My first corals!

[Triggerhappy77]

I got some little frags today!
Orange ricordia
Devil's hand leather
Green star polyp
Do I need to supplement? Feeding?

 

[Jberge]

Nice! Now you'll be hooked!! I would say you won't need any supplements with these but you could spot feed occasionally with something like marine snow or coral frenzy. I'm still pretty new to corals so I'm sure some one more expierenced can correct me or give better advice

 

[A Toadstool Leather]

That mushroom coral likes low flow and low light. I would recommend keeping the green star polyps off your main rockwork. They can grow rather fast and overcome your tank. An island of them would look cool though.

 

[Max447]

Welcome to the addiction! You will now think about your tank 24/7 And skip meals to get the newest equipment and the freshest corals. Have fun!

 

[A Toadstool Leather]

btw you only need to supplement ca, mg etc i the demand for them gets big enough. As corals get larger they consume more calcium, magnesium and other elements to the tank. Eventually wate changes will not be enough to replace these. You will not need supplements since softies have far less demand than stony corals.

 

[Triggerhappy77]

Thank you so much for the knowledge! I will be working on them constantly now.

 

[Triggerhappy77]

That mushroom coral likes low flow and low light. I would recommend keeping the green star polyps off your main rockwork. They can grow rather fast and overcome your tank. An island of them would look cool though.

It was sold to me as a devil's hand leather. Is it really a mushroom? If so I'll move it down a bit.
And for the green star polyp, I'll get a lil island for it.

 

[Mark A Drum]

It was sold to me as a devil's hand leather. Is it really a mushroom? If so I'll move it down a bit.
And for the green star polyp, I'll get a lil island for it.

The orange ricordia is a mushroom

 

[Bronc]

It was sold to me as a devil's hand leather. Is it really a mushroom? If so I'll move it down a bit.
And for the green star polyp, I'll get a lil island for it.

Your top picture is the Devils Hand Leather. And I'll second the recommendation to put the GSP on its own island where it can't touch anything else. It grows incredibly fast.

 

[Triggerhappy77]

I moved the orange ricordia up top to a good flow spot, the devil's hand up to top left, and the green star polyp down to an island on its own (be it small) in the sand up front low. Jb waterweld and loctite super glue gel to thank. No more king Kong style hermit crabs to knock my babies over. So far so good.

 

[Triggerhappy77]

My devil's hand has given me so much trouble getting it attached in the right spot and everything. I was really worried it would die with all the falling over and handling. I finally got it attached firmly and it seems to have gotten it's color and form back and it appears to open up it's tiny fingers and filter feed now but its pointed almost sideways too. Is this like a house plant that will straighten out eventually? Or what? I'm worried it's messed up. Any thoughts from the experts?

 

[Bronc]

It should be fine.

 

[Triggerhappy77]

It should be fine.

Well albeit short, that was the response I was hoping for.

 

[chris k.]

i have my gsp on an island in the front. I like how it moves in the flow. Reminds me of grasd blowing in the wind.

 

[Triggerhappy77]

So the 3 corals I got previous have been doing good do i got a couple more and now the older 3 look awful. What do I do? They're all slushy lookin or retracted completely. And I need an ID on one of the new ones. Can anyone help?

 

[Triggerhappy77]

l8tr

 

[ciscomania]

1st pic above - duncan
2nd pic above - toadstool

 

[Jberge]

Duncan's are awesome! I spot feed some mysis or brine occasionally along with my other lps. Mine was about the same size when I got it 5 months ago. They grow pretty quick as you can see in my avatar.