Our 29gal reef (pic intense)
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AquaKnight
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Sorry for the late replies, kinda sidetracked here with some friends.
Dan, yea, it's some type of Euphyilla (like a frogspawn-type LPS). Some stores sell a "Octopus Coral" that looks almost like it, but this one has really fat tentacles. I find this link, http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/401-500/Species pages/419.htm (esp. that third pic), which talks about my type, and inside the link to divisa, is the more common one I believe.
P. Penguins, I've had the sponge close to three months now. Yes, you would be correct in the difficult part being not letting it touch air. I wouldn't doubt an item for sale probably saw 3-4 holding tanks before a LFS got the sponge. So there's a pretty high risk chance. However, I think they're more worth the chance, plus they are super easy to monitor, you seen some white skeleton, it's time to pull it or a trim. I had to trim mine, whoever collected it, smashed the base up pretty good. As far as care, I like to 'think' I feed it, shot some 5-300 micron phyto-feast.
engine, I have a couple different types of caulerpa, I'm not really sure of their specific name, but some sawblade, some grape, and some "coin-link" in there. I also have "live sheet algae" in there, plus a frag or two of xenia. I went with calupera instead of cheato, because I tried a really nice football sized ball of cheato I got from a local member, and it did nothing but slowly die and disintegrate.
Dan, yea, it's some type of Euphyilla (like a frogspawn-type LPS). Some stores sell a "Octopus Coral" that looks almost like it, but this one has really fat tentacles. I find this link, http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/401-500/Species pages/419.htm (esp. that third pic), which talks about my type, and inside the link to divisa, is the more common one I believe.
P. Penguins, I've had the sponge close to three months now. Yes, you would be correct in the difficult part being not letting it touch air. I wouldn't doubt an item for sale probably saw 3-4 holding tanks before a LFS got the sponge. So there's a pretty high risk chance. However, I think they're more worth the chance, plus they are super easy to monitor, you seen some white skeleton, it's time to pull it or a trim. I had to trim mine, whoever collected it, smashed the base up pretty good. As far as care, I like to 'think' I feed it, shot some 5-300 micron phyto-feast.
engine, I have a couple different types of caulerpa, I'm not really sure of their specific name, but some sawblade, some grape, and some "coin-link" in there. I also have "live sheet algae" in there, plus a frag or two of xenia. I went with calupera instead of cheato, because I tried a really nice football sized ball of cheato I got from a local member, and it did nothing but slowly die and disintegrate.
AquaKnight
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Found some original pics, if anyone's interested in for comparison. The pics show the two previous aquascaped designs. Also, the old tank stand as well.
Purple Penguins
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so with the tree sponge, you are able to frag it if it gets to large? I was wondering about that part but you said you trimed it. so are you able to frag the trim part?
AquaKnight
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P. Penguins, I believe that's how you would go about it. I'm not 100% sure, just know that you could trim the base off. That's how you frag gorgonians which are similar enough, I guess. I decided not to save the base which had some dead tissue and didn't want to risk it.
reiko, I really like the sun coral, it gets a lot of comments too. I feed it every third day or every other day depending on how well it gets fed. I've had to move it since that spot is not remotely easy to fed, I needed an extra elbow lol. Yea, I'll toss a pic up when it opens up.
reiko, I really like the sun coral, it gets a lot of comments too. I feed it every third day or every other day depending on how well it gets fed. I've had to move it since that spot is not remotely easy to fed, I needed an extra elbow lol. Yea, I'll toss a pic up when it opens up.
Purple Penguins
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Thanks Aqua, my red tree sponge should be here on tuesday, if all goes well of course, you never know with ship delays, Im also considering a sun coral as well, my LFS has 3 of them $50 each
Obsessed_Reefer
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Tank looks cool. I like the setup
AquaKnight
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No prob, if you do have to trim, be sure to use a really sharp razor blade and not something like scissors, which would crush all the internal ventricles of the sponge. I paid $50 for my Sun Coral piece. If I had to do it again, I would consider the smaller piece, there's over 50 heads to feed!
Purple Penguins
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ouch! the ones I was looking at had about 20 heads each
Brandan
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Love the Xenias, it is nice to see some more people with Red Sea Xenias. Everyone only seems to carry the longer ones. I have both and my tank, and I like the Red Sea species waaayyy more, they pulse faster and more often, but their color is not as detailed as the others. Love the Rics also!!
