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doboy, what kind of fish is that in your avatar?

My coral beauty and flame angel get along OK in a 55 gallon tank. They had their spats at first but now coexist peacefully. In my experience with them, the tendency of Centropyge angels to nip at corals/inverts is greatly overblown as I have had no problems with coral beauties, flame, bicolor...

Bang, how about you? You seem to have lots of experience with Xenia - how have you fared with it?

To quote Eric Borneman directly: "Iodine is anecdotally reported in the hobby and among some propagators to be important to these soft corals. Regular - if not daily- additions are reported as necessary for their health and growth. The actual iodine concentrations in the water are also said to...

iodine supplements have been known to help in some cases...

sweet looking bubble!!!!

dude, "doo doo green"? Sick!!! Seriously, though, that's a great looking fish! Never seen one like that before...

Thanks Bang Guy, I'm no expert but I try and read everything I can about corals. I've got my wife drove nuts with it! It's pretty much the only thing I read any more! :D

sorry forgot the pic :notsure:

Yes I believe that's the correct species (and you'd certainly know better than me so there's no way I'm going to second guess you). There's another pic below. He's been in my tank now for about 6 months, maybe a little more. He seems to have grown a little in that time. Yes, he's in my 55...

Just wanted to give everyone an update on this coral - it does seem to be growing! Oh, and sorry about the fromia getting in the way! :happy: How'd you like that one Ophiura? Two beautiful echinoderms in the same pic! Look at my sailfin trying to hog the camera!

I'll post some updated pics soon. It looks better every day! :happy:

sorry for som any posts. No way that was a clove polyp either. It looks suspiciously like a closed goniopora or alveopora. Definitely difficult to keep and prone to crashing in a massive brown jelly infection when they start to go. Just speaking from experience

oh, sorry, to answer your question, unfortunately I would say it's dead and it certainly looks that way. I have rarely seen corals recover from a brown jelly infection that extensive.

sorry, "brown" jelly infection...

that looked a lot like a brwon jelly infection to me...

Not necessarily so! I saw several peppermint shrimps in my nano attack and kill 10 nassarius snails just added to the tank in one night! They ate them, those murderers!

that's supposed to be a crab? What exactly are we looking at?

definitely not "pineapple" though. Pineapple looks more like favia with multiple polyps. This looks like it's one solitary polyp.

yes, it does look like lobophyllia or could conceivably be scolymia but lobo seems more likely.