reefman

Thanks John, good advice. It's hard not to over supplement or over fed. You think you trying to give them everything they need so they can live and grow. I guess knowing when to cut back just comes with experience.

Do you ever hand feed corals, or let them pick up their food from the water column?

Stephen

Thanks. Are they that more yellow color, or more red?

Stephen

Yes, does anyone have any pics of red bugs? I have no idea what I should be watching for. A pic of any would be very helpful.

Stephen

John,

How would you modify it for more coral (or as a hand feed coral mix)?

Also, with this mix, would you then NOT treat the tank with trace elements, vits, amino acids, etc, but instead have them get everything from the food?

I also assume you would still treat for Calcium and Mag?

Also didn't see anything for Garlic. Do you add that to any of the mixes?

Stephen

Thanks to everyone for the ideas.

Stephen

I might take your offer up on some of the rock, although I've got about 200 lbs in the corner tank (92G), and over 100 lbs in the wave tank (90G). Gosh, in about 5 weeks no telling what those shroons are going to be doing. Have any frags you want to part with?

Let's do this, if you have any frags (now or later) put me at the top of the list. If you have a container with some rock or rubble, let's hook up and you can come over and get some of the shroons. On this thread they say you can cut the tops off, put them in with rock, and they'll re-attach. It's not a long term solution for me, but these guys look like they are getting bigger and spreading on a daily basis. I need to do something soon.

It's weird, some things I can kill off quicker than a New York minute. Other things, like shroons, Xenia, and this one Anemone I have grow like crazy.

My email address is [email protected]. If you want some, let's try to do this over the holiday weekend.

Stephen

I would consider it, but here are some of the other things I'm thinking about. The rock with about 40 shroons on it, also has some zoo's that are getting crowded out by the zoo's, and what I think is a polyp of candy cane coral on it. I do have numerous other rocks with shroons on them. The other consideration is most of these rocks with shroons have a lot of coraline on them. Does your LR have coraline? Also, you said you "made 50lb". Does that mean you just have finished curing it, or is it synthetic?

Stephen

I have a new (second) tank I got a couple of weeks ago. Now that things have settled out, it looks like I'm soon to have a mushroom problem. A local shop owner has said I could trade them for other stock, so the question has two parts: How can I transplant them without removing the rocks they are on, and how can you control them? Also, I assume they will compete with the corals? Can they sting them? These are not Ricordia's, just the regular purple and blue ones. I have one that the stalk has to be several inches thick, and one rock that has over 35 on it. I have them scattered all through the tank. I might decide to give some away, but would like to try to transplant a lot of them so I could use the "trade" to re-stock the tank with fish over time. In the process of the tank I moved I lost 6 out of 7 of the fish. Any ideas?

Stephen

Thanks John!

Stephen

Thanks.

Stephen

I'll give you a call during the day Saturday and see if we can meet up that evening.

Thanks.

Stephen

I certainly don't want you to go to a lot of work at this point, but before I could go further to decide if I am interested, here are some of the things I would like to know:

Does it come with a stand?

You mentioned a refugium, I assume it does come with that?

A general idea of the fish and corals (I understand he might not know the exact names, but since the picture is about 8 months old, would need a little bit better idea of what it comes with). I live in NW Austin and work in RR (Dell). I can be contacted directly at "[email protected]" if you wish to take this oiff the forum.

Stephen

Has this sold?

Stephen