Bali Green Slimer

[dowtish]

My Slimer is definitely the fastest growing stick in my tank. I also rescued what I believe to be another type of A. Yongei that is a teal/purple stag. and it has grown just as fast. They must like my lighting. In under 6 months Ive seen it grow 8 inches plus with multiple branches.

 

[dowtish]

 

[Dummyforclownfi]

Very encouraging to see all your guys pictures.

 

[EvMiBo]

They must like my lighting. In under 6 months Ive seen it grow 8 inches plus with multiple branches.

What's your lighting? Photoperiod?

 

[dowtish]

What's your lighting? Photoperiod?

Giesmann Spectra Fixture

2 400W Radiums
4 T5's- 3 blus plus 1 fiji purple

I run the T5's staggered for 8 hours and the halides for 6

 

[EvMiBo]

Nice. I could never bite the bullet with MH's and the energy consumption, however, MH + t5 supplement seems to give imo the best coloration and growth for sps. Anyways, nice looking bgs!

 

[DiscusHeckel]

Have you nailed down what makes it STN for you? I have had one in my tank for a little over 1 month and it has STN'd about 1/8 - 1/4" (VERY slow) so far.

Yes and no. In general, STN can be caused by many factors. However, I was able to nail down the cause successfully when it happened last time. It was caused by vinegar dosing. When the dosing reached 12 ml/day, my bali slimmer started to show signs of STN. A few days later my other acroporas follow suit. When I stopped the dosing and STN stopped too. On other occasions, I was unable to nail down the cause and had to frag the bali slimmer instead.

 

[Reefvet]

It was caused by vinegar dosing. When the dosing reached 12 ml/day, my bali slimmer started to show signs of STN.

Were you monitoring water parameters while dosing ?

12 ml per day is a pretty hefty dose for a 65 gal tank.

 

[Greg11]

mine love light and strong flow(get nice thick branches),whatever mean fast growing but its good grower if your water is right of course

 

[basser1]

If that's a real Green Slimer, and it probably is, I think you'll see good and rapid growth from it, as long as your params are stable. I really think a lot of these slow growing slimers are just green staghorn like acros sold as slimers.

A real slimer will fill the tank with slime if you touch it and your hands will smell for the rest of the day.

If for some reason you have to remove a slimer from the tank for any length of time and you happen to have a wife she will ask you what that horrible smell is.

Any green coral that does not exhibit these tendencies is not a real slimer, IMO, -OR- I don't have a slimer but some other green coral that is probably adapted to living out of the water (low tide) on a regular basis.

You know markalot..... I'm wondering if I have a real slimer. I never gave it much thought until I read this thread, now I'm wondering what I have.

I bought what I thought was a Bali green slimer, but I have not seen the slime coming from it when I do water changes and it's out of the water for a few minutes. I had a green slimer a few years back and I remember the slime would be oozing from it whenever I would do water changes.

So now I'm wondering???

 

[MidwesternTexan]

There are BGS', then there are Blue tipped Green Acros.
IMEO- if it grows with Blue tips- even if it's Green- it NOT a BGS!

I've got 3 types of blue tipped Acros, often called staghorns
A Green
A Blue
A Purple

And, I've got a huge, (often fragged too) BGS-
and yes, it slimes WAY more than the other acros I have when messing with it, etc.

BGS


Here you can see 4 of my larger Acros-
the 3 on the left and center grow with blue tips, left is the Green, middle front the Blue, middle back the Purple, and on the right is the BGS-
you can clearly see the color difference btween the BGS and the Blue tipped Green Acro.


Here's a recent FTS of my 180


To the OP,
The BGS is IMO a staple of the sps/acro hobby- you'll be glad you got one!

 

[DiscusHeckel]

Were you monitoring water parameters while dosing ?

12 ml per day is a pretty hefty dose for a 65 gal tank.

All the time. I have a log book. 12 ml/day was not a hefty dose according to Randy and tmz. However, I hypothesised that because measurable nitrates in my tank were very low to begin with (0.2 ppm with salifert), carbon dosing was not justified in such a condition.

 

[MidwesternTexan]

All the time. I have a log book. 12 ml/day was not a hefty dose according to Randy and tmz. However, I hypothesised that because measurable nitrates in my tank were very low to begin with (0.2 ppm with salifert), carbon dosing was not justified in such a condition.

FWIW- I've been using 60ml vinegar + 25ml Kalwasser in a gallon of RO/DI
for at least 2 years. NO GFO, No Calcium or Kalwasser reactor


I use the vinegar to 'buffer' the Kalwasser
This keeps my Calcium and Alk in check.