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sultros

sultros

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Saw this rock at the LFS over the weekend. After searching around on the net, I think it may be a type of elliptical star coral. There really isn't much info on keeping these in a reef tank but hopefully someone has some. This rock has been in the store for a few weeks under VHO and it has no signs of decay.
Anyone have any info on keeping these? do they require VHO or MH? They remind me of a super sized porite.
Gotta love the little blue duster poking its head out. They claim its of the christmas tree type but I have not seen it fully extended.
Thank you for any help offered
 
sultros

sultros

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Here's another pic. They have it labeled as golden polyps. This particlular LFS is known to have corals misnamed.
 
clarkiiboi

clarkiiboi

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No expert, but have you seen it open up? They look all closed in the pics. Anyways a bump for the gurus to see. :D
 
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newbienz

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Dichocoenia stokesii aka Star Coral or Elliptical Star Coral.
Medium to Strong Lighting
Med-Low to strong flow
not very aggresive
pretty hardy
Requires: Light, plankton, brine shrimp, detritus, and/or fish waste.
Doesn't require all, but will benefit from any of those above.
They are fairly easy to take care of :D
 
ichiban

ichiban

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forgot the common name, but jullian sprung wrote something about it maybe 12 years ago and Albert Thiel had a Beautiful piece in his 110 gal ( lower half of the tank) under 150 w halides when he lived in Conn.
 
steel

steel

Member
humm they can live with that little light???? anything elses they need to live off of wen not much light???
Travis
 
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