mollymonticello
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Tubestrea aurea?faulkneri + Tubestrea micanthra Anyone good with identifying these?
picked it up tonight at my LFS. It's been there for well over a month, maybe longer. I've been drooling over it for a while. To my pleasant surprise, it was opening wide up inside the bag on the way home! Still open.
I'm a little stumped on placement. I have the most flow (outlet for chiller on magdrive 700 and outlet for filstar XP3) on the right side of the tank, but that's where the most light is, too. The left side is shady, and the skimmer is there, but I wouldn't consider that a lot of flow. My tank is very tall, it's a 37 tall, and I have a standard T5 light strip. Is that too much light if I put the coral on the bottom? I can shade it more, but it won't get *as much* flow.
I have a rock flower anemone that I target feed every day, and I decided I really want something that needs to be target fed every day...a lot. lol, I guess this coral is perfect for that. I know they are difficult to keep, any tips would be appreciated. I'm going to try the pop-bottle trick this weekend, even though it ate already. I gave it a coctail of micro-vert, rotifers, and mysis. I'll try to find a link to the pop-bottle trick (or soda bottle if you're not from PA).
Whew, thanks for reading and thanks for any help.
picked it up tonight at my LFS. It's been there for well over a month, maybe longer. I've been drooling over it for a while. To my pleasant surprise, it was opening wide up inside the bag on the way home! Still open.
I'm a little stumped on placement. I have the most flow (outlet for chiller on magdrive 700 and outlet for filstar XP3) on the right side of the tank, but that's where the most light is, too. The left side is shady, and the skimmer is there, but I wouldn't consider that a lot of flow. My tank is very tall, it's a 37 tall, and I have a standard T5 light strip. Is that too much light if I put the coral on the bottom? I can shade it more, but it won't get *as much* flow.
I have a rock flower anemone that I target feed every day, and I decided I really want something that needs to be target fed every day...a lot. lol, I guess this coral is perfect for that. I know they are difficult to keep, any tips would be appreciated. I'm going to try the pop-bottle trick this weekend, even though it ate already. I gave it a coctail of micro-vert, rotifers, and mysis. I'll try to find a link to the pop-bottle trick (or soda bottle if you're not from PA).
Whew, thanks for reading and thanks for any help.