Corals for sale - pickup only - Page 3

SeaHorse_Fanatic · #21 12-20-2004, 04:58 AM

PM sent.

AJ_77 · #22 12-20-2004, 06:04 AM

Yup, I'll be right over Brad... but I'll also be needing your skimmer, reactor, pumps - will these things be included with the corals?

Sorry to hear it has come to this. Will be watching your 75 project with great interest.

Cheers.

Samw · #23 12-20-2004, 06:12 AM

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Originally Posted by reef_raf

Sam, I haven't decided what I'm doing yet. Just need to step back for a while...

You can still have a really nice tank without it being Acro-centric. You should keep the big tank and have other stuff besides sensitive Acros. You can still keep a few Acros but just don't make your tank centered around Acros. The Acros that end up surviving are probably the strongest ones and will probably stay with you in the long run and you can still have a great tank with a few Acros.

By the way, I still have the Blue Millepora frag that I got from you last year. It hadn't grown much since my tank isn't optimized for Acros but I can see that it is now just starting to grow new branches. It survived some pretty bad times in my tank where 70% of my Acro colonies died off. The Blue Mille however didn't seem affected at all. No tissue loss on that one.

Reefhawk1 · #24 12-20-2004, 07:12 AM

Hi there, I will be flying out of Victoria on the 26th. Do you have a list and prices on the corals.

Thanks

Stan

Aquattro · #25 12-20-2004, 07:16 AM

OK. Good news/bad news. Sale is now on hold due to the discovery (FINALLY) of what the problem is.

My acropora corals are "under attack" by camouflaged acropora eating flatworms. Steve and I spent a couple of hours tonight peering into the microscope finding these (not so) little bastards!! They are invisible until they move, although their egg sacks are visible.
There is a thread or three on RC about them, apparently common in Europe. We doesd some flatworm exit into a test container, but the results were inconclusive.
A FW dip removed them in seconds though, although the eggs seemed unaffected.

Since this discovery, I can't knowingly pass these on. Sorry for any excited coral purchasers. Now I have a whole new dilema....

For those that have got frags from me over the last year, if possible,you may want to perform a quick FW dip on your acros, if they appear to not be doing well.
I'll post a link to the RC article shortly.

Samw · #26 12-20-2004, 07:19 AM

Dragon pipefish to the rescue??

StirCrazy · #27 12-20-2004, 07:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Samw

Dragon pipefish to the rescue??

aparently it is the 6 line that has sucess with this.. don't know how a pipe fish would do in a full blowen reef. they are cool if I didn't think my turn over rate would drive it nuts I would have one.

Steve

Aquattro · #28 12-20-2004, 07:23 AM

yes, apparently a six line likes these things.

Aquattro · #29 12-20-2004, 07:24 AM

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...light=flatworm

Samw · #30 12-20-2004, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by StirCrazy

aparently it is the 6 line that has sucess with this.. don't know how a pipe fish would do in a full blowen reef. they are cool if I didn't think my turn over rate would drive it nuts I would have one.

Steve

I remember reading that dragon pipefish do well in SPS tanks because they swim (slither) along the bottom of the tank rather than swimming in the mid or upper part.