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Old 10-15-2004, 08:24 PM
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after doing some priceing for lighting for my 90g then looking in my wallet only to find a four month old safeway reciept,i was kicking around the idea of going for a low light reeftank say two 10ks and two actinics, seeing the colours on some of the deepwater corals and sponges,i thought there must be a reason why not alot of people have them in there tanks,if any one wants to post some ideas or sites that might help out please do so thanks ...john
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2"-3"ls and 60lbs of lr one naso tang a snowflake eel,and a green birdmouth wrasse,
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Old 10-16-2004, 03:23 AM
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The low light corals are beautiful, but they wear me down. I think I will sell my sun coral, as my orange Scleronephthya is growing like a weed and therefore easier for me to care for. The red gorg did well until I lost it in a rock move....

None of these corals would belong in an immature system, or one without adequate filtration as they have high feeding requirements since they are non-photosynthetic.
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the filters i have on there right now are a 20" fluidized sand filter two 802s plus a prizm with surface skimmer,no3 is less than 2ppm,if you think i should wait a little while so the system matures then thats what ill do,and it will give me some time to figure out what corals would go well.
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Shine a flashlight over the top at nite....if you have a solid stream of life, you could try.
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The low light corals are beautiful, but they wear me down. I think I will sell my sun coral, as my orange Scleronephthya is growing like a weed and therefore easier for me to care for. The red gorg did well until I lost it in a rock move....

None of these corals would belong in an immature system, or one without adequate filtration as they have high feeding requirements since they are non-photosynthetic.
Is your Scleronephthya fraggable? I can trade you for a larger frag from my red gorgonian colony.

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Sam, your gorg is doing great !

The S. is not really big enough to frag yet. It was about the size of two nickels when I bought it a month ago. Now it is three nickels... If it does well, then maybe next time I come.
 

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