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Originally Posted by AGYDAL
My green guy seems happier when he's near a rock sort of shielding it against flow. I know you have to have it out to cover it because it's weak; maybe as it starts to recover move it a little closer to the rocks? Mine also really likes Selcon Soaked mysis.
Good luck they're really cool corals, very active for a blob
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Yes. I think you're right, nearer to the entrance of the "cave" or half in and half out of the cave would've been a better place. That way it's kinda nestled more near rock like you said, and not all out in the open by itself getting all the flow that richoets off the front glass (yikes).
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Originally Posted by klepto
I'm appreciating the depth of the answer.
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Thanks much.
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Originally Posted by Sheol
OK, that makes sense. And it does look a lot like what I see sold as Cyarina sp. corals around here. But it grows bigger, apparently.
Not that it matters, all three would be welcomed by my Angels with open fins. And mouths, alas..
Matthew
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Yes indeed, lol, it would be like Christmas morning to the angel species.
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Originally Posted by victor escobar
to add to the taxonomic controversy you can also look at blastomussa beyerbanky and acanthastrea maxima.
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Yep, absolutely. Makes one's head spin
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Originally Posted by organism
Yup, sometimes I feel like if you sneeze on them they bleach. Every time my tank went over 82 or my lights got stuck on a bit mine would bleach and take a few months to come back, while everything else in the tank would be fine
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That's EXACTLY what happened to mine.
We left to Sacramento one week. We left the house air conditioner on specifically so the tank wouldn't get too hot. When we returned we looked the tank temp in the early afternoon and it was 84. We saw that our new pink hammer was decomposed. So we knew then that the temp must have been outrageous while we were gone.
Everything else in the tank was fine, and we were grateful we only had the one loss.
Then, a day or two later, just like you said, the Acanthophyllia started a rapid decline of bleaching and tissue retraction. It began by expelling it's zooanthellae like crazy. I thought the bleaching was from the light, so i put it in the cave in a way more shaded area. Well, that was fine, but it wasn't the light. It had been growing and thriving in the semi-strong light it was under. It was the hEAT. It didn't start expelling until the heat went up.
(since then we have a way to keep the tank temp constant within one degree.)
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Originally Posted by Sheol
Delicate then? Well, I have to avoid them anyway, because of my angels but if I ever were in position to get one, this info would be very, very helpful..
Matthew
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Sort of, although they are pretty hearty by all acounts. Mine grew, and thrived in strong light and high flow, and made it through temps that the hammer couldn't survive. But alas, it was that one thing (heat) that pushed it over the edge).
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Originally Posted by bz350
thank you for the information. these corals are beautiful. do you have any information on there reporduction?
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You're welcome. You have a good question. I don't know alot about their reproduction. I would venture to guess that they reproduce by spawning, like sps and (some) other lps. That's the only thing that makes any sense to me, cuz they couldn't bud off like zoas or encrust like acans or favia, nor grow additonal polyps like other stuff. So id' guess spawning. Now you've got me curious.
And unfortunately you guys it didn't make it. We had to take it out today ( i didn't want to) because it had declined to the point of starting the decay process.