My lfs just for the first time got Australian corals.
I have an lps tank that grows euphyllias like mad. The one acan is developing new eyes. The new duncan is madly happy and coloring up, eating like a pig.
The blastomussa has been accident-prone. I set it in the sandbed---it falls over when a crab walks past. I set it another place, it shriveled up drastically, exposing ribs, because it didn't like the direct light OR the looming hammer. I set it in the sand in a shadier spot on the other side---and a fighting conch came and knocked it over.
I was beginning to despair of it. I set its poor little frag plug into a forked bit of coral rubble 6" off the sandbed and it spread out to twice its previous size and it's starting to do so dependably.
It's kind of tabasco-colored, and it's finally showing some edge structure, like feeding tentacles. The happier one the lfs was showing off was Easter-egg pink and he said it was the same thing. Never had one of these before, but I seem finally to have made it happy.
Now we'll see.
I have an lps tank that grows euphyllias like mad. The one acan is developing new eyes. The new duncan is madly happy and coloring up, eating like a pig.
The blastomussa has been accident-prone. I set it in the sandbed---it falls over when a crab walks past. I set it another place, it shriveled up drastically, exposing ribs, because it didn't like the direct light OR the looming hammer. I set it in the sand in a shadier spot on the other side---and a fighting conch came and knocked it over.
I was beginning to despair of it. I set its poor little frag plug into a forked bit of coral rubble 6" off the sandbed and it spread out to twice its previous size and it's starting to do so dependably.
It's kind of tabasco-colored, and it's finally showing some edge structure, like feeding tentacles. The happier one the lfs was showing off was Easter-egg pink and he said it was the same thing. Never had one of these before, but I seem finally to have made it happy.
Now we'll see.
