Thursday, December 3, 2009

3 foot salt fishy

So as promised I wanted to attach a video - I have added another 8 1/2 kg of live rock + one piece had a small pulse coral colony. I also added a mushroom which I hope to propagate and, help grow all over the tank. As you can see the corals have now all opened up; I have been adding Fuel (a.k.a. trace supplements) + feeding them rottifers and brine shrimp and, the occasional dose of Iodine, calcium and sera coral food. I went away for about 5 days and, when I came back the pulse coral seem to have died a bit.... I suspect the protein skimmer had sucked all the nutrients out of the water i.r. trace elements and so it started to die. However, it seems to be recovering well - once I got back home I turned the protein skimmer off and, dosed the tanks with trace supp's etc etc and, all the corals have never looked better.

So on a compatibility scale all the corals seem to be quite happy together and, as a guide are quite easy to take care of - Although I have read that the pulse corals are a little more difficult to care for.

Water chem:
Ammonium : 0
Nitrite : 0
Nitrate : 10 - 20 ppm
Calcium : 440ppm




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