For those of you who did not know -
if you provide your corals with proper water chemistry and appropriate amounts of food, they'll be less likely to die... and they might even start to grow a bit!
After what has been a dismal spiral of death, I am pleased to report (knock on wood) that might tank finally seems to be happy again!
In addition (also with an appropriate knock on ye olde woode), I think I may have licked my redbug problem (anyone know what their life cycle is like and how long I need to not see them to feel confident they all got zapped?)!
On a couple of separate notes -
1. I saw Tom's tank last week while dropping off a frag for him, and aside from the "burnt" side of his tank, it is truly a sight to behold - ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL! If you have never seen his tank, be sure to take advantage of any invites you might get to do so!
2. Tom - I'll pop off another piece of that cyphastrea decadia for you sometime this week... are you always at home on Fridays? or when would be the best time to give it to you? Also, I forgot to notice whether or not you lost your "purple table acro"... if you did, I can frag a piece back for you from the one you gave me several months ago - just let me know!
3. Mike - I noticed a lovely pink/purple pocillopora sitting on a familiar looking "volcano plug" at Caeser's last week... any chance you might know where I can get a piece of it? ;-) (now that my tank has stabilized, I went ahead and purchased a few maricultured corals online... I got light blue A. gomezi and A. loisette, as well as a yellow/green A. abroholensis... and all three are large enough I could frag a piece if you were interested in any of them).
Anyhow, just wanted to share the above info and say thanks for all the advice I recieved from 'the gurus' in the club over the past few months - it is WAY more fun to once again be watching things grow rather than die in my tank!
if you provide your corals with proper water chemistry and appropriate amounts of food, they'll be less likely to die... and they might even start to grow a bit!
After what has been a dismal spiral of death, I am pleased to report (knock on wood) that might tank finally seems to be happy again!
In addition (also with an appropriate knock on ye olde woode), I think I may have licked my redbug problem (anyone know what their life cycle is like and how long I need to not see them to feel confident they all got zapped?)!
On a couple of separate notes -
1. I saw Tom's tank last week while dropping off a frag for him, and aside from the "burnt" side of his tank, it is truly a sight to behold - ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL! If you have never seen his tank, be sure to take advantage of any invites you might get to do so!
2. Tom - I'll pop off another piece of that cyphastrea decadia for you sometime this week... are you always at home on Fridays? or when would be the best time to give it to you? Also, I forgot to notice whether or not you lost your "purple table acro"... if you did, I can frag a piece back for you from the one you gave me several months ago - just let me know!
3. Mike - I noticed a lovely pink/purple pocillopora sitting on a familiar looking "volcano plug" at Caeser's last week... any chance you might know where I can get a piece of it? ;-) (now that my tank has stabilized, I went ahead and purchased a few maricultured corals online... I got light blue A. gomezi and A. loisette, as well as a yellow/green A. abroholensis... and all three are large enough I could frag a piece if you were interested in any of them).
Anyhow, just wanted to share the above info and say thanks for all the advice I recieved from 'the gurus' in the club over the past few months - it is WAY more fun to once again be watching things grow rather than die in my tank!
but I'll be off again the following friday. Anyway, let me know and we can hook up. Also now that your tank is back, I can frag you some more stuff,since my tank is back from the stress. If you are fragging the blue gomezi, please save me a piece. Just come over and pick out what you like. Thanks
