Bought some corals today

[jflowers]

I have only had a leather mushroom for the last couple of weeks and wanted to add some easy corals. Well went shopping today Tell me if I made a mistake with any of these. One yellow polyp colony, one mixed polyp colony, one labled XL rock Plume (brown surface with blue, orange, purple and green polyp kind of things ) and one 3" plate coral.

Jon

 

[Ed4567]

Both species of polyps- good choices,
Plate coral- not sure what species you are refering to
'Plume rock'- sounds like Christmas tree worms and a porite coral. The coral has quite a high lighting requirement I think, as well as needing the standard hard coral water conditions.
http/www.reefed.edu.au/explorer/animals/...tube_worms.html
http/www.reefs.org/library/article/r_toonen21.html

 

[jflowers]

Thanks Ed4567, the plate coral, nearest I can find is heliofungia actiniformis. The Plume rock I can't find a reference to, will look at your links, thanks.

[EDIT: yep, looks like your first link, lots of the blue christmas trees and others, very nice looking, [EDIT2: they are growing in what I have found to be a Porites Sp.] hope its ok with my lighting and stuff. Got a calcium test kit at the same time as the corals, but its a nightmare to test, going to get the lfs to test next week instead.

second link, 'your domain is banned from viewing this url' guess someone was a little naughty using the wanadoo servers]

Jon

 

[parker313]

Yellow polyps are great - I had some but lost them. The guy at the lfs told me that they really would have benefitted from more frequent spot feedings

 

[jflowers]

Same time as getting the corals, I also got some invert food, any good for corals? The plate coral has a 1"ish 'mouth' and books reccomend feeding a small shrimp once a week. Mysis ok? or a proper sized shrimp? I feed cooked shrimp to other fish I own, figure 8 puffer, south american puffers, clowns and wrasse like it chopped up.

Jon

 

[J-Money]

i thought the south american puffers were freshwater only )

 

[jflowers]

i thought the south american puffers were freshwater only )

Yep, they are and they are in my FW snail tank, as my FW fish are in my FW tanks and my brackish fish are in my Brackish tank, Oh and my clown and six line wrasse i keep in my marine tank. Questions?

Jon

 

[J-Money]

Questions?

don't get it twisted, i wuzn't tryin' to be a d!ck. I figured the Fig. 8, six line, and clown would be fine in the marine tank (though I'm not sure if the fig. 8 is strictly brackish or if it goes to full marine when it's older ), and i didn't realize you were talkin' about multiple tanks. I wuz just wonderin' about the SA puffers .

 

[Navarre]

Porites corals are very high light requiring corals. The worms that livewithin the porites is totally dependant on the coral for survival, the same applies to the porites.. if either creatures dies then the other wont be far behind .

 

[jflowers]

Questions?

don't get it twisted, i wuzn't tryin' to be a d!ck. I figured the Fig. 8, six line, and clown would be fine in the marine tank (though I'm not sure if the fig. 8 is strictly brackish or if it goes to full marine when it's older ), and i didn't realize you were talkin' about multiple tanks. I wuz just wonderin' about the SA puffers .

Sorry, didn't mean to be an ass. The fig8 is mean't to be light brackish, unlike a Green spotted puffer that does require heavy brackish to full marine when mature.

Navarre, I have the porite directly under a 150w MH, about 18" away, is that enough light do you think? Oh and the calcium test came back as 360ppm, so I guess I should bring that up a bit.

Watched my plate coral swallow a mysis shrimp earlier, very cool.

Jon