Got my first set of corals yesterday and didn't notice this little guy towards the bottom of the rock. It's a fleshy purple with neon green specs on it. It sways around freely and seems to have about 3 to 4 pieces that sway outwards from the center. Anyways, this is the best photo and video i could get. The video gets a little sharper towards the end.
Coral ID Please?
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very hard to tell. could be a shroom, or ????? Can you get a video or pic with less blue and more white?
This is the best closeup I could get. I don't want to turn the whites on yet because I just added them last night and I heard that you do not want to turn them on in the first 48 hours. Maybe that's hogwash? lol
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Looks like a cabbage leather
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Ooohhhhhh LOL
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Skimmer, Uv sterilizer, flow, carbon reactor. Using any of them?
It’s a weee little nano tank. Fluval 13.5. InTank chamber 1 insert with filter floss and purigen and carbon. Just started that today and ditched the stick foam filter. However been using floss for over a week and there is 0 change. Not using any reactors or skimmer or anything but religious about my water changes. (2g a week is easy to stick to) lol.
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A member on here sent me a PM stating that it may be a bacteria bloom. They said they experienced the same exact thing and that is what it turned out to be. Although I have already gone through my cycle period.
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Hi, Welcome to R2R !
Bacterial blooms can happen at any time, all they need is a food source.
These aren't the same kind of bacteria that constitute the tank biofilter, that convert NH3 to NO2, and NO2 to NO3.
These bacteria are heterotrophs, so they take that NO3 produced by the other bacteria, and combine it with a carbon source to grow.
This is the basis of carbon dosing to reduce NO3 and PO4; the bacteria take up the nutrients, and then you remove the bacteria with a skimmer.
But if you overdo the carbon dosing and the bacteria proliferate too much, you get cloudy water, and sometimes sick animals.
Since you're presumably not carbon dosing, adding high quality GAC, doing water changes, and cutting back on feeding should fix it.
If you're dosing any amino acids or other supplements that contain organic carbon, probably should stop those too.
And yeah, I thought that looked like a small yuma or other mushroom in the first vid.
An unhappy one; they don't like being jostled around like that, and it's probably not well attached.
Yumas can be ridiculously finicky even in excellent conditions where everything else is thriving.
Wow, what a helpful community! I am not dosing anything at all. Only reason I am feeding the tank at all is to keep the cycle going. I've heard that with no source of amonia the bacteria starts to die off or something. Anyways, let me know if I can stop feeding all together? once a week maybe? Also, I have got the flow down now and completely changed the rockscape so the rock that all those corals are on are protected from direct blasts of the wavemarker or return pump. Now they are just ever so slighting catching waves of movement. Never dormant, but not getting all rustled up either. Hopefully this sticks and its not too close to my lights.. I ran the whites today for a couple of hours and a few of the zoa's are pooping now.. lol
