Hi everyone. Sometimes it's easy to get lost in reading and the studying and with a new comer maybe even to the point of....'I can't do that'. I knew I was hesitant about trying my first coral....so many things to check, so much info on the internet...study study study. So every once in a while I love to see a post that lightens things up a bit, bring coral keeping down to earth a smidge, take a little fear out of our hobby for the person that would love to give a reef tank a try.....'yeh, I failed short storys 101' sorry.
BEGINNER-CORALS, what's that? Forgiving to a new reef keepers mistakes...hummm? Example, I love examples!
BUTTON-POLYPS
A medium sized piece of live rock with 30 or so polyps on it, found laying on the bottom every morning for four days upside down. ("Had a hidden hitch hiker in it....some kind of crab that would knock it over every night as he came out of the rock.") Floating the bag to acclimate, just opened it and the dogs all went off....4 of them....dropped the bag, got filled with my tank water in a hurry! Individual polyps from all the falling still being found a 2-3 weeks afterwards being attached as I find them.
After all this they are still all out wide open, tenticles waving away, centers glowing bright green under my 'blue-lights every evening.....a beginners coral? Forgiving to a 'bigginers mistake'......Yep!
I would never intentionaly treat a new addition like this of course, but mistakes do happen in life, and my little button-polyps have forgiven me for the way I treated them.....I hightly recomend them as an 'easy, beginners' coral!
Study up on what you would like to try, ask questions, but have fun, and enjoy our hobby. Best of luck,
Dave
BEGINNER-CORALS, what's that? Forgiving to a new reef keepers mistakes...hummm? Example, I love examples!
BUTTON-POLYPS
A medium sized piece of live rock with 30 or so polyps on it, found laying on the bottom every morning for four days upside down. ("Had a hidden hitch hiker in it....some kind of crab that would knock it over every night as he came out of the rock.") Floating the bag to acclimate, just opened it and the dogs all went off....4 of them....dropped the bag, got filled with my tank water in a hurry! Individual polyps from all the falling still being found a 2-3 weeks afterwards being attached as I find them.
After all this they are still all out wide open, tenticles waving away, centers glowing bright green under my 'blue-lights every evening.....a beginners coral? Forgiving to a 'bigginers mistake'......Yep!
I would never intentionaly treat a new addition like this of course, but mistakes do happen in life, and my little button-polyps have forgiven me for the way I treated them.....I hightly recomend them as an 'easy, beginners' coral!
Study up on what you would like to try, ask questions, but have fun, and enjoy our hobby. Best of luck,
Dave
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