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[00W]

I'll try to remember to take pic's as I go along with it.

Yes please do.
Looks super cool

 

[00W]

Since we're having all of this talk about winter I thought I'd use this for a FTS shot today. It is a flower that was part of a cutting from one of our Variegated Bougainvillea plants today.

This is really nice.
Really really cool picture.
POTM.

 

[00W]

geez us 9 pages behind , but i was smart this time I ate food before I came on . That way you guys and gals don't make me hungry

Perfect idea.
I do the same.

 

[00W]

Chemiclean . No I haven’t . For black sponge ? . I could try it , can’t hurt .

Do you have any pictures of this stuff?

 

[kingranch2003]

ok another dumb ? when it says feed the corals meaty or pellet food . you don't actually put food by its mouth do you ? you just feed the tank and hope it gets some correct ?

You directly feed it. Corals like these scolys and some other lps eat like monsters. Here are a couple pics of mine before and during feeding reactions.
If you look in the center you can see the mouths

Scoly

Cynarinas

 

[kingranch2003]

ok another dumb ? when it says feed the corals meaty or pellet food . you don't actually put food by its mouth do you ? you just feed the tank and hope it gets some correct ?

We dont view any of your reefing questions as dumb, my friend. We were all new to this at one point. That's what brought us all here in the first place.

 

[kingranch2003]

I crabbed me some chicken wraps on my way home tonight.

 

[00W]

Good night nerds!

Night Kev!

 

[kingranch2003]

What, did you walk in all sideways?

 

[GarrettDie4U]

Geez the other day I learned they poop now today I learned you have to feed some of them . I better start naming my new babies

 

[kingranch2003]

lol side note i got my Salinity up to 1.026 today

Great work man!

 

[kingranch2003]

One thing I can offer you is that everything in this hobby happens slow . Try not to make any changes fast .keep checking you parameters and keep it slow .

@GarrettDie4U This is golden advice right here.

 

[GarrettDie4U]

You directly feed it. Corals like these scolys and some other lps eat like monsters. Here are a couple pics of mine before and during feeding reactions.
If you look in the center you can see the mouths

Scoly

Cynarinas

Amazing and beautiful !!!

 

[smitten with ocean life]

i got a really neat target feeder from avast marine because i was sick of missing my corals mouths. love it and so do the corals!

 

[kingranch2003]

Amazing and beautiful !!!

Thank you!

 

[CoralB]

Do you have any pictures of this stuff?

Not right now as it’s pretty much gone until the next time it rears it’s head . Nasty stuff !

 

[kingranch2003]

i got a really neat target feeder from avast marine because i was sick of missing my corals mouths. love it and so do the corals!

Gotta link by chance Jill? I sat on mine and broke it in half the other day.

 

[TheNative192]

Good late afternoon everyone! Hope everyone had a good thanksgiving holiday week!

I was away last week in Aruba and got to see a ton of awesome fish and corals up close. I ended up hand-feeding bread to what had to be around 200 dark blue tangs (lol).

Then, since I won a little in the casino (lol), I treated myself when I got back and picked up some Hydros gear second-hand. Who says you can’t add automation to a 25-gallon tank?

The only bad news is I’m dealing with a bit of a dinos outbreak right now in the new 25 gallon tank. Luckily I don’t have much coral in the tank yet (frags from my other tanks), so I’m not too stressed. I picked up some silicate to dose and hopefully get a diatom bloom going to outcompete the dinos.

What’s weird is that my phosphates are sitting around 0.4 (I know… high) and nitrates are around 25, yet I never really went through a proper diatom phase in this tank.

We’ll see how it goes!

 

[CoralB]

Good night Smorgies !

 

[smitten with ocean life]

bummer! i dont know how to attach links