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I got a good kick out of that....
Now Ben needs to say something signature worthy
Now Ben needs to say something signature worthy
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im the oppisite the only sps that would grow fast in my tank are birds nests and montis other than that my sps are pretty slow growers i think its cause i dont keep my tank clean enough.
yea i feed it about once every other week to once a month with my other lps ive been using seachems nutridiet shrimp ever since they gave us a sample at the tour last fall but before that i never really fed it much other than when it would catch some brine shrimp or flake food passing by from fish feedings. i cant be sure how much it really benefits from the shrimp feedings though cause i never see it "swollow it like the other lps do it just seems to, for lack of a better word, hug it really tight and then later lets it go (maybe it disolves through part of the shell and absorbs the meat or something?) and ill see the shrimp being eaten by members of the CUC. and as far as keeping it near the top that was just due to lack of space at first i had it glued to the glass but one of my large snails kept tryiing to go inside the shell and pryed it off the glass so i leaned it up on the glass with the bottom on the top of a rock. im not sure if extra light had much to do with it cuase the mother colony would heal very fast when fragged and the only reason it hadnt spread beyond its own skeleton was because it was on the sand and also the frag is on the far right of the tank where as the mother was in the center so they both probably recieved close to the same amount of light. and that concludes the overkill of a response
im sure you werent looking for that much depth of detail lol
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updated growth pic. its covered 99% of the shell now and has grown on the glass and rock i wish i mounted this thing on something bigger now lol
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thanks but its more like neglect lol ive been letting the tank fall by the wayside (forgetting waterchanges, feedings and dosings) quite a bit this year and my hands have only been in the tank like a dozen times or so and i think the fact that im interfering less may have a positive result. a few of my other corals have taken off as well in the past few months
Iv read where this is sometimes a good thing as you say , as reef keepers we strive for perfect water sometimes we make it too clean a lot of lps and softies seem to thrive under these conditions , but not all by a long shot.
This is also the theory on why gorgonia seems to thrive for many ppl then die (in theory ) as we become better more knowledgeable reef keepers and move to harder to keep corals the water then lacks nutrition they need.
I say if it works let it role.
BTW how large was the shell you glued it to , just trying to get a clue as to spreading potential of mine.
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Iv read where this is sometimes a good thing as you say , as reef keepers we strive for perfect water sometimes we make it too clean a lot of lps and softies seem to thrive under these conditions , but not all by a long shot.
This is also the theory on why gorgonia seems to thrive for many ppl then die (in theory ) as we become better more knowledgeable reef keepers and move to harder to keep corals the water then lacks nutrition they need.
I say if it works let it role.
BTW how large was the shell you glued it to , just trying to get a clue as to spreading potential of mine.
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the shell was approximately 3" by 3" maybe a little bigger. not huge but still a nice size. but as far as growing potential i dont think there is a limit to it as long as it has the room to grow and the nutrients and light it needs
