New chalice - Mycedium?

[The Escaped Ape]

One of my purchases from today. Thinking maybe it's a Mycedium. Rare to get this sort of color here (Japan), so I'm pretty happy with it. I've created a relatively shaded spot low flow area for it.

I had a lot of bad luck with chalices some months ago, with two slowly receding to nothing. One has shown no ill effects though, and a Acan that had almost completely bleached has come back to life, looking healthy again (though a completely different color!). So I thought I'd take the chance.

Any suggestions on placement - does it need to be off the sand completely? It's currently resting on a rock just above the sand level, with the lower edge resting on the sand bed.

 

[Reef Bass]

Very nice! I wish it was MY-cedium.

 

[The Escaped Ape]

Thanks! :lol:

I'm starting to wonder whether I've got an insufficiency of magnesium. Shamed to say I don't own a test kit for it, but have been reading recently about people having problems with Instant Ocean and magnesium and it being particularly important for LPS.

Might invest in both a test kit and supplement.

 

[organism]

Definitely a mycedium, very nice. It should be ok touching the sandbed but won't grow very well there, if you move it like a few inches of the bottom it should do great though. As far as LPS issues have you checked your alk and calibrated your refractometer?

 

[Stylaster]

nice one kind of reminds me of the riddler chalice with that color form. I have a pectinia that has the same coloring

 

[FinancialReef]

Invest in the mg test kit. Invaluable with chalices.

 

[Cubbies]

Very nice!

 

[stagcrazy]

looks great i love it.

 

[The Escaped Ape]

Thanks everyone! Much as I haven't really got into the name game (being in Japan, I can't get hold of most of them), it's kind of nice to put a name to it. Now I can search out similar ones.

Definitely a mycedium, very nice. It should be ok touching the sandbed but won't grow very well there, if you move it like a few inches of the bottom it should do great though. As far as LPS issues have you checked your alk and calibrated your refractometer?

Thanks for the advice, very helpful! I will take a look at placement and try and find the right positioning.

As for alk and salinity, alk was the first thing I thought of when I started getting problems with the other chalices, but, although I'm on the low side, relatively, it's stable and I discounted that in the end. Salinity is a good point though - I should get hold of some calibration fluid.

Invest in the mg test kit. Invaluable with chalices.

Thanks! I will do that this week. I need to pop to the LFS for some new T5s (and some refractometer calibration fluid!), so will pick up the test kit then, probably with some Kent Magnesium dosing fluid as well.

 

[Reef Bass]

If it is a Riddler, keep it in low flow.

 

[The Escaped Ape]

Thanks bd.

Reef Bass - that's where it is now. Probably the lowest flow area of the tank. Thanks again for the advice.

 

[LeLutinBanni]

very nice

 

[TheCoralGarage]

How is your mycedium doing? We recently got one of these, it seemed to recede and discolor a little at first, started to bump my mg up to around 1480 and it seems to be coming back well. Any hints you can share?

 

[The Escaped Ape]

Hi Peter and Emily,

Sorry to say that in the period after getting this, the tank as a whole took a turn for the worse. Most softies and some LPS survived, but all my chalices (bar my least favorite one which is still going strong) receded away to nothing. I think I had a problem with alk and wasn't testing regularly enough (and the magnesium problem suggested above might also have contributed). I'm about to reboot the tank and will be order a pH probe to help me keep an eye on parameters, together with more, and better, test kits.

I hope you have better luck than I did!

 

[Sheol]

That's a real bummer! That was a beautiful coral. I hope that I can find me one, maybe the angel(s) will leave it alone..

Matthew

 

[TheCoralGarage]

Ouch, I'm really sorry to hear that. I wish you luck on the rebirth of your tank.

Our piece is looking better and better each day but it seems pretty slow in its rebound. I'm not sure if ours is a mycedium or a pectinia. Same exact colors & pattern though, just a little more upward growth. Sheol, I do know where to get them in SoCal if you'd like to PM me.

 

[LittleFish2012]

Definitely a mecedium and looks like the wwc riddler