Bony looking chalice coral?

[kupadupapupa]

I've had this chalice coral for a couple of weeks and I was just wondering if it looks bony to you guys? I have no experience keeping this type of coral and I can't remember if it was more fleshy when I got it or not or what it's supposed to even look like. Do you think it looks like it's getting too much light, not enough light?

 

[usmc121581]

Looks alright to mean, you might get a lot of slack for having it up on a rock. But that's we're both of mine are.

 

[kupadupapupa]

Looks alright to mean, you might get a lot of slack for having it up on a rock. But that's we're both of mine are.

Ok thanks. I've looked around on Google images before I bought it but there weren't any photos of grown chalices in reef tanks. So I didn't even know how they grow out or where to put them.

All I've read is they don't like allot of light and that part is shaded by the cliff so that's where he's staying

By the way, do you feed your chalices anything?

 

[usmc121581]

Yes I have read that however my 2 chalices sit on the sides directly under my 250 w mh roughly 12" under water on a rock. But that is the only place for them as the way they re growing. I don't spot feed them anything, but I dose strontium weekly which they do need to grow out.

Once your frag grows out let me be the firs in line for a piece, depending where you are located.

 

[kupadupapupa]

Yes I have read that however my 2 chalices sit on the sides directly under my 250 w mh roughly 12" under water on a rock. But that is the only place for them as the way they re growing. I don't spot feed them anything, but I dose strontium weekly which they do need to grow out.

Once your frag grows out let me be the firs in line for a piece, depending where you are located.

Do you test for strontium or just add whatever the bottle says per week? And does that stuff benefit other coral or primarily the chalice?

By the way I'm located in Ohio, so yeah if it grows out I'll give you a piece, lol. My sps isn't looking so good right now, but I'm really hoping the lps does better. Im using leds and its very hard to tell which coral is getting too much or too little light because the leds look dimmer to the eye. It's kind of a guessing game right now.

 

[greech]

Some chalice are more "toothy" than others. Might try and feed it a bit. I have chalices are varying depths in my tank. Some hate light while some do fine up higher in the wide open.

Pretty coral BTW.

 

[usmc121581]

I'm in no way knocking your LED's but those could be a reason why your SPS may look bad. By I am not a fan of lED I have seen them screw up people tanks, but hopefully your not one.

Any way I do not test for strontium, I add 5 TBS every Sunday unless I do a wterchange that weekend. Along with strontium I dose baking soda for alk, I top off with Mrs wages pickling lime in my top off water and magnesium. I have tried to spot feed in the past but its not success flip ever. I have 17 soon to be 18 fish in my 180 ranging from small to xlarge, they will grab the food before it has a chance to eat.

I have family that live in Albion pa which is 15 miles from the border of PA/OH maybe even trade frags of chalice. Please do not taking the lighting comment to heart it's just my view on LED's and what I have seen.

 

[alan.reef]

nice 1 u got.. looks loke UFO ship..lol

 

[triggreef]

I only have one hollywood stunner chalice, its up on a rock in about a 200 par area of my tank under leds and I think it is one of the faster growing corals in my tank. I also try to spot feed it about once a week and it will eat mysis and anything smaller. I only have a cleaner wrasse in the tank all by himself but he is easy to fill up and keep away from stealing the food. I'm sure when the rest of my fish come out of qt it will be harder to spot feed.

Also if you arent using an ATO then start, that will probably help your sps. stability...

 

[kupadupapupa]

I'm in no way knocking your LED's but those could be a reason why your SPS may look bad. By I am not a fan of lED I have seen them screw up people tanks, but hopefully your not one.

Any way I do not test for strontium, I add 5 TBS every Sunday unless I do a wterchange that weekend. Along with strontium I dose baking soda for alk, I top off with Mrs wages pickling lime in my top off water and magnesium. I have tried to spot feed in the past but its not success flip ever. I have 17 soon to be 18 fish in my 180 ranging from small to xlarge, they will grab the food before it has a chance to eat.

I have family that live in Albion pa which is 15 miles from the border of PA/OH maybe even trade frags of chalice. Please do not taking the lighting comment to heart it's just my view on LED's and what I have seen.

Hey no offense taken. Frankly I've never liked sps but most of my tanks were running without maintenance for years so the water probably sucked for sps. After I set up this new tank with leds I promised myself I would keep up on the water changes so I decided that since I'll have clean water, I'll try 2 sps. If they don't work out I'll ditch them and stick with soft coral and some lps.

I did get kind off ****ed off at the leds and was almost going to just switch to t5 but we're trying to keep our electric bill low and the leds cut the bill by like almost 100 a month (previously running 500 watt mh). It pretty much paid for my leds in 4 months since they were diy. Believe me, if money wasn't an issue there'd be no point in running led.

 

[kupadupapupa]

I only have one hollywood stunner chalice, its up on a rock in about a 200 par area of my tank under leds and I think it is one of the faster growing corals in my tank. I also try to spot feed it about once a week and it will eat mysis and anything smaller. I only have a cleaner wrasse in the tank all by himself but he is easy to fill up and keep away from stealing the food. I'm sure when the rest of my fish come out of qt it will be harder to spot feed.

Also if you arent using an ATO then start, that will probably help your sps. stability...

I do have an ato and kalk reactor and my levels stay pretty stable. I'm not sure what's up with my birdsnest, when I first put it in the tank it grew so fast then all of a sudden it started losing flesh. It was placed in front of my vortech on high power because I was told they need high flow. There was one branch on it that grew much further to the left almost like it was trying to get away from the current, or trying to get into more light. I just wish I knew if it was the current or light that was the culprit.

Maybe I'll post a pic of the birdsnest tomorrow and see what you guys think.

 

[kupadupapupa]

Here is a before and after of my birds nest. It started off from like 2 sticks and within a few weeks it had many branches, then it just died and looks like crap now. Any ideas on what could of caused this problem?

 

[usmc121581]

The person that I bought a bunch of Zoa's had his birdnest do/look the same way. He told me that all his corals were burnt from the LED's he bought which I have seen alot. I have no clue how or what you would need to do to lower the light on LED's if that was the cause. When you got him was the coral under different lighting?

 

[kupadupapupa]

The person that I bought a bunch of Zoa's had his birdnest do/look the same way. He told me that all his corals were burnt from the LED's he bought which I have seen alot. I have no clue how or what you would need to do to lower the light on LED's if that was the cause. When you got him was the coral under different lighting?

No it was under the same light and it grew awesome. I did lift up the lights though because they were causing my soft coral not to fully expand. The thing I find weird is how one side of the coral the flesh came off but the other side is fine. I was told birdsnest need high flow so I can't see how the broad flow of a vortech would do that. It probably has to be the lights then, right?

 

[usmc121581]

Your birdnest looks just like the guys that I got some corals from, if I didn't know exactly like his. I would say it would have to do with the lights. I am not sure it LED's are like halides where the lighting can be pretty much the same across all halides or it if because they are new if there are variances between lights. Which I believe happened to your birdnest coral is that the difference between your lighting and the other lighting his what caused this. Just lookin at the picture it looks like your LEDs burnt the coral, but I am going off of a picture and not knowing what you do ie dosing, water changes, etc

 

[gmatt]

oh that chalice is almost dead! you better get rid of it quick before it kills everything in your tank! i'll Pm you my mailing address and send you $4.

Hahaha...

seriously it looks ok, nice chalice. but i would try feeding it in the morning or late at night when it tentacles open up and the lights are out. Use a red led to view, not room or aquarium lights. mine puff up after feeding. seem to grow faster as well.

i feed individual small mysis shrimp gently with long tweezers to each eye that will take it. you can dice up the mysis and toss all over but unless you have a lot of corals to eat it all you will create pollution that you have to clean up later when it breaks down. some people use a turkey baster but my experience is when you force water at the chalice it tends to close up. Start with 2 or 3 nights/week then maybe mor if it responds well after couple of weeks.

 

[bobo33]

Looks like the birds nest was burnt. I just switched back to T5s from LEDS because of that. Two of my nice yumas melted and that was the last straw. Good luck

 

[kupadupapupa]

oh that chalice is almost dead! you better get rid of it quick before it kills everything in your tank! i'll Pm you my mailing address and send you $4.

Hahaha...

seriously it looks ok, nice chalice. but i would try feeding it in the morning or late at night when it tentacles open up and the lights are out. Use a red led to view, not room or aquarium lights. mine puff up after feeding. seem to grow faster as well.

i feed individual small mysis shrimp gently with long tweezers to each eye that will take it. you can dice up the mysis and toss all over but unless you have a lot of corals to eat it all you will create pollution that you have to clean up later when it breaks down. some people use a turkey baster but my experience is when you force water at the chalice it tends to close up. Start with 2 or 3 nights/week then maybe mor if it responds well after couple of weeks.

I've tried feeding it before but it's tentacles aren't coming out anymore. Do they only come out for a certain time after the lights turn off? My lights go off at 8 but I get home from work at 1am so maybe I miss when it wants to be fed?

 

[kupadupapupa]

Looks like the birds nest was burnt. I just switched back to T5s from LEDS because of that. Two of my nice yumas melted and that was the last straw. Good luck

I hear you, I'm kind of getting there myself. Most of my coral was doing fine when first put in but I don't think the leds can sustain them without burning them. My acan now is also basically dead and my purple bonsai is brown. The rest which are soft coral frags haven't grown in 4 months. They have just remained the same as I bought them.

 

[gmatt]

I've tried feeding it before but it's tentacles aren't coming out anymore. Do they only come out for a certain time after the lights turn off? My lights go off at 8 but I get home from work at 1am so maybe I miss when it wants to be fed?

ive always heard 2 hours after lights out. but hardly any of mine are out at that time. usually 6 hours after lights out. but it depends on water quality. after big water change no polyps. couple days later, all polyps open.