Ethan Zier
Community Member
Hello all, I was watching some corals in the display tank at the LFS for a month or two. Finally one day I walked in and saw them and decided to pull the trigger.. I thought to myself, if I don't take these home they will be dead in a few days and I was offered $15 each to take them home. Done.
The Fungia's health seems to be good because it's fully inflated 95% of the time and sucks down food like reef roids and today I believe it ate a shrimp morsel.. I've noticed that it will spit out the reef roids after 5 minutes if I feed it IF I feed more than a light dusting, however I attributed that to a damaged or lack of a stomach. Visually I noticed the stomach looked like the skeleton ridges was significantly visible the first few days I had it.
Its not seemingly reattaching to its skeleton yet, but still looks super healthy with all things considered.
I'm looking for people who have any first hand advice and experiences.
The other coral that I brought home that day was a Metallic Stripe Open Brain Trachy. I also choose this one because I have another in the same tank that is in good health. Both Trachies are eating and inflated and the damaged one is healing quickly. I also dose Coral Amino by hand to the water column and I'm experimenting with hydrating shrimp with amino acids to "gut load" the food.
Side note, I also bought a rehab skeleton frogspawn a few months back and it has a new bud!! Ssuper exciting.
The Fungia's health seems to be good because it's fully inflated 95% of the time and sucks down food like reef roids and today I believe it ate a shrimp morsel.. I've noticed that it will spit out the reef roids after 5 minutes if I feed it IF I feed more than a light dusting, however I attributed that to a damaged or lack of a stomach. Visually I noticed the stomach looked like the skeleton ridges was significantly visible the first few days I had it.
Its not seemingly reattaching to its skeleton yet, but still looks super healthy with all things considered.
I'm looking for people who have any first hand advice and experiences.
The other coral that I brought home that day was a Metallic Stripe Open Brain Trachy. I also choose this one because I have another in the same tank that is in good health. Both Trachies are eating and inflated and the damaged one is healing quickly. I also dose Coral Amino by hand to the water column and I'm experimenting with hydrating shrimp with amino acids to "gut load" the food.
Side note, I also bought a rehab skeleton frogspawn a few months back and it has a new bud!! Ssuper exciting.
