Fish Tank Room

prsnlty · Jun 4, 2016

Bob Escher said:
And what are German Blue digi's may I ask. If it's coral ( probably not) I'll take way not LOL

They're purple with a blue hue depending on lighting and such. There's a green digi right next to it too lol

143MPCo · Jun 4, 2016

Bob Escher said:
Hmm I watched a guy on you tube liberally add Lugol's iodine to a bowl of water in which he had a coral he was going to frag. I wondered why so much and if it was going to harm the frag.
Where can you get that Bayers ( gee here I thought it was thir aspirin) insect stuff the exact name please and how

I do 1ml of Bayer to 1-gallon of tank water, dip - usually 10-15 minutes, and do a double rinse with display water.
You can find it at home depot or lowes....

****Warring this stuff can and will kill all pods if the coral is not rinsed off VERY well.****

prsnlty · Jun 4, 2016

Alex do you have any digi's? I was actually going to create a digi garden but the blue killed the red/orange one. Has this happened to you?

143MPCo · Jun 4, 2016

prsnlty said:
They're purple with a blue hue depending on lighting and such. There's a green digi right next to it too lol

Have you noticed it dropping new polyps yet?

143MPCo · Jun 4, 2016

prsnlty said:
Alex do you have any digi's? I was actually going to create a digi garden but the blue killed the red/orange one. Has this happened to you?

I do in the 150, but only the orange digi, and never noticed it killing anything, matter of fact, a green slimmer I have was going after it with deadly intent.

prsnlty · Jun 4, 2016

143MPCo said:
Have you noticed it dropping new polyps yet?

I'm not sure what you mean. It spreads like crazy and gets taller and taller. The one in the pic I took half of it off on the left side because it was so big.

143MPCo · Jun 4, 2016

prsnlty said:
I'm not sure what you mean. It spreads like crazy and gets taller and taller. The one in the pic I took half of it off on the left side because it was so big.

Sorry, I actually have micro colonies starting on live rock in different areas of my tank it seems like it just spreads there a-sexually so I'm assuming it's a dropped polyp and it floated to that area and attached.

prsnlty · Jun 4, 2016

143MPCo said:
I do in the 150, but only the orange digi, and never noticed it killing anything, matter of fact, a green slimmer I have was going after it with deadly intent.

Lol gotta love that green slimer!!

That's like everywhere I see monticaps growing around acros and no problem. But I had to remove my huge red cap because it was stinging the green slimer and 3 other acros!

prsnlty · Jun 4, 2016

143MPCo said:
Sorry, I actually have micro colonies starting on live rock in different areas of my tank it seems like it just spreads there a-sexually so I'm assuming it is drop the polyp and it floated to that area and attached.

No not in this case but apparently hydnopora does that! So if you have one watch for it. I also removed the hydnopora for that reason. That coral is very deadly to it's neighbors.

143MPCo · Jun 4, 2016

prsnlty said:
No not in this case but apparently hydnopora does that! So if you have one watch for it. I also removed the hydnopora for that reason. That coral is very deadly to it's neighbors.

Thanks for the heads up, I never really got into hydnopora, but now I don't think won't to!

prsnlty · Jun 4, 2016

It traveled the full length of my tank! At first I thought it may have been a spec of green monticap, then as it got larger I could tell it was actually hydnopora. Then I saw a couple more in other locations.... time to go says I!

143MPCo · Jun 4, 2016

@prsnlty Jackie check this one out:

prsnlty · Jun 4, 2016

143MPCo said:
@prsnlty Jackie check this one out:

Wow!!! Amazing!

143MPCo · Jun 4, 2016

prsnlty said:
Wow!!! Amazing!

Crazy right, he's one of the first reefers that I recall watching the video from when I first got into this hobby.

prsnlty · Jun 4, 2016

He sure can grow coral! Wish I was half as talented lol

143MPCo · Jun 4, 2016

prsnlty said:
He sure can grow coral! Wish I was half as talented lol

Ha ha you're being modest we've all seen what you can do you've got skills!

prsnlty · Jun 4, 2016

You're too kind Alex

I fly by the seat of my pants and learn (usually the hard way) as I go! But I do work my butt off at it (not literally-wish I could haha)

Bob Escher · Jun 4, 2016

prsnlty said:
They're purple with a blue hue depending on lighting and such. There's a green digi right next to it too lol

Well crap I take some if your giving away

prsnlty · Jun 4, 2016

Bob Escher said:
Well crap I take some if your giving away

Pm'd you

Bob Escher · Jun 5, 2016

143MPCo said:
I do 1ml of Bayer to 1-gallon of tank water, dip - usually 10-15 minutes, and do a double rinse with display water.
You can find it at home depot or lowes....

****Warring this stuff can and will kill all pods if the coral is not rinsed off VERY well.****

Thanks guy. Do you think this is better than Coral RX?
I've been using that