Turbinaria reniformis??????

[SteveNMegz]

Hey guys, this is our first sps which was an impulse buy, so we didn't research it before hand, and finiding it hard to find much info on them now.

Its a small frag about 1"x1", we have it about 7" under the water line in our tank. and our lights are about 5" from the water surface, lights are t5's 4x54, tanks is a 65G. How will it do under these lights????

Any info//articles//helpful advice on how to car for it???

Heres a pic....

 

[Jefe12234]

Turbinaria don't seem to care too much about lighting, so you should be fine with what you have. I have yellow and purple varieties of what I believe to be T. reniformis, as well as a green T. peltata. They are all very tolerant of varying conditions, having been in a couple different tanks and always doing well. I feed my T. reniformis cyclop-eeze when their polyps are extended. It's not necessary, but seems to make them grow faster. Overall, very easy corals to keep.

 

[kokain00]

We've had it in our tank for a week now and the polyps have not opened what so ever, is this bad??? every other coral we've bought has opened within a day, 2 at max. starting to get a little worried haha.
Thanks!!!

 

[SteveNMegz]

ours haven't extended yet either? is it abd???

 

[saltycreefer]

It will take a while for daytime polyp extension. Be patient. Check it with the lights out . I have LFS work experience and have seen many T. Reniformis come into the shop. They usually dont polyp out during daylight until they have acclimated for a while.

 

[SteveNMegz]

well we finally noticed the polyps come out at night, the skin seems to be healing well over it, but weve noticed hair algae starting to grow where it is healing, we try to pick it out every once in a while but jsut cant seem to get rid of it.