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Yes sir! Grow baby grow!
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Amazing Ty!
I do really well with gonis for 6 months, two weeks and four days. Then they are dead two days later. No chemistry I measure can explain it. Everybody else (acropora, fancy torches) seem happy.
I am going to stick with torches for now as they seem to like what I do although I can find some brown jelly under the microscope sometimes.
I am going to stick with torches for now as they seem to like what I do although I can find some brown jelly under the microscope sometimes.
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Forgot about that Hellboy...I know I have it somewhere on a list of coral to buy lolCurrently Aquaticlife hybrid with 2 b+ and 2 actinic T5 bulbs with 3 Radion G4 Pros
That is a CC Hellboy
You know, at the time you posted this it was still 2020 in the States.But I was taking up to the 2nd off since I rung in my 40th that day. Older and wiser now... watch out.
I have always run a sump with my systems since 2009. Maybe another Farmer?
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Depends on type of Goni as I know there are short tentacle varieties as well. I mainly stick to the long tentacle ones and stick to aquacultured ones as they seem to always be the healthiest and don’t suffer from slowly dying over the course of a year.
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Try one of my cultured ones next time you’re in town bud. I bet you’ll have much better success. Wild ones tend to just slowly die over a year.
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I quarantine all in my backup system before anything ever hits my main system. But this has been more in the last 2-3 months since my backup system has been on point. Before that I only quarantined fish.
Thank you. I’m setting up a waterbox 220.6 and I want everything perfectly controlled..trying to gather as much information as I can.
for your acro quarantine do you dip, quarantine, observe and re dip? 72 days fallow?
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I’m not as stringent with the acro intaking of new pieces. I dip, remove everything but flesh (no plugs, glue, etc), superglue over anything I can’t reasonable cut away, and place in the backup system to observe. There is no count down. Just removing the plug and carefully viewing it under lights to look for pests after dipping has kept me from getting any pests alone. Now that I have the backup system, it’s just another extra step to prevent any incidental pests as I can observe for a month or so before moving anything to the main system.
Public service announcement, red bugs, white bugs, and black bugs will survive most dips (bayer, revive, potassium chloride, etc). Doesn’t help that they are really hard to see. I used to do an annual bombing of my tanks with interceptor for this reason alone... at 2-3x the concentration recommended for red bugs, which is one large pill for 400 gallons. Seems like 3-4x will knock out the white bugs and 6x will knock out black bugs from what I read.
I’ve done 6x the concentration in my backup system and besides killing the normal things it kills, pods, shrimp, hermit crabs, etc... the super high dose did kill bristleworms too but that was the only difference I noticed from running such a high dose of it versus regular dose.
That deep water is absolutely amazing!!! Wow
"Deep Water"
I was following a thread from @shom about his tribulations with deep water wild acropora. We were all speculating about any potentially different requirements they may have. Eventually we got around to trying to understand what qualifies as a "deep water". It was suggested that it is a bit of a misnomer. It was an interesting discussion that @jda helped moderate.
Is deep water more a description of the hosting habitat, or more of a description of the coral itself?
How is it typically distinguished from non-deepwater acropora?
In any case, that gold thing is a beauty.
I was following a thread from @shom about his tribulations with deep water wild acropora. We were all speculating about any potentially different requirements they may have. Eventually we got around to trying to understand what qualifies as a "deep water". It was suggested that it is a bit of a misnomer. It was an interesting discussion that @jda helped moderate.
Is deep water more a description of the hosting habitat, or more of a description of the coral itself?
How is it typically distinguished from non-deepwater acropora?
In any case, that gold thing is a beauty.
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I love that thing! I can’t imagine a colony in the tank like that!
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Just a colloquial term I feel in the hobby as it doesn’t always relate to collection location. Anything thin, spindly, and smoother skinned I just call a deep water. Combine that with the fact that this thing I put it at 450 contradicts the fact that it can’t handle higher par.
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Sometimes someone just puts together an awesome pack and I have to post it!
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FarmerTy Lotus Blossum
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BC Aquaticman Table
Peng’s HOTO
FarmerTy Lotus Blossum
RR Firecracker
Me must have! Me must have!Sometimes someone just puts together an awesome pack and I have to post it!
BC Aquaticman Table
Peng’s HOTO
FarmerTy Lotus Blossum
RR Firecracker
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