Recent content by Toadstool

I checked it out this morning while the lights were off and it's polyps were fully open. When the lights are on they are out but not near as much.

Purchased a beautiful Porites cylindrica yesterday and was wondering about polyp extension. Do they normally fully extend their polyps to appear fuzzy or do they stay closer to the corallite to appear almost smooth? Besides bright light and strong currents is there any other advise you would...

Well, I couldn't resist it I did purchase it. Upon further examination it doesn't appear to be as bad as I thought. Only two of the tips appear to have bleached while the others are more of a very light purple. It does have some polyp extension and seems to be acclimating well. I placed it...

My LFS has a beautiful purple piece that I am considering purchasing. The only problem is some of the branches have begun to lose their color and turn white, it is a heavily branched piece with the majority of it looking fine. Will these branches recover and get some color back or will the...

Was wondering how air exposure effects corals? When I do water changes I have always taken my corals out until I finished. Would it be O.K. for them to be partially exposed to the air? That way I don't have to mess with the aqua scape too much. The only species that would be exposed are...

I am going to attempt to frag a few of my corals and was just wondering if it is safe to use super glue? I have some epoxy but it is a pain to work with and it seems the glue would be much easier.

Having trouble with a certain type that I have not been able to identify. The best way I can describe it is it looks like one of those feather dusters you use to dust in a house. It is round in shape and green coler. It grows from a vine like position and is localized to one spot in my...