Chili Coral

[doggiepuffer]

I have had my tank for about 6 months, and I have slowly started to add coral to my tank, I have a Kenya Tree Coral, a large GSP Frag, and some xenia stalks, and I want to add a Chili Coral... are these hard to maintain... anyone have any experience (good, bad, or both) with these corals?

 

[mx#28]

Originally Posted by DoggiePuffer
http:///forum/post/2881589
I have had my tank for about 6 months, and I have slowly started to add coral to my tank, I have a Kenya Tree Coral, a large GSP Frag, and some xenia stalks, and I want to add a Chili Coral... are these hard to maintain... anyone have any experience (good, bad, or both) with these corals?
Yes, they are very hard to maintain. Without a near constant addition of smaller planktonic foods, they will typically starve to death over 6 -18 months, often even quicker.

 

[doggiepuffer]

What Sucks! LOL. However, typically me.. I find a coral that I really like, but then it is either hard to maintain or just does not generally do well in captavity. Although I am good a find awesome fish with a very high price tags to

 

[mr_x]

not to mention the fact that they look beautiful with the lights off, but look like a glob of red poop with the lights on. they seem to forget to tell you that when they advertise them for sale.

 

[doggiepuffer]

ROFLMAO!!!

LOL that I do not need. However, I do need to find which of this critters are eating at my Kenya Tree OR if my decorate crab has decided to use parts of them to decoate himself with.... I do have two foxfaces, but that i always left my corals alone, so I really do not think it is them at this point.

 

[mr_x]

holy cow. you have kenya tree and a decorator crab in the same tank? your tank is going to be a kenya tree forest in no time.

 

[culp]

Originally Posted by Mr_X
http:///forum/post/2883343
holy cow. you have Kenya tree and a decorator crab in the same tank? your tank is going to be a Kenya tree forest in no time.
i had a decorator crab about 4 months ago and the stupid thing tore my Kenya tree apart into like a million pieces. and none of it survived.

 

[doggiepuffer]

Originally Posted by Mr_X
http:///forum/post/2883343
holy cow. you have kenya tree and a decorator crab in the same tank? your tank is going to be a kenya tree forest in no time.
I also have Xenia, and GSP as well.... However nothing seems to bother the Xenia and the GSP, but something has been working on the Kenya Tree, but I am not what... I would suspect my foxface, but he has very bother any of the other coral in the tank, and everyone that i have talked to as said, as long as he is well fed, he will be very happy.... and so far no problems with him.....

 

[doggiepuffer]

Originally Posted by Culp
http:///forum/post/2883390
i had a decorator crab about 4 months ago and the stupid thing tore my Kenya tree apart into like a million pieces. and none of it survived.
ECK!!!! Maybe he will stay in his current tank them, and not get to move when I move everyone else. I orginally got him to help frag out the corals and help them spead.....maybe the are more destructive to coral tanks that CONstructive...

 

[mr_x]

then i need to borrow your decorator crab...i can't seem to erradicate the kenya trees in my tank.

 

[doggiepuffer]

Well, I did a little bigging on another website, since this one does not sell the Kenya Tree Coral, and I moved it to a place in the tank with better current and closer to the lighting, since I only have a 10K light in the tank, but i generally leave it on for 10-12 hours.

 

[mr_x]

in my experience, kenya trees live in any lighting, and in any flow.