We used have saltwater aquarium a LONG time ago (for 5 years) so saltwater aquariums are not 'new' to us; however it was a long desired dream of my husband's to have a mixed reef tank.
After he got back to studying the advances in equipment, lighting, etc. he kept researching for the past couple of years and finally bought and setup a tank (112 gallons although not overly burned with rock - carib sea rock).
It's been established for about 6 months and yeah, I found out after the fact that an Elegance coral is not something we should probably have bought especially re: the ECS issue. We do know it is Australian. I had a separate post when it closed up oddly and I was unsure if something was wrong.
Foxface kindly followed up to see what happened after that and the Elegance coral, for now, seems to be thriving. I think a very crazy skunk cleaner shrimp agitates it and short of having a sword fight with it, I try to keep the shrimp happily fed.
I know that these corals are photosynthetic but think I've read that this does not mean they don't need to be fed (assuming in oceans they would eat plankton and other things).
I bought some reef chili so my basic question is how often should these corals be fed and since there are only 3 should they be target fed or broadcast fed?
Found out after watching husband last night that attempting to reef glue something as thin as a montipora piece into place is dicey if you are trying to place if between contact points that are not 'substantial'!
Thanks in advance to everyone here, people have been very patient and kind to this "reef rookie"
After he got back to studying the advances in equipment, lighting, etc. he kept researching for the past couple of years and finally bought and setup a tank (112 gallons although not overly burned with rock - carib sea rock).
It's been established for about 6 months and yeah, I found out after the fact that an Elegance coral is not something we should probably have bought especially re: the ECS issue. We do know it is Australian. I had a separate post when it closed up oddly and I was unsure if something was wrong.
Foxface kindly followed up to see what happened after that and the Elegance coral, for now, seems to be thriving. I think a very crazy skunk cleaner shrimp agitates it and short of having a sword fight with it, I try to keep the shrimp happily fed.
I know that these corals are photosynthetic but think I've read that this does not mean they don't need to be fed (assuming in oceans they would eat plankton and other things).
I bought some reef chili so my basic question is how often should these corals be fed and since there are only 3 should they be target fed or broadcast fed?
Found out after watching husband last night that attempting to reef glue something as thin as a montipora piece into place is dicey if you are trying to place if between contact points that are not 'substantial'!
Thanks in advance to everyone here, people have been very patient and kind to this "reef rookie"
