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“Cyphastrea
ocellina: Acquired as a 3/4” frag
from Atlantis Aquarium, I tried this
one solely because I’d never
seen an ocellina and because my other
Cyphastrea has been doing so well.
Not sure what to expect out of the
piece but if it can garner at least
one, “Hey, that one’s pretty
cool. Is it new?” in a year or
two, it will have earned its keep.
It is presently a little below midway
the tank in good light and good water
flow; a bit more of both than the other
Cyphastrea gets. Hopefully, it’ll
like it there. It doesn’t have
too many other choices.”]
They came in packed extremely well (the water was still warm), looked healthy, and were exactly as described. In fact, my only complaint is that I hadn’t heard of these guys a year ago when I had a little more room. In addition to the two frags I ordered, I could’ve easily tacked on half a dozen more if I had the place to put them. In any event, Atlantis Aquarium was a great find for me.
So with these two frags, it is my pronouncement that I am officially DONE adding new corals…for the time being. I know I’ve said it before, but it is my intention to spend this winter simply observing, letting things grow, and when necessary of course, fragging out excess. What this probably means is that a wave of stunning new corals at rock bottom prices will now flood
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kinds of water conditions, including freshwater and high humidity,
they’ll also be able to fetch
your paper, make your coffee, and
no doubt, frag and mail themselves
to whomever you ask. Well, good
for you guys. But I’m really
going to try to stick to my guns
this time. Both the tank and I
could use the rest.
Speaking
of rest, we finally tried giving
the M. confusa a rest by ‘popping’ off
that little Fungia and putting
it in the ‘fuge. The monti
had gotten very light recently
and was actually beginning to die
off in a couple places. I hope
I wasn’t too late in doing
this. Everything worked well though,
the Fungia easily came off with
the slightest bit of prying from
a closed pair
of scissors. We then fragged off the
dead/dying spots on the confusa. While
we were at it, we noticed how much
better the orange Fungia we’d
placed in the ‘fuge a few months
back was doing so we put the remaining
Fungia (#1) in
there as well. So now, all three
of them rest on the sandbed of the
refugium and by the looks of them,
they seem to prefer it that way. I’d
guess the lower light and water flow
levels are much more agreeable to them.
And finally, I wound up having to frag
back the Bali
Slimer (Acro #2) to
gain space yet again and rearranged
a couple other pieces for aesthetics.
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