While I have never been much into keeping track of the names of my corals, their "lineage" or where they came from. My old 125 that I took down in 2007 was a perfect illustration of corals adaptability. I lived in St Louis, where it does get hot in the summer, in a building with no a/c. I did have an undersized chiller set to come on at about 84 I believe and the heaters set to not let the tank drop below 76. The tank was a mixed reef and I bought frags from all over the place,locally and a bunch from Reefer Madness,Live Aquaria and did not care about the names but the shapes and colors. I did everything against "conventional wisdom" at the time, I fed papone very heavily, emptied a half skimmer full of crap daily, grew cheato like a weed, used 150 watt 10K XDE bulbs with a single 160 watt VHO Actintic instead of 400 watters, let the temp swing from the mid 70's to the mid 80's and the tank flourished. (I did have a 250 watt bulb in the middle, but the corals grew better under the 150's). I ran ozone, carbon and GFO in a canister filter, added sugar, vodka and vinegar to the tank and everything flourished. I allowed some algae in the display tank. I am no expert on reef tanks, I learn more every day and I am thankful for this venue that openly shares information. I try to share my own observations and applaud everyone that does. There are no set ways of doing things, but I have seen many threads where people who have kept a constant temp in their tank have had catastrophic failure by not allowing some fault tolerance in temps.
I still don't care about coral names or lineage and never will.
This was it just before taking it down in 2007 and while it was not a showpiece, it was my proof to myself that conventional wisdom at the time had flaws in it. I am sorry I did not have time to let this tank grow a few more years but it was time to come home to Texas.
Feel free to browse my photobucket page, you may find some of the coral varieties you ask about.
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v362/sirreal63/125/
This topic has been beat to death so many times over the years that many people who know simply won't participate in the discussion any longer. Reefs in the ocean do not have this completely stable and harmonious existence, it is frequently harsh and violent with change in virtually everything but the big three remain fairly constant, alk, calc and mag.
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