ninjamyst Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 it's tonight. where are the pics Link to comment
kimberbee Posted November 10, 2015 Author Share Posted November 10, 2015 Here it is, the actual black sun coral pic: Polyps out again when I got home today Head over to my fusion thread for a bombardment of RFA pics and a few other new things! Link to comment
kimberbee Posted November 11, 2015 Author Share Posted November 11, 2015 I cleaned the glass Link to comment
aquakevem Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Lovely - I'll need to get some for my tank. Link to comment
kimberbee Posted November 11, 2015 Author Share Posted November 11, 2015 I can't stop looking at my adorable sun coral. It's my new favorite thing!! Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Beautiful! I just bought my first sun coral (first NPS) online from Glenn. It's the standard orange- that black is gorgeous! Link to comment
kimberbee Posted November 12, 2015 Author Share Posted November 12, 2015 FTS almost 3 months post re-boot: Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Pretty sun coral at the most amazing price ever. Don't people usually pay like $35 a head for those? I've thought before to do a tank of those. But I thought the feeding would get tiresome. Link to comment
teenyreef Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Those black suns I love the FTS - the fish all look like they are holding still to pose for the shot Link to comment
kimberbee Posted November 13, 2015 Author Share Posted November 13, 2015 Pretty sun coral at the most amazing price ever. Don't people usually pay like $35 a head for those? I've thought before to do a tank of those. But I thought the feeding would get tiresome. Yeah, usually the LFS has chunks of the orange/yellow suns for $50-75 for a small 10 or so head piece. I have NEVER seen the black suns for sale at any LFS, so I had to jump on it for $15!! I thinking RFA, gorg, sun dominant upgrade in the spring. Of course, I'll still keep some SPS, the plates, and my hammer too. Those black suns I love the FTS - the fish all look like they are holding still to pose for the shot It's so much better with this new scape! They are all out all the time! Even my firefish, which I was told can be really skittish. He only hides when I'm siphoning the sand clean. Definitely am going to keep my scape similar to this in the upgrade! Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Just remember to keep feeding that black sun, go for at least a couple of times daily. They will start to recede very quickly if they don't get enough Link to comment
kimberbee Posted November 13, 2015 Author Share Posted November 13, 2015 Just remember to keep feeding that black sun, go for at least a couple of times daily. They will start to recede very quickly if they don't get enough Thanks for the tip. I had been doing every 2 days, so I will bump that up! Good thing (I think) is that two or three heads are baby heads. I'll be able to tell if it's doing well based on if they start to grow big and strong. I know my orange one started to grow a 5th baby head, but when I added my shrimp it disappeared cause he is a food stealer!! I've got water bottle covers now! I'm having a problem with orange "dust" on my sand bed. I'm assuming it's algae of some kind? Weird cause I'm normally careful about feeding this tank, but I wonder if it's just part of the "uglies" that new tanks go through. Either way, I don't like it! Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Just diatoms - you'll be seeing a LOT more of them since you will be significantly increasing your feeding for the black sun until your biofilter adjusts to the new nutrient import amount. What skimmer do you have? Link to comment
kimberbee Posted November 13, 2015 Author Share Posted November 13, 2015 Just diatoms - you'll be seeing a LOT more of them since you will be significantly increasing your feeding for the black sun until your biofilter adjusts to the new nutrient import amount. What skimmer do you have? Don't have one in the tank at the moment but I do have an eshopps nano skimmer I can add. This tank's got diatoms on the sand. Fusion has hair algae. I knocked both tank photoperiods down by an hour, and added chemipure Wednesday. Both tanks had previously only been running carbon. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Don't have one in the tank at the moment but I do have an eshopps nano skimmer I can add. This tank's got diatoms on the sand. Fusion has hair algae. I knocked both tank photoperiods down by an hour, and added chemipure Wednesday. Both tanks had previously only been running carbon. Yeah, with the new black sun, you're going to absolutely need a skimmer, the bigger the better. They're pretty delicate as it is with good water quality, and with a lot of food water quality goes down pretty fast. Link to comment
kimberbee Posted November 13, 2015 Author Share Posted November 13, 2015 Yeah, with the new black sun, you're going to absolutely need a skimmer, the bigger the better. They're pretty delicate as it is with good water quality, and with a lot of food water quality goes down pretty fast. Thanks. I'll stick it in tonight and work on dialing it in over the weekend. I may need to bump up my cuc in both tanks. ####ing lazy snails. The only ones I see moving around much are the zombie snails. Too cold for shipping at this point so hopefully I can find something locally. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Thanks. I'll stick it in tonight and work on dialing it in over the weekend. I may need to bump up my cuc in both tanks. ####ing lazy snails. The only ones I see moving around much are the zombie snails. Too cold for shipping at this point so hopefully I can find something locally. I was FINALLY able to get a damned order of FL ceriths in that survived shipping. I've ordered at least 5 times from three different places in the last year and a half and have NEVER had any FL ceriths survive shipping. Was so happy about that yesterday that it made up for the fact that they sent me some sort of crazy stupid starfish and a bunch of whelks instead of nassarius lol. Link to comment
kimberbee Posted November 13, 2015 Author Share Posted November 13, 2015 I was FINALLY able to get a damned order of FL ceriths in that survived shipping. I've ordered at least 5 times from three different places in the last year and a half and have NEVER had any FL ceriths survive shipping. Was so happy about that yesterday that it made up for the fact that they sent me some sort of crazy stupid starfish and a bunch of whelks instead of nassarius lol. My FL ceriths are just as lazy as my nerites, that fall over just as often as astreas... ####ing snails... Link to comment
gena Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Those are impressive photos of the black sun coral . I was FINALLY able to get a damned order of FL ceriths in that survived shipping. I've ordered at least 5 times from three different places in the last year and a half and have NEVER had any FL ceriths survive shipping. Was so happy about that yesterday that it made up for the fact that they sent me some sort of crazy stupid starfish and a bunch of whelks instead of nassarius lol.Have you tried Live-plants for Florida ceriths? I've not lost a one from there. Now reefcleaners..they all always die. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Those are impressive photos of the black sun coral . Have you tried Live-plants for Florida ceriths? I've not lost a one from there. Now reefcleaners..they all always die. Twice for them. Link to comment
gena Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Twice for them.and no luck? Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 and no luck?100% mortality both times. The other items arrived OK, its just FL ceriths. Link to comment
kimberbee Posted November 13, 2015 Author Share Posted November 13, 2015 100% mortality both times. The other items arrived OK, its just FL ceriths. ####ing snails... Link to comment
ninjamyst Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 my two turbo snails I got locally both died...and pretty much nuked the tank with cyano Link to comment
kimberbee Posted November 13, 2015 Author Share Posted November 13, 2015 my two turbo snails I got locally both died...and pretty much nuked the tank with cyano What? Was this recently? Eff that... I'll just boost my water changes the next two weeks before my vacation, and hope I can worry about getting more snails later. If I JUST change water, will that even help with nasties and nitrates in the water, or do I need to siphon the sand? Link to comment
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