Hello, New to the Hobby

[Lisa Cain]

Hello,

I am new to the Hobby. I have a 32 gallon biocube with chemippure and purigen filtration. I have live sand and live rock. The tank is 4 months old.

I have 2 clown fish, a coral beauty,a sandsifter star fish, and corals. Will attach picture. I am dedicated to trying to make it in the hobby and to provide a nice home for the members of my tank. I need help and a community to talk to. My first question is My brain coral has been in the tank for a month and never opens.It seems fine. I have never seen tentacles. I have posted a picture. Does it look ok? It looks exacly like it looked when I brought it.

Also what do you think about poly fiber filtration? The one that changes color according to what agent it removes.

Last question is Kent Marine Microvert and Zooplanktos-M by Brightwell Aquatics sufficient coral food?



Please let me know what you think about my tank so far.

 

[kschweer]

Welcome to R2R!!!

 

[KJ]

Welcome to R2R!!!

 

[TreyC2010]

Beautiful tank! Welcome to R2R.

 

[Lisa Cain]

Thank you for the welcome!

 

[Lisa Cain]

Beautiful tank! Welcome to R2R.

Thank you I hope to add more vibrant colors in the future such as red or deep blue. Does my Brain coral look ok. It has never opened.

 

[dbl]

Welcome to R2R and your new reefing community.

 

[DSC reef]

Welcome to R2R

 

[TreyC2010]

Thank you I hope to add more vibrant colors in the future such as red or deep blue. Does my Brain coral look ok. It has never opened.

Looks like it’s healthy to me. Have you spot fed it anything?

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

Welcome to R2R! :D

 

[MaddyP]

Welcome to the family! Great looking tank!!

 

[Katrina71]

Pretty tank!

 

[Dsnakes]

Welcome to R2R :) Thanks for joining us! Your brain coral looks good, if you catch him open you can spot feed him something chunky!

 

[Fudsey]

Welcome to R2R, your salty home ! ! !

Nice looking tank ! !

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

Welcome to R2R

 

[Centerline]

Welcome to R2R - your going to love the hobby and R2R. I've owned a couple of brains over the years and that one looks perfectly fine. LPS don't often put out tentacles in the daytime and that brain will have rather short ones around small oral disks when it does. With respect to feeding, small suspended particulate food such as the Kent or Brightwell products are fine. Might checkout the RedSea reef energy stuff and or ReefRoids as well. However, if your not testing for N03 and P04 you might be causing a problem when feeding. So if that were my tank I would test and do so often. With respect to the PolyFilter stuff I would skip all of that and purchase a media reactor, some quality carbon and some GFO. Media reactors are efficient, tried and true. I've been using one of these reactors for many years (as do many, many reefers) and think they work great.

https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/brs-gfo-carbon-dual-reactor.html

If you run into a jam just ask - there are a great deal of very knowledgeable and experienced reefers here who are more than willing to help out.

 

[ourcoralreef]

Welcome

 

[jsker]

Welcome to R2R:)

 

[Greckel]

Welcome! The tank looks great!

 

[Lisa Cain]

Looks like it’s healthy to me. Have you spot fed it anything?

Yes I squirt Kent Marine on it. But is seems healthy althought It is not open or does not put out tentacles.