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LOL! I've been offering up my urchin for free for a couple months now. I have the same issues with him that you do with yours. He decimated my zoa garden and I'm not buying any more until I can rehome him.- DO NOT BUY A SEA URCHIN. Mine is super happy and it moves around the tank knocking frags over, grabbing hold and taking them with him...constantly wrecking havoc. I swear this is my number one piece of advice after year one. Anyone want a sea urchin in the Birmingham, AL area?
Disclaimer: get a tuxedo urchin, the other ones can be more like giant turbo snails!LOL! I've been offering up my urchin for free for a couple months now. I have the same issues with him that you do with yours. He decimated my zoa garden and I'm not buying any more until I can rehome him.
All my corals do great, hammer, xenia, GSP, birdsnest, Kenya tree, hairy mushroom but the toadstool is awful. Never fully extends its polyps and hasn't grown at all in 8 months. The montipora does poorly too. Both of those are supposed to be beginner coral. So frustrating.180G just past a year, have 39 coral and 9 fish (biased)...probably didn't add but 5 corals the first 6 months, but half survived, since then I've been too aggressive in adding although my water parameters are fairly good. Bought a par meter, recommend renting or borrowing one just to get a sense of your lighting, there is significant differences only inches apart.
Always interesting to me reading other post, how some corals like or don't like some tanks. Zoas are indestructible in my tank (to the point where I'm going to have to figure out how to destroy some), I have a hammer and a duncan that are flourishing, however I bought an aussie lord frag pack from WWC and 4 of the 5 were gone in two weeks. I've also had bad luck with softies whereas the two acros I recently added are doing nicely.
Couple of suggestions:
- Go slow (do as I say...)
- Buy cheaper corals (<$40) and see what kind like your tank. If you keep your tank stable, just go with that. If I saw a $200 zoa I would die for I'd pull the trigger. Wouldn't at this point spend more than $30 on a softie
- As someone else mention, buy a frag rack..I have one one the wall and one I keep down on the sand (although the gobies carpet bomb them constantly).
- DO NOT BUY A SEA URCHIN. Mine is super happy and it moves around the tank knocking frags over, grabbing hold and taking them with him...constantly wrecking havoc. I swear this is my number one piece of advice after year one. Anyone want a sea urchin in the Birmingham, AL area?
That depends on a LOT of factors.I am working on my first reef tank
Wondering how many of your frags do you think survive say 6 months or 1 year?
So I can be better mentally (and financially) prepared