Blasto's

[Dana42078]

Picked up some green ones at a frag swap today. It is a frag that has about 7-8 lil heads on it for 25 bucks. Hopefully it settles in soon and i can snap a pic of it.

Any tips of care for it. I read it likes low to moderate flow as well with lighting?

 

[Bifferwine]

What kind of blastos? Merletti or Wellsi? Merletti's polyps are pencil-eraser sized or smaller. Wellsi's polyps are quarter sized or so.

Merlettis (the small ones) will not take food, in my experience, and are slow growers.
Wellsis (the kind I like) will readily eat and will spread relatively quickly.

You are right about the flow and light. I noticed that the rock I got recently from a trashed tank started dying off when I put it midway up my tank. Which is weird. My other blastos are midway up, and they do great. So I moved these guys down to the sandbed, and they have been recovering since I moved them.

 

[Dana42078]

Heres a crappy pic from my crappy camera, hope this helps.

 

[Smitty]

Congrats on the new piece

 

[Bifferwine]

Those look like merlettis. They look nice!

 

[Dana42078]

They look really good in person lol.....i stole one of their cards when i purchased it. Their website doesnt look that bad neither....check em out.


House of Corals

 

[yote]

Nice addition.:D

 

[mennazeher04]

Nice looking corals!!!!!!!!

 

[Dana42078]

They do take food also biff, i fed the tank today and shot a mix of brine and mysis shrimp at it and they closed up and ate it.

 

[Bifferwine]

Guess mine have always been duds then :( Either that, or they have eating disorders and are trying to watch their figures.

 

[cageburn]

sweet grab!

 

[Dana42078]

Here's a pic of them gettin down on some food Biff....as you can see i missed one, oops

 

[Bifferwine]

That's very cool! Want to baby sit mine? They are dysfunctional! :lol:

I did buy some oyster eggs and sushi roe today to try out for them. Maybe they just don't like the other 30 types of food in my freezer! :mrgreen:

 

[Dana42078]

That's very cool! Want to baby sit mine? They are dysfunctional! :lol:

I did buy some oyster eggs and sushi roe today to try out for them. Maybe they just don't like the other 30 types of food in my freezer! :mrgreen:

Haha, i'll babysit ANY coral you have ANY time lol! Goodluck with the feeding, im going to go feed my tank now. :^:

 

[Bifferwine]

I have to clean my glass first! I need to be able to see the corals to feed them. :grumble:

And I saw that Christian had bought some new cologne and I sprayed it on myself to smell it. So it will be a while before I can put my hands in the tank.

Maybe I should head to Harbor Freight and buy some armpit length gloves right now instead!

 

[Dana42078]

haha....since ive gotten my tank up i havent used lotion once and i have dry skin =(....i pretty much dont use soap on the days i think ill be in my tank...well i still shower but then i wait at least 8 hours before i go in and i rinse for about 10 minutes

 

[Bifferwine]

Yeah I know. I'm careful about that stuff too. It makes you think twice!

 

[reeffreak]

Haha,Biff has rough,dry manly hands.

Looks good Dana,congrats!