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I'd anyone's interested. My rock flowers spawned again and I caught the sequence on camera, knowing what to look for this time. My males seem to spawn more often than the females are accepting of it.
The male starts to radar dish before lights go out. The skirt comes up and then he does this...
That flat rock is right out of my dreams , sorry to hear about the troubles, I think all run into them and only some make it through, like you said, life goes on which ever side of it you land on. Very cool setup, shame to take it down
Every tank I've started I bought a huge box of bacteria, soaked media, Coraline, algaes, cleanup crew , worms , pods etc etc etc from Indo pacific sea farms in Hawaii. Never had a bad tank . It's a good partial substitute for live rock, if you absolutely can't live without the manicured arches...
Can't you just cut the whole thing off near the base and just let it re attach to a smaller rock in a corner somewhere, then glue it wherever you want. Like you would do to a toadstool
I have limited experience with SPS, but so far once my blenny finishes biting them to near death, they end up coming around and doing well. I got a tenuis that I accidentally dropped tip down () , a nice one too (). So all 3 tips got damaged, the tips have some algae growing on just the tips...
Phosphates are tricky, the Hanna does a good job but it's not a complete picture. If your tank is new. It may be leeching from something. Seafood, especially from the grocery store is sprayed with phosphate to preserve them, could be coming from that if you made your own food and didn't rinse...
Amphipods will definitely eat copepods or complete for food and space, but will not wipe them out in my experience. My amphipods got wiped out and I found tisbe pods very easy to culture so I've been sticking with them. I now have a 5 gallon tall, low light tank that I only feed phyto and I just...