Hello All,
I have been saving up some random oddball questions and wondered if anyone would chime in with some advice...
-- How do you control the growth/spread of some corals? In my case anthelia which has already covered about as much space as I want them to have covered and eventually my GSP will need to be reined in.
-- All the corals in my tank seem to be doing well except for my zoos. Some days they just dont all open up well, they seem to have really long 'stalks' before their button tops? What should I do to help them out?
-- I have been feeding my bubble coral silversides, how much and how often should it eat?
-- I had a fairly largeish purply mushroom that sortof melted where its foot attaches to the rock and it's top curled up some so it doesnt open like it used to. then where its foot had melted now there are lots of baby mushrooms, is that normal? It didnt look like a healthy process but I guess nothing bad came of it?
-- I have a single ricordia polyp that never wants to stay in one place. I am scared to glue it down somewhere for fear that I will pick the wrong spot.....
-- I have some hairy mushrooms that I would almost swear are not as green as when I got them. How do I prevent the colour loss?
-- I have some sort of odd growth on one of my rocks that is really pretty, how do I know if it is a coral or a sponge, it has grown in I guess what you would call a plate like manner and is dark red with orange trim.
-- I have been using Phosban, how often should I change it and should I just run it all the time or only every now and again.
-- my pulsing xenia just dont seem to pulse much any more, is it cause of too much flow?
-- Is it possible that I should rearange my rockwork for better waterflow? Are there any rules that I should have followed when aquascaping that I didnt know about?
Thanks to anyone who has pointers for me. Here is the fine print for anyone who needs it...
I have a 55 gal that has been up since Christmas and run a 260pc fixture, my parameters are all pretty normal/stable. I run sg at 1.026 or 7 and a temp at about 80 degrees. I do a 5 gal water change every week to 10 days. My skimmer does not produce as much funk as it should, but I am getting a new one in about a month. I have about 50 lbs of rock, and have just recovered from a red slime/hair algae problem. I have a tomato clown, a yellow watchman, and a fairy wrasse, pistol shrimp, coral banded shrimp, and other misc critters.
--Haley
I have been saving up some random oddball questions and wondered if anyone would chime in with some advice...
-- How do you control the growth/spread of some corals? In my case anthelia which has already covered about as much space as I want them to have covered and eventually my GSP will need to be reined in.
-- All the corals in my tank seem to be doing well except for my zoos. Some days they just dont all open up well, they seem to have really long 'stalks' before their button tops? What should I do to help them out?
-- I have been feeding my bubble coral silversides, how much and how often should it eat?
-- I had a fairly largeish purply mushroom that sortof melted where its foot attaches to the rock and it's top curled up some so it doesnt open like it used to. then where its foot had melted now there are lots of baby mushrooms, is that normal? It didnt look like a healthy process but I guess nothing bad came of it?
-- I have a single ricordia polyp that never wants to stay in one place. I am scared to glue it down somewhere for fear that I will pick the wrong spot.....
-- I have some hairy mushrooms that I would almost swear are not as green as when I got them. How do I prevent the colour loss?
-- I have some sort of odd growth on one of my rocks that is really pretty, how do I know if it is a coral or a sponge, it has grown in I guess what you would call a plate like manner and is dark red with orange trim.
-- I have been using Phosban, how often should I change it and should I just run it all the time or only every now and again.
-- my pulsing xenia just dont seem to pulse much any more, is it cause of too much flow?
-- Is it possible that I should rearange my rockwork for better waterflow? Are there any rules that I should have followed when aquascaping that I didnt know about?
Thanks to anyone who has pointers for me. Here is the fine print for anyone who needs it...
I have a 55 gal that has been up since Christmas and run a 260pc fixture, my parameters are all pretty normal/stable. I run sg at 1.026 or 7 and a temp at about 80 degrees. I do a 5 gal water change every week to 10 days. My skimmer does not produce as much funk as it should, but I am getting a new one in about a month. I have about 50 lbs of rock, and have just recovered from a red slime/hair algae problem. I have a tomato clown, a yellow watchman, and a fairy wrasse, pistol shrimp, coral banded shrimp, and other misc critters.
--Haley
Seriously, every couple of months I have to take out some rock and prune them back. Stay on top of GSP's, the take extra time to scrape off the rock and can become a troublesome (they will nearly always win property warfare). 
