My amazingly cliche tank.

[Just_Greg]

i agree with Lanny...it's not lack of iodine, for SURE.

it's more likely to be a water quality/contamination issue, or the shrimp just may have had a case of "ADW" (Ain't Doin' Well) for whatever reason.

[OCtrackiepacsg1]

Must be something like that, he died soon after a water change

[OCtrackiepacsg1]

Few Pics, no new additions, been studying for finals.
My Betta's tank, I bought that corner piece for 70% off. Then again, 50% broke off. lol

I'm getting better at this photography thing

Question to you artist, is this considered a good picture? Its not centered and stuff but the face of the fish is clear, which is interesting that everything has been blurred out except the face. I know, the reflection of the tank is bad in this one.

and....Samson!
Taken with my 5.1 mp and crappy photo skills

Taken by a 8 mp and my brother's skill

[OCtrackiepacsg1]

I went to Fish MAX last weekend and got a nice piece a live rock which had a mushroom coral on it, it looks identical to my current mushrooms, its brown but it's smooth and doesn't have little ridges like my mushrooms. Are they the same?
Original Frag

New Mushroom

Its cool how my tank looks so much more improved. From this

to this

to this



My parents Black Moor

and Oranda


One oranda has already died.

Samson!

[Just_Greg]

the brown 'shrooms are Rhodactis sp., and will engulf meaty bits of food.

[Bergy]

and get bigger the more you feed them...

they can get LARGE

the brown 'shrooms are Rhodactis sp., and will engulf meaty bits of food.

[Learner]

Yaay OC, very much improved.

Looking good. 

Samson looks happy too.   :0)

[Just_Greg]

i believe it's Rhodactis mussoides that gets huge and becomes a fish-eater.  however, R. howesii only reaches 2"-3" or so.

[RandyFolds]

New one is definitely a rhodactis. If it has marginal tentacles, it shouldn't eat fish. The ones with a bare margin cinch up a lot quicker and will catch slow stuff like cardinals.

I had a big ole' Rhodactis, maybe 8" across, that I gave to Bill. It would constantly try and eat anything that landed on it. It never got a fish, but it did get a big-You better mean it as in 'donkey' hermit once (the kind that roll with a golf ball sized shell). It would catch it all the time, and the hermit would tear its way out so I never worried about it. Then one day there was just an empty shell below it...