Coral's just arrived! Newb has questions

[sjj80]

I finally have corals!!!!!!!!!!!! However I'm concerned that they stink, is that normal for corals that are shipped?

Also how do you acclimate them to the light? I know I should place them on the bottom but do I leave the lights on at first or wait a few hours?

The corals I received are two different zoas, one clove polyp, one austera sps, and one surf n turf sps.

 

[sk8rreefgeek]

This is irrelevant, but nice avatar haha. I thought about makin one with happy gilmore (where he misses a putt, and gets right next to the ball)
"This is your HOME! Are you too good for your HOME!?"
But instead of a ball and hole, it would be a clown and nem. Get it? lol
That's what I was thinking when my clowns wouldn't host, but they are now, so it's all good.

Man I hate work lol

I don't think they should smell bad. After acclimating them to the water, I'd wait a few hours before turning on the lights

 

[sjj80]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12455777#post12455777 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sk8rreefgeek
This is irrelevant, but nice avatar haha. I thought about makin one with happy gilmore (where he misses a putt, and gets right next to the ball)
"This is your HOME! Are you too good for your HOME!?"
But instead of a ball and hole, it would be a clown and nem. Get it? lol
That's what I was thinking when my clowns would host, but they are now, so it's all good.

Man I hate work lol

I don't think they should smell bad. After acclimating them to the water, I'd wait a few hours before turning on the lights

That's how it feels when clowns don't host for sure, maybe I should say that to them lol . Thanks for the advice, I'll def. keep the lights off for a few hours.

 

[sk8rreefgeek]

haha, oops, meant to write 'don't host'

The way I see it, you're gonna have to turn the lights on sometime. You might read up some more tho, I'm still new myself

 

[sjj80]

Thanks, I have a solaris so I think I'll just turn the light level down and slowly bring it up between now and tommorrow.

I'm also wondering if I can use aquarium putty to mount one of the sps I received that isn't attached to anything? I don't have any super glue, I figured all the corals would be mounted.

 

[almees]

I would let them sit in the water 30 min. Then place them on the bottom of the tank till they open, could be a day or a week or more. Then you can move them up to middle area. Once they open there you can go higher with them. Enjoy your new corals I know I always do.

 

[sjj80]

Well the corals have now been in the tank for an hour and the sps look great!!! The surf n turf opened it's polyps within a few minutes and the zoos are slowly opening. The cloves look like poo, which is suprising to me cause I thought those were the toughest of the corals I bought. I'm slowly increasing the light level on my solaris and as I do the corals polyps open up more, I'm so excited !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Should I pay rent or buy more corals? Hmmmmmmmmmmm. lol

 

[sk8rreefgeek]

CORALS! haha
Top Ramen = Frags lol

 

[Ritten]

Cloves are sensitive shippers they may take some extra time.

 

[sjj80]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12456725#post12456725 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sk8rreefgeek
CORALS! haha
Top Ramen = Frags lol

Amen to that!!!!

And when the ramen runs out there's always ketchup packets!!!

 

[sjj80]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12456748#post12456748 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Ritten
Cloves are sensitive shippers they may take some extra time.

Thanks, that's good to know. Right now they're real limp and droopy so I was starting to wonder if they just didn't survive shipping, but I'll give them some more time.

 

[kar93]

So, No pics?

 

[sjj80]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12456977#post12456977 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kar93
So, No pics?

I'll get on it!!!

 

[sjj80]

I took some pics, they aren't the best quality and not all the polyps are fully extended but it gives you an idea of what I have. I will post updated pics once the corals have settled in and fully opened up.