I know this is a hard to care for species, but I couldn't remember what the coral was at the store, and they didn't know either, but for $20 I figured it was worth the risk for a pretty blue coral. Anyone have experience with these, I've read up on em, but would love personal feedback. Mine is light blue with no stalks to speak off. It seems to open at night more and I have it placed about halfway down my 120 under t5s.
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G. Stokesi, or G. norfolkensis?
That one! I've read their care varies based on which one it is. I'll take a picture tonight. Are there characteristics of the free living vs reef ones that you know of? The polyps were totally closed at the shop, but the frag showed growth from wherever it came from. About half the polys are open during the day and when the daylights turn off they open more, but they don't extend away from the frag.
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Care varies greatly between the different ones. Certain ones thrive under low nutrients others come from nutrient rich waters. Same goes for dif flow rates
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Use goniopower!!!! Turn everything off for 20min..... Mine are doing great! It's basically a powder zooplankton with a few other nutrients.....
Looking far better than when I got him.
Salinity is 1.025
PH is probably low, I haven't checked this week.
I don't really test other things too often (slaps wrist) but when I do they show 0 so I just watch for negative effects in my coral and keep up with water changes and run a wet skimmer. I do NOT have a ULNS, but depending on what species it turns out to be, that could be for its advantage. If it starts to recede try it in my nano that is ULNS (no bioload)
Thoughts? (besides I am probably doing it wrong, although I'll take that too)
Salinity is 1.025
PH is probably low, I haven't checked this week.
I don't really test other things too often (slaps wrist) but when I do they show 0 so I just watch for negative effects in my coral and keep up with water changes and run a wet skimmer. I do NOT have a ULNS, but depending on what species it turns out to be, that could be for its advantage. If it starts to recede try it in my nano that is ULNS (no bioload)
Thoughts? (besides I am probably doing it wrong, although I'll take that too)
All polyps open this morning with lights still out, but this is the best I've seen them. They still don't extend far from the base, but perhaps this is a species that doesn't. Best ID procedure I've found so far is to use the $400 coral book set and study their skeleton.... I did take the plunge and got a pH probe, so I'll be able to better monitor and stabilize that in the future.
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Pure Reef
