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Euphyllia

Euphyllia

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I'm going out to buy new coral soon and I would like suggestions on what coral and where to put it. (Please also include what it needs to live) Here is a picture of my current aquarium. I was thinking to put hammer coral along the middle left wall, but thats just my idea. Would a hard coral look good. Oh, and i don't really want to spend over $50 on this.
 
This is a nano tank with pc lighting?

I'd tend to stay away from hammer and torch type corals for now. They are aggressive and can sting other corals from a distance so you need a good amount of space. Also, you need to keep on top of the alk/Ca/Mg parameters for them to survive. Same for other hard corals.

I think a neon green nepthea would look really cool in there after it grows out. It's a soft coral, so the alk etc is not as critical.
 
Well, I have some little sand areas you can't see in the picture, and some of my coral, (My Hammer) is dead. the peppermint shrimp ate it. so I think it might of been a disease, so im going to go buy some hammer, nepthea, or just split $50 between a bunch of small rocks of polyps and mushrooms! Also, is alk, ca, and mg necessary for my soft corals? If it is is it about $10 a bottle? I have Ca, but i'm not so sure what alk or mg is. is mg magnesium and alk alkaline?
 
Probably not disease on the hammer coral. Don't buy another one until you get your alk/Ca/Mg stuff figured out. We'll help you.

Zoas and mushrooms would be cool.
 
This is my Dead Hammer. It has no heads left because the peppermint shrimp ate it and I think it was sick, that might be why they ate it. Otherwise, it was beautiful (While it lasted)
 
I can give you a colony of mushrooms, if you would like. Personally I don't think you need to buy mushrooms. Club members are usually pretty generous with them.
 
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ok, Ill spend $30 on mushrooms and zoas and cover the remaining rock structure in them! And then I'll buy Mg and Alk! I think?
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I think it would be a good idea to learn about alkalinity and its role in reefkeeping rather than go out and buy more coral. Perhaps that's what lead to the demise of your hammer....
 
I agree with Jeremy and Norm. Alk, calcium, and magnesium are the three most important parameters IMO (in order of importance). You should know what your parameters are before buying anything new.
 
I went to the LFS last night to get coral although they were going to charge me $80 for 3 small heads of hammer coral (Smaller than my frogspwan picture) so I just got some live phyto plankton and forgot to get water for my water change which I will now do next week while I'm buying A piece or two of coral! I'm thinking of buying Xenia and Hammer.
 
I'm also with jeremy and ian.

The best thing you can do are to get some reliable Ca/Mg/Alk test kits and find out how bad your parameters are. Then you can adjust and maintain them. Then go and have fun shopping for new corals :)


If not, then two perspectives which I hope both are important to you.

1) It is an alk/ca/mg issue and until you figure it out and balance things, you will be wasting money on hard corals
2) It is an alk/ca/mg issue and until you figure it out and balance things, you will be putting your corals in an unhealthy and hurtful environment
 
Why buy test kit when you can buy coral?? ;D :D LOL


I have some hammer.. I will charge you half of what LFS charge you. I can use the $ to buy some new coral for DBTC ;D ..
 
Xenia and hammer won't be happy with low alk. Also double check your temp control on your nano. Xenia won't like it if the temps spike into mid 80's.
 
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