Thanks! Good luck with your 80 gallon. Sound like you got a great deal. Craigslist is the sh*t.
saltwater newbie attempting a 55 gallon reef
- Thread starter BTB0923
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So my mangroves have started sprouting leaves which I suppose is a good sign for the health of my fuge. There is also a bunch of zooplankton crawling on the glass in the fuge which I am stoked about. The gracilaria has a bunch of new sprouts growing upwards towards the light, but like I mentioned before there are some kind of worms living in the sand that are eating it. Is it normal to have worms in the sand in a fuge or are they something I should investigate and possibly remove??
Also, I am keeping my calcium, alk, and ph levels all in range and my corals seem to be doing well. I still haven't started testing for magnesium or any other important trace elements yet but I'll start as soon as I get the test kits. I am seeing new coraline algae growth on the glass.
All I'm putting in the tank as far as food for the corals is a couple drops of phytopheast a day. Is there something else I should be adding to feed the corals? I've heard of target feeding, should I try that? Which corals and how?
Here is the list of corals I have in the tank so far:
Ricordia Mushroom
Purple Tip Hammer
Green Tip Frogspawn
Candycane
GSP
Red Leather
Pink Pulsing Xenia
Green/Purple Mushroom
Watermelon Zoas
Purple Zoas
Orange Zoas
Orange Montipora
Ly Seng Green Purple-rimmed Montipora
There is also a coral that I don't know the name of. I attached a pic below (last pic), can someone identify it?
Also, I am keeping my calcium, alk, and ph levels all in range and my corals seem to be doing well. I still haven't started testing for magnesium or any other important trace elements yet but I'll start as soon as I get the test kits. I am seeing new coraline algae growth on the glass.
All I'm putting in the tank as far as food for the corals is a couple drops of phytopheast a day. Is there something else I should be adding to feed the corals? I've heard of target feeding, should I try that? Which corals and how?
Here is the list of corals I have in the tank so far:
Ricordia Mushroom
Purple Tip Hammer
Green Tip Frogspawn
Candycane
GSP
Red Leather
Pink Pulsing Xenia
Green/Purple Mushroom
Watermelon Zoas
Purple Zoas
Orange Zoas
Orange Montipora
Ly Seng Green Purple-rimmed Montipora
There is also a coral that I don't know the name of. I attached a pic below (last pic), can someone identify it?
LOL thanks for the enthusiastic positive reinforcement Mytee! Now I know you've got to be able to answer some of those ?'s what should I be feeding my corals? whats that last one called? when are you gonna ship me some of those high end zoas you got? (j/k, unless you were gonna do it 
)
)I feed my LPS frozen brine and mysis ans sometimes prawn roe(spot feed)
twice a month I feed Salmon eggs (makes your skimmer go NUTS!)
ALSO SPS LOVE "oyster feast" from reef nutrition..
I need a clearer pic of the last one to ID it..
From What I see it's a rodactis mushroom or some sort of green star polyps?!?!
As for the zoo's
I haven't forgot about you
(just wait till you seee the new ones I got today, 5 polyps of "LUNAR ECLIPSE"
SOOOO pretty I'll get a pic up tomorrow if they open all the way.
twice a month I feed Salmon eggs (makes your skimmer go NUTS!)
ALSO SPS LOVE "oyster feast" from reef nutrition..
I need a clearer pic of the last one to ID it..
From What I see it's a rodactis mushroom or some sort of green star polyps?!?!
As for the zoo's
I haven't forgot about you
(just wait till you seee the new ones I got today, 5 polyps of "LUNAR ECLIPSE"
SOOOO pretty I'll get a pic up tomorrow if they open all the way.
Nail on the head with rhodactic mushroom. I just found a pic and that is definitely what it is...thanks. Looking forward to seeing pics of those zoos!
nubz;3523418; said:
I definitely see how you would think that with my crappy pic lol I'm pretty sure Mytee was right with rhodactis mushroom though.
nubz;3523422; said:dang.
lol
