Lesson learned - the hard way

JDnKY · Feb 3, 2019

so, I rearranged my frag rack a little yesterday. As you can (barely) see in the first picture I had a nice little CaliKid Ultra Chalice, it was doing great.

There’s an Enchanata I’ve had for a few weeks sitting next to it. I’ve watched this coral during the day and at night and have never seen tentacles reach more than a quarter of an inch or so. This morning when my son stop by to pick up a few corals, the Chalice being one, we found what appears to be an incinerated Chalice skeleton. I have another of these Chalices elsewhere in the tank and it’s still doing fine. I assume the Enchenata fried the Chalice last night as you can see in the last picture.

Lesson for me it that the Enchanata is a bad butt and don’t crowd your frag rack!

iron_mike_gt · Feb 3, 2019

Oh no! Thanks for sharing your experience though. In this same vein, I had an sps (can’t recall the variety atm) that was turn roughly 90 degrees when I rearranged a rock and its polyps started to recede down the stick. Realized it and turned back and he was happy again. Weird things happen even in the tiniest increments.

DenverSaltyFarm · Feb 6, 2019

I had that happen with a Hollywood stunner chalice. It put out 6” sweepers that took out a space invader. Crazy how mean that coral is and amazed at the length of the sweepers

Daniel@R2R · Feb 6, 2019

Yikes! Yes, echinatas are brutal when it comes to coral warfare...

vetteguy53081 · Feb 7, 2019

My worse is green star polyps. Feelers/feeders very challenging especially in a mixed reef

JDnKY · Feb 7, 2019

vetteguy53081 said:
My worse is green star polyps. Feelers/feeders very challenging especially in a mixed reef

I had a small patch of GSP on a piece of live rock I bought when I set up my tank that quickly grew to the size of a soccer ball and was spreading to other rocks. I had to get rid of the rock and break off a large part of the second rock with a hammer and chisel to get the GSP out of my tank.