Originally Posted by
ophiura
I would LOVE more specs from both of you, especially in terms of Reef/FO, feeding of tank, parameters and LR!! Much appreciated! :yes:
I had my red marble fromia alive in my old 55-gal reef tank. Around 70# of LR, live sand, skimmer, HOT filter, halides, many other corals, an anemone and assorted inverts (snails, fire shirmp, cleaner shrimp, micro hermits, ect). HOT refugium with LR, macroalgae and mangroves (with TONS of pods and live mysis). Of course I have fishies too! :happyfish
I kept my SG at 1.025, pH stable at 8.3, dkh ~10, ammonia & nitrites zero forever, nitrate never got above 5. Use only buffered RO/DI water for topoffs and mixes. 10% changes weekly with aged water.
I feed the tank my own slurry blend of clams, mussels, squid, shrimp, macroalgae, mysis, vit supplement, and cyclop-eeze (a little something for everyone)
He (funny how we give them genders) was alive for over a year until I moved and upgraded my tank to a 125. I added more base rock (to become LR eventually..total will be around 150#) and learned the importance of proper stacking. Everything was fine for 4 days until I woke up to find one huge rock pile had fallen, crushing not only my beloved star, but my brain coral and several polyp colonies. He hung on for a few days, but then fell apart and died.
Just too much damage to the central disc I guess. I plan to get another one soon as he really was a gorgeous specimen. The brain is pulling through so far and the polyp colonies will recover (lost about a dozen polyps). My other serpant stars are doing great as is everything else! :joy:
Moral of the story, make sure your rock piles are stable as things shift around!