K, Here's the "Problem". It's BIG, dare say HUGE!
And Rather beautiful IMO.
Pretty neat Huh? I believe its a Physogyra sp, I could be wrong. Its been an easy coral, esp because I really didn't listen to the "advice" given to me, but instead looked at the science written on them, where they came from, and then used the advice Id gotten to develop techniques the scientific info had implied. Looking at (or talking to) others who have had long term success with the animal is also invaluable and generally fall in line with the science and many of the recommendations. Doing this Actually helped me understand the recommendations.
Here's the Baby Pictures.
This Pic was taken 6/26/15
This BIG beauty was in fact a Hitchhiker. I found it on a tiny piece of rubble at the LFS in the live rock bin. The Mrs mentioned I would have the best "Glass Anemone" collection EVER!
Ive given this coral more light than commonly "recommended", more flow than "recommended", and mounted it not on the sand but on a near vertical face as is often not "recommended".
The one recommendation I did follow was, stability. I rarely have swings. My changes to the system are also as slow as possible when adjusting nutrients, light, and alkalinity, especially and Importantly when things looked like they were going south.
Here's a pic on the sand before I mounted it.
Recommendations, advice are wonderful things to have, but a tiny bit of research into the actual needs, habitats and habits of an animal can really help understand the recommendations and advice and why they're being recommended, and oft times why those recommendations may be biased or based on purely anecdotal evidence that's handed down by word of mouth and now borders on myth.
.
Personally, I spend an equal amount of time trying to understand My successes as I do my failures. And yea, because I followed my own research and read as much of the science as I could find and Ignored a lot of apparently vague "recommendations", I pretty much thought I was going to kill this coral the entire time I've had it.
But now I have this "Problem". A beautiful happy "easy" to care for animal.
A little research and a lot of Patience goes a long long way.
(and the Mrs took this last awesome picture)
And Rather beautiful IMO.Pretty neat Huh? I believe its a Physogyra sp, I could be wrong. Its been an easy coral, esp because I really didn't listen to the "advice" given to me, but instead looked at the science written on them, where they came from, and then used the advice Id gotten to develop techniques the scientific info had implied. Looking at (or talking to) others who have had long term success with the animal is also invaluable and generally fall in line with the science and many of the recommendations. Doing this Actually helped me understand the recommendations.
Here's the Baby Pictures.
This Pic was taken 6/26/15
This BIG beauty was in fact a Hitchhiker. I found it on a tiny piece of rubble at the LFS in the live rock bin. The Mrs mentioned I would have the best "Glass Anemone" collection EVER!
Ive given this coral more light than commonly "recommended", more flow than "recommended", and mounted it not on the sand but on a near vertical face as is often not "recommended".
The one recommendation I did follow was, stability. I rarely have swings. My changes to the system are also as slow as possible when adjusting nutrients, light, and alkalinity, especially and Importantly when things looked like they were going south.
Here's a pic on the sand before I mounted it.
Recommendations, advice are wonderful things to have, but a tiny bit of research into the actual needs, habitats and habits of an animal can really help understand the recommendations and advice and why they're being recommended, and oft times why those recommendations may be biased or based on purely anecdotal evidence that's handed down by word of mouth and now borders on myth.
.
Personally, I spend an equal amount of time trying to understand My successes as I do my failures. And yea, because I followed my own research and read as much of the science as I could find and Ignored a lot of apparently vague "recommendations", I pretty much thought I was going to kill this coral the entire time I've had it.
But now I have this "Problem". A beautiful happy "easy" to care for animal.
A little research and a lot of Patience goes a long long way.
(and the Mrs took this last awesome picture)
