Oh come on man.... They are not that bad.... One thing I have learned with them is that they like higher lighting and medium flow, pretty much the same requirements as a bowser. They are not as finicky as people say they are but I will tell you that once you find a spot they like in your tank, don't move them. Let them be and they will be fine.... I know for a fact that some people started to freak out when their Krak was closed for a day and thought that it needed to be dipped and people started moving them around and they wouldn't open back up. Rumor has it that I lost like 15-20 of them? Yes it is true, it was not because they were finicky it was because of my tank crash (long story short, fake rock being sold as fiji live rock poisoned my tank). I will tell you the Kraks were not the first to go. They hung in there while others were going. The ones I currently have were closed up for over a month and I was able to nurse them back to health and are good and growing now. The trigger for them closing up was that my salt was running too high. The refractormeter calibration fluid I purchased from BRS was bad and my tank was running up in the 1.030 range. Yea everything lived but the Krak closed up after the tank was running high salinity for a couple of weeks. There is always a cause and effect on why something dies. One of the Krak owners (not LPS1212) never tested his water and just does water changes, is that proper reef keeping habbits? Something went wrong or he had a swing of something in his system and the Krak closed up. When he saw the Krak closed he started picking them up then moving them around, then take them out of the water and then put them back in the water various times no matter how many times I told him not too. Eventually they ended up melting.
Post up a pic of your healthy krak Duke! Prove them haters wrong!
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