coral growth & ID

hawkster1

hawkster1

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I have a 55 reef with one cardinalfish a clean-up crew, ie crabs and snails along with a seldom seen cucumber. I have some hard coral that was given to me along with soft ones and mushrooms, polyps. The mushrooms and polyps are great anlog with, along with three that look somewhat like an anenome with it's wavy (arms), which I feed m.y.s.i.s shrimp that it loves. I have some branching coral along with a shelf type voral that was red when first aquired but now it lost the color to be replaced with coroline algae on all with no visible growth on them I also lost a pretty stony coral, arm by arm. I tried raising it closer to the top for stronger lighting , to no avail. For. lighting I have compact fluor. and a corallife 10000K high intensity bulb, shouldn't this be good enough for most corals including hard ones? am I missingsomething importantand are the hard corals dead or in a dormant state? My final questionis I have a type of growth I'd like to identify,it initially was licated on a section of a live rock but has moved on to a branching coral, other rocks and even the powerheads. It looks likea head of coliflower but not as compacted,each (bead) of the coliflower is green about 1/4 inch in diameter and when it breaks off from home it is scattered around to a new site,to grow and multiiply.I dont know what it eats but it's happy,has anyone ever seen or heard of this? good or bad?
sorry about the long letter but it's important to me Thanks ... hawk
 
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tizzo

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First your lighting is not strong enough to sustain all corals.
Do you know what the wattage is??
As far as the cauliflour things, I am not sure. Maybe majano?? Use this sights search for a pic of that and tell us if it looks like that.
 
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