MaraRavenous
Community Member
Hello everyone~! Many of my friends in the hobby have told me I should join here, and I often wish I did sooner. But here I finally am!
After inheriting my friend's 15 gallon nano when he moved, I became engrossed in the hobby. I have a fairly small collection of coral, but I adore them, though I won't pretend I'm having amazing success with them. A lot of parameters chasing, recovery work from the state the tank was in when I got it, and struggle with lighting has left me frazzled. Some of my coral are happy, others are in a constant state of difficulty!
I love my pets and want to do better for my coral... I do weekly water changes, test the water, and have sunk so much money into this hobby. I just want them to be happy
I especially love zoas and see everyone else with beautiful zoas with lots of heads, but mine are often half open or otherwise unhappy. The struggle is real x.x
I have a wall frogspawn that mostly does well, a highlighter goni that was struggling but is slowly recovering it seems, a small hammer that is slowly receding further and further, a bunch of zoas that have struggled for a while, two large rocks of palys that are pretty happy, an acan that is generally happy and has feeders extended, a GSP and xenia that do well but don't grow as fast as people often say theirs do, and a tiny baby fungia. I also have a healthy pair of clowns, a cleaner shrimp, and lots of other critters (hitchhikers and others).
I've stabilized my water changing schedule, cleaned up and reduced my feeding, dealt with my nitrate and phosphate issues, but still have struggle... I'm just not sure what to do next really.
After inheriting my friend's 15 gallon nano when he moved, I became engrossed in the hobby. I have a fairly small collection of coral, but I adore them, though I won't pretend I'm having amazing success with them. A lot of parameters chasing, recovery work from the state the tank was in when I got it, and struggle with lighting has left me frazzled. Some of my coral are happy, others are in a constant state of difficulty!
I love my pets and want to do better for my coral... I do weekly water changes, test the water, and have sunk so much money into this hobby. I just want them to be happy
I especially love zoas and see everyone else with beautiful zoas with lots of heads, but mine are often half open or otherwise unhappy. The struggle is real x.x
I have a wall frogspawn that mostly does well, a highlighter goni that was struggling but is slowly recovering it seems, a small hammer that is slowly receding further and further, a bunch of zoas that have struggled for a while, two large rocks of palys that are pretty happy, an acan that is generally happy and has feeders extended, a GSP and xenia that do well but don't grow as fast as people often say theirs do, and a tiny baby fungia. I also have a healthy pair of clowns, a cleaner shrimp, and lots of other critters (hitchhikers and others).
I've stabilized my water changing schedule, cleaned up and reduced my feeding, dealt with my nitrate and phosphate issues, but still have struggle... I'm just not sure what to do next really.
