Bubble Coral

[Myka]

Originally Posted by marie

The one thing I've noticed about these guys is that they are very sensitive to allelopathy (sp?) (chemical warfare), any leathers in the system seem to make them go downhill fast

I have noticed this as well. Leathers, zoos, and palys annoy the crap out of them. I've had my bubble for about a year now, and it did well right from the start. Mine used to be two skeletons attached to eachother. At one point the smaller of the two started to recede, and looked horrible. It was missing a lot of flesh by the timeI noticed. I turkey basted it, and there was a lot of sand down under the flesh in the centre. I think it was getting too much sand settling on it, causing it to recede. Once it started receding, the sand could get right under the flesh, which made everything worse. I separated it from the other skeleton, and started turkey basting it gently twice a day to get the sand out from under the flesh. The MAJOR factor was feeding it several Mysis shrimp per day. It bounced back in just a few weeks.

[ElGuappo]

i have had my bubble for about 6 monthes now and it has gone thru different stages of health (appearance wise). i have a toadstool leather coral in the near vacinity and mushies. he does fine

One thing i have noticed if you move coral it takes a few days to acclimatize to the new spot new flow ETC....

i use a small amount of cyclopeeze once a day and now he is doing better than ever. i rareley dose anything. just strontium once every 10 days and iodide the same.

When i feed cyclopeze i turn offf the pumps and skimmer. leaving my korialia on for small flow. this helps the corals get some to land on it thus feeding them wihtout thongs.

i also just removed a Ctenophore as i believe it was killing my ltoadstool. since i removed from the toadstool his is soing better in a matter of a day. but i will add picks to show the mark he left on the TS.

i know that is a little off topic but i have heard varying opinion on these and mine is that my coral green star polys as well do NOT like ctenophores. they tenticles must be sting ing them as they and TS would extent their polys until now that the sweepers are nolonger touching it. just a small bit of info i just went thru. hope it helps,

[Chin_Lee]

I've a green bubble for about 4-5 years now and it is mounted on a heavy piece of base rock and it stands straight up so it is not touching anything in the vicinity. I find them quick killers of anything close to their tentacles. I feed them regularly (once per week) with a good bunch of PE mysis and even small dead fishes that I have had in the tank. I think the feeding is important in keeping these things alive.