thank you thejrc for the hepl! And thank you Dick for knowing when I am in full blown hysteria!! Yes, breathe slowly!
I took all advice. There was quite a bit of dried orange mucas-type of "stuff" that I was able to gently blow away with a med dropper. I double fed last night, and am double feeding now as well. The least damaged polyps look ok, the most damaged one finally just came out. It does have a small bad spot. I am guessing that was the part IN the RICs mouth @#$%$#@. The rest really are looking like they are going to be fine, just the one will remain to be seen, but at least it came out somewhat. I REALY< REALLY appreciate you guys. Dick, dont ever leave me like that again!! THEJRC, are you the one who looks good in a dress? If so, I am glad you are in touch with your fem. side!
2 ricordea yuma for sale cheap!
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500w MH (120), 10 gl sump, cheap skimmer
tank est. spring '06 Is it wrong to love a clump? MACRO MANIA
Careful with the double feeding as well, you want to give the coral time to digest as well as expunge waste. If you notice the coral expunging a large amount of waste cut back but otherwise you should be fine!
Reaching my 70th BD, I realize that I cannot help but grow old. However, I refuse to grow up!!! My wife would tell you, "He may be 70 but, He's going on 17". Life is wonderful with a woman like that.
FYI ... mushrooms sting worse than most other corals !!
Wow did I learn the hard way!
sun coral at two weeks
sun coral after accident at 4 weeks
sun coral tonight after 5 weeks
Making progress. This is the farthest it has come out so far, and the 'ouchies' are looking great! It REALLY is taking some time, are we sure that I dont have the short tentacled variety
I tried something different tonight, I waited for him to beg foe a little while. I am wondering, why would he want to come out fully if he gets fed at the first sign of being 'awake'? It may all be in my head, but I am going to try that for awhile!!
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500w MH (120), 10 gl sump, cheap skimmer
tank est. spring '06 Is it wrong to love a clump? MACRO MANIA
not silly at all, I've trained mine to come out during the day!
Just a matter of getting something in the water they can sense a half hour or so prior to feeding, coupla squirts of bio plankton (liquid life) works great for me to get everything primed, then half hour later cut pumps and feed!
That Sun Coral is looking very good. Must be the Motherly TLC you are giving it.
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Reaching my 70th BD, I realize that I cannot help but grow old. However, I refuse to grow up!!! My wife would tell you, "He may be 70 but, He's going on 17". Life is wonderful with a woman like that.
thanx Dick, they really bouced back quickly from their incident! I turn it every day so that I am not favoring one side when feeding.
Bobby, I have to say, when anyone comes over I show them the pic of YOUR coral and tell them thats what mine wants to be when it grows up!! I look at yours quite often in disbelief and amazement that mine may one day look like that too
I think I have found a favorite!! Soft corals are pretty, sps are nice, but not very interactive-definatly testy! I really think that I am a LPS kind of gal! Most of the corals that I ooh and ahhh at most are LPS. Macro and LPS make me happy!!!
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tank est. spring '06 Is it wrong to love a clump? MACRO MANIA
here is a question for you, how much flow is on your colony ?? if you notice in my pic, there is a good amount of flow blowing the tentacles in the water column. it might just take a little more flow to get them to open up all the way.
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Ive read that, flow can get them to open up and yes yours are REALLY waving in the breeze!! They are getting moderate right now. last week I put them in a higher flow area to try this, and they fell onto the ricordia
I need to readjust some things, with my anemone being the size of a satelite dish, I am runninhg out of room! They are really looking plump!
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500w MH (120), 10 gl sump, cheap skimmer
tank est. spring '06 Is it wrong to love a clump? MACRO MANIA
Ive read that, flow can get them to open up and yes yours are REALLY waving in the breeze!! They are getting moderate right now. last week I put them in a higher flow area to try this, and they fell onto the ricordia.
I've always kept mine on the bottom but always in a location that gets a lot of 'downdraft' flow to maximize the opportunities to capture any food that might be getting carried in the water column - I also target fed mine every night. The one in the picture below practically stopped closing altogether other than the occasional brief 'water change' behavior (where all the polyps deflate and inflate again with new water).
I had to take this tank down when I moved but according to the new owner of the colony it is now nearly the size of a volleyball (as of February, 2008). He's been following the same basic husbandry practices I was:
daily target feeding of vitamin-soaked or enriched food (mysis and selco/selcon)
ample surrounding substrate to expand/grow onto
kept in turbulent high-flow area (ample opportunities for "snacking")
maintaining a consistent calcium level (small daily corrections)
maintaining undetectable nitrate levels (salifert kit, I think)
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I need to readjust some things, with my anemone being the size of a satelite dish, I am running out of room! They are really looking plump!
If you've got a spare tank (20g or so) and enough spare equipment to provide good flow you could always frag your anemone! They don't take long to recover with decent flow and daily partial water changes (thus the small tank!). Within 8-10 weeks you could put the largest frag back in the display tank and sell the rest - it could probably be cut it into 4 or 5 decent-sized specimens. Just a thought.
that is going to take my brain a bit of time to adjust to!! I noticed you left a video link on the anemone thread, I will definatly check that out, wow
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