So How Many Different Types Of Corals Do You Have?

[Nonuser]

How many different corals and what's your favourite?

What's the one coral you really want?

Any coral that you just can't seem to keep or grow?

 

[reeferkeeper420]

Too many lol.

 

[reeferkeeper420]

But seriously, probably around 50 or 60 different corals. One that i really want would be either a really nice Rainbow Chalice or Walt Disney tenius. One that ive had difficulty keeping is Fungia plates.

 

[zoomster]

28 and a few more coming
Dang that @Shooter000!

 

[Nonuser]

I'm really new to the salt side, less than a year. Just upgraded my light so I have more option on what I can try and keep. I really like the goniopora coral, I have one that hasn't really been doing all that well over the three months I've had it. The other coral is the sun coral have it under a rock bridge trying to get it to open but in a little over a month not really happy yet.

Only about a dozen. I had some sps but I didn't have strong enough lights and I tried the hydrogen peroxide dip on my live rock and a good rinse. I highly recommend not doing this, it killed almost all sps and made everything else really unhappy. I thought I had most of it rinsed off with a clean fresh water dunk .

 

[zoomster]

The peroxide dip didn't work?
Maybe you missed something?
I don't have a lot of experience doing it but i heard it works well.i actually have one i am going to try it on tonight.
Maybe @Shooter000 can advise you, he has done it and his corals are very nice and healthy!

 

[Nonuser]

It worked great on the live rock and completely killed the algae issue and I didn't see it for several months.

 

[EricTMah]

I'm really new to the salt side, less than a year. Just upgraded my light so I have more option on what I can try and keep. I really like the goniopora coral, I have one that hasn't really been doing all that well over the three months I've had it. The other coral is the sun coral have it under a rock bridge trying to get it to open but in a little over a month not really happy yet.

Only about a dozen. I had some sps but I didn't have strong enough lights and I tried the hydrogen peroxide dip on my live rock and a good rinse. I highly recommend not doing this, it killed almost all sps and made everything else really unhappy. I thought I had most of it rinsed off with a clean fresh water dunk .

Why did you dip all your rocks with the sps on it?

 

[Nonuser]

Sorry, no I still had everything still on frag plugs. I only dipped the rock 1 bottle to five gallons for about two minutes each then scrubbed the algae off then a quick dunk to rinse the stuff off then a 5 min dunk in old tank water and then onto a towel until all the rock was done three pieces in total. Then I put all the rock back and topped up the tank with 5 gallons of fresh saltwater. The frags where on a frag rack in the tank never removed

 

[reeferkeeper420]

Would this not cause your tank to cycle since your killing off your beneficial bacteria??

 

[Nonuser]

The theory behind this as I understood it was that your tank sand and water would still have good bacteria and that not all the bacteria from the live rock would be dead. I read that the hydrogen peroxide disapates quickly and is just oxygen and water combined. It's a natural sanitizer

 

[EricTMah]

Would this not cause your tank to cycle since your killing off your beneficial bacteria??

My thoughts exactly.
H2o2 is a funny thing to use in tanks. Depending on the strength of it (3%,10%,27%) it can benefit tanks or do terrible things.

If you rinsed each rock I can see how it would upset your tank that much. H2o2 can dissipate in a very short period of time. Unless you used pure 27+% h2o2. I doubt that's what caused it.

Like Riley said. Most likely an upset in the bacteria and caused a small cycle and raised nh3, no2 and eventually no3.

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[EricTMah]

The theory behind this as I understood it was that your tank sand and water would still have good bacteria and that not all the bacteria from the live rock would be dead. I read that the hydrogen peroxide disapates quickly and is just oxygen and water combined. It's a natural sanitizer

That's true. But all the "dead" stuff in the rock would rot in the tank. The bacteria in the system probably wasn't enough to keep up with that all of a sudden raise in dead matter in the system. Which caused a mini cycle

Sony Xperia Z3

 

[EricTMah]

Possible a series of small water changes twice a day would've helped prevent this

Sony Xperia Z3

 

[Luke.]

But seriously, probably around 50 or 60 different corals. One that i really want would be either a really nice Rainbow Chalice or Walt Disney tenius. One that ive had difficulty keeping is Fungia plates.

60 kinds with how many heads haha

 

[reeferkeeper420]

Lots of z/p's, sps and lps.

 

[unibob]

I had someone ask me in Brantford about a Walt Disney... I told them to talk to the kid beside me (bigshowfrags) lol


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[reeferkeeper420]

I had someone ask me in Brantford about a Walt Disney... I told them to talk to the kid beside me (bigshowfrags) lol


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Yeah theyre just a little outta my price range atm..unless i make big money in Vegas this upcoming weekend lol.

 

[TORX]

Too many to count. Mostly different zoas, most of which I have even forgotten the name of. I love my zoas. A bunch of euphylia and starting on fans. I only have purple fans so far. I would like red. I was hoping to see some at the show, I might have had to go into overdraft for that.

 

[unibob]

Too many to count. Mostly different zoas, most of which I have even forgotten the name of. I love my zoas. A bunch of euphylia and starting on fans. I only have purple fans so far. I would like red. I was hoping to see some at the show, I might have had to go into overdraft for that.

Fans are super cool , but tanks not deep enough to house at show, and not enough room in tank to lay on side.


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