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Old 02-17-2009, 11:54 PM
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Old 02-18-2009, 12:15 AM
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Welcome to Canreef

I've hard the same blue palm tunicates several years ago. They are very difficult to keep and may not be suited for an Aquarium. Mine did the same thing yours is doing until it was gone. you may want to try Phytoplankton and zooplankton suppliments to keep it going

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Welcome to Canreef

I've hard the same blue palm tunicates several years ago. They are very difficult to keep and may not be suited for an Aquarium. Mine did the same thing yours is doing until it was gone. you may want to try Phytoplankton and zooplankton suppliments to keep it going

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+1 on the feeding with phyto and zooplankton...

I've been reading a lot about the nutrition of nonphotosynthetic and photosynthetic invertebrates and would say that this will probably help. Though they may be too far gone at this point, and (depending on your system) feeding heavily could cause an algae outbreak without good nutrient export. Spot feed them too, with a pipette or something, so you know the phyto/zoo culture is getting directly to them.

And welcome to Canreef. Never a dull moment around here.
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THANKS to everyone for the warm welcome and thanks for the advice.
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my 2nd try at keeping this one, first time i more or less let it feed on whatever's in water column and it lasted about a month. 2nd time around i target feed the clump using oyster eggs. as of now it's not dying or shrinking but it's not multiplying either.
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