new red sea set up

[scotty b]

just got a 35 gallon red sea tank was stocked with 10 pounds of live rock , live sand, zoa colony , a clown fish and a mantis shrimp
thinking i will re-home the clown and knuckle breaker (if i can get the little monster out ) get a good amount of live rock and re cycle the tank

will upload pics in a bit

 

[Haulin Oates]

I am interested in the mantis. Can you snap a pic?

 

[scotty b]

The most i have seen so far was his little google eyes sticking out ot a rock , and that was only for a split second

 

[Haulin Oates]

Pm sent

 

[scotty b]

trying out a bottler trap to catch the shrimp , wish me luck

 

[Haulin Oates]

Good luck!

 

[JuanGutz]

Pretty sure it's a wenerea or whatever.

 

[SRT43R]

Congrats on the upgrade. I love my redsea 250

 

[JuanGutz]

Pretty sure it's a wenerea or whatever.

 

[scotty b]

how I get the mantis out of rock?
I would just get rig of the mantis in the rock but the rock is covered in zoas

 

[Haulin Oates]

You'll have to put a crab or something in the bottle and get the mantis to see it, so he'll go into the bottle I think. Or just oil the rock and hold it over a bucket until he comes out

 

[scotty b]

oil the rock?

 

[Haulin Oates]

oil the rock?

You heard me! I think I meant pull the rock out

 

[Haulin Oates]

How goes it, btw?

 

[scotty b]

oil it with olive oil or the like? will that hurt zoas ?

 

[LeviK]

Oil that rock good like slather it all up so it gets a good tan

 

[SkyDiv3r17]

Negative. Do not oil the rock...

 

[Haulin Oates]

oil it with olive oil or the like? will that hurt zoas ?

No, don't oil the rock. It was a typo!

 

[scotty b]

yea , I was not going to.

I think once it is stable I need to upgrade the seahorses I have to this tank , they are breeding like mad

on that note, amny idea on how one could make the filtration system baby seahorse safe?

 

[zombie]

I would suspect the only baby seahorse safe filtration would be sponge filters.