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A few years back I had to move my business into a small space that didn't have room for my 150 g reef, so I gave it to the LFS. (no room at home and unable to sell in the short time I had)

About two months ago, my husband received a call from a friend that he had a friend with a 65 g reef that needed to be removed from his house. My husband and I took it down and put it in our home.

I was told, at one time, it had over $6,000 in corals and livestock. It came with 1 pair of Tomato Clowns, open brain, ricordia, brown polyps, red mushrooms and colonies of candy cane. We've since added peppermint shrimp, emerald crabs, arrow crab, turbo snails, nassarius snails, calaurpa, feather duster, yellow ball sponge, yellow goby, leather coral, torch, and for Mother's Day the children added a rose bubble tip anemone.

Equipment: T5 4 bulbs, 2 powerheads, wetdry, protein skimmer, RO filtration, and chiller. I still have to hook up the RO. Will do it soon as we added fans and now the tank goes through 1 g of RO water a day. I don't think I'm going to need the chiller. He had it because he had water automatically added to the tank. I've had bad experiences with this type of system since I started tanks back in the 80's. Not going through that here.

Here are some pictures. In the one, Inspector Meiko Luv is checking it out. I'm probably going to exchange some of the brown polyps, candy cane, mushrooms and the brown (? brain ?). I have other desires for coral inhabitants.

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I think he is referring to:

"so I gave it to the LFS. (no room at home and unable to sell in the short time I had)"

Me too, but you know what happens when you "assume." I'm just as guilty of not posting clearly at times. Just want to make sure we're communicating at the same level of understanding.

Thank you.
 
I will trade your brain coral for other corals if you decide to part out.

so you think the brown one is a brain? I'll let you know if I'm going to let it go. As a brown coral it was just another brown color in the the tank. With this color change, it may be a different enough in color to keep. See below.

For about 2 months I've been feeding Roti-food twice a week. I feed 6 drops each time since they say it's concentrated. I've noticed the corals really open up lately-the past couple of weeks. My question, this is a dark green solution, is that the brown coral (the one I'm asking if it's a brain) has a blue to green tint masking the brown color today. Is it because he may have taken in a considerable amount of the food? I feed Wednesdays and Saturdays after lights out. I haven't noticed this color change before. It's been brown since the day I got it until today.

Thank you.



The rock with at least three red mushrooms, the small colony of green candy canes--8 or 9 heads, and some of the brown polyps are for sure going.
 
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