NPS in Kreseil

[Beauha]

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[Beauha]

So decided to try NPS again with a Kreseil upgrade. Started the experiment about 2 months ago with the first video taken a month into the experiment on Valentine’s Day after I added some coral. At the moment, red dendronepthea, whiteish pink scleronepthea, red and orange finger gorg, Aussie dendro (all very happy and growing) , some random sun corals that are tough to judge happiness and a really sad but defiant blueberry gorg. There’s also a tunicate that doesn’t look too pleased, a coco worm that I overfeed so hides or eats a lot, and some cluster dusters that bailed on their cluster when I added the mysis shrimp for the cup corals. I work at Pet Kingdom in San Diego where the system is in public view if anyone interested wants to validate, I know it’s tough to trust anything anymore. It’s been a month since Valentines and the blueberry gorgonian is mostly toast, but everything else (tunicate and worms questionable) are thriving. Looking for other NPS corals to add at this point. Chironepthea, black branching sun corals, spider sponge, lace or fire coral, or any balanos or NPS LPS or NPS nems, mostly “rainbow bottom” not tube cause I have no substrate, and always open to suggestions. I am trying a crinoid that will be introduced next week. Any and all advice welcome, I’m a bored and old marine scientist and enthusiastic learner, just trying out something different.

 

[Beauha]

May 28, 2026. Experiment seems to be going well so far. Still throwing things and seeing what sticks

 

[Tahoe61]

Very nice. Big commitment, but beautiful.
Did you collect those pieces?

 

[Beauha]

I got most of the pieces from corals.com and coralsanonymous.com. The finger gorgs came from a local shop 6 or so months ago when they cut up some big ones.

 

[Beauha]

The Aussie dendro and the finger gorgonians are happy. The other stuff is definitely more difficult to tell if they are happy.

 

[Beauha]

I got most of the pieces from corals.com and coralsanonymous.com. The finger gorgs came from a local shop 6 or so months ago when they cut up some big ones.

 

[Beauha]

One of the ultra rare, easier and great looking NPS. It might benefit to train it to open in a small tank. Blast with mysis and wait for an hour or so until feeding stops. Flush the water volume to remove uneaten food. If you place directly into a system, the feeding necessary to train the coral has a chance to crash it

 

[Beauha]

In my experience, non-coral inverts are very susceptible to mysis shrimp and the packing liquid, freaking out and dying quickly if a certain threshold of mysis is met. I don’t know why, but it’s happened to me a few times, usually trying to get a sun coral on a daytime schedule

 

[Beauha]

Once a sun coral is feeding and trained, I use much less mysis and then it is safe to add worms, shrimp, or stars/urchins/crinoids. Snails and hermits tend to survive mysis pollution alright

 

[Beauha]

 

[Beauha]

No experience yet with this one, but I received a very nice 2.5” frag that has been open and seems to not be going the way of the blueberry gorgs. Also, if there’s anyone out there that has figured out the blueberry gorgs, please let me know :). One of my all time favorites, but I can’t figure out what to do with them. Their growth pattern makes me believe they like slow water. No idea what they eat though