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Old 06-20-2011, 04:23 AM
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Wow, how terrible for you guys.
it was neat at first when mine started to do it, but then it just becomes a pain.. harder than coraline algae to get off pumps glass ect.. and the worst is when you buy that new coral for that perfect spot you have been saving.. you go to put it in and there is a 2" suprise coral there all of a sudden....


as for seeing an event. ya I saw a couple in my old tank, I think there are some videos on u-tube of some one elses going. hard to see but tons of tiny spores floating out and attaching somewhere else.

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Old 06-20-2011, 04:56 AM
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Yeah, see ... I'm sorry but I'm just not feeling any sympathy. I'll trade you tank troubles any day!

"Ohhhh my corals grow TOO much. Oh it drains my soul to see them everywhere!!"

Sorry ... on the grand scale of things to whine about ... this is one of the dumber ones!!!! What's next, the colours are too bright? Oh, the saturation hurts my retinas!!! You have no idea how terrible it is!
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Old 06-20-2011, 05:30 AM
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Yeah, see ... I'm sorry but I'm just not feeling any sympathy. I'll trade you tank troubles any day!

"Ohhhh my corals grow TOO much. Oh it drains my soul to see them everywhere!!"

Sorry ... on the grand scale of things to whine about ... this is one of the dumber ones!!!! What's next, the colours are too bright? Oh, the saturation hurts my retinas!!! You have no idea how terrible it is!
Tony, don't even get me started on retinal pain, the money I have to spend on sunglasses is going through the roof!!

Seriously tho, although it sounds trivial, it is becoming a major job to shave the buds off the rock to prevent encroaching of the other corals. A bud or two is great for free frags, but it can quickly get to plague proportions.
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Old 06-20-2011, 05:34 AM
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It's interesting to me that the longest lived coral I have in my care is a pink poci that has never budded out, bailed out, or spawned or whatever. Live through some amazingly tough events to survive through over the years but it's always held out and come back. Unfortunately due to a recent series of bad luck events I had to frag what was left of it and now all I have is about a 3/4" piece of it. I only wish it would bail out and/or spread out.

Kind of makes me wonder why some poci's do and some don't. Or if they all have the potential why do only some of them do it.. would be interesting to find out the triggers.
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Old 06-20-2011, 02:17 PM
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I'll trade you all the Mojanos I can find for all your Pocillopora. I do constant battle with them to kill all I find and then more show up.

I do have a couple of acros that are in desperate need of fragging. There starting to overwhelm the area in the tank where they are located. The price of success in reef keeping
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Old 06-20-2011, 02:57 PM
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I'll trade you all the Mojanos I can find for all your Pocillopora.

I'll throw my aptaisia into the deal as well. I've got some very nice Toonie sized one's I'm sure would look great in your tank
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Mine has spawned a couple of times as well, only in the past year or so and I have had the colony for about 3-4 years. NO idea what I did to make it so happy. Now I have little colonies all over so I ended up fragging off the main colony and giving it away. Its kind of neat the places they've picked to start up new colonies, places I could never manage to attach a coral to so I've freed up the spot the original colony was in for something else
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Yeah, see ... I'm sorry but I'm just not feeling any sympathy. I'll trade you tank troubles any day!

"Ohhhh my corals grow TOO much. Oh it drains my soul to see them everywhere!!"

Sorry ... on the grand scale of things to whine about ... this is one of the dumber ones!!!! What's next, the colours are too bright? Oh, the saturation hurts my retinas!!! You have no idea how terrible it is!

I will have to agree with Tony.

Aquattro give those babies away,iam sure some people would take them in a heart beat,i know i would trade you for something,too bad you are so far away.

After all that means your tank is doing awesome
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Yeah, see ... I'm sorry but I'm just not feeling any sympathy. I'll trade you tank troubles any day!

"Ohhhh my corals grow TOO much. Oh it drains my soul to see them everywhere!!"

Sorry ... on the grand scale of things to whine about ... this is one of the dumber ones!!!! What's next, the colours are too bright? Oh, the saturation hurts my retinas!!! You have no idea how terrible it is!
Yeeeaaah, I'm with Tony on this one on so many levels
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Yeah, see ... I'm sorry but I'm just not feeling any sympathy. I'll trade you tank troubles any day!

"Ohhhh my corals grow TOO much. Oh it drains my soul to see them everywhere!!"

Sorry ... on the grand scale of things to whine about ... this is one of the dumber ones!!!! What's next, the colours are too bright? Oh, the saturation hurts my retinas!!! You have no idea how terrible it is!
+1, no sympathy from me Tony stated it so nicely.
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