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Hammer Big Blue
A wild, baby bird was getting attacked by blue jays so I rescued him/ her. What to feed the young thing?
The little bird drinks water from a rubber, kitchen-syringe thingie. The mushed up Wheat Thins in water didn't do the trick. Before I chop up this worm, is it worth it?
If I took a guess, I'd say the bird could be a starling. It's too big to be a sparrow, and I see young Robins and Grackles out and about with their moms. This little fellow is dark and sort of big, but still losing down and just developing feathers. He doesn't move around much at all, and he has a few small abrasions from the hammering he was taking from the blue jays. Mostly, I let him rest and feed him water.
When I was a kid I would raise baby birds that I found fallen from nests. I fed the featherless ones room temperature bread soaked in egg yolk. I fed them with tweezers. as they started getting feathers I started getting bugs and chopping up worms. It is a never ending process but they can survive. The hard part is when they are ready to leave the nest. Birds continue to care for their babies even after they leave the nest. For awhile the parent will continue to feed the baby and will take them around to the good eating spots. I often lost my babies at this point as they would drown in a bird bath or just sit in the tree out back and not move. They end up getting eaten anyway or don't know what to do once freed. So, keep him for his life or you should have let him get eaten.
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question about saltwater coral reproduction?
i have a blue mushroom, candy cane coral, orange zoas and a hammer coral. i am interested in the future to frag these corals. i bought a frag mushroom and i wanted to know how long it is going to take for it to grow really big. my water parameters are pretty good and my lighting is 96 watts in a 14 gallon. i don't feed my zoas or mushroom but i do feed my candy cane and hammer coral with brine shrimp twice a week. how much do you suggest feeding my corals? i tried feeding my mushroom and zoa but they don't grab on to the food. should i be feeding my mushroom and zoa too? how long does it take for a candy cane and hammer coral to grow? any information about fragging/feeding these corals will be really helpful
I understand that your cc and hammer eat the brine shrimp. However, the brine shrimp is useless food to them. The coral you've mentioned are ALL photosynthetic and require zero feeding. Can you feed them? Sure. Do you HAVE to? No.
If you do want to continue feeding your coral, you should feed them food that is more appropriate for their health. Here is a good list of foods for the zoos and LPS you've got:
-frozen cyclopeeze
-frozen oyster eggs
-DT's Phytoplankton (VERY little of this, as it can raise your PO4)
-Brightwell Aquatics Reef Snow
-Frozen Rotifers
The smaller the size of the food the better. When I say small, I mean in microns.
As for coral growth, reproduction and fragging, they don't do it all at the same rate. In addition to the natural growth rate of coral, the parameters of your system will contribute the unknown variable that will make it impossible for anyone to tell you how quickly these animals grow and reproduce.
What I can tell you is that you've got the two easiest LPS coral to frag. Candy Canes and Hammers are both branching (of course a Wall Hammer is not, but they are much less common and you likely have a branching species). Anyway, with a branching coral like that, you don't have to cut through any living tissue whatsoever. Fragging CC and Branching Hammers are as easy as gently snapping the calcified skeleton at a point where it branches away from the adjoining polyp (where the 'V' is). Rinse off the frag and the mother colony in some tank water, then replace it into a crevice in your rockwork.
Fragging zoa's and mushrooms is also extremely easy. Zoa's are very similar (sometimes) in appearance to Palythoa's. It is unbelievably important for you to know this because Palythoa's are actually some of the most toxic animals on the planet. They possess what's called Palytoxin. Palytoxin has been known to cause angina-like chest pains, tachycardia (racing pulse) and even cardiac arrest in humans. Please wear gloves and eye protection when handling Palythoa's and even Zoa's. Wash your hands and arms when done touching them. I personally have a friend who experienced a Palythoa squirt its toxin right into my friends eye while fragging it. My friend was rushed to the hospital because he was blinded in that eye. The blindness was temporary, thank god. But the blindness did last for almost two weeks. So precautions should definitely be taken.
I've included a link to a great source for you to learn more about Palytoxins.
I've also included a super source for propagation supplies. The site is Saltwater Critters. They also have fantastic pricing and great customer support.
Best of luck,
swimmer