About a month ago, I bought a frag, but it was so small that the owner couldn’t ID it. Now, I believe it is a toadstoll. Regardless, it will open for a few hours a day and then close, leaving these black dots. I don’t have the strongest light on the tank. Just a current USA orbit marine, plus...
I have a #120Mixed Reef
It's like someone took a bite out of it. Ever since Hurricane Irma, it has not been fully extended. What are your thoughts? If it's dying should I cut it off the rock?
The crazy part, all of my #SPS & #LPS corals are doing better than ever!
Hello community, this is my first post.
Aquarium is lightly occupied by fish. Have a leather coral, bubble coral, mushrooms, chalice coral, and ricordea.
PH: 8.0
Nitrate: 15ppm
Phosphate: undetectable
Temp: 78°F
I us a reactor with GFO and Carbon.
The tank has been established for over 2...
Hi,
3 days ago I got my first corals 1x Xenia and 1x Toadstool leather. To my disbelieve I had insane amounts of problems with both and after a ton of research I came to some theories which maybe you could pin point so I don't repeat them in the future.
Quick background
The tank is 630ltr...
IMG_5083 by Toby Broadfield, on Flickr
This is in reference to my large green toadstool leather above. So I thought I knew quite a bit about leather corals... but I have never seen this before. I have seen leathers reproduce, where a small hole opens up in the crown and a little guy drops...
So I bought a toadstool off a local hobbyist about 10 days ago. At first it would put out small polyps. It has since quit putting them out. The tank IS only 6 weeks old.
Ammonia and Nitrite 0
Nitrate 1 ppm
Alk 7
Calcium is a bit high, Mg is 1350
Phosphate is 0.1
pH is 8.4
Salinity is 1.024...