Picked up first corals for my biocube!

[pdiehm]

Local store here in Newark has various tanks with just corals. Saw a really nice brain coral for $49, but made a point to get something like that for my 120.

First corals that I bought were a zoanthid (not sure of the subspecies) and a little Frogspawn.

I dipped the corals in Re-vive or something, and the zoanthid had about 8 worms on it that came off. The Frogspawn at the store had a little brittlestar on it, that I had the guy remove because I don't want stuff like that in my tank just yet.

I floated them for 25 minutes, and the salinity was 1.025, my water is 1.025-1.026. Dipped each for 10 minutes, rinsed in clean saltwater, and placed in the tank. The zoanthid is in the bottom left, and placed the frogspawn up near the top of the rocks. Set the AI Prime module up on 75% coral acclimation mode for a week.

 

[pdiehm]

 

[Shep]

Very cool! Cant wait to see them all opened up

 

[pdiehm]

how long til he opens up? He's closed up tighter than a virgin.

Also, is my placement ok?

The zoanthid is opening up already, a few closed up when the hermit and the cleaner shrimp started walking over it

 

[Shep]

Give it a few days

 

[pdiehm]

 

[pdiehm]

Zoanthid is open except for 1 thingamajig. Frogspawn is virtually entirely out. Only took about 4 hours which I suppose is a good thing! Leads me to believe it's in the right place for light and flow...and water is good.

 

[pdiehm]

Better pic of the frogspawn.