my first coral

chocochipper

chocochipper

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I stopped at one of the LFS's after work and picked up a cabbage leather for $30. It had a nice small patch of polyps on the rock too. The guy said that if I would've bought the bigger rock with a only polyps on it it would cost me $70. Kinda blows my mind that they didn't try to get the extra money for it. While he was putting it in the bag he noticed the baby snail and picked it off. But when I got home I looked and there was a red hermit crab hiding in the middle that he missed! HAHA. I'm pretty happy with my purchase so far. Do you guys supplement their feeding at all? I shot a little ZOE at it at feeding time and the polyps on the coral itself retracted so I'm assuming it either didn't like it or it ate it. Not sure. But they came back out not long after. I'll have to get some pics up on my site when I get a chance too. Well, time to get back to staring at it now.
 
andymi

andymi

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It depends on the corals. I try to feed my brain coral and tubastrea on occassion. Everything I else I pretty much let live off the light. Since I have no experience with the cabbage leather quite yet (i received a small small piece of cabbage leather on a blue striped mushroom piece) I would not want to give you good advice on that. The book that I usually use is by Julian Sprung and he has a large listing of different types of inverts and corals with directions on what they like to eat, water flow and everything else. My other leathers ( yellow tonga and finger) do not get anything other than what they might filter feed on or get from lighting.
--Andy
 
cruzan277

cruzan277

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Dont know that much about it. You ever try looking online for aquacultured corals. I got a pack of 16 for I think $150,its usually 12 corals but they did not ship mine when they said, so they put in 4 extra, shipping which was only about $35. There really cool and they are alott hardier than wild caught ones. Drop me an email and I will give you the URL if your interested... cruzan277@yahoo.com
 
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