The joys of reefing

[Aquattro]

I change 10% every other week with RBS. I've never had a problem with it, the corals are all fine. I suppose if the environment was way off using some other salt, that switching could be a problem, but I changed out 25g my first switch to this salt and had no issues.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by christyf5

I'll bring you a frag of this one when it gets going!!

As back up, my piece is doing really well, so if yours doesn't come back quickly mine is available.

[fishytime]

This may or may not have anything to do with anything, but poccies and stylos are incredibly picky on flow. I tried a couple poccies a little over a year ago and couldnt make them happy....I thought it was more to do with my tank still being young but....

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by fishytime

This may or may not have anything to do with anything, but poccies and stylos are incredibly picky on flow. I tried a couple poccies a little over a year ago and couldnt make them happy....I thought it was more to do with my tank still being young but....

I can't say I've seen this. I've added poccies to my tank from day one, (well, after rock cycled) and it's done well. My one colony moved around different tanks for years, everytime it got football size, I'd frag it back to golfball size, and repeat.
Even my current piece from Christy is doing great, and I'm getting those damn floater bits (new colonies growing on pumps, etc) all over the place.
I guess if I had to establish a trend, I'd say that my pocciliporas have always been in the strongest flow areas.
Unlike Christy though, mine is not an indicator coral, it is fluffy 24/7.

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

I can't say I've seen this. I've added poccies to my tank from day one, (well, after rock cycled) and it's done well. My one colony moved around different tanks for years, everytime it got football size, I'd frag it back to golfball size, and repeat.
Even my current piece from Christy is doing great, and I'm getting those damn floater bits (new colonies growing on pumps, etc) all over the place.
I guess if I had to establish a trend, I'd say that my pocciliporas have always been in the strongest flow areas.
Unlike Christy though, mine is not an indicator coral, it is fluffy 24/7.

Tell me your secret then...I was told that by Greg one time when I was picking up some frags. It may just be that he didnt want to sell me a piece of his rainbow stylo Just kidding Greg.

[Aquattro]

Well, stylo I've never had luck with, but the poccilipora, I just put it in water and it grows!

[Skimmerking]

lots of people say that when they change salts that their corals RTn. I have been using IO since 2002 and neve had any problems well one problem it causes my tank to switch skimmers all the time.

[tang daddy]

nice save Christy, is this a rainbow pocci ?

[christyf5]

I think its just a regular pink one. I don't know what a rainbow one looks like.

Hmm, looking at it it does have green on the ends of the polyps, kinda gives it a shimmery look.

Closeup:

[fishoholic]

It's pretty, I'm glad it's making a come back