How important is light for SPS corals?

[lilrobb]

Ditto on the brown, but let's see the growth.
Any feeding of this frag in the fuge?

Robb

 

[salt reefer]

waiting . cant wait to see the results .

 

[tokejr]

au01st;396070 wrote: Seems like a lot of the benefit of brine is when they hatch new. Is this stuff kept refrigerated so they are kept in suspension?

Actually, I hatch enough brine to get this kind of coverage easily in my 45 gallon tank. (I don't feed like that, but I could.) I never let the shrimp get more than 24 hours old.

I use a 2 liter bottle of saltwater and 1/4 teaspoon of brine eggs to get that much hatch.

I siphon the brine shrimp in the morning and place them in a jar of fresh saltwater in the refrigerator to feed all day long (no aeration, no cover). The brine become "suspended" and inactive as the water cools in the refrigerator, but become swimming and active when added to the warm tank.

When I have baby dwarf seahorses, I feed newly hatched baby brine shrimp 5 times a day from a single jar, and the tank is so dense with brine it's hard to see the seahorses. As they grow, I reduce the feedings to 3 times a day and feed the rest to my other tanks.

I hope this answers the quoted question, or sheds some light on it.

 

[sailfish]

Well the coral is still alive and I will get some pics and measurement later today.

Joe

 

[sailfish]

Alright guys here we go for week two. I tested the par again and it was 30 this time. The coral is alive but has not grown at all. I measured it and took updated pictures. I am a little surprised that it has not encrusted at all. As most sps junkies know sps almost always encrust before they ever start to grow vertically. The color has dropped off some but there is still hints of green when I put it under the 20k bulbs in the display.

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I also broke a A. lokani frag and decided to add it to the experiment. It is between 1/2" and 5/8' tall but I forgot my fractions so that is the best I can do. LOL

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Joe

 

[grouper therapy]

Yea yea yea yea nice experiment good of you to do this blah blah blah xoxoxo and all that lol:yuk::yuk::yuk::yuk: :jk::jk::jk:
WHO GETS THE FRAGS WHEN YOUR DONE???