Show Me Your Scolymia!

miyags · Oct 14, 2016

Tapio said:
What's the longest anyone had them alive?

Lost mine at 4 years. I think low Alk causes stn then bacteria sets in.

Darth George · Oct 14, 2016

Macdaddynick1 said:
Better yet how do you keep these guys alive

I've had good luck with low light/flow, not moving them around and not over feeding. I always inspect them very closely before purchase.

Macdaddynick1 · Oct 14, 2016

Darth George said:
I've had good luck with low light/flow, not moving them around and not over feeding. I always inspect them very closely before purchase.

mine just bleach on me , may be i am running too much light on them , what are you parameters? and what lights do you have them under?

Rick.45cal · Oct 14, 2016

I haven't had mine for more than a few months, it is by far the most sensitive coral I have currently. Mine seems to do best in a semi shady spot, it's been moved out a bit into the light and it seems to start to get pale. If my nitrates or phosphates start to approach zero (either one or both) then the orange totally bleaches and become clear windows where the skeleton becomes visible. Once nutrients are reintroduced it quickly regains color. (I know this because I had a nutrient crash a couple months ago). I am going to try moving mine back into it's shady spot and see if it brightens up a bit. Thanks for the tips!

Darth George · Oct 14, 2016

Macdaddynick1 said:
mine just bleach on me , may be i am running too much light on them , what are you parameters? and what lights do you have them under?

SG 1.026 pH 8.3 Alk 8 Temp 78-79 0 Amm/Nitrite/Phos Nitrate 5 I run a single kessil a160we over the tank. Scoly sits on the sandbed roughly 16 inches under the kessil. I run dusk/dawn settings via apex so the kessil runs at 100% for 6 hours or so.

Darth George · Oct 14, 2016

Macdaddynick1 said:
mine just bleach on me , may be i am running too much light on them , what are you parameters? and what lights do you have them under?

There are way more reports of failure than success with this particular coral unfortunately.

Darth George · Oct 14, 2016

smh254 said:

Nice!

Macdaddynick1 · Oct 14, 2016

Darth George said:
There are way more reports of failure than success with this particular coral unfortunately.

Yeah so far I have not been very lucky... Well I got my scolly as a rescue, then it started recovering , after it recovered completely , i moved the tanks and it bleached and started receding on me .

Darth George · Oct 14, 2016

Macdaddynick1 said:
Yeah so far I have not been very lucky... Well I got my scolly as a rescue, then it started recovering , after it recovered completely , i moved the tanks and it bleached and started receding on me .

Doh!

jd371 · Oct 14, 2016

Macdaddynick1 said:
Better yet how do you keep these guys alive

Yeah right. I had a button scoly that was doing well for few weeks then...downhill fast. I still have the skeleton sitting on the sand hoping the Scoly Gods will resurrect it from the dead.

LetItReef · Oct 15, 2016

Low flow, light feeding, moderate lighting and keep Phosphate level on check.

Darth George · Oct 18, 2016

Any pics?

Rick.45cal · Oct 18, 2016

Like I said mine is nothing special, and it needs to get moved a few inches back into the shadows. My photography-fu is weak with the iPhone and my tank, excuse the poor quality.