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Having used Fauna Marin's new supplement Reef Vitality for 2 months, I will pen my opinions on it. First of, Reef Vitality is marketed as something unique i.e. a compound of coral food, supplements and in the words of Fauna Marin's owner, something called "organic biopolymers". All this is a little over my head but the proof is in the pudding and having used Fauna Marin's other products with success, I decided to try it. The stuff is packed into small capsules just like the vitamins that you take. One has to open the capsule and dump the powdery contents into a small container filled up with your tank water before giving it a good stir and pouring it back into your tank. I use one capsule every four days for my tank which is 400 litres in total tank volume. The effects were initially mixed when I dosed Reef Color Elements (another FM product) on the same day as Reef Vitality - this resulted in bare patches in some of my SPS corals as flesh was stripped but no STN or RTN occured. Hence, it is advised that one should dose reef color elements on a seperate day from the day you dose reef vitality. After 2 months, the overall health and colour of the majority of my SPS corals has improved, particularly for my pink table millepora and red table hyacinthus. My centrepiece which is a Fiji tricolour valida was looking good too until recently when I reduced my salinity a little too fast and the colour "ran" - hopefully it will get back to its old colouration with time and some TLC.

Thanks for the explanation regarding the supplier, Jun Kai.

I think I might need to drop by sooner or later lol

A blue version of the red dragon????!!!!!!!

Am always around I have a frag of the capitata from you which has since grown into a small colony - the polyps are sky blue and loving it!

Beautfiul as always, Cedric. Your monti capitata body colour is green - I thought it was white?

Ya and am still waiting on my side too lol. The blue polyps on your yellow stag is very pretty! Was this picked up from a Fiji shipment?

Clean and tidy scaping with more room for SPS coral growth! Haha I am in the same impatient boat as you regarding the long awaited walt smith fiji sps coral shipment. Any particular species you are aiming for?

Try a radiant wrasse - these are known and documented pest eaters.

You need to use the full package of the zeolite stone, ultrabak, ultra mins s and the bacteria to have the best results.

One can purchase Zeovit additives from this german e-tailer. www.sewatec.de

Sorry to read about your experience with the maricultured piece. Personally, I find maricultured sps corals to have even more pests and unwanted algae than the wild colonies. That's why the no exception rule is applicable to each and every of them when it comes to dipping and basting - let the wrasses do the rest.

From my experience, if your tank has lower nutirent levels, the gradual addition of amino acids do help lengthen polyp extension even during "lights on" period.

The most effective way to get rid of flatworms would be to indivdually dip each and every one of your SPS corals in a CoralRX or Coral Revive solution and baste them daily after you put the corals back into your tank. Wrasses are a hit or miss thingy.

Great comeback, Lawrence. Your rescape will do wonders in enabling water flow to hit all areas of your tank than ever before.

Thanks again everyone James72, I am sure we'll meet at Pinnacle again not too long from now. Ariff, share your SPS tank pics here

Thanks for the kind words everyone

Special thanks to the admin and jquek for the beautiful photography and composition.

Thanks for the compliments everyone

What I mean is gradual increase of feeding but not to the point of spiking your nutrient levels to a level where sps corals turn brown.

I suggest you stop dosing strontium and any other addtives for the time being and feed your fishes more frequently. Do this for 2 weeks and observe if your sps coral colours darken.

Yes, patience and stability are the key words when it comes to long term SPS coral keeping success. Aquacultured corals have the advantage of being more robust and more forgiving when things go awry (they do!). This is what Steve Weast's old tank looked like. http://www.oregonreef.com/sub_aquascaping.htm I believe he is keeping a coldwater azoox reef tank nowadays.

Gomezis appreciate stable dkh levels (more so than most other SPS corals) and don't like sudden lighting changes. Dr Ang has (or had) red planet frags for sale. I haven't seen any pearlberries or oregon torts in Singapore or Malaysia so far. From what I have viewed in some shipments, there have been several maricultured and wild colonies that are close approximations of pearlberries. Speaking of Oregon, the master of reefkeeping in Oregon (Steve Weast) is one SPS keeper I truly respect.

You have some good looking pieces there in that stocklist of yours. The green slimer, blue staghorn, sunset millepora and rose millepora will grow fairly quickly if they are located in a high light/high flow area. The montipora setosa and gomezi are slow growers (at least in my tank!) and the gomezi in particular is a bit finnicky when it comes to water parameters.

Is this post in the correct sub-forum? I fail to to see what it has to do with SPS corals.