Recent content by Omni2226

So you feel it is a fungia sp.? You may be right. The abilty to be "mobile" I have seen mentioned in research may refer to spreading/colonizing new space/areas. Off to do more research! Thanks for the replys.

Mmm the more I research the more uncertain I am. It may not even be a coral. Fungia are supposed to be mobile. This isnt. Disk corals expand and contract. This doesnt. There is no skeleton that I can see. At least no skeletal body that poylps retract into. Plate type corals are usally a single...

On the canister filter question having activated charcoal in it is a good thing. Just replace the charcoal once a month. Charcoal/carbon cleans toxins and things like phosphate out of the water, along with disovled organics. The skimmer question. Mmmm, I would probaly use the deltec myself. You...

I think it does have a skeleton base but being small...hard to tell. It doesnt retract like a mushroom and after the daylights went off last night I observed what looked like tentacles or feeding arms, wahtever they are called appear. But being so small and all I have is a 4 x hand magnifying...

I picked up a real nice zoanthid rock with over 50 poylps on it for 30 dolllors today and this was kinda hidden on one end. I found a few pictures and have a tenetive ID as a LPS Scolymia species button coral, also called a doughnut or disk coral. Hard to the touch and doesnt retract. The color...

As for feeding schedule some people feed twice a day. Some feed once a day. Some feed every other day and some never add food ( these people usally have very large established tanks with a lot of rocks for the fish to graze off of ) Maybe start with one small feeding once a day to start? Then...

As a side note addon its not a bad idea to drain/strain any food that has "juice" in it before feeding. This will go a long way in reducing excess nutrients like phosphate and organic compounds. ( When you see the word nutrient being used, think liquid fertilizer for alga)

This is a cut and paste of formula I use for my tanks. Just modify it a little if you find you need the food to have larger or smaller bits/chunks in it. It also may a good idea to use paper coffee filters to strain out the solids and discard the juice before feeding if you dont have a lot of...

Phosphate is a basic building block of life. If there is life, there is phosphate. No phosphate, no life. So getting rid of all phosphate aint going to happen unless there is no life in the water at all. Alga has been shown to grow with as little as .002 parts per Billion phosphate in the...

If it stays under water all the time glue some zoa polpys to it and let em cover it up.

Coral banded shrimp. Lots of color and they move around a lot. Or maybe an arrow crab?

Well my 55 gallon system, despite my best efforts, seems to be thriving and coming along just fine with the exception of an anemone that died. It was in bad shape and I exercised very bad judgement in buying it. Still no nitrates and no hairy alga blooms. Back and end glass is covered in green...

Hah hah found it ! It was driving me nutty so I dug it up. Its an article in reefkeeping magazine.. http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003- ... /index.php Never could find a follow up to it though so I dont know if there were any long term issues with it.

I be danged if I can find the thread now, but a guy did a nano tank with greatstuff and small rocks. The entire back wall and one side were done this way. I dont know if anything will encrust on it or not. Mmm you could sprinkle plastic dust/shavings into it. I know corraline loves plastic/pvc.

White Portland cement if you can get it. You could also use the great stuff foam insulation to make a fake stone/rock work cover for overflow boxes and/or to hide plumbing.