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Posted: January 05 2005 at 10:05am |
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I have a bubble coral thats dying. Anyone know what to do to fix this. My water parameters are great. I think its dying cause I just moved my tank and I think I damaged some of the tissue. It looks ripped on one of the edges. Anything I can do to help it?
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Posted: January 05 2005 at 10:07am |
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I have a frogspawn that a similar thing happened to it took 3 months but it pulled through.
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Posted: January 05 2005 at 10:35am |
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I had a bubble that wasn't doing so well and moving it into a lower
flow area and feeding it some meaty food like prime reef by hand
(almost having to force it into it) and it turned around very
quickly. if you're not giving it some hand feeding mine loves!
that and it always lets me know when i've gone too long without doing
it.
-dwn
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Posted: January 05 2005 at 1:08pm |
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How do you hand feed it? What should I use? The "bubbles" aren't coming out really, can I still feed it? Do they like low flow rather than high? I think mines in a med flow spot on the sand. Right underneath a 250 w HQI, in a 46 gal tank.
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Posted: January 05 2005 at 2:27pm |
IMO, lower light demands, and low flow.
Try taking it out of direct light and direct flow.
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Posted: January 05 2005 at 2:52pm |
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I would also thry moving it. Also target feeding will help. I had a hammer almost die. I actually moved it to a higher light and current area and target fed it every night. Looks much better now. Just my experance.
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Posted: January 05 2005 at 3:27pm |
Marks tip #143  When moving Bubble Coral, and indeed all LPS, it's best to do so in water in a bucket. If it has to be moved out of the water, first get it to fully or partially retract then pull it out of the water upside down. The reason for this is that the skeleton is very sharp and will easily cut the tender tissue when it is full of water.
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Posted: January 05 2005 at 5:04pm |
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Ya, I tried doing that Mark. But I think I did it when I was trying to sucure it into the sand. How do I target feed it? Where should I hit it at? What to feed it? I have mysis and cyclopleeze
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Posted: January 05 2005 at 6:59pm |
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bubbles have a large central slit when they're healthy and really
extended you can see. it will look like a slit running right down
the middle of it and i always targeted right there since it would
retract a bit around it when sprayed with some meaty goodness.
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Posted: January 06 2005 at 9:42am |
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Thanks for the help all!
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Posted: January 17 2005 at 3:14pm |
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I also have a bubble coral, What do you feed it my local pet store says feed it plankton every week like 2 tsp. of it i have a 40g Also i have a fuzzy mushroom coral and it looks kind bad what do they eat?
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Posted: January 17 2005 at 3:22pm |
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Both will take offerings of meaty food IME. Mushrooms typically do not "need" to be fed directly but I have heard that bubbles often do.
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Posted: January 17 2005 at 3:38pm |
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What do you use to feed them directly? What kind of thing can do that?
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Posted: January 17 2005 at 9:33pm |
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hand fed (jake, where's that video of you feeding the silverside?) or you can use a turkey baster or medicing dropper. Suck it up and gently blow it accross the coral.
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Posted: January 17 2005 at 10:46pm |
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i would turn the powerheads off for a few minutes, very important to do
this when trying to target feed or it just blows all over, then break
up about half a piece of prime reef over the guys that need it, the
fish eat the floaties. then turn the powerheads back on.
-dwn
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