An update, first hard corals!
Does anybody actually read the text, or do people just look at pictures and then post what they think I'm asking? Sometimes I get weird answering posts on other forums... Maybe I should do less pictures.
So far my track record isn't looking good with coral survival. I really should have waited longer I guess. The little hitchhiker coral is doing well, and growing at least lol. My zoas are growing, but I lost two of them. One of them was a fire and ice from my lfs and the other was a frag from the pack I won from Sexy Coral.
Recently though I bought three more coral. Before I get into what they are/were let me say that the purchase was less than ideal circumstances and was done as a favor to me. And also let me say that in now way do I blame the person I bought them from, and I would probably do it again.
I chose my coral from cell phone pics of a large frag tank. They were good pictures but they were somewhat far away. I chose what I thought was a millepora, a duncan, and an acro. When I got them home out of the little dark bags filled with crumpled up plastic bags and murky water and into the acclimation bucket I realized that it was not a millepora and most certainly not a duncan. Happily, the acro at least still looked like an acro.
Here is what they looked like acclimating (the point of realization, "Oh, that isn't a duncan... it looks like a... omg, an elegance!")
So I panicked a little when I saw that it was an elegance. Kicked myself a little for buying something I thought would perish. Then I noticed the 'millepora' was turning white halfway up. Oh great, I killed it already. Maybe they shouldn't all be in the same bucket...
So I dipped them (except the elegance) and added them to the tank. The elegance looked very happy within an hour.
Or at least happy to me, what do I know though?
A week later however, everything but the elegance is dead. The skin came off them. Obviously I did something wrong. I tested my water, everything is where it should be. I don't have anything I shouldn't have, and the other parameters are within the recommended ranges on the test kits. My temp is stable at 79. The elegance looks fine. In fact, it's only gotten bigger, which I guess means it is expanding more now. It grabs food I try to give it, but so far it just drops it. I don't think it wants what I'm trying to give it yet. Any advice here is apprieciated.
I'd put up a pic but I think we all know what dead white sticks look like
Happier news, my firefish is out of quarantine, and he currently owns the reef!
good progress, everyone likes a poc heavy thread
