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Old 06/29/2007, 07:12 PM
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Tubastrea juveniles

Hi! My Tubastrea juveniles are finally starting to send out some secondary polyps and I thought you might like to see them.





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Old 06/30/2007, 02:55 PM
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Old 06/30/2007, 05:00 PM
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very nice!!! they look great.
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Old 06/30/2007, 08:36 PM
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Thanks, y'all! What I've found is that the juveniles compete very poorly vs. algae of pretty much any kind. In fact, the parent colony of the polyps above very nearly lost a battle with Valonia (evil stuff) itself. The juveniles that I have that are doing well are all in shaded places (the one above is on a rock overhang) that get really good water flow (the overhang juts out into the current a bit right in a place where return water has banged into the glass and is taking the water down and around the rock). It's really in a perfect place to sieve food particles from the water and it doesn't have to fight the algae.

I was thinking that I might try setting up a darkened raceway with brood stock near the water inlet to give tons of surface area for larvae to settle that all gets really good flow. Maybe set up a constant drip of food at the broodstock end and have the whole thing drain to feed a large display tank.

Oh, the larvae seem to prefer to settle on plastic rather than glass (PVC, the plastic of an internal overflow, the outside cases of powerheads). So, I want to build the raceway of darkened acrylic.

And that's my report....
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