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dwculp
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The Royal Gramma Blues
The Royal Gramma Blues
Yeah, Im still alive.............
I hate Royal Grammas, I have NEVER been able to keep one. They are suposed to be simple, easy, hardy fish.
With me they just die, they normally dont make it much past QT time.
I dont get it. I have fish that are suposed to be MUCH harder to keep. In fact, Ive had some of my fish for 2.5 years and they are going strong. But add one Royal Gramma and the thing is dead within a month.
Arrrrgggghhhhh.
Anyways, I know I havent posted in forever, but the tank is doing GREAT. Although I need to replace my PC bulbs as the tank has that yellow/green tinge to it from the old lights.
The Royal Gramma Blues
Yeah, Im still alive.............
I hate Royal Grammas, I have NEVER been able to keep one. They are suposed to be simple, easy, hardy fish.
With me they just die, they normally dont make it much past QT time.
I dont get it. I have fish that are suposed to be MUCH harder to keep. In fact, Ive had some of my fish for 2.5 years and they are going strong. But add one Royal Gramma and the thing is dead within a month.
Arrrrgggghhhhh.
Anyways, I know I havent posted in forever, but the tank is doing GREAT. Although I need to replace my PC bulbs as the tank has that yellow/green tinge to it from the old lights.
BrianPlankis
Premium Member
Yeah, it seems some tanks just can't support some easy to keep things. For whatever reason I cannot keep the montipora caps, they only last a few weeks in my tank and slowly fade away.
"Harder" to keep Acroporas do fine.
Brian
"Harder" to keep Acroporas do fine.
Brian
BrianPlankis
Premium Member
Yeah I couldn't keep digi until recently. My Magnesium was a little low (around 1200), but not terrible. But I now keep my Mg between 1300-1500 and so far the digis (knock on wood) are fine. I also keep my alk higher now 10-12 versus the old 7-8.
I might try monti caps in the future, but probably not for a long time as I'm focusing on breeding Pocillopora, digis and Manicina for the next couple of years.
Brian
Mushrooms, zoa, frogspawn, kenya tree and hammer corals all seem to thrive. All of them appear to have grown significantly. The one exception are the torch corals...for some reason they do not like the tank at all. In addition I've lost a lot of those nice brain hitchers...
No sightings of xanthid crabs but I still hear the clicking in the tank (and no it's not a mantis). I think it's a pistol but wonder what it's eating....do they like hermits? Mine appear to have cannibalized one another...
Oh and just when I thought I eliminated all the keyhole limpets...i don't know how they reproduce but I noticed the fuge and sump were covered with baby limpets...oh well.
No sightings of xanthid crabs but I still hear the clicking in the tank (and no it's not a mantis). I think it's a pistol but wonder what it's eating....do they like hermits? Mine appear to have cannibalized one another...
Oh and just when I thought I eliminated all the keyhole limpets...i don't know how they reproduce but I noticed the fuge and sump were covered with baby limpets...oh well.
BrianPlankis
Premium Member
I've seen more and more reports of torch corals not doing well in tanks, maybe they are harder to keep than people think?
Those brain hitchers require a lot of feeding, how often do you spot feed them? I had a total of five and I lost 2 of them. One of them was to predation by Eucinid worms, but the other I suspect I lost it due to low feeding.
I feed the remaining 3 brains at least 3 times a week and try to get food to all parts of the coral. They are now MUCH puffier than when I wasn't feeding them as much and one of them is even growing a new section
Brian
smcnally
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Really? My torch coral was one of the first coarls I got when I started my first tank. It is still growing, and I've fragged out and traded about 15-20 heads that have all done well in others tanks. My torch recently had a polyp bailout which you don't see to often with them. Maybe there have just been a lot of poor specimens lately?
dwculp
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I mostly have problems with Royal Grammas and Ricordea mushrooms.
I dont really know where my problems with Royal Grammas come from. They just dont last, Ive had some of my fish for almost 3 years, but I cant keep a Royal Gramma over a month.
Ive treid Ricordea Mushrooms twice and I believe something is eating them as they dont last overnight in my tank!!!
Ive had TREMENDOUS sucess with nearly everything else. My green brain is HUGE and will probably outgrow my tank soon. When I got it, i was receding and lots of skeleton showing.
I bought a hammer coral a bit over a year ago and it only had two small heads on it, one of which could have been considered dead. Now it has a least 15 giant heads on it and is huge. The kids call it the "broccolli" coral.
My kenya tree coral has taken over my tank.
Most of the corals that came on the rock are3 still alive. I had one large "flat" brain type coral that came on the rock that appeared to have died, I even scrubbed the skeleton clean once when I was having an algae outbreak, it is even regrowing. Quite amazing.
I dont really know where my problems with Royal Grammas come from. They just dont last, Ive had some of my fish for almost 3 years, but I cant keep a Royal Gramma over a month.
Ive treid Ricordea Mushrooms twice and I believe something is eating them as they dont last overnight in my tank!!!
Ive had TREMENDOUS sucess with nearly everything else. My green brain is HUGE and will probably outgrow my tank soon. When I got it, i was receding and lots of skeleton showing.
I bought a hammer coral a bit over a year ago and it only had two small heads on it, one of which could have been considered dead. Now it has a least 15 giant heads on it and is huge. The kids call it the "broccolli" coral.
My kenya tree coral has taken over my tank.
Most of the corals that came on the rock are3 still alive. I had one large "flat" brain type coral that came on the rock that appeared to have died, I even scrubbed the skeleton clean once when I was having an algae outbreak, it is even regrowing. Quite amazing.
drk70
Premium Member
Torch - Gone
Moon coral - Gone
Elephant skin coral - Gone
Orange Montipora - Gone
Kenya Tree - Gone
Pulsating Xenia - Grows like weeds
Zoanthids - grow but slow
Hammer - OK
Acropora - Growing
Purple Montipora digitata - OK
Green Montipora digitata - Semi OK
Trumpet coral - Semi OK
Fire coral - can't find a way to rid my rock of it.
Red slime algea - spreads faster than my xenia
Many of the corals and sponges are still alive that came on the rock.
Moon coral - Gone
Elephant skin coral - Gone
Orange Montipora - Gone
Kenya Tree - Gone
Pulsating Xenia - Grows like weeds
Zoanthids - grow but slow
Hammer - OK
Acropora - Growing
Purple Montipora digitata - OK
Green Montipora digitata - Semi OK
Trumpet coral - Semi OK
Fire coral - can't find a way to rid my rock of it.
Red slime algea - spreads faster than my xenia
Many of the corals and sponges are still alive that came on the rock.
dwculp
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Kenya Tree coral gone????
Geez, mine is a weed, a pest that I cannot get rid of. In fact, I have cut piecies off and threw them in my QT tank which has low lighting and my 75 gallon fish only which has a single strip light for lighting and it grows in there.
I could probably throw it in my toilet and it would grow!
Geez, mine is a weed, a pest that I cannot get rid of. In fact, I have cut piecies off and threw them in my QT tank which has low lighting and my 75 gallon fish only which has a single strip light for lighting and it grows in there.
I could probably throw it in my toilet and it would grow!
