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  1. Spracklcat

    Anthony - your thoughts on Purple Up?

    the DIY two-parts are just as good and dirt cheap to make and use.
  2. Spracklcat

    Problems with Xenia

    :) Good to hear. Also, I have read that the Sarcophyton leather corals and Xenia actually grow better together--this from Mr. Calfo's book where he talks about combining Xenia and Sarcophyton in growout tanks. I have to agree--in my own tank I had a few small Sarcophyton frags, and some time...
  3. Spracklcat

    Seahorse safe corals

    Your best bet for info on seahorse keeping is www.seahorse.org. Lots of good people with hands-on experience. There are entire forum sections devoted to just that. :)
  4. Spracklcat

    Coral Food

    I disagree with Dav above: anything with a mouth should be fed. Can these corals survive with just lighting and water changes? Depends on your definition of survive. They will get some nourishment through the photosynthesis their zooxanthellae are performing, but in the wild they'd also be...
  5. Spracklcat

    Anemone looking bad :(

    Once every three days is not nearly enough for this anemone, especially if it is already looking poorly. For now I'd say up the feeding to AT LEAST once daily, and change your food to include a bit of Selcon and some tiny foods like rotifers, cyclop-eeze, or some other zooplankton substitute...
  6. Spracklcat

    New Reef magazine! - from Anthony

    Thanks very much for the feedback! And yes, the next photography article will deal with the good and bad ways to use Photoshop. If used in moderation, it can very much improve a photograph, but as you pointed out, it can also be abused to make an animal look very different from its actual...
  7. Spracklcat

    Placement for xenia and how to attach

    A friend of mine had Xenia covering the back wall of his tank--beautiful effect (which I am not trying to replicate). The nice thing too is that on the glass it is super easy to control and trim since you can just scrape it off with a razor. As far as control, as long as you keep an eye on...
  8. Spracklcat

    Mistake with Flower Pot?

    Does Goniopora eat phytoplankton or zooplankton? They are each drastically different food sources. FWIW I've been feeding Coral Frenzy as a zooplankton substitute with great success. It's nice because it is a dry product, so you don't have to worry about shipping and frozen storage. Good...
  9. Spracklcat

    What's wrong with this Scolymia???

    I have a Scolymia that had been doing poorly as well (mostly through not enough feeding; my own fault). What made a tremendous difference for me is feeding the tank small zooplankton-substitutes 15 minutes before mysis or other small frozen food. The zooplankton (cyclop-eeze, Coral Frenzy...
  10. Spracklcat

    Large RBTA taking over tank.

    :) Yes, Maxx is right--I mistyped. If you are going to cut the anemone, back into the display immediately isn't ideal. Best bet is to have a separate bucket with water from the display (good time for a water change--take out a few gallons for your bucket and replace with new seawater). Cut...
  11. Spracklcat

    Large RBTA taking over tank.

    You absolutely can "frag" an anemone. For a critter this large use a sharp filet knife, place it foot side down on a cutting board, and slice right through the mouth, all the way across, and then put both halves back in the tank. The only trick to it is trying to make one clean cut instead of...
  12. Spracklcat

    "C" Magazine - First Issue!

    Peca-- Thanks for the critique! Unknowingly, though, you have paid us a great complement; that old-style feel is exactly what Anthony and I were going for with the cover. We are trying to get away from the "pack" as it were and produce something visually different from what people are used...
  13. Spracklcat

    Pruning/fragging a sun coral...ok or no?

    I had very good luck target feeding them at the same time every evening first with a little squirt of DT's to get them to open up, then with mysis. I used a long 10ml lab pipette to target the feeding right to each polyp so there wasn't a lot of waste nutrients polluting the tank. After a few...
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