Carnation Coral Adventure

PokeFish · Oct 17, 2021

HELLO SO I JUST GOT CARNATION CORAL HASDIFNASJGSF I got it yesterday and so far its pretty good. Now I bought this expecting it to die on me eventually but I just wanted to have this experience. it was gonna die at lfs anyways. Hopefully it doesn't tho. So I'm currently feeding reef roids daily and adding phyto feast, roti feast, and oyster feast every 3 hours ( except sleep). I will be documenting its life in my tank. I put it directly under powerhead hanging upside down from a rock.

PokeFish · Oct 17, 2021

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Rmckoy · Oct 17, 2021

Feeding is the most challenging part .
as long as you can get food to it . It should be good

PokeFish · Oct 17, 2021

Oops that was yesterdays this is today

Rmckoy · Oct 17, 2021

Have always been on my list of corals to try .
but can’t find them here

PokeFish · Oct 17, 2021

Rmckoy said:
Feeding is the most challenging part .
as long as you can get food to it . It should be good

yes i agree. Ive also purchased reef blizzard o. Another challenge is probably keeping nitrates and phosphates from spiking due to so much food

PokeFish · Oct 17, 2021

Rmckoy said:
Have always been on my list of corals to try .
but can’t find them here

Pretty sure live aquaria has sometimes.

Rmckoy · Oct 17, 2021

PokeFish said:
Pretty sure live aquaria has sometimes.

I’m in Canada . They don’t ship livestock here

PokeFish · Oct 17, 2021

Rmckoy said:
I’m in Canada . They don’t ship livestock here

oh i see

mdb_talon · Oct 17, 2021

Good luck! I have no issues with some NPS like sun coral and some gorgonians, but have failed miserably both times with carnation. Beautiful corals though wish i could do it.

PokeFish · Oct 17, 2021

mdb_talon said:
Good luck! I have no issues with some NPS like sun coral and some gorgonians, but have failed miserably both times with carnation. Beautiful corals though wish i could do it.

thank you

atomos · Oct 17, 2021

Where is your Carnation located? Is it towards the middle - to- top? I moved my Carnation from the bottom to the middle portion of the tank and it definitely showed it enjoyed the move. I do feed it twice a day with a mix of live baby shrimp, live rotifers, PhytoFeast and Roti-Feast (when I'm between live culture harvesting). I did manage to have it feast during better feeding times versus when lights are out though.

PokeFish · Oct 17, 2021

atomos said:
Where is your Carnation located? Is it towards the middle - to- top? I moved my Carnation from the bottom to the middle portion of the tank and it definitely showed it enjoyed the move. I do feed it twice a day with a mix of live baby shrimp, live rotifers, PhytoFeast and Roti-Feast (when I'm between live culture harvesting). I did manage to have it feast during better feeding times versus when lights are out though.

it is located near the middle of the tank right under a powerhead

PokeFish · Oct 19, 2021

Just fed reef blizzard. Seems slightly shriveled up.

PokeFish · Oct 19, 2021

could this possibly be due to lights off

atomos · Oct 19, 2021

is the flow from the powerhead going over the coral? i have the flow going over versus directly at. beyond the coral not having symbiotic algae zooxanthellae, i generally feed two ways--broadcast and direct. i don't turn down the water flow in the tank when going either way. for direct you can try getting a BPA-free bottle and cut out the bottom portion of it. then directly place the bottle over the coral and then feed with your food choice through the narrow opening....the isolation of the bottle should give the coral a chance to "grab" the food particles.

have you tried other foods like phytoplankton (nanno/tetra)? do you have a pods population (tisbe b.)?

when i apply a late broadcast feed with live phytoplankton, the lights tend to be off but i do see the coral ready for food though.

Udest · Oct 19, 2021

You should look up Dr dendrostein's write up on these guys he's done very well with them.

PokeFish · Oct 20, 2021

Udest said:
You should look up Dr dendrostein's write up on these guys he's done very well with them.

i was just reading that

PokeFish · Oct 20, 2021

atomos said:
is the flow from the powerhead going over the coral? i have the flow going over versus directly at. beyond the coral not having symbiotic algae zooxanthellae, i generally feed two ways--broadcast and direct. i don't turn down the water flow in the tank when going either way. for direct you can try getting a BPA-free bottle and cut out the bottom portion of it. then directly place the bottle over the coral and then feed with your food choice through the narrow opening....the isolation of the bottle should give the coral a chance to "grab" the food particles.

have you tried other foods like phytoplankton (nanno/tetra)? do you have a pods population (tisbe b.)?

when i apply a late broadcast feed with live phytoplankton, the lights tend to be off but i do see the coral ready for food though.

yeah so idk what happened maybe it was just poked cuz today it looks much fluffier and I can see all the polyps out

I do have pods