el fabuloso Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 You only give elephant ears to people you hate. And I definitely miss the days when I was the Heisenberg of blue cloves. 1 Quote Link to comment
GtTap Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 What is that green sps. Middle picture is Veng LE. Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted August 21, 2016 Author Share Posted August 21, 2016 ORA Kelly green psammacora. It's exceptionally bright green. That is a low light picture. You can see this coral from across the room. It's rare too, ORA doesn't sell it anymore. 4 Quote Link to comment
Tamberav Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 Didn't know ORA stopped selling it. They are gorgeous corals, I have a frag of it and it does truly glow! I think LA has their own re-branded version of it too. 1 Quote Link to comment
StinkyBunny Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 The only place I've ever seen any Psammacora is Pacific East with any regularity. 1 Quote Link to comment
Veng Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 ORA Kelly green psammacora. It's exceptionally bright green. That is a low light picture. You can see this coral from across the room. It's rare too, ORA doesn't sell it anymore. I've still got a colony from the frag you gave me. But alas, I have no camera lens to take a picture of it with It's very much more encrusting than vertical growing in my tank though. 1 Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted August 21, 2016 Author Share Posted August 21, 2016 I've still got a colony from the frag you gave me. But alas, I have no camera lens to take a picture of it with It's very much more encrusting than vertical growing in my tank though. I'm not keeping your lens - I swear! Anytime you say I will send it back. This is how bright this coral is IRL 9 Quote Link to comment
StinkyBunny Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 I think my wrasses rode the short but to the fish school, they'll eat lettuce from the frickin' clip but not a shrimp head? Quote Link to comment
Veng Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 I'm not keeping your lens - I swear! Anytime you say I will send it back. I know. I need to get the last bit of algae out of my tank so I feel like taking pictures again then I'll be asking for it back. Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted August 22, 2016 Author Share Posted August 22, 2016 The clownfish eggs hatched last night sometime. I'm wondering who was awake for a midnight meal. 4 Quote Link to comment
JavaJacketOC Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 The clownfish eggs hatched last night sometime. I'm wondering who was awake for a midnight meal. SAVE THEM! Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted August 23, 2016 Author Share Posted August 23, 2016 SAVE THEM! Not possible in a community tank especially when they lay on the back glass. If it was in a spawning pot or on a tile and I was inclined to have 5-10 tanks for rearing them through various stages - maybe. But I'm not inclined so free food they are. 3 Quote Link to comment
Veng Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Not possible in a community tank especially when they lay on the back glass. If it was in a spawning pot or on a tile and I was inclined to have 5-10 tanks for rearing them through various stages - maybe. But I'm not inclined so free food they are.My clowns have literally been spawning for years, I've thought about trying to raise them a time or two, but just too much trouble. So I let nature takes it's course instead. 1 Quote Link to comment
GtTap Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 You said you feed corals daily? What do you feed? 1 Quote Link to comment
JavaJacketOC Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Not possible in a community tank especially when they lay on the back glass. If it was in a spawning pot or on a tile and I was inclined to have 5-10 tanks for rearing them through various stages - maybe. But I'm not inclined so free food they are. 2 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 I think the fish eating the free live food disagree, lol. 7 Quote Link to comment
Ebn Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Actually it is possible. The pair of Rod's onyxes that I currently own were pulled out of a community tank via the use of a kressler larvae collector ~9 months ago. 2 Quote Link to comment
holy carp Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Actually it is possible. The pair of Rod's onyxes that I currently own were pulled out of a community tank via the use of a kressler larvae collector ~9 months ago. Cool. Are they hosting a frogspawn? Quote Link to comment
Mariaface Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Cool. Are they hosting a frogspawn? Nah, the frogspawn's hosting them 3 Quote Link to comment
holy carp Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Nah, the frogspawn's hosting them Ha! I always wondered - I've heard it both ways so often. Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted August 23, 2016 Author Share Posted August 23, 2016 You said you feed corals daily? What do you feed? The Q is what don't I feed? So before I list the foods let me explain my reasoning behind the foods I choose to feed my corals. My tank is SPS dominant. I have equal number of LPS, and polyps but by mass the SPS is more. SPS polyps are very small, they cannot ingest big particles of foods like mysis for example. For the small polyps corals I feed powdered food or liquid food, can also be considered planktonic foods, (which anthias also love BTW). Examples are reef roids, Brightwell Reef Blizzards, Golden pearls 0.05 micron food, decapped brine shrimp eggs, phytoplankton, TLF zooplankton, Continuum Microvert. The same foods plus very small pellets work for my LPS also. I also randomly throw in rotifers (either live or frozen), Dr G's LPS food which even the fish love, Dr G's Caviar which is fish roe. I think the fish eating the free live food disagree, lol. Thank you Teeny. Actually it is possible. The pair of Rod's onyxes that I currently own were pulled out of a community tank via the use of a kressler larvae collector ~9 months ago. . Cute picture. But I'm not buying into your cute story. Never mind the logistics of trying to raise clownfish (space, multiple tanks for rearing, cultivating food sources etc) - The easy availability of aquacultured clownfish means I probably couldn't give my my clownfish babies away for free. If they were designer I could. Nah, the frogspawn's hosting them ^^ this. 7 Quote Link to comment
Ebn Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Haha, I thought so as well, until I went and saw the breeder's setup (D-Nak on RC) and his onyxes are the only ones from his 5 pairs of breeders that isn't isolated. They're in his 120g tank along with the rest of his community. The other four pairs are in 20 gallon tanks by themselves. He uses the AP breed rotifer setup and has 2 tanks for the babies. One dedicated tank just for the clownfish to settle (another 20g) and then the other tank that he just recently upgraded to with all his carpet 'nems and ritteri with the babies that he's currently selling. I've also seen Rich's (Ross) setup and it was pretty simple as well. He was breeding some common clowns and using the culls to feed his soapfish. This reminds me that I need to stop by for a visit with him soon after he gets back from his coral orgy. 1 Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted August 23, 2016 Author Share Posted August 23, 2016 Haha, I thought so as well, until I went and saw the breeder's setup (D-Nak on RC) and his onyxes are the only ones from his 5 pairs of breeders that isn't isolated. They're in his 120g tank along with the rest of his community. The other four pairs are in 20 gallon tanks by themselves. He uses the AP breed rotifer setup and has 2 tanks for the babies. One dedicated tank just for the clownfish to settle (another 20g) and then the other tank that he just recently upgraded to with all his carpet 'nems and ritteri with the babies that he's currently selling. I've also seen Rich's (Ross) setup and it was pretty simple as well. He was breeding some common clowns and using the culls to feed his soapfish. This reminds me that I need to stop by for a visit with him soon after he gets back from his coral orgy. I'll be meeting him at MACNA, I can't wait. I was to do a podcast with him last year but it did not materialize. We were going to do it at about this time from his field trip for the coral spawning. Would have been amazing. Tell him Metrokat said hello. Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted August 23, 2016 Author Share Posted August 23, 2016 Changed the DI resin in my RODI, beat the sediment filter till it was cleaner. I should order a set of everything. I had a silica buster DI resin but I'm not sure when it may have been used up. I bought it in January. My TDS is zero. But I have diatoms. Changed my carbon yesterday. Phosphates are testing at between 0.04 and 0.08 - perfect. Nitrates are 0.50 - perfect. Cal/Alk/Mg need some work. Alk is high, the other 2 are low. I'm getting very tired of BRS 2 part supplements not mixing the same way each time. 5 Quote Link to comment
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