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Offline aquatic mouse

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My First Coral!
« on: January 29, 2010, 19:58:40 »
I was at Aquatic Specialists today for there big 40% off corals sale and picked up 4 peppermint shrimp, 3 cerith snails, 40 grass shrimp (breeding puffer treats), and my first coral & first anemone. The coral is a sun coral. I'll post pictures when it opens up all the way.

Thanks again Justin!
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Re: My First Coral!
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2010, 20:19:59 »
cool cant wait to see it
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Re: My First Coral!
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2010, 21:21:25 »
Sounds great!

hope that sun coral works out for ya. sometimes cant be a little tough.

waiting on pics  ;D
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Re: My First Coral!
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2010, 21:23:22 »
congrats and that is one cool coral.
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Re: My First Coral!
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2010, 21:53:17 »
Well, I keep trying to post a picture. I keep getting "Error 500 - Internal Server Error"
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Re: My First Coral!
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2010, 22:37:52 »
have you tried  to re sized it ?
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Re: My First Coral!
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2010, 22:38:43 »
Quote from: aquatic mouse on January 29, 2010, 21:53:17
Well, I keep trying to post a picture. I keep getting "Error 500 - Internal Server Error"

We've been having this issue a lot lately.  Are you using an outside program to host (like photobucket?)  Try that if you aren't already
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Re: My First Coral!
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2010, 23:02:04 »
Hope this works. Using Photobucket this time.

Sun Coral


Sebae Anemone


Mushroom that came on my live rock.
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Re: My First Coral!
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2010, 23:52:00 »
The picture you posted of your Sebae Anemone (Heteractis Crispa) is bleached and will likely not live more then a couple of months. May want to consider taking it back for a healthy one. Although the are commonly white it unfortunately indicates a unhealthy specimen that has expelled its  zooxanthellae.
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Re: My First Coral!
« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2010, 09:32:19 »
very nice coral
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Re: My First Coral!
« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2010, 10:14:15 »
+1 on the anemone being very unhealthy. What sort of lighting is it under?  Fortunately, anemone's will do a bit better with some direct feeding until it can regain its color.  Try giving it larger pieces of oyster, shrimp, etc since it has lost its symbiotic zooxanthallae algae.  In a very new tank such as yours, it unfortunately will probably not recover.  Anemone's are pretty sensitive to changing water parameters, need intense lighting, etc. 
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Offline GreatWyte

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Re: My First Coral!
« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2010, 10:18:26 »
Nice looking coral.
You do realize Sun Coral are non-photosynthetic? Each polyp should be be feed a few times a week.
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Re: My First Coral!
« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2010, 14:47:07 »
Try some shrimp juice to get the sun polyps to open. Makes it easier to feed.
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Re: My First Coral!
« Reply #13 on: January 30, 2010, 22:21:12 »
but i would take the anemone back tho it is all most dead
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Re: My First Coral!
« Reply #14 on: January 30, 2010, 23:40:17 »
I don't think the anemone is unhealthy. It is white, but not transparent. So not bleached. Justin told me the name of it, but I can't remember what it's called now. I did read that sebae's are not the easiest anemone for a newbie, so I returned it for that reason. I think I might try a long tentacle anemone or a bubble tip.

As for the sun coral needing to fed, I'm well aware and looking forward to feeding it at 5pm every day. As some of you know, I love feeding my fish. I'm sure I'll love feeding my coral too.

I won a bid on eBay so you will all be thrilled to know I will have a skimmer soon. :laugh: It's a Aqua C Remora. I'm also getting some T5 lighting with moonlights this Friday.
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Re: My First Coral!
« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2010, 23:42:16 »
cool  that will help a ton
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Re: My First Coral!
« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2010, 23:46:22 »
Yay for the skimmer!  Too bad about the anemone, but good call in the end.
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Re: My First Coral!
« Reply #17 on: January 31, 2010, 01:26:30 »
The Aqua C skimmer line are great products.
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Offline Rayman

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Re: My First Coral!
« Reply #18 on: January 31, 2010, 02:31:42 »
good for you that is great.
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