NEED SCOLY HELP
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trietnguyen000
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Ok I’m going to try to shade it this way. Simple and effective. Love it!
Coral therapy
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What’s your temperature? I have them do best around 75.
HudsonReefer2.0
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@BanjoBandito hows the scoly? Rootin for ya
My tank temp is 78, never had a problem with them at this temp. Don’t try to force feed it, let it’s feeding response show. Mine eat whatever is floating around of LRF nano and I feed them once a week with Coral Frenzy .5 mm pellets. Photo shows some of them. They get plenty of flow and light.
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BanjoBandito
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He's doing pretty good, I'm babying him. He's not totally puffed up yet, but his colors are good and he's eating. I waiting 2 days then fed him, and then fed him again yesterday. He's in direct light now, around 150 PAR maybe less. Just keeping parameters stable and doing my thing.
trietnguyen000
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Mine was doing ok this morning and I gave him (or her) a small squirt of reef roid and the mouth opened up to eat. I’m glad yours doing good so hopefully mine will too after shipping stress.
I got mine from ASD and they totally sent me the wrong one for $100 less than the one that I ordered. Waiting for a response from them.
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BanjoBandito
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I've had issues with AquaSD due to them shipping from CA to PA. The original one I picked wasn't "looking good" so they called and switched it out. It took mine about 24-48 hours before it looked OK. It's still not puffed up but it's getting there and it's eating. I kept it in the shade for 3 days then slowly brought it out. They def. sent me one with aptasia on it, but no biggie. I ordered a rainbow plate from living reef orlando and it showed up BROWN, i mean BROWN. It's taken probably 6 weeks for it to come back to vibrant colors. The bigger corals do not like being shipped, so just be patient and hold your parameters and it'll come around. Good luck!
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BanjoBandito
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looking much better. No visible skeleton and good coloration. Sorry for the blue my new lenses come today. Lol.
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BanjoBandito
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I've seen people saw em in half to "frag" them, I nearly passed out. If the water is good and the light is good, they'll make it. Shipping is rough man. UPS must shake them before i get it. FedEx is A+++ around here and I know that's not the norm.
Well, I have dragged a couple with a scalpel, they all survived and it didn’t take that long to get their shape back. I knew the dragged pieces I bought would be okay. I definitely agree with water, light, flow. Both UPS and FedEx here have been fine with the coral. WWC and TCK both ship FedEx here. My last purchases came from them.
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what is the feeding routine for the scoly ? do you need to get the feeding response by adding something the day before or an hour before ? ive had one of mine open up but the others stayed closed.
i used polypbooster 15minutes prior with pumps on, then all pumps off while feeding LPS pellets
i used polypbooster 15minutes prior with pumps on, then all pumps off while feeding LPS pellets
Mine usually open after lights are dim in the evening. I feed LRF nano frozen to fish, that’s probably still floating around in the water. I feed pellets to them once a week, otherwise they catch whatever’s in water column. Some of them will open when I’m feeding another pellets.
