Dominik's 36 18 24 lady

[jem]

your first cyarina don't look too good..

its exposing its skeleton already..

[cityofangels]

fourth batch coral: the boss call it Fox. dun know correct or not.

Yup, they are known as Fox Corals.

Anyway, nice hammer!

[dominik]

today's addition number 1: blue sponges

[dominik]

your first cyarina don't look too good..

its exposing its skeleton already..

the photograph was taken just after i bought it and placed in the tank. hope it recover from shock.

[dominik]

today addition number 2: mushroom again

[dominik]

today addition number 3: feather duster worm

[dominik]

Reshuffle the corals again with my wife advice...

[blueheaven]

the photograph was taken just after i bought it and placed in the tank. hope it recover from shock.

Not only recover from shock and tissue necrosis, you have to nurse it to health by feeding it so that it hopfully might regain it's zooxathellae population.

Didn't you notice that it was bleached when you bought it?

[dominik]

Not only recover from shock and tissue necrosis, you have to nurse it to health by feeding it so that it hopfully might regain it's zooxathellae population.

Didn't you notice that it was bleached when you bought it?

i like the color so jus bought it. didn't bother about bleach or not.

[blueheaven]

No offence but you are being irresponsible by buying a bleached coral.

Corals must not be bought judging from its looks but by its health

What is the point of spending money buying something which will perish in a couple of weeks?

SRC is to promote responsible reefkeeping so I hope you learn from this lesson and not make the same mistake again

[dominik]

No offence but you are being irresponsible by buying a bleached coral.

Corals must not be bought judging from its looks but by its health

What is the point of spending money buying something which will perish in a couple of weeks?

SRC is to promote responsible reefkeeping so I hope you learn from this lesson and not make the same mistake again

If what you say is true, I don't buy it will still died. So you can't said i am irresponsible. Anyway it might not died at.

[blueheaven]

The reason why I said you were irresponsible is that by buying bleached specimens, you generate a demand for them and also actually encourage store owners to purposely bleach corals and selling them as "whte" specimens.

When it is bleached (almost toally in your case), it does not have zooxathellae in its tissues and cannot benefit from the byproducts of photosynthesis by them.

Unless it accepts food from you, death is inevitable

Hope you don't take offence on my comment but I am only trying to tell you not to make this mistake again. I am only acting on part of SRC's purpose to promote responsible reefkeeping so I really hope you do learn something

Anyway, I like your scaping

[dominik]

The reason why I said you were irresponsible is that by buying bleached specimens, you generate a demand for them and also actually encourage store owners to purposely bleach corals and selling them as "whte" specimens.

When it is bleached (almost toally in your case), it does not have zooxathellae in its tissues and cannot benefit from the byproducts of photosynthesis by them.

Unless it accepts food from you, death is inevitable

Hope you don't take offence on my comment but I am only trying to tell you not to make this mistake again. I am only acting on part of SRC's purpose to promote responsible reefkeeping so I really hope you do learn something

Anyway, I like your scaping

Point noted. Just to clarify it is all white specimen is bleached? Is there no natural white speicmen?

[blueheaven]

If you are talking about SPS and softies, yes, all white specimens are bleached.

This is because the zooxathellae in their tissue are brown so the most basic colour you get is brown. There are no such thing as white corals in nature

Good to hear that you get the message. Hope you reef responsibly

[chucky]

nice huge hammer coral u hape.. open up confirm very big.. better shift yur cynarina further..

[dominik]

look at the size the colt leather shrink

[dominik]

This is the same colt leather fully expanded.

[dominik]

my yesterday new addition no.1 : orange zoo.

What's the mushroom doing?

[dominik]

another look

[dominik]

yesterday addition number 2: green zoo

[dominik]

yesterday addition number 3: green cynarina/prata

[dominik]

yesterday addition number 4: orange spikey sponge

[dominik]

yesterday most happy addition: torch

[dominik]

Just came back from hospital after staying in hospital for two days for the birth of my second daugther. I am shocked to see my blue sponge became white sponge. Any hope? should i remove it?

[dominik]

second shock: one branch of frogspawn melted. what happened? will it recover?