whosinpower
11/05/2007, 11:09 PM
Hey everybody;
I'm feeling really dumb - but here goes. I bought a lovely ricordea yuma the other day - actually it was a colony on a rock - not a frag.
I acclimated it carefully and have been watching the corals anxiously - being a newbie and all. All looks good.....except......
Kay - so here is the thing - the rock.....isn't a rock! The "rock" opened up today. It is a big clam or oyster or some sort of bivalve! I thought it must've been my imagination - but it is definately alive - it clamped down tight when I squirted with turkey baster towards it....and opened up again several minutes later.
So....I am really new at this. I do not know how to take the yuma's off - there is one big one and four little ones. I don't know how to attach them to anything. I don't know if this oyster thingie is ok to have in the tank - if it dies.....sheesh - it is pretty big!
HELP! I thought I bought a coral, and carefully inspected for unfriendly hitchhikers - and instead the coral WAS the hitchhiker!!!!!
I'm feeling really dumb - but here goes. I bought a lovely ricordea yuma the other day - actually it was a colony on a rock - not a frag.
I acclimated it carefully and have been watching the corals anxiously - being a newbie and all. All looks good.....except......
Kay - so here is the thing - the rock.....isn't a rock! The "rock" opened up today. It is a big clam or oyster or some sort of bivalve! I thought it must've been my imagination - but it is definately alive - it clamped down tight when I squirted with turkey baster towards it....and opened up again several minutes later.
So....I am really new at this. I do not know how to take the yuma's off - there is one big one and four little ones. I don't know how to attach them to anything. I don't know if this oyster thingie is ok to have in the tank - if it dies.....sheesh - it is pretty big!
HELP! I thought I bought a coral, and carefully inspected for unfriendly hitchhikers - and instead the coral WAS the hitchhiker!!!!!