Yeah , I avoid reefroids as they pack in too much phosphate. I’m with you on using benepets and also Fauna Marin coral sprint, and I also spot feed once a week with Fauna Marin anemone or LPS pellets , mysis shrimp sometimes as well. I also do add that Red Sea AB + as I tried it but I think it’s kinda meh as the acantho don’t have a major feeding reaction to it in my system.Reef roid- many consider the gold standard, but many, myself included, dislike it because it is a phosphate bomb and can cause tank issues
Benepets Benereef - I use this. It’s great. And it does not affect phosphates. It’s a cleaner powder food mix
Goniopower - I have gonipora, I add this to my mix, seems good
Brightwell Marine Blizzard S - I like this a lot also, good coral response, mixes clean
I take 1/4 teaspoon of all of these, except reef roids, and put in a cup with 2” of tank water. Then I add in a few pinches of pe mysis flake food. Yes they make flake food! It’s on Amazon. Then a squirt of either aminos or Restor. Mix well and let sit for 10 min. Mix again and slowly feed coral with baster. Torches, acans, scoly, Cynarina, dendro, and pretty much everything with a visual mouth seem to really like this combo.
Any one can be used stand alone also. But I like to take the mixture and pour it into a power head and broadcast feed the tank. Sometimes I target feed with a baster also.
As for the coral skeleton, I have a cynarina, acantho or some type of symphyllia (if anyone can positive ID it, that would be appreciated) that I took on rescue with its skeleton exposed months back. (It was on the verge of death) it is slowly rebounding and eating and regrowing , but there is still the same skeleton exposed like u have, but a huge improvement. At the rate these grow , I project another 6 months to year for it to completely recover.Sounds good. I don’t see the protrusions in the seller photos, so it’s possible it’s not fully inflated yet and still stressed. Other corals that I saw this on - scoly and another Cynarina in the past - recovered from this in a few days so I started getting nervous I should take action.
I agree it looks healthy and it’s not causing a problem. I will give it more time to adjust and grow and it should get larger and not have these tips stick out anymore
It really is stunning in person, it always has this glowing gold ring around the perimeter. I suspect the inside is a golden yellow, the flesh is translucent, and when light gets inside you see the gold color through the flesh creating the illusion it’s Illuminating itself.
The sellers photo I think I found a bump from one left the longer skeletal pieces. It’s covered though. So, this should be capable of healing and inflating over them
These colors. Man. I can’t wait to see this come farther along.
I feed frozen mysis, pe mysis flake, and powder coral foods like benereef. Does Cynarina have a preferred food or something that is better suited for them?