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chris new reefer
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Do you have any advice how to check in the store if it’s healthy?
Need help with catalaphyllia
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homer1475
Figuring out the hobby one coral at a time.
Inflated, long flowing tentacles, and skin that covers the entire base and no skeleton showing. If any skeleton is showing beyond their conical base, I leave it. Hard to explain what to look for in sick ones.
Short stubby tentacles, somewhat retracted, skeleton showing, etc, etc. Pretty much the typical sick coral look.
Short stubby tentacles, somewhat retracted, skeleton showing, etc, etc. Pretty much the typical sick coral look.
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chris new reefer
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I understand.
one more question if you don’t mind.
I read different opinions on how to place them exactly.
on a plug or small rock and then buried in the sand bed or without anything and buried in the sand bed?
I read that the coral can feel if it is glued on something and it doesn’t like that.
But I would be scared that if it doesn’t have any extra “weight” on it, it will float away like a parachute.
homer1475
Figuring out the hobby one coral at a time.
There are 2 different kinds of elegance. Those that are solitary animals, and those that are colonial.
The solitary animal has a conical base and grows in the sandbed, where the conical base is in the sandbed. The others have more of a flat base and are found on the reef edges growing on rock. Depending on what type you have, is where you want to place them. I have only ever had the conical base ones so they all live buried in my sandbed.
I have glued/puttied them to the rock so my urchins can't pick them up and carry them around(my current pincushion carries my small one around because I haven't glued it down yet), and have never had an issues gluing them anywhere or to anything.
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We typically do not see anything but the conical shaped bases in the hobby with the occasional flat shaped bases one. I have read the flat based ones are harder to collect, so the free conical shaped based ones usually get collected from the sea floor.
The solitary animal has a conical base and grows in the sandbed, where the conical base is in the sandbed. The others have more of a flat base and are found on the reef edges growing on rock. Depending on what type you have, is where you want to place them. I have only ever had the conical base ones so they all live buried in my sandbed.
I have glued/puttied them to the rock so my urchins can't pick them up and carry them around(my current pincushion carries my small one around because I haven't glued it down yet), and have never had an issues gluing them anywhere or to anything.
EDIT:
We typically do not see anything but the conical shaped bases in the hobby with the occasional flat shaped bases one. I have read the flat based ones are harder to collect, so the free conical shaped based ones usually get collected from the sea floor.
