Coral care.

[Jayva]

Ive come to the conclusion that live aquaria are idiots.

 

Anyway.

 

I got my first frags. Might be only I don't want to clutter everything up.

 

Frogspawn

Metallic pipe organ.

GSP.

 

The frog spawn likes where I put it. It fully opened all 6 heads 15. Mins being in the tank. At lights out it retracted

Should I spot feed it brine once a week?

 

GSP I'm accustomed to.

 

Pipe organ is new to me also.

 

The pipe organ is a huge colony so I put it on my big (and only) rock as the center piece it's a Tiffany blue color.

Any tips and help with that you can give me?

One site says high flow. One says low flow. One says blast it. One says its delicate. Confusing me.

 

Light is AI hydra 52. non wifi version. Primes at 10% for an hour then goes to 20% keeping it at 20 not to shock anything. Weekly I'll raise it by 20% increments. (I don't have the controller yet. Button does 10 20 40 60 80 100%

 

Any personal expirience on these corals greatly appreciated.

 

And don't worry about the gsp it's isolated in the sand on a fist sized live rock far from any walls lol.

 

6G fluval edge.

[ajmckay]

So I would be less concerned about the GSP and more concerned about the frogspawn - which can extend itself pretty far!

 

Anyways, what are you using for flow?

 

All of those corals are fine in medium light and medium flow. If you need to blast any of them though make it the GSP which can tolerate the widest range of conditions IME (though prefers higher light and flow IME).

 

So honestly in a 6g you're fine with almost anything - even the flow from like an AC50 or something would probably work but a small circulation pump would probably work as well.

 

Feeding the frogspawn shouldn't be necessary - they'll take small foods though in many cases as they're pretty sticky.

 

Good luck!

[Jayva]

So I would be less concerned about the GSP and more concerned about the frogspawn - which can extend itself pretty far!

 

Anyways, what are you using for flow?

 

All of those corals are fine in medium light and medium flow. If you need to blast any of them though make it the GSP which can tolerate the widest range of conditions IME (though prefers higher light and flow IME).

 

So honestly in a 6g you're fine with almost anything - even the flow from like an AC50 or something would probably work but a small circulation pump would probably work as well.

 

Feeding the frogspawn shouldn't be necessary - they'll take small foods though in many cases as they're pretty sticky.

 

Good luck!

I'm using two circulation pumps facing each other. 92GPH each. Working so far. Frogs on the floor. I it likes it there it fully opens so ill leave it there. The GSP would not open on the island whatsoever. So I moved it to the top of the main rock. Where it's brightest and most flow. See what happens. And I put the pipe on the island because it didn't like being at the top of the rock. We'll find out soon if the gsp and pipe like those areas.

[John L]

Hi, GSP is very tough, I've moved mine from top to bottom, left to right, shade to full light, min flow to high, it just keeps going. mine occasionally closes for days at a time then comes out like nothing happened.

 

Give it a few days to let it come out if its closed up at the moment, it should be fine.