Serioussnaps
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doomed..only seen them kept successfully in a dedicated and i mean dedicated very advance species only tank
sorry for your soon to be loss
sorry for your soon to be loss
Bright Orange Carnation.
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gasman059
The OG mad scientist
Here it is again!
Here it is again!
Maybe I'm just lucky , besides being upside down and in a cave this carnation gets about the same care as any other of my critters-cyclopeeze etc. This pic is a follow up to the post of sorrry for ur loss. I've had mine for six months and seems to be ok episodes of pics like above thread but at night and sometimes during light cycle is back here it is again >
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Here it is again!
Maybe I'm just lucky , besides being upside down and in a cave this carnation gets about the same care as any other of my critters-cyclopeeze etc. This pic is a follow up to the post of sorrry for ur loss. I've had mine for six months and seems to be ok episodes of pics like above thread but at night and sometimes during light cycle is back here it is again >
Skateboarder
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Wow that looks like it perked up a bit.
Shoreliner11
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Re: Here it is again!
Re: Here it is again!
Aaron
Re: Here it is again!
Whether your dendro or sclero lives 2 months or 6 months, or even a year, it will most likely die eventually. Unless you tank has a serious amount of pods, who are breeding like mad, there really just isn't a way for it to sustain long term without a heavy feading regime. Not trying to be rude, but its just plain fact. IMO the coral still looks seriously deflated. Most don't understand the lack of small particulate matter (be it marine snow, plankton, invert. larvae etc) in our tanks when compared to a real reef.<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8431771#post8431771 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by gasman059
Maybe I'm just lucky , besides being upside down and in a cave this carnation gets about the same care as any other of my critters-cyclopeeze etc. This pic is a follow up to the post of sorrry for ur loss. I've had mine for six months and seems to be ok episodes of pics like above thread but at night and sometimes during light cycle is back here it is again >[/IMG]
Aaron
djmuzzi
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Sadly these things can actually "die" for 9 months or so. They just get smaller & smaller & might perk up from time to time or even reproduce as other's have said through fission which is misleading because it is only an attempt to shoot offspring into a more favorable location for food & flow. GARF.ORG has kept them successfully in a species tank.
Shawnts106
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What are those species that Japanese reefers keep, that look simular to this but are photosynthetic?
maybe you should get one of those.
maybe you should get one of those.
Your orange carnation is pretty.
I ordered on line what I thought would be one, but when it arrived yesterday, there were 5 corals on a really nice chunk of rock about 5"x4"x4". And there are some tiny ones coming up in various areas of the rock.
I had done a lot of research via my books and thought it would be not only pretty, but interesting to see if I had a "green thumb" in my 30 gallon tank like I do with my outdoor/indoor plants. I did read a lot that said these were difficult to keep alive
I have it sitting midway in my tank which has one 65 watt PC light with both white and blue actinic lighting. And now, over 24 hours later, it looks gorgeous! I have some pics and when I figure out how to upload them to this forum, I will post one.
Susie
I ordered on line what I thought would be one, but when it arrived yesterday, there were 5 corals on a really nice chunk of rock about 5"x4"x4". And there are some tiny ones coming up in various areas of the rock.
I had done a lot of research via my books and thought it would be not only pretty, but interesting to see if I had a "green thumb" in my 30 gallon tank like I do with my outdoor/indoor plants. I did read a lot that said these were difficult to keep alive
I have it sitting midway in my tank which has one 65 watt PC light with both white and blue actinic lighting. And now, over 24 hours later, it looks gorgeous! I have some pics and when I figure out how to upload them to this forum, I will post one.
Susie
Shawnts106
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having a terrestrial GREEN thumb and an Aquatic BLUE thumb are by no means the same!
Shoreliner11
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You might be referring to a species of lemnalia that are yellow and purple ish. Great looking corals and photosynthetic
.I believe those are called Cup Corals, also Sun Corals, tubastrea spp., which are nonsymbiotic and are proven to be very hardy if fed regulary by some means. They do benefit from a DSB and additions of invertebrate foods and small meaty foods regulary. All that means "high maintenance" to me, which I don't want to get into, just yet.
I bought this orange carnation because it was pretty and on sale...you get what you pay for and Live and Learn!
I have already begun to notice the shrinking of these orange carnations and then a "regeneration".
Susie
You learn something new everday!
I am not so sure that I agree with this statement. Green thumb plants require certain lighting, placement and feeding conditions, just as Blue thumb living organisms do.
Compare the wind and the damage that can be done to a green thumb plant to a blue thumb plant and the water current.
Also, water quality and feeding can cause a green thumb plant to either thrive or shrivle away. Green thumb plants take in nutrients by light and from the soil, food and temperature just like a blue thumb organism does via the water quality, food in the water and the lighting.
Also there is cross pollination of some green thumb plants which might be undesirable like the placement of blue thumb organisms which can emit "toxins" to other corals, etc...
That is my opinion...any further discussion would be highly interesting.
Susie
You learn something new everyday!
Shawnts106
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That or Nepthea?
No that isn't what I am referring to... and what do you mean? Nonsymbiotic with what? Do you mean Nonphotosynthetic?
yes, however, Plants don't require a proper pH in the air they reside in or they die. as far as we know.
I see your compairisons... and they do hold truth.
What I am just saying is that Corals require more "attention" to their surrounding environment than plants do IMO.
Shawnts106
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lol, well thanks!
ya' think I should list it as my quote?
ya' think I should list it as my quote?
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8490731#post8490731 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Shawnts106
That or Nepthea?
No that isn't what I am referring to... and what do you mean? Nonsymbiotic with what? Do you mean Nonphotosynthetic?
Nonsymbiotic as in they don't carry zooxanthellae and are not dependent upon light so they can thrive under any lighting conditions, from high intensity to coplete darkness.
Susie
You learn something new everyday!
