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06/06/2007, 02:07 PM
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Kohen's Echinata
What's the trick to get one of these to arrive alive? I had my second one arrive in full-blown RTN. Do I have horrible luck, or does this coral just not ship well? I even upgraded to priority overnight. *sigh*
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06/06/2007, 02:24 PM
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Mine arrived ok. I almost completely killed it with a too strong lugols dip. Here it was when I got it:
 Here it is now (what's left  ) alive and growing back. I think I have it too high up though, hence the pale color:
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06/06/2007, 04:02 PM
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That's unfortunately true. They are such poor shippers, which is why there are hardly any true echinatas in circulation.
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06/06/2007, 05:54 PM
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The frag they sent me was nice and big like yours. What a shame. I'll try one more time, then I'm done. |
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06/06/2007, 09:13 PM
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Well, it's REALLY high up, so too much light was my guess. I'm going to leave it alone for now until it gets bigger. Once it's larger, I'll frag it, and put a frag lower, to see if I can get the darker green body/purple polyps back.
BTW, mine is from Live Aquaria, so I'm pretty sure it's a true echinata.
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06/08/2007, 01:23 PM
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I bought a frag of that from LA as well. I kept on the bottom of my 115g tall (like SDguy). It showed no RTN and had polyps out the first day. I have moved it half way up now. It does like alkalinity within a certain band. My alk went high last week and the polyps have not shown since. I does seem that it favors less light than some other acros that I have. I have mine under 2x400w 10K MH.
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