Ernest Sacco
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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....
My other sps are growing which is a first for me... As 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
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....
My other sps are growing which is a first for me... As 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
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