Pufferpunk
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Did you get my PM? I don't have your number. I sent you mine though.
Dialup beware #2 tank pictures
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skeeter-doc
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Two 250 watt DE bulbs seems alot for a tank that short, I never realized that zoo's needed so much light. I guess 10 years ago people simply knew they could survive under much lower lighting, but never got the coloration out of the polyps people like you get Geo because they never blasted them like you do! Thanks for showing off our tank and system! Any way we could get some shots of the under area, sump, skimmer, fuge, etc?
Pufferpunk
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I also opened an echinacea cap into my last feeding. I've only done this once because I don't want it to interfere with the results of the Vit C treatment. Folks will wonder which is it that is helping out my tank & I want to concentrate on the findings of treating with the C for now.
geoxman
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H.a.z and chris0942- Thanks much!
skeeter I can take some pictures this weekend of underneath. It is just a large fuge/sump that has a ton of marco, but I can get some
jjmcat- I just started and who knows if it helps. It will saturate in the water much like freeze dried phyto, when soaked. The powder that I have is so fine of a particle it must be consumed by some polyps. Will it do them any good? I do not know. Will it dirty up my tank? doubtfull.
puff-I would keep doing what you are doing. IMHO
skeeter I can take some pictures this weekend of underneath. It is just a large fuge/sump that has a ton of marco, but I can get some
jjmcat- I just started and who knows if it helps. It will saturate in the water much like freeze dried phyto, when soaked. The powder that I have is so fine of a particle it must be consumed by some polyps. Will it do them any good? I do not know. Will it dirty up my tank? doubtfull.
puff-I would keep doing what you are doing. IMHO
geoxman
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mskurdah-thanks much!
Those are my favorite of all of my polyps and they have been with me the longest. They are VERY slow growing polyp, maybe 1-2 polyps per year, even when fed. They are a vivid green like no other polyp I have seen and when fully mature the polyp are silver dollar size, if not larger.
In all of my years of collecting I have not come across any the size or color of these. I have seen many of palythoa psammophila, which are similar, but not quite the right genus. It is also not the vestitus or grandis.
I have searched the web for quite some time trying to identify them to no avail.
They were a gift from a friend many years back before he quit the hobby. He was an avid collector before the craze hit and had some crazy stuff! I have no way to get in touch with him since he moved for some help in a genus ID, or how he acquired them .
Thanks for noticing them and when someone sees the tank that is the first thing they want to discuss.
Those are my favorite of all of my polyps and they have been with me the longest. They are VERY slow growing polyp, maybe 1-2 polyps per year, even when fed. They are a vivid green like no other polyp I have seen and when fully mature the polyp are silver dollar size, if not larger.
In all of my years of collecting I have not come across any the size or color of these. I have seen many of palythoa psammophila, which are similar, but not quite the right genus. It is also not the vestitus or grandis.
I have searched the web for quite some time trying to identify them to no avail.
They were a gift from a friend many years back before he quit the hobby. He was an avid collector before the craze hit and had some crazy stuff! I have no way to get in touch with him since he moved for some help in a genus ID, or how he acquired them .
Thanks for noticing them and when someone sees the tank that is the first thing they want to discuss.
Pufferpunk
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Are these the same ones? Everyone comments on them, because they are sooooo bright green & HUGE! At least 2" across, not including their skirt.
You can see their size next to a regular-sized zoanthid to the left of them.
You can see their size next to a regular-sized zoanthid to the left of them.
geoxman
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that looks like them. You can see mine in the 10th picture. Where did you get yours? Do you have an idea on their region? i have never fragged mine because they grow so slow-Do yours also grow very slow?
That is usually the first thing that people will comment on when they see the tank.
That is usually the first thing that people will comment on when they see the tank.
Pufferpunk
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I have no memory of where I got them--maybe a frag swap? I go just about anywhere to buy corals from the locals... I have not actually sat & counted the polyps to see how many new ones have popped up during any period of time. I do know I had to move them out of my main tank into my "overflow" tank, where I put corals that are getting too large, where I don't want them stinging other corals. They were taking up too much real estate in my main show tank. I had fragged of about 4 polyps last year (I gave them away...) but I will keep an eye on their growth now. It eats a ton! As I'm looking at it now, almost every large polyp has a baby growing on wither side of them.
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