The $25 efflo.
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Cardiff R33
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Love brown corals, cheap and great seeing what colour they go
psykobowler
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Getting brown corals is not riskier at all. It is usually sold for a discount and when placed in tanks by reefers who actually know what they are doing, the sps usually colors back up. The risky ones are the ones with tissue loss or shows sign of stn usually at the base. Bleached or brown can recover. Tissue loss is a suspect.
Allmost
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Fcmatt
I do enjoy your posts and the way you try to insult others, but many reefers have superior skills and can save those corals and color them up do not hate on others with superior skills, just cause you can not make corals color up from that point ! alot of us really enjoy "saving" a brown piece and making it so happy it would shine for us
we take pride in that.
fcmatt
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2-3 of those corals already show tissue loss.
The others are right behind them.
Most LFS, when they chop up corals, which I see is the case with this place
means they lost the rest of it and are attempting to save a few bits to sell.
In the end that LFS does not appear to know how to take care of corals so
that they do not die if someone does not buy them right away. You are
getting weakened and dieing corals that happen to also be brown.
And seriously.. is that a metal rack in salt water? If yes.. ***.
I know what you are saying about brown healthy corals but this operation is
probably not a good source for them.
LMAO. This thread just got epic.
Thanks guys, right now it's under 400 watt 6500k Iwasaki unsupplemented. Tunze 9002 DOC skimming wet, weekly 50% water changes, reef crest at 100% MP, feeding roti feast and fish food for the damsel. Top off is vinegar-charged kalk.
Yes, that metal rack is in the tank... so?
Thanks guys, right now it's under 400 watt 6500k Iwasaki unsupplemented. Tunze 9002 DOC skimming wet, weekly 50% water changes, reef crest at 100% MP, feeding roti feast and fish food for the damsel. Top off is vinegar-charged kalk.
Yes, that metal rack is in the tank... so?
ONE of those corals (on the right) has old tissue loss that the algae has begun to die back from (leaving old white/brown skeleton) when I started using vinegar charged kalk.
And for those of you wondering, yep, this is the tank I posted about last year.
As my little tank approaches one year old, I can say it has been anything but a pleasure. The relearning curve wasn't bad, but I had several disasters.
Most of you know about the Kalk overdose followed by strange Greenwater event:
Result, I lost 3 incredible colonies and most frags that several hobbyists/friends sent me in good faith. Incredibly embarrassing. But there were survivors, even if they had lost a lot of ground.
Recovery was slow, but happened, things began growing as I would expect.
Then an AEFW outbreak that started out as slow and controllable began to go haywire, they were suddenly on every colony I had. I basted regularly, 2-3x a day, and again, after hard work, I had recovery on my side again. At least that time I didn't lose any full colonies or frags. It didn't hurt that the damsel in the tank LOVES to eat them.
I was a happy camper until one day, out of the blue, this summer, RTN. I mean literally nothing discoverable was out of whack. First one, then 3 Acropora colonies. 100% water change finally allowed me to save tips from one branching colony, and patches survived on that samoensis-type. I have just recently begun to see that thickened edge that means recovery.
Oh yeah, did I mention everything Acropora that wasn't originally green is a lovely shade of sh*t brown?
This continual reinforcement of my discouragement made me realize, as Woody Harrelson so eloquently put it in Zombieland, time to nut up or shut up (shut down). I'm choosing the former.
For the past year, it's been inches forward, a foot back.
The remaining coral livestock in the tank:
- Acropora monticulosa (First Acropora colony in the tank. Diver's Den. Can you believe that? The one coral that has come out of every mini tankpocalypse completely unscathed is a goddamn wild monticulosa!)
- Acropora samoensis (wild colony from Diver's Den, an RTN survivor)
- Acropora sp. (wild colony from Diver's Den, a kalk OD/Greenwater and AEFW survivor)
- Acropora sp. 'Incredible Hulk' (unscathed, pretty sure it's unkillable)
- Acropora sp. (some crazy fluorescent green maricultured one, not a slimer/yongei, RTN survivor, saved the tips).
- Acropora sp. (LFS frag, unscathed)
- Porites lutea (handles everything in stride and keeps growing like The Blob).
- Pocillopora eydouxii (unscathed)
- Montipora stellata (unscathed)
- Montipora setosa (unscathed)
- Seriatopora hystrix (RTN survivor)
- Agaricia agaricites (unscathed)
- Acropora efflorescens (the brown frag about 6" across I picked up for $25 this week)
Other than that, I have two T. croceas, a few Trochus, a bluefin/black damsel, and a rock boring urchin than I'm rather fond of when I get to see him. All the folks that have known me in the reef community for years know I have no interest in anything other SPS with the exception of Tubastrea.
Things have been stable since the summer, and I have been a psycho nutjob about keeping everything perfect. I have started to see regrowth in the last month or so. I didn't get anything new, even a frag, until I saw new growth and stability.
I can't say enough about what using vinegar in the kalkwasser has done for stability and alkalinity maintenance, either.
As my little tank approaches one year old, I can say it has been anything but a pleasure. The relearning curve wasn't bad, but I had several disasters.
Most of you know about the Kalk overdose followed by strange Greenwater event:
Result, I lost 3 incredible colonies and most frags that several hobbyists/friends sent me in good faith. Incredibly embarrassing. But there were survivors, even if they had lost a lot of ground.
Recovery was slow, but happened, things began growing as I would expect.
Then an AEFW outbreak that started out as slow and controllable began to go haywire, they were suddenly on every colony I had. I basted regularly, 2-3x a day, and again, after hard work, I had recovery on my side again. At least that time I didn't lose any full colonies or frags. It didn't hurt that the damsel in the tank LOVES to eat them.
I was a happy camper until one day, out of the blue, this summer, RTN. I mean literally nothing discoverable was out of whack. First one, then 3 Acropora colonies. 100% water change finally allowed me to save tips from one branching colony, and patches survived on that samoensis-type. I have just recently begun to see that thickened edge that means recovery.
Oh yeah, did I mention everything Acropora that wasn't originally green is a lovely shade of sh*t brown?
This continual reinforcement of my discouragement made me realize, as Woody Harrelson so eloquently put it in Zombieland, time to nut up or shut up (shut down). I'm choosing the former.
For the past year, it's been inches forward, a foot back.
The remaining coral livestock in the tank:
- Acropora monticulosa (First Acropora colony in the tank. Diver's Den. Can you believe that? The one coral that has come out of every mini tankpocalypse completely unscathed is a goddamn wild monticulosa!)
- Acropora samoensis (wild colony from Diver's Den, an RTN survivor)
- Acropora sp. (wild colony from Diver's Den, a kalk OD/Greenwater and AEFW survivor)
- Acropora sp. 'Incredible Hulk' (unscathed, pretty sure it's unkillable)
- Acropora sp. (some crazy fluorescent green maricultured one, not a slimer/yongei, RTN survivor, saved the tips).
- Acropora sp. (LFS frag, unscathed)
- Porites lutea (handles everything in stride and keeps growing like The Blob).
- Pocillopora eydouxii (unscathed)
- Montipora stellata (unscathed)
- Montipora setosa (unscathed)
- Seriatopora hystrix (RTN survivor)
- Agaricia agaricites (unscathed)
- Acropora efflorescens (the brown frag about 6" across I picked up for $25 this week)
Other than that, I have two T. croceas, a few Trochus, a bluefin/black damsel, and a rock boring urchin than I'm rather fond of when I get to see him. All the folks that have known me in the reef community for years know I have no interest in anything other SPS with the exception of Tubastrea.
Things have been stable since the summer, and I have been a psycho nutjob about keeping everything perfect. I have started to see regrowth in the last month or so. I didn't get anything new, even a frag, until I saw new growth and stability.
I can't say enough about what using vinegar in the kalkwasser has done for stability and alkalinity maintenance, either.
fcmatt
Member
I thought this was a picture of corals at a LFS. Now it seems this is your
home aquarium. I am unclear how you think it will color up when the other
corals are pretty much brown also and I assume have been in the tank for
a while with somewhat stable conditions.
Before I read this post I stared at the picture again and thought the metal
rack was indeed beneath the glass. As in the tank was sitting on a metal rack
but now you state the metal rack is in the tank?
Call me confused now.
home aquarium. I am unclear how you think it will color up when the other
corals are pretty much brown also and I assume have been in the tank for
a while with somewhat stable conditions.
Before I read this post I stared at the picture again and thought the metal
rack was indeed beneath the glass. As in the tank was sitting on a metal rack
but now you state the metal rack is in the tank?
Call me confused now.
I'm messing with you. Read the above post, the tank has had big disasters in the past 6 months.
