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Unread 09/08/2013, 10:04 PM   #76
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Dendrophyllia Arbuscula spewing sperm and egg

I came home and noticed all my fish "hanging out" near my dendro coral so I looked to see what was going on. I realized the dendro was spewing egg/sperm into the water column and all the fish were eating it (or biting at it anyways). Ran and got this on my iphone. This was fairly continuous and was repeating itself every 5-10 minutes. I captured more it on my DSLR and will have a longer edited version later.




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Unread 09/09/2013, 08:31 PM   #77
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Unread 09/09/2013, 10:58 PM   #78
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This thread is awesome!

What amazing photos/videos and coral man! Absolutely stunning! Subscribing for sure


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Unread 09/10/2013, 05:37 AM   #79
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Just a side note on sun polyps not opening. I have found that when my sun polyps don't open, there is usually something lurking around bugging it like a tiny starfish or a vermitted snail. Once the critters are removed or move on, they open again.


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Unread 09/10/2013, 05:46 AM   #80
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Unread 09/10/2013, 05:48 AM   #81
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Unread 09/10/2013, 05:50 AM   #82
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Unread 09/10/2013, 07:57 AM   #83
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That video is very cool, nice job


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Unread 09/10/2013, 08:26 AM   #84
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I use Garlic Guard as a prompter when mixed with Mysis and cyclopeeze and your right on with your feeding. I've been feeding daily but recently took in a couple new colonies from a fellow reefer and have thrown my phosphates thru the roof. It actually caused a mini cycle so I am dropping to every other day feedings.
I also raised more than my fair share of bristle worms. I guess they come with the territory.


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Unread 09/11/2013, 01:06 AM   #85
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really nice shots ynot!

Mysis is very high in phosphates - trying using GFO and biopellets to get the phosphates down.


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Unread 09/11/2013, 01:18 AM   #86
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I will look into that, thanks. When you say bio pellets do you use any particular brand?


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Unread 09/15/2013, 11:45 PM   #87
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I use the nitraguard biocubes stuff and its working pretty good.


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Unread 09/16/2013, 06:01 AM   #88
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Loving all the sun coral, very nice. DO you guys find sun corals sensitive to nitrates ? Mine are doing good but not open as much as I would like. Im wondering what your nitrates are ???? THanks.


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Unread 09/16/2013, 05:44 PM   #89
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Loving all the sun coral, very nice. DO you guys find sun corals sensitive to nitrates ? Mine are doing good but not open as much as I would like. Im wondering what your nitrates are ???? THanks.
I am almost 99% convinced they are not affected by nitrates (unless its crazy high) and flow is the most significant factor in them opening. I've kept them in quarantine tanks where the nitrates got real high (probably 80ppm) but by keeping a flow on them they would open regularly.

I picked up a colony from a LFS that was doing really bad. It wasn't opening up fully until I moved it to a high flow environment.

My nitrates run about 10-20 ppm.


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Unread 09/20/2013, 06:28 PM   #90
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Unread 10/08/2013, 08:59 PM   #91
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My new article in Reef Hobbyist on NPS corals

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Unread 10/11/2013, 12:51 AM   #92
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A published man...good on you and good read!


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Unread 10/11/2013, 05:38 AM   #93
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thanks rickcasa

My dendros spawns regularly now - captured this last night




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Unread 10/12/2013, 12:06 AM   #94
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awesome video! you know they're happy when they look and act like that!


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Unread 10/17/2013, 02:34 PM   #95
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In your video, are you feeding frozen bloodworms? Also, I noticed you have a black sun coral. I just got one. I heard they eat more than the regular ones. What do you think? Are the black ones harder to keep? Mine seems to be doing fine so far but it has only been about 2 weeks.


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Unread 10/17/2013, 08:07 PM   #96
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yeah - they are frozen bloodworms - I find they are high in protein value.
I have read that the micrantha (black sun corals) requires daily/continuous feedings. I really haven't found that to be the case. I have several colonies actually and I do find that they tend to be a bit tougher to get to start feeding - i.e. sometimes they can be quite stubborn and not open up to feed. But once you get them going they don't present to be any more difficult. My oldest colony of micrantha is probably about a year in the tank.

My routine now is feeding 5x a week for all the sun corals/rhizos etc...


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Unread 11/24/2013, 03:22 PM   #97
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Food Temperature and Sun Corals

This is probably fairly obvious but I find that Sun Corals respond significantly better if the food has been warmed to tank temperature (and maybe a degree warmer). Thawed food that is colder than tank temperature can actually cause the corals to retract.


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Unread 11/25/2013, 08:30 AM   #98
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Amazing video and a very nice setup. Thanks for sharing


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Unread 11/25/2013, 07:41 PM   #99
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Amazing video and a very nice setup. Thanks for sharing
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Unread 12/02/2013, 02:50 AM   #100
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Beautiful sun corals, hoping to tie a 10 sun coral tank into my larger reef once I get it up and running


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