Poto corals

[cjtabares]

I bought a few corals from piece of the ocean when they were having an Easter sale on here, and ended up winning a high end sps 3 pack during one of their games. These are not my 1st sps, but definitely my 1st, I’ll called them, higher end named corals. I am pretty excited to see these grow.
I bought a frag of POTO Papaya, and POTO Mufasa, and the sps 3 pack I won came with POTO Ballerina, POTO Alice In Wonderland, and RRC Rainbow Splice.

Sharing mostly because I am excited to have them, but might also try and keep this updated to track their growth and color. Definitely want to see if the rainbow splice gets any purple, most of the frags on their website seem to be mostly or all green.

Here is a mediocre picture of the 5 frags when I 1st put them in the tank.

 

[TangerineSpeedo]

Time to invest in some Berghia nudi's ... or a file fish or copperband...
Good luck with your new corals...

 

[cjtabares]

Time to invest in some Berghia nudi's ... or a file fish or copperband...
Good luck with your new corals...

I have a file fish, and some berghias. The bergias seem to be multiplying pretty slowly, or they are being eaten by the wrasse and or file fish. The aiptasia seemed to be under control, but recently the population exploded again. Thinking about buying 50 berghias, putting, 25 in the tank, and 25 in a 10 gallon and try to raise them, just need to figure out how to keep an aiptasia without introducing the berghia into the aiptasia tank.

 

[kevgib67]

I have a file fish, and some berghias. The bergias seem to be multiplying pretty slowly, or they are being eaten by the wrasse and or file fish. The aiptasia seemed to be under control, but recently the population exploded again. Thinking about buying 50 berghias, putting, 25 in the tank, and 25 in a 10 gallon and try to raise them, just need to figure out how to keep an aiptasia without introducing the berghia into the aiptasia tank.

Anything that eats aptasia will eat Berghia, just a thought since you have a a file fish. Berghia are expensive. Beautiful sps!

 

[cjtabares]

Anything that eats aptasia will eat Berghia, just a thought since you have a a file fish. Berghia are expensive. Beautiful sps!

I have been thinking of removing the file fish, does not seem to be eating much of the aiptasia. It seems to eat when I feed the tank, maybe I will try and feed less frozen food, and see if it goes after the aiptasia more.

 

[kevgib67]

I have been thinking of removing the file fish, does not seem to be eating much of the aiptasia. It seems to eat when I feed the tank, maybe I will try and feed less frozen food, and see if it goes after the aiptasia more.

I’ve heard good things about File fish for aptasia but never had one. I’ve used Berghia and they did an excellent job. It’s up to you but I hope you make it to the other side! Have patience with berghia, it may take 2-3 generations to get it done.

 

[moosevandyke]

please update. Those are some fun pievrs. The Alice in wonderland is stunning when big.

 

[cjtabares]

I’ve heard good things about File fish for aptasia but never had one. I’ve used Berghia and they did an excellent job. It’s up to you but I hope you make it to the other side! Have patience with berghia, it may take 2-3 generations to get it done.

I had berghias in the past, and they worked great, but when the aiptasia was, at least from what I could see, gone, I caught the ones I could and assume the rest died. When they came back, I tried to manually remove them, but was not successful, so I got the filefish hoping it would take care of them and when a few pop up it would be there to eat them. This seemed to work for about the last month, but now they are out of control again.

 

[cjtabares]

please update. Those are some fun pievrs. The Alice in wonderland is stunning when big.

Yeah, from the picture of the colony on the website, it looks amazing.

 

[moosevandyke]

Yeah little poto shopped but it's beautiful

 

[cjtabares]

Yeah little poto shopped but it's beautiful

Yeah, it’s always tough to know what you will actually get when buying from an online vender.

 

[kevgib67]

I had berghias in the past, and they worked great, but when the aiptasia was, at least from what I could see, gone, I caught the ones I could and assume the rest died. When they came back, I tried to manually remove them, but was not successful, so I got the filefish hoping it would take care of them and when a few pop up it would be there to eat them. This seemed to work for about the last month, but now they are out of control again.

You’ve beat them before you will again, annoying little buggers!

 

[cjtabares]

You’ve beat them before you will again, annoying little buggers!

I’m definitely not giving up, but man have they annoyed me.

 

[exnisstech]

I've had good luck with peppermint shrimp keeping the DT free of aiptasia even tho I have them in the overflow and sump. Some people report having problems with them turning to coral but I've had them in several tanks and haven't experienced that.

 

[cjtabares]

I've had good luck with peppermint shrimp keeping the DT free of aiptasia even tho I have them in the overflow and sump. Some people report having problems with them turning to coral but I've had them in several tanks and haven't experienced that.

I bought 3 before the tilefish, I am assuming my wrasse may have eaten them.

 

[exnisstech]

I bought 3 before the tilefish, I am assuming my wrasse may have eaten them.

Ya your probably right. I only have sixlines so I always forget about those wrasses loving shrimp since the sixlines leave mine alone.

 

[Evil1]

Beautiful corals and I frequently visit POTO often as I live a few minutes away. Top notch in my opinion. I will suggest if you have the room, separating the sps frags. As they start to grow and start encrusting one might out compete the other ending in the weaker of the 2 being eradicated Good luck they are beautiful!

 

[cjtabares]

Beautiful corals and I frequently visit POTO often as I live a few minutes away. Top notch in my opinion. I will suggest if you have the room, separating the sps frags. As they start to grow and start encrusting one might out compete the other ending in the weaker of the 2 being eradicated Good luck they are beautiful!

Thank you. This is just temporary placement though, they will be attached to the rock work later today. If I don’t glue them to the rock work my pincushion urchin will, more than likely, move them to a different spot in the tank.

 

[Evil1]

Thank you. This is just temporary placement though, they will be attached to the rock work later today. If I don’t glue them to the rock work my pincushion urchin will, more than likely, move them to a different spot in the tank.

That’s fine! I do the same due to all my cuc including tuxedo urchins

 

[exnisstech]

Thank you. This is just temporary placement though, they will be attached to the rock work later today. If I don’t glue them to the rock work my pincushion urchin will, more than likely, move them to a different spot in the tank.

I'd be surprised if it didn't lol. I have a love hate relationship with my pincushions. I have one that finds little pieces of GSP amd carries them around. I let him carry them around until they're open nicely then I pluck the GSP off and put it in the rocks somewhere.