The Electric Blue Hermit crab lives!

The Electric Blue Hermit crab (calcinus elegans) is alive and well! The picture also has a good shot of my Ricordea mushrooms (Corallimorpharia Ricordea):



The current state of the Xenia transplants:

Fed them a pinch of flake food.

Cleaning, observations, feeding.

Feed the tank 1/2 "feeder fish" by California All Natural Pet Foods.

Saw 2 bristle worms, small and of unknown length.

Removed the brown algea that I had used to migrate the pulsing xenia (Xeniid) from the large brown algea to the rocks, as the stalks had attached to the rocks.

Also trimmed back some of the large brown algea clump that was starting to get two close to some of the other xenia.

Electric Blue Hermit crab dead?

I see some parts of the Electric Blue Hermit crab (calcinus elegans) - is it dead or just molted?

Results of algea culling and Xenia transplant, etc.

Here's the tank post culling of brown Kelp algea:


The transplanted Xenia seems to be doing well:


Except for this piece of Xenia which was dislodged and is now trapped (no way to get in there) in a cave:


A Tunicate/Sea Squirt/Ascidian Zooid (Phylum Chordata, Subphylum Urochordata):


Here's a Hair worm (Spionids Polychaete Worm) with two tentacles - it's tube seems to be assembled from debris. Amazingly the tentacles "grow" from 1" to about 4" and can be articulated in almost any position. Sorry about the blury phot.:

Water change, and weeding, and reorganizing the Xenia.

Performed a 2.5gal water change.

Removed another pint of algea, mostly the brown kelp. Removed a lot on the stalk that housed a few Xenia stalks. One had already moved to the rock, and another was on its way. I was able to relocate two stalks by stuffing the attached algea into holes in the top rock; hopefully this last until the stalks have a chance to attach to the rock.

Brown kelp algea pre-culling:


Brown kelp algea culled in 5gal bucket.



Bought a Sav-on/Osco Simply Clean "premium heavy duty latex gloves" to help remove the much of the small sections of "bristle" algea (presumed pest). This is where the bristle worm had been seen so the gloves would also be protective.

Fed 1/2 cube of Mysis shrimp.

Saw a 2+" bristle worm!

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get to the camera in time.

Fed the tank 1/2 "feeder fish" by California All Natural Pet Foods.

Water change, and weeding.

Performed a 2.5gal water change.

Removed another pint of algea, mostly the brown kelp and a couple large clumps of the "bristle" algea (presumed pest). I tried to shake out as many of the small serpent starfish as possible (about 5) but was somewhat disheartened by the appearance of a 1/2" bristle worm.

Fed the tank 1/2 "feeder fish" by California All Natural Pet Foods.