Venturing back...

[ErinCahir]

So I picked up a bunch of corals at my LFS today...
I just finished acclimating and put them in the tank.
I'll put up some pictures once everything is open. I'm so excited! Hopefully with the new light and the phosphate problem solved everything should do well.
I got some green cloves, a few different little zoa frags, a little frogspawn (yes, an actual frogspawn, haha), some green polyps and a candy cane with two mushrooms on it. Hooray!

 

[yote]

Cant wait to see the pics.:D

 

[Smitty]

Congrats...

 

[ErinCahir]

Hooray for (sort of blurry) pictures!

With just the blues and the LED moonlights
Two little zoas

Frogspawn

More zoas (right?)

Green polyps (juuuuust starting to come out at lights out)

Zoas my four year old picked (because they were pink)

Candy Cane with shrooms (there's a blue-y purple one on the other side you can kind of see)

And the cloves (with all the lights on... I moved it right after this and it got angry at me)

TAH DAH!

 

[Bifferwine]

Those look very nice! Your (?) zoas are actually button polyps -- some kind of palythoa. They are very closely related to zoas and have the same requirements.

Your candy canes look especially nice!

 

[ErinCahir]

Thank you! I am super excited (in case you couldn't tell... I've only said that like twelve times today).

They had different colors (candy canes) but I liked this one the best. I paid $50 for it. I didn't really know if that was a good price or not, I just really liked 'em.

 

[Bifferwine]

That is a good price. Depending on color, candy canes usually go for $5 to $10 a head.

 

[ErinCahir]

So two days later and my cloves aren't doing well. They look pretty bad. Everything else still looks awesome. I have them on the sand away from most of the flow (they're not attatched to anything but some spongey stuff. Pretty much just looking at it blows it over). Should I move them higher up off the sand? I read that they like moderate light & current... So I thought the bottom would be better for them (unless that qualifies as low light).

 

[the reef kid]

I've heard lower flow is better for them...maybe try in a lower flow area?

 

[ErinCahir]

It is in a low flow area... It's almost entirely sheltered from the current by a piece of rock.

 

[the reef kid]

Just leave them for a couple days, if they continue to sulk, maybe move them back to the spot where they were when you took that pic? They were at least somewhat happy there.

 

[Bifferwine]

Or try gluing them to a rock?

 

[ErinCahir]

And another question... the candy cane that has the mushrooms on it...
It seems that the mushrooms are irritating the coral a little bit (they're pulling back where the mushrooms are). The shrooms have expanded quite a bit since I put them in the tank (they're pretty close to the bottom of the tank). Should I/how do I go about taking the mushrooms off? Will they anchor on to something else? Or should I just suck it up?
It's really two of the seven heads the mushrooms are bothering.

 

[Bifferwine]

The mushrooms will bother other corals that they touch. You can gently peel them off using a razor blade. Then put them in a cup with some rock rubble on the bottom and try to get them to attack to the rock instead.

 

[ErinCahir]

Or try gluing them to a rock?

It won't hurt the underside of it? I moved it back to where it was before (which is still right on the sand).
Almost all of the polyps kind of sticking out of their little sheaths (or whatever they're called), but just kind of droopy and not extending...

 

[Bifferwine]

Gluing it won't hurt it. Just put some super glue gel on the spongy underside of the frag, and stick it on the rocks where you want it.