Ernest Sacco
So the tank is still running great with every coral recovered and growing since the move....
In the past 2 weeks I've slowly been moving my few beginner sps frags from the sandbed up to the top of the rock work....View media item 245908View media item 245910View media item 245909View media item 245913
My other sps are growing which is a first for me...View media item 245914View media item 245907View media item 245911As of now I want to save my remaining space for corals I absolutely love...
I want to fill the top and back rock work with branching and plating sps while to front will be for unique lps....and suggestions will be appreciated and I want to find a balance between beauty and hardiness when it comes to the sps...I am lightly dosing but I want nothing to do with acros at this point I think
On to the anemone I tested my water yesterday to good levels of alk calc and magnesium with no phosphates or nitrates....my rose bubble tip I ordered had come in and I brought it home with my marine betta (cant get a good picture of him as hes being reclusive)...I drip acclimated for roughly 80 minutes and then I took him from the bag and hovered him over his intended spot...he took to it and opened up a bit....but an hour later he had closed up and had started to drift....by this morning he had moved a few inches and looked like this View media item 245912
As of now he looks a little bit better but his mouth is still visible....I may have even saw a tentacle fall off but I am not sure..I haven't attempted to move him though I did move the rock he was on when I was shifting my sps frags....
Basically is this normal for new bubble tips?...I've done research but I would like to hear from people here...to summarize I followed the acclimation procedure and put him in...he expanded slightly for a while before closing up and begining to crawl...I shifted the rock he was on the next day a bit and he started to kind of push his mouth out so it looked like a white ridge was in the middle....as of now hes still closed up but his mouth is hidden again
In the past 2 weeks I've slowly been moving my few beginner sps frags from the sandbed up to the top of the rock work....View media item 245908View media item 245910View media item 245909View media item 245913
My other sps are growing which is a first for me...View media item 245914View media item 245907View media item 245911As of now I want to save my remaining space for corals I absolutely love...
I want to fill the top and back rock work with branching and plating sps while to front will be for unique lps....and suggestions will be appreciated and I want to find a balance between beauty and hardiness when it comes to the sps...I am lightly dosing but I want nothing to do with acros at this point I think
On to the anemone I tested my water yesterday to good levels of alk calc and magnesium with no phosphates or nitrates....my rose bubble tip I ordered had come in and I brought it home with my marine betta (cant get a good picture of him as hes being reclusive)...I drip acclimated for roughly 80 minutes and then I took him from the bag and hovered him over his intended spot...he took to it and opened up a bit....but an hour later he had closed up and had started to drift....by this morning he had moved a few inches and looked like this View media item 245912
As of now he looks a little bit better but his mouth is still visible....I may have even saw a tentacle fall off but I am not sure..I haven't attempted to move him though I did move the rock he was on when I was shifting my sps frags....
Basically is this normal for new bubble tips?...I've done research but I would like to hear from people here...to summarize I followed the acclimation procedure and put him in...he expanded slightly for a while before closing up and begining to crawl...I shifted the rock he was on the next day a bit and he started to kind of push his mouth out so it looked like a white ridge was in the middle....as of now hes still closed up but his mouth is hidden again