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02/03/2016, 07:30 AM | #1 |
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Show off your best aiptasia or majano
Show off your best aiptasia or majano here. If you don't have any large or monumental ones please show off your aiptasia garden!!!!! Or someone please make a video spot feeding them
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02/03/2016, 09:55 AM | #2 |
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Are you interested in keeping aiptasia or majanos?
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02/03/2016, 10:06 AM | #3 |
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02/03/2016, 10:07 AM | #4 |
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Oh, then you need to be feeding them the blunt end of a pencil once a week! They'll go nuts for you!
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02/03/2016, 09:16 PM | #5 |
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I have a couple majanos I want to kill.
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02/03/2016, 09:48 PM | #6 |
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I have considered a pest tank full of flat worms, bubble algae, Dino's, byopsis. Nudibranches etc. But mainly wanted to see pics for silly factor. Tired of seeing over photo shopped zoa and SPS pics and thought this would be a nice change. I saw a monster aiptasia today that was in my sump. It was so amazing I wasn't even mad. Kind of appreciated it for a minute before I had to scrape it off the glass
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02/03/2016, 10:20 PM | #7 |
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Sorry I have no pics. But my LFS used to have a display tank with a large garden with a few outstanding specimens of Aiptasia the size of a silver dollar. No exaggeration. I had no idea that was possible.
I do have a pic of a bubble algae the size of my eyeball. If they had a category for these at the annual county fair I'd enter it and undoubtably be the proud owner of a blue ribbon. I'll see if I can find it. |
02/04/2016, 04:58 AM | #8 |
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I don't have any giant Aiptasia but I once had a world record (according to my reefing buddies) Valonia bubble that was exposed when I tore down my 90 to move to my 210. Earned me my dubious title and lots of kidding and laughs.
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02/04/2016, 06:31 AM | #9 |
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02/04/2016, 06:46 AM | #10 |
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Holy cow, that thing's enormous!
How many times you heard that?! |
02/04/2016, 06:49 AM | #11 |
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Holy crap!!!!!! Kill it, quick!
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02/04/2016, 08:32 AM | #12 |
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Previous tanks: 200 gal fowlr 9" Emperor Angel and many different butterfly fish 4" maroon clown and several other fish, 50 gal sump, 40 gal mixed reef/fish mostly softies and LPS. Current Tank Info: 40b 750 gph 45 lbs lr, 2"-3" sand, 165w full spectrum dimable LED, 20 gal sump/refugium 30 lbs lr, Bak Pak 2 skimmer, 4" sock temp 79-80, sg 1.026, NH3 0, NO2 0, NO3 <10, ph 8.2, calc 400, mag 1300 |
02/04/2016, 08:44 AM | #13 | |
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I had an old picture from a digital camera somewhere.....hell I'm not sure I could find it if I tried. Maybe I could get my friend to sign an affidavit lol. He ran an aquarium mtc business and said he thought he had seen one bigger. That's why I'm just a Duke in the kingdom of Valonia! Baron is still open!
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02/04/2016, 01:37 PM | #15 |
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Well, you may have me there. Let me look around the tank and see what I can find!
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02/04/2016, 02:09 PM | #16 |
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Wish I would have took pics of a old 75 gallon system I broke down because of bubble algae. That's all the thing was so much of it that when it all started popping on it's own it killed emerald crabs and fish because the water was so contaminated lol.
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02/04/2016, 03:39 PM | #17 |
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I had one years ago about four inches tall and three wide come in on a polyp rock
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02/04/2016, 06:34 PM | #18 |
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Here is my aiptasia scrubber:
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02/04/2016, 07:38 PM | #19 |
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Aiptasias are being sold in our LFS too. That's the exact look it has. They've been selling it at 4-5 per $1 :0000. They labeled it as "glass anemone"
What's weird is lots of people buy them
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02/04/2016, 10:03 PM | #20 |
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I have zero aiptasia in my tank or sump, but my overflow looks a lot like DiscusHeckel's pictures. I have a CBB but there were none in the tank before I got him. Weird, I don't have an explanation for it.
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02/04/2016, 11:47 PM | #21 |
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Aiptasia is so contagious you can contract it just by looking at pictures of it. The aiptasia scrubber pics made me LMBO! No food or poop is getting passed that overflow uneaten. How beneficial!
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02/05/2016, 02:43 AM | #22 |
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Mojos I hate them. Been the biggest pain in th r a$@ .
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02/05/2016, 10:26 AM | #23 |
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This entire thread is making Baby Jesus cry... yes... he's crying.
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11/12/2016, 11:40 AM | #24 |
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Someone take a nice macro shot of a healthy one please.
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11/12/2016, 11:50 AM | #25 |
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