I love those feather dusters, I’ve never seen those ones before.Staring to get bigger again, it may look like there's less of them but the conch just went by and buried a few of them, they should build themselves up soon.
But look at what we've lost
Absolutely obsessed with them, favorite part of the tank by far. Very happy to see them begin to recover but sad to see the decline.
Perhaps the coolest hitchhikers I’ve seen!
Yes unfortunately the non-photosynthetic fans, gorgs and softies are very hard to care for properly. Even in a dedicated tank with common feeds they dont always make it. Once I moved all my non-photosynthetic "lps" to their own tank it got much easier to grow them. Besides lighting causing them to not open, critters in the tank cause issues shrimp, crabs and fish will all steal food and cause them to not open. Certian "soft" non-photo will only accept live foods like rotifers or if polyp size is larger live bbs their polyps simply wont "fire" if its not moving correctly. The "lps" stuff is much easier their polyps will take pretty much anything that "smells" like food and is of appropriate size, usually mysis or brine shrimp sometimes pellets.The gorgonian shed yesterday, I was about to do a peroxide dip since the algae was getting pretty bad but the flow upgrade definitely did the job for me. And good lord the photosyntheic ones are 100000000x easier.
Only the greatest photos on this build thread lol.
Thats a sizable chunk for 10 bucks! Nice pick up.Here is the chalice coral, I got this from premier aquatics who usually has really high prices but this was $10! It was on a $10 rack with a few small and dying frags. I asked and apparently it was 10 bucks. I think someone must have left it there on accident because there no way this a $10 frag especially not at preimer, picture doesn't do it justice but this is now the largest coral I own. I also got some gracilaria as well, well see how it does without an urchin to eat it. Hopefully the chalice will be the only coral left on the sandbed after today, im hoping to mount them all, ill update yall once its done.
I have a couple really annoying frag plugs (acrylic BLOCKS?). My plan is to glue on a few small pebbles in a strategic way to hide them, and then attach THAT to wherever it's going to go.
Yeah definitely acrylic, it literally put a notch in my bonecutters, lesson learned the way I guess. I may try a more careful approach at the glue next time but if cant get it off then it may just have to go to someone local because I really cant stand frag plugs that won't get encrusted over on the rocks
Picture time!
More on the way!
I feel like mines growing pretty fast, I keep looking at it everyday and im like, is that part new?
