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mjag,
OK...I'll give this a shot, but it's hard to say what you have from your pictures.
The first picture looks like you may have been trying to photograph one of the reef clams that many of us get. My experience with these has been that they survive in some tanks and not in others. Mine did well. Feeding DT's may help these guys thrive.
The second picture looks like a type of coral. Where did this rock come from? If from the Caribbean or Florida, I'd guess that this is some form of star coral. It looks a little like the Siderastrea radians that came on my gulf-view rock, but the skeleton color is different. If this is indeed a coral, then your best bet is to try to cycle your tank as quickly as you can, maintain the best water quality you can, make sure your calcium and alkalinity levels are appropriate for coral, and make sure the coral is somewhere that it gets decent light.
I hope this helps.
OK...I'll give this a shot, but it's hard to say what you have from your pictures.
The first picture looks like you may have been trying to photograph one of the reef clams that many of us get. My experience with these has been that they survive in some tanks and not in others. Mine did well. Feeding DT's may help these guys thrive.
The second picture looks like a type of coral. Where did this rock come from? If from the Caribbean or Florida, I'd guess that this is some form of star coral. It looks a little like the Siderastrea radians that came on my gulf-view rock, but the skeleton color is different. If this is indeed a coral, then your best bet is to try to cycle your tank as quickly as you can, maintain the best water quality you can, make sure your calcium and alkalinity levels are appropriate for coral, and make sure the coral is somewhere that it gets decent light.
I hope this helps.
I wouldn't worry about feeding the coral much. Getting it adequate light will take care of most of it's basic needs, and it may get enough food from what's already in your tank water. If you find that the coral is surviving and extending polyps, and you'd like to try feeding, do a search on coral food and I think you'll find lots of different opinions and suggestions. I feed my corals the smallest size golden pearls about once a week. I figure those that catch larger prey are feeding when I feed my fish (and I have observed this to be true with several of my corals).
These star corals seem to be very tough and tolerant of a variety of conditions. If you walk around the tidal pools in the caribbean, you'll often find that the first corals there are the star corals. Where every other coral has died off, these corals remain. They also grow along side the 'more sensitive' corals, so they aren't just filing a narrow niche.
My siderastreas (sp?) took about three months to start extending polyps from the point that they went into my tank. Since then, there have been some algae problems I've faced that severely damaged these guys. After I got the problems in hand, the corals recovered beautifully, and on most of my colonies you can barely tell where they were damaged, even though the damage was dead center in the coral, not on the edge. They're tough, resilient, and kinda pretty in a brown sort of way
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Hope this helps a little.
These star corals seem to be very tough and tolerant of a variety of conditions. If you walk around the tidal pools in the caribbean, you'll often find that the first corals there are the star corals. Where every other coral has died off, these corals remain. They also grow along side the 'more sensitive' corals, so they aren't just filing a narrow niche.
My siderastreas (sp?) took about three months to start extending polyps from the point that they went into my tank. Since then, there have been some algae problems I've faced that severely damaged these guys. After I got the problems in hand, the corals recovered beautifully, and on most of my colonies you can barely tell where they were damaged, even though the damage was dead center in the coral, not on the edge. They're tough, resilient, and kinda pretty in a brown sort of way
Hope this helps a little.
Well I was thing about it some so I moved him up a little to get some more light. Well about no more than 5 mins went by and I noticed something was sticking out from the coral not in the middle But off to the right, It was like that for a few mins than went back in Im sure it was one of its polyps, Well I have some lights on order will be here next week Im sure that will help also.
Thanks alot for the infomation about that coral. Im finding out this hobby is something else I look at the tank everyday and find a new thing growing or moving. Its pretty wild
Mjag
Thanks alot for the infomation about that coral. Im finding out this hobby is something else I look at the tank everyday and find a new thing growing or moving. Its pretty wild
Mjag
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