Jcarroll - I'm not an expert by any means. Remember I have only been doing this two months. But I would guess my lack of any algae build-up is my huge clean up crew. Remember I have/started with 100 hermit crabs and 16 turbo snails. They were in there well before any algae had a chance to mature. They keep everything very clean, but as you can see my rocks do have some green on them, but it's very natural looking and there is no excess growth anywhere. The bag of "bugs" was very beneficial too, my two Stomatella (sp?) have turned into about 8 or 9 and these are all beneficial algae eaters. (There's been some serious Stomatella love going on in there!) One other thing, I have only used RO water since Day 1.
Emmitt - Honestly, I don't even know what selcon and zoecon is. I assume it's some type of vitamin supplement for corals. I would like to try something a little different for it, but it's like don't fix something that isn't broke, you know. I have only had him about a month, but I have new heads growing so that's good sign he's happy. I usually feed him around 8:45, I see him start opening around 8:30, he's opened totally for about 3 hours, then he will gradually close throughout the night. I have seen him around 4:00 or 5:00 am with a few heads still open a little, but it's nothing like the first three hours. The funny thing is my "off" night, I will see a few little yellow tentacles poking out like "we really don't have to wait until tomorrow do we?" lol BTW, feel free to post your sun coral pic, but if it's been on here before I have probably seen it. I read just about everything on here but rarely am I confident to post any suggestions or comments.
One question, I see people use the term "soak the food" on here alot. What do you mean by "soaking?"
