Bubble Coral

[bjledbetter]

I bought a bubble coral a few weeks back and it acts weird to say the least. Its eating well but will go from well inflated when only the actentic lighting is on to pulling the bubbles to the top and bottom and exposing the mouth when the metal halides come on but it retracts the tenticals. Is this normal behavior? Also at times when only the moon lights are on it competly shrivals up.. It loves small pieces of freeze dried krill. Also last night I noticed 6 small babies growing on the back of it. Is there a way to safely remove them from the skeleton of the mother colony? I love this coral ive always found it facinating but afraid to try it till i got a really good deal on this one. Ill try to post a pic later. All info or advice on this coral would be appreciated

 

[Bubbles_B]

you know. it's acting perfectly fine. my green bubble coral acts in a similar fashion. and when it shrivels up like during moonlit times. I have had my bubble for a very long time. and no, you cannot remove tiny babies just yet. you must wait until they have grown in length with about an inch and a half of skeleton to safely remove it from its attachment to the mother colony. the reasoning being, so that it doesn't get harmed in the process if you decided to remove it now. i too love this coral. dont worry about it, just keep its house clean, dont have it too high to the light and feed it. enjoy, hope this info helps!

:smile: Bubbles_B

 

[ruppertb]

bubbles are the best. we have had large bubbles where they are like nickle size, pearl bubbles with tiny little bubbles like bb's and recently got a med sized bubble which has pea sized bubbles. be careful some are very mean and shoot out tenticles up to 6 inches away. i had a bubble kill a bubble b4,

 

[bjledbetter]

Thanks for the info. Im not planning on removing them any time soon. Will they develope there own skeleton or will they if left on there just become one massive coral? Im realitivly new to reefing ive had a saltwater tank for about 3 years but not much more than star and yellow polyps an xenia. I finally decided to upgrade from t5 to halides a few months ago and now have the bubble. a rather large frogspawn.toadstool leather. and a purple branching monti. Im not sure if the bubble is a pink or green lol. its mostly pink with light shades of green on the tissue. Its sitting now about half way up the tank in a lower flow area. I try to keep flow off of it bc im afraid it will hurt its self on its skeleton,

 

[bjledbetter]

Here is a pic of it I took a few mins ago. Some of his bubbles are the size of a large grape to maybe a small strawberry lol

 

[Bubbles_B]

Oh she's hap hap happy!!!!

here is a pic of it i took a few mins ago. Some of his bubbles are the size of a large grape to maybe a small strawberry lol

 

[mallorieGgator]

The coral is looking good! They don't need a large amount of light so be careful to not have it being blasted by the halide.

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[Thizz]

very nice!

 

[andywe]

I love bubbles too. Here's my happy bubbles!

 

[bjledbetter]

Halides are only on about 4 hours a day actinics 6 hours a day. Things seam to be happy all but the toad stool leather and idk what its problem is lol, Love the pics of the other bubbles. I want to get a green someday. Heres a question though dont the bubble tip anomone sting the bubble coral in that last pic?

 

[andywe]

Apparently it is up to the bta.....I am not pleased he is there, but they have been living together peacefully for about 2 weeks now. I tried to get him off and there is just no way, however the BTA is under the flesh of the bubble coral.