Cade Chaos Grimoire

danieyella · Dec 30, 2020

All dosers fully recalibrated (I only got a couple set back up the other day)

Question for @Ron Reefman - do you know if gulf coast's (live-plants.com) "common" RFAs are shallow water by any chance?

fishguy242 · Dec 30, 2020

danieyella said:
That's what I thought, when did he get here? How did he get here? I have so many questions....

DOO..DOO... OCCURS

;Happy

Eagle_Steve · Dec 30, 2020

danieyella said:
All dosers fully recalibrated (I only got a couple set back up the other day)

Question for @Ron Reefman - do you know if gulf coast's (live-plants.com) "common" RFAs are shallow water by any chance?

I know this lol.

The commons are shallow water. I ordered a few with a some some macros a while back and the patterns are awesome. Not bright under blues like the deeper ones, but pretty. The reds and greens vary from b-c grade.

danieyella · Dec 30, 2020

Eagle_Steve said:
I know this lol.

The commons are shallow water. I ordered a few with a some some macros a while back and the patterns are awesome. Not bright under blues like the deeper ones, but pretty. The reds and greens vary from b-c grade.

Yessssss this is exactly what I was hoping to hear. I really want some shallows for the patterning.

danieyella · Dec 30, 2020

I may or may not have ordered myself a new stereonepthea & cynarina for the big tank, but that's going to go on the list for the future for sure.

sfin52 · Dec 30, 2020

danieyella said:
That's what I thought, when did he get here? How did he get here? I have so many questions....

If it was lr it could have been there for a while growing and just chilling.
They come in on corals and other stuff.

danieyella · Dec 30, 2020

sfin52 said:
If it was lr it could have been there for a while growing and just chilling.
They come in on corals and other stuff.

Nah when I upgraded to this tank back in whenever that was.... All the rock on that side of the tank was actually dry rock. I did move the live over, but it stayed to the left side. Probably came in with a random coral somewhere along the way. Haven't really added anyone new to that tank in awhile though - other than popping back and forth between it and the pico.

sfin52 · Dec 30, 2020

danieyella said:
Nah when I upgraded to this tank back in whenever that was.... All the rock on that side of the tank was actually dry rock. I did move the live over, but it stayed to the left side. Probably came in with a random coral somewhere along the way. Haven't really added anyone new to that tank in awhile though - other than popping back and forth between it and the pico.

I have found a few in my tank in some crazy places. I haven't ruled out a spawn.

sfin52 · Dec 30, 2020

Just some rfa spam

Ron Reefman · Dec 31, 2020

danieyella said:
All dosers fully recalibrated (I only got a couple set back up the other day)

Question for @Ron Reefman - do you know if gulf coast's (live-plants.com) "common" RFAs are shallow water by any chance?

I believe so. He collects his own while scuba diving for algae. BTW, I've met him a couple of times at SWFMAS Reef Conferences and he seems to be a really nice guy.

sfin52 said:
Just some rfa spam

Can I play too?

sfin52 · Dec 31, 2020

Ron Reefman said:
I believe so. He collects his own while scuba diving for algae. BTW, I've met him a couple of times at SWFMAS Reef Conferences and he seems to be a really nice guy.

Can I play too?

Those are gorgous. I haven't seen some of those rfa colors. Did you collect all the parents. @Erin O take a look.

Ron Reefman · Dec 31, 2020

sfin52 said:
Those are gorgous. I haven't seen some of those rfa colors. Did you collect all the parents. @Erin O take a look.

I don't collect Ultra RFA... OK I collect them, but I collect them from sellers, not from the wild. We only snorkel in the Keys and the Ultras come from to deep for me to reach. You really need to be a scuba diver. In fact I don't even know where the wholesalers are collecting them from.

On the other hand, we have collected some 'common' RFAs in shallow water. As shallow as 18" on occasion. They can be very difficult to collect as they like to attach to rocks with deep holes to plant their foot in. We have found some attached where it was easier to get the foot loose and even a few that were so small they were attached to very small chunks of dead sps coral.

sfin52 · Dec 31, 2020

Ron Reefman said:
I don't collect Ultra RFA... OK I collect them, but I collect them from sellers, not from the wild. We only snorkel in the Keys and the Ultras come from to deep for me to reach. You really need to be a scuba diver. In fact I don't even know where the wholesalers are collecting them from.

On the other hand, we have collected some 'common' RFAs in shallow water. As shallow as 18" on occasion. They can be very difficult to collect as they like to attach to rocks with deep holes to plant their foot in. We have found some attached where it was easier to get the foot loose and even a few that were so small they were attached to very small chunks of dead sps coral.

Have there been any offspring from shallow and deep water?

Ron Reefman · Dec 31, 2020

sfin52 said:
Have there been any offspring from shallow and deep water?

Not that I've found. But I only have a few common RFA and they probably haven't been mature enough to breed yet.

danieyella · Dec 31, 2020

Nori battle between the tangs, engineer goby won.

Erin O · Jan 1, 2021

Ron Reefman said:
I believe so. He collects his own while scuba diving for algae. BTW, I've met him a couple of times at SWFMAS Reef Conferences and he seems to be a really nice guy.

Can I play too?

So beautiful! I want RFA's sooooo bad!

Ron Reefman · Jan 2, 2021

Erin O said:
So beautiful! I want RFA's sooooo bad!

They are quite hardy and easy to keep. You can get way more than enough info in this thread: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/ron-reefmans-rock-flower-experience.409436/

Erin O · Jan 2, 2021

Ron Reefman said:
They are quite hardy and easy to keep. You can get way more than enough info in this thread: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/ron-reefmans-rock-flower-experience.409436/

I have been an avid follower of this thread! It has been fun reading about everyone's experiences. Thank you for starting it