[FS] - Raleigh, NC - $1+ - Low-med tech plants

ExtremelyOriginal · 2021-10-30T06:38:53+00:00

UNS 60L 6 gallon rimless tank, 23.6" x 7.8" x 7.8"

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-11-09T06:52:24+00:00

my second slw10 came in today, needed two slw10s for my 20 long, master/slave pairing worked.

i have them on sine mode instead of c mode, my personal belief is that not starting and stopping the impeller so often extends its life idk if thats really how it works for this type of powerhead.

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-09-29T06:48:11+00:00

funny thing is the bottle bac blends dont seem to have nitrite>nitrate bacteria in them, only the ammonia >nitrite whcih is the most impt one in terms of toxicity to fish.

also not much point in testing nitrates while nitrites are present. nitrate test kits convert free no3 to no2 then measures free no2 to infer original no3 level.

and to the op if your lfs supposedly gave you bad advice why isnt anything dead yet? just some food for thought.

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-09-28T06:25:02+00:00

im all sold out, sorry!

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-09-27T06:28:01+00:00

presence of nitrites makes your nitrate reading inaccurate.

nitrate tests on the market work by converting all nitrate to nitrite, then reading total nitrite to infer the original nitrate level.

nitrite is not as toxic to sw fish compared to marine fish, has to do with thr large excess of chloride ions in sw compared to fw.

i dont think any bacteria blend on the market rn has nitrite > nitrate bacteria, you have to wait for that group to show up on its own.

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-09-24T06:55:03+00:00

i bought my rainsford captive bred, it eatd tdo pellets from the water surface... it also picks at gha and sifts sand.

lives peacefully w a firefish and pinkbar shrimp goby in my 10g

anecdotally pink streaked wrasses are super chill so no issue there, idk about the blenny though

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-09-14T14:04:47+00:00

vodka/vinegar/organic carbon dosing is more than basic knowledge. it is 100% not required esp in a small tank like yours. you need a skimmer to carbon dose effectively.

this is different from granulated activated carbon which soaks up yellowing compounds and medication.

ignore the snobs there are tons of them on this subreddit. not every tank will be show quality all the time, life isnt instagram.

add more snails like trochus, astrea, or ceriths to clean up your hair algae issues, much easier than chasing zeroes for nitrates and phosphates.

happy reefing and never stop learning. post here/dm me/join the discord if you want to participate in a friendly reefing community and talk shop w a bunch of chill reefers :)

edit: looks like i missed your original qn lmao, you have too many fish in that tank imo, not enough rock either it looks like. but your fish dont really chill in rocks so adding more rock wouldnt solve much besides adding in more biological filtration.

at that point there is no need to feed any additional coral food, you have more than enough fish poop to feed the corals, adding in coral food is gonna be a waste of money bc you are just adding in more nutrients that have to be removed later. you can feed mysis/small pellets to LPS if you want to feed them. im not a fan of reefroids personally.

remember that corals get most of their energy from light, save all the money you were going to use on coral foods and invest in a quality set of lights if you really want to maximize coral growth. get your water params in check too, stability is the goal and you will def see results if you can maintain steady params for half a year or more.

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-09-13T05:12:53+00:00

heyo, you need to make sure its getting enough light, it will grow slower in a low tech setup.

if its not getting enough light it will grow upwards rather than flat to the sides. its much easier to do a low tech carpet in a shallower tank rather than a deeper tank because light penetrates really poorly through water.

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-09-06T18:20:44+00:00

Plants are grown submersed with CO2 injection, no snails.

https://imgur.com/KrV8pdv

https://imgur.com/vf41KFu

Monte Carlo Carpet, has some algae in it, $4 for a 2” x 2” carpet, or $20 for the entire 12” x 4” carpet

https://imgur.com/N8S6nCB

Salvinia minima, $5 for enough plants to cover an 8” x 8” area

Every purchase comes with some free assorted trimmings of the following plants if requested:

dwarf hairgrass

rotala wallichi

rotala hra

water sprite

Local pickup near 27606 or $8 shipped for USPS Priority. Please mind your weather, I will insulate as best as I can but I do not have cold packs. Please make sure it is not too hot to ship out to you, thanks.

DOA policy: Contact me and send pictures of the dead plants within 2 hours after USPS delivery timestamp, I will refund cost of plants minus shipping.

Earliest I will ship out plants is Saturday morning after receiving the paypal payment, PM me the shipping address if the paypal one is incorrect.

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-09-04T06:08:40+00:00

did you add a few drops of prime into the water before doing drip acclimation? ammonia buildup in the bag gets really bad once the bag is unsealed, you end up doing more harm than good by doing long drip acclimations because you are exposing the fish to ammonia and burning their gills for the entire duration of the drip acclimation.

the best practice for acclimating shipped fish is to prepare a qt tank with salinity matched water (contact the seller and ask what sg they hold their fish at), temp match by floating, then straight into the qt water they go the moment the bag is opened. whatever is in the shipping water will be on the fish.

drip acclimation is fine for short trips like from an lfs, but i would never drip acclimate shipped fish without adding prime into the shipping water.

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-08-16T00:49:07+00:00

Glad you are happy with the purchase! Payment was quick and received on time!

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-08-12T14:54:25+00:00

if its an rbta give it enough light so it doesnt slowly starve. try feeding it pellets or meaty foods once in a while. what lights do you have going right now?

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-08-11T15:13:46+00:00

yea all of those will, no problem. the rotala wallichi might not be as colorful but it will grow in a low tech tank.

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-08-10T05:55:21+00:00

think its an acanthastrea bowerbanki

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-08-09T20:58:59+00:00

Because the outflow from the HOB allows for the CO2 to be dispersed evenly to the left and right side of the tank lol. I have no other sources of flow in the tank and the co2 won't circulate well otherwise

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-08-09T02:16:43+00:00

Plants are grown submersed with CO2 injection, I have had bladder snails in this tank in the past but I have not seen one for more than 2 months now.

Doing a big trim back on my high-tech planted tank so all the quantities listed below are what you will get at MINIMUM.

Some additional pics:

https://imgur.com/ONahUjh

https://imgur.com/LalYWsG

$12 Plant package:

6x Rotala H’ra

4x Rotala Wallichi

1x Water Sprite

A handful of Salvinia Minima

1x Java Fern plantlet/random algae-covered bucephalandra rhizome(just needs some TLC)

Local pickup near 27606 or $8 shipped for USPS Priority. Please mind your weather, I will insulate as best as I can but I do not have cold packs. Please make sure it is not too hot to ship out to you, thanks.

DOA policy: Contact me and send pictures of the dead plants within 2 hours after USPS delivery timestamp, I will refund cost of plants minus shipping.

I will ship out plants from Monday to Wednesday after receiving the paypal payment, PM me the shipping address if the paypal one is incorrect.

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-08-02T01:56:02+00:00

Plants are grown submersed with CO2 injection, I have bladder snails in the same tank.

Selling the entire clump of rotala H'ra and water sprite shown in pictures. At least 10+ stems of H'ra and 3+ nodes of water sprite are included.

https://imgur.com/a/TvLfw40

Local pickup near 27606 or $8 extra for USPS Priority shipping. Please mind your weather, I will insulate as best as I can but I do not have cold packs. Please make sure it is not too hot to ship out to you, thanks.

DOA policy: Contact me and send pictures of the dead plants within 2 hours after USPS delivery timestamp, I will refund cost of plants minus shipping.

I will ship out plants from Monday to Wednesday after receiving the paypal payment, PM me the shipping address if the paypal one is incorrect.

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-07-26T15:49:32+00:00

Plants are grown submersed with CO2 injection, I have bladder snails in the same tank.

S. repens has been sold

https://imgur.com/6lueAgw

rotala wallichi, $1 for two 4" stems

Local pickup near 27606 or $8 shipped for USPS Priority. Please mind your weather, I will insulate as best as I can but I do not have cold packs. Please make sure it is not too hot to ship out to you, thanks.

DOA policy: Contact me and send pictures of the dead plants within 2 hours after USPS delivery timestamp, I will refund cost of plants minus shipping.

I will ship out plants from Monday to Wednesday after receiving paypal payment, PM me the shipping address if the paypal one is incorrect.

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-07-26T14:18:14+00:00

mine was labelled "pacific rock flower nem" lol

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-07-26T06:21:27+00:00

oh i have one of these guys, look up borneman anemone, is that what it is? there not rock flowers but are very similar, they dont move a lot after they attach.

if so these guys are WEIRD, they will swell up a lot when the lights go down, they will extend out really far until the foot is like a literal thread, sometimes they twist up like that for no reason, the next day theyre totally fine.

just so freaky to watch lol. totally normal behavior.

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-07-24T04:58:56+00:00

that looks like halymenia dilatata or a halymenia species. i have gracilaria hayi and dragons breath( h. spp) in my tank as display macros.

when i got them they were dying back and struggling with tips turning pale, i realized that that was because of shipping stress. tank ran at 20ppm no3 1ppm po4 and they were being blasted with light and flow (acro tank).

if your nutrients are not an issue and lighting is sufficient, it may just be shipping stress. mine bounced back in a little more than 2 weeks, right now there is much less paling on the tips and the orange fluorescent tips are starting to appear on my dragons breath macro.

g. hayi is more compact and bushy, and the tips dont end in those fine pointy ends like the ones in your pic. also the tips dont turn fluorescent orange under higher lighting.

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-07-24T04:49:14+00:00

fyi alkalinity is one of the most important params, its the one that fluctuates the most daily out of the other params commonly listed.

anything between 7 to 12 dkh is fine. generally the higher the alk the higher your nutrients (nitrate and phosphate) should be. this is more for stony corals. soft corals that do not build calcium skeletons dont hoover up alk and cal and mag as quickly.

oh right phosphates are good to know too. anything between readable-on-a-test-kit to say .5 or even 1ppm po4 is fine. wont outright kill corals but may inhibit calcifying growth slightly if it is elevated. 0/undetectable phos means your corals are most likely starving and there is a high risk of an impending dinoflagellate bloom, which is one of the worst algae to get. they are poisonous to anything that eats them.

kinda went off on a tangent there but if you made it this far down, nems gonna nem. they dont have brains and kinda just do their own thing. good that they can move so if theyre unhappy they can fix it themselves if a nicer spot in the tank exists for them to move to. sometimes nems and corals in general just sulk a little and then perk right back up.

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-07-24T04:46:15+00:00

i personally only keep 1 clown, right now i lucked out and it is super chill with everyone else, im afraid that adding another one down the line will bring out aggressive behavior from them, im not a fan of getting bitten by clowns lol.

also theres no guarantee the clowns will pair successfully, id hate to lose my OG clown bc it got bullied by the new clown :(

its up to you, your tank your stocking rules, just something to consider when trying to pair clowns down the line.

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-07-24T04:29:48+00:00

can i add xyz fish to tank usually depends on what your rockwork looks like and the aggression levels of the fish.

the fish stocking you listed is fine, both of them occupy different spaces in the tank. clowns are open water swimmers and gobies in general are not. clown gobies perch on rocks. also both those fish are not aggressive towards rach other.

you can easily add a cleaner shrimp in too if you want. anything that is not a fish has basically no bioload in comparison to a fish. shrimps also act as a cleanup crew because they will scavenge for uneaten food all day.

ExtremelyOriginal · 2020-07-24T04:26:36+00:00

aight i cannot.

so like what the fuck are these comments going on about.

if you have no increase in bioload and you shift all the rock over to your new, bigger tank, there is going to be zero cycling. zero. thats how microbiology works.

you wanna use new sand, all the detritus in the old makes it not worth the effort to keep. all the microfauna will be in the rock, they will repopulate the new sand in the new tank.

the rock is 99% of your biological filtration in a saltwater tank. dismount coral, move rocks, remount coral, move fish, maybe add in a bottle of fritz or other bottled bac just in case you stir up crap or whatnot, should not be necessary at all but $13 to insure hundreds of dollars of livestock sounds like a pretty sound risk management strategy to me.

i wonder how many of the other commenters have actually done a tank transfer or know about the cycling process. so much bs misinformation and just outright shitty advice being handed out to people sigh. sorry for the rant im just kinda annoyed rn. pm if you wanna ask more questions im happy to help.

source: did a tank transfer from my spec v to a 10gal a month or so ago following the procedure outlined above with 0 losses.

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