Llj's 4G Now 5.5G... A Little Patch Of Sun!

Thank you. As of last night, all corals, except Mr. Stubborn (Diodogorgia) were open. & enjoying dinner.

I'm over at my sister's place today, so no tank duty today.

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Massively huge, gigantonormous update... So I went to my lfs cause the owner just got these crazy bright pink stylos and thought of my tank. Great, so I go to check it out, put it on hold, it purty, but can't take it home yet anyway, payday must come, but I needed to liquid food. She's had a blueberry gorgonian since last year, talking around September I think or October at the latest. One sold very quickly, but the one that wasn't as open has stuck around in the lfs. She doesn't have the time to feed it. It was open and she asked me if I wanted it? I said,"like buy it?". She was like, "no, take it, I can't sell it as it is anyway, and I can't feed it like it needs to be fed, no time." So... she gave it to me. Not a small piece either.

Guys, this is a tough, tough coral to keep alive for an extended period of time. Even experts struggle and I'm no expert, not by a long shot. I'm not optimistic. If I can keep it alive for a few months, that's achievement enough. But, I'm the only one she knows that has an nps tank and she knows I'll at least feed it.

I'll do my best. Here it is acclimating. Wish me luck.

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Thanks for looking, otherwise, not much has gone on in this tank. Corals are still doing well, Diodogorgia is still being stupid stubborn. Lemmiwinks is doing great.

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I think you can do it.

Thanks, clay, I'm going to give it my best shot.

Pictures, because I know all of you are picture whores. It's very hard to photograph. It opened at night and I have pretty dim lights in this aquarium anyway. I'll give it an HD treatment this weekend after a nice fat water change.

I took one with flash so you could see the branching and where the polyps were attached. This is right after I put it in the tank, wasn't open yet. You can see that the tissue is actually pretty healthy. This gorg was in the LFS since about October of last year, I think, cause I remember seeing it when I was getting my first suns. So it's already survived 5 months in an aquarium without being fed extensively. Excuse my diodogorgia. He's still be a pain. Now, my echino opens all the time. Why the harder coral is opening more than the silly easy one is beyond me!

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I woke up at 4am, yes I get up at 4am, and found that it had indeed opened some. The light that you see is a bedroom light and the tank at this point is only lit with my refugium light.

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Details of the polyps, what a shade of blue, huh!
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More shots of the gorg.

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I also tried for a video.



I'll be doing one of my heavy night feedings today and of course, there's the morning feeding of plankton.

Thanks for looking.
 
Glad you rescued it - Looks ok for not being fed for so long.

My bet is that under your care it is going to flourish!
 
WOW, I want... lol. I looked up a few photos of a full one. Amazing color and just absolutely stunning.

Good luck with this one! Any word on your watchman coming out from hiding yet in the other tank? How about the shrimp?

-Tyler
 
WOW, I want... lol. I looked up a few photos of a full one. Amazing color and just absolutely stunning.

Good luck with this one! Any word on your watchman coming out from hiding yet in the other tank? How about the shrimp?

-Tyler

They are hard to keep. I'm not overly optimistic. I'll be upping the water changes in this tank to 2x a week to keep up with pumping this guy full of food and I'll be doing some tupperware work with this guy.

No, haven't seen either yet in my old 8g. :unsure:
 
Be optimistic! It will fare better in your tank than the dealers.

How big is it? You could try cutting the bottom off a large plastic drinks bottle to place over it and feed through the open neck - keeping maximum nutrition in the target area. I used to do this with sun corals that I didn't want to fish out of the tank every time they needed feeding.
 
Be optimistic! It will fare better in your tank than the dealers.

How big is it? You could try cutting the bottom off a large plastic drinks bottle to place over it and feed through the open neck - keeping maximum nutrition in the target area. I used to do this with sun corals that I didn't want to fish out of the tank every time they needed feeding.

It's pretty big, got I'd say about a 7" span, though it isn't very thick, like a fan. May work with a gallon milk jug or a water jug though. It was grabbing stuff this morning when I fed the tank plankton.
 
Huh? Ainsy, I think you deleted the wrong post?

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