Bubble coral...

[lurch694u]

Hey everyone I have a bubble coral in my tank that just seems like it is not growing. If anybody is interested in trading for it I'll bring it on saturday.

[BLUESMAN]

What are you looking for?? Blue

[lurch694u]

Whatcha willin to part with. Xenia? Frogspawn? torch? colt? hehe:)

[mo_az_heat]

how big is your bubble? and what color. ? i may be interested. thanks mo

[BLUESMAN]

Sorry I have no Xenia at this point. I can frag a good size piece of finger leather( the mother is a good 10" tall and growing very well). Also have some Cabbage coral that I could frag. i could also frag a couple heads of green/red Candy Cane. What kind of lighting do you have? Maybe that's why your Bubble is not growing well?? I'm interested....just let me know, course cash always talks too!!:D Blue

[lurch694u]

Well my bubble is about 3 inches to 4inches in diameter. I have 4 55watt compacts and two 250 watt metal halide. I guess because that I'm not supplementing calcium that is probably why it is not growing. I can barely keep up with my vaporation let alone dose 100 bucks a month in b-ionic.

[BLUESMAN]

Your lighting is good, but like you stated you need the calcium. You can dose with Kalk, I top off with Kalk water everyday. You don't have any corals "stinging" the bubble, right? Also feeding the bubble with mysis shrimp helps, but it's the calcium that grows the skeleton. Blue

[lurch694u]

I have kalkwasser I just need to convert one of my 5 gallon coleman water jugs into a steady dripper. Anybody got any ideas on how to do this? Where could I get a I.V. dripper at?

[BLUESMAN]

You can use an plastic air valve gate....it works for me! I think buggle might be able to get the "IV dripper", though. Blue