jedimaster1138
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So I bought an Eagle Eye rock from LiveAquaria. It's a fairly big rock (they totally gave me a large for the price of a medium, bless them).
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=597+599+2966&pcatid=2966
I started out with it on the sand bed, then moved it up to about 2/3rds up my tank about a week later. LA's placement suggestion says "middle to top" so I followed instructions. However...
Somewhere along the way a clump of 5-10 polyps broke off when I was moving stuff around etc. OK fine. I was actually sorta happy about this - go not having to frag it myself. I glued this clump to a small rubble rock (2" give or take) and placed it on my sand bed. That frag seems to have better coloration/open-ness than the polyps on the big rock that's up higher. Here's pictures to illustrate.
Big rock up high:
Frag down low:
My lights are Ecoxotic LED's. 2x Panorama Pro white/blue combos + 1 blue/magenta stunner and 2x white stunners. (plus a blue for night) Tank is 18" tall. Chemistry is currently excellent (0 nitrates and judging by my algae growth, close to 0 phosphates) Ecoxotics "coral planning map" says "colony polyps (zoanthid sp.) should be in the middle zone, which they define as 18-26" from the fixture. In my case that would be on the sand bed.
Any opinions? I think I'd probably prefer to keep it low because that's where I have room and would rather save the high spots for SPS's and other such light demanding corals but obviously want to place the coral where they will flourish the most.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=597+599+2966&pcatid=2966
I started out with it on the sand bed, then moved it up to about 2/3rds up my tank about a week later. LA's placement suggestion says "middle to top" so I followed instructions. However...
Somewhere along the way a clump of 5-10 polyps broke off when I was moving stuff around etc. OK fine. I was actually sorta happy about this - go not having to frag it myself. I glued this clump to a small rubble rock (2" give or take) and placed it on my sand bed. That frag seems to have better coloration/open-ness than the polyps on the big rock that's up higher. Here's pictures to illustrate.
Big rock up high:
Frag down low:
My lights are Ecoxotic LED's. 2x Panorama Pro white/blue combos + 1 blue/magenta stunner and 2x white stunners. (plus a blue for night) Tank is 18" tall. Chemistry is currently excellent (0 nitrates and judging by my algae growth, close to 0 phosphates) Ecoxotics "coral planning map" says "colony polyps (zoanthid sp.) should be in the middle zone, which they define as 18-26" from the fixture. In my case that would be on the sand bed.
Any opinions? I think I'd probably prefer to keep it low because that's where I have room and would rather save the high spots for SPS's and other such light demanding corals but obviously want to place the coral where they will flourish the most.
