. I am assuming it is a similar defense mechanism to lizards dropping their tails. Has anyone else heard of this happening. He resumed his travels after being placed in the tank as happy as a well, stomatella. Thanks for the input guys and gals, but now I must be going.
Chris
