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feed them bleach, they will go for it like crazy, it will also help with color.....
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Thanks, but it wasn't sold to me as an antarctic coral. The LFS didn't really know what it was it was just a white coral. I looked it up after and my best guess was Acropora Suharsonoi. It wasn't sold as a LE coral or anything like that. They thought it was a deep water coral. And it cost just as much as any other coral. But thank you.
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With Gnomes you get what you pay for.
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What a great idea. So great in fact that I'm now floating dry ice in both my 10 and 20g tanks. Any idea on how long it will take for my cats to appropriately colonize with redbugs? Anyone know if a clown goby will pick at a cat's hair like they do sps?
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A snowflake eel will eat the artic red bugs and flatworms too.
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Snowflake eel.
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Wow those are some beautiful Antarctic specimens you got there. I hope they stay such a brilliant shade of white.
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You'll also want to overdrive your lights with Icecap ballasts, and use tube of a color temp of about 40-below.
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For my arctic corals I use just my actinics for about an hour a day in December and run 1,000 watts of 10,000k for 24 hours in June. It's great that I can collect my own corals when I visit Nome. Phil P.S. There really are arctic corals and anenomes, they're soft corals similar to the Hawaiian black corals and are non-photosynthetic. The University of Alaska Museum of the North has a display on them. And the Seward Sea Life Center has several tanks with live specimens.
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Hmmm. Good point on the photoperiod. Do you suggest we use Aurora lights during the dark cycle, since we are told by all the ad-wizards that corals need some light at night to simulate "natural" photoperiods...??
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If rearing arctic creatures it is best to recreate the arctic environment to a tee. Not only do you need a really big chiller but those color changing neons will simulate an aurora and keep the inhabitants, and passing Eskimos, happy. At least that is what Lew tells me.
Can't belive this thread is still running this far past the 1st.
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I have a few just like that! I keep them in my fuge. They seem to like dim PC lighting the best!
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Last time I visited there was a couple years ago and the forum was gone.
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Great; you know how many threatening PM's the staff get whenever we do an April Fool edition of RK and play head games with the people logging into RC. Having a regular forum would mean we would need about 200 extra Mods.
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re: antarctic corals
I bought a small frag that looks very similar to those about two and a half months ago. It is growing. One side of it seems to be somewhat brown, but it is all alive and growing. I don't know what it is. When I bought it, I thought it was some sort of leather coral.
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this is one of the best threads i have read so far!!!! ROTFLOL
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Anyone ever tried to keep Superman monti near an Iceman monti? Do they fight?
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Again, beautiful corals... I often thought of picking one up, but their growth rate is sooooooooooooooo slow. I had a similar one a while back, and in one year, you would swear it hadn't grown at all
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I think you guys got it all wrong. These corals can't tolerate any lighting at all. They thrive in absolute darkness and in frigid water. Geesh...
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My little buddy Lew was over last night reading this thread. He told me to pass this on-
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He might want to keep the polar bears in his refugium for a while until the penguins establish their territory in the tank-- after that the polar bears should leave the penguins alone.
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Funny thread. ;-)
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