My 75 gallon tank, pics.

[Flipturn88]

Hahaha...it's like having a newborn baby--or twins!

[AEALOVESHERGIRLS]

Bad news everyone!!!!! Today is water change today and when I went to empty the skimmer, it was full of pink skimate I feel so taken advantage of. Dr. Mac said he doesn't know of any of these corals being dyed, but why else would I have pink in my skimmer and the one pink one is melting away. What a waste of money. I paid $98. a piece for these. I'm a very sad girl.

[Flipturn88]

That's a HUGE shame! Atleast you have a gorgeous and happy organe sun coral to enjoy. Maybe the other ones will pull through as well.

Hopefully Dr. Mac will be a good vendor and help you out in some way.

[AEALOVESHERGIRLS]

Dr. Mac e-mailed me today and I believe he is sincere. He has also said he will replace the coral with my next order. Here is what he said...

Sorry to hear about the coral falling apart. I received 3 of these at the same
time at the beginning of this week, you got 2 and the 3rd is here awaiting
shipping and doing well. These corals are not dyed that I am aware of. I have
kept a few over the years and never had one lose its color and that is not
typical of a dyed coral. I have sold several over the years as well and never
heard a complaint about them being dyed. I suspect that if a coral such as
this for whatever reason died in a tank and its tissue fell off then you would
likely see bits in a skimmer, does not mean it is dyed. Also, pignments
certainly could be released I suspect in a coral that dies and that does not
mean they are artificially dyed, case in point is the neon green Spaghetti
leathers, they do not ship well sometimes and I have gotten them in when the
coral has died in the bag and bits of fluorescent green pigment are floating
in the bag and the water is a bright green color, but the coral is naturally
colored and not dyed. I have a local cutomer that has gotten a couple of these
sun polyps from me over the last year and called her today and she reports to
me that they still have the same coloration, also not how a typical dyed coral
would react. Again, I am unaware of these being dyed, I do not think they are,
and am sorry that you lost one of them. I will gladly replace it on your next
order.
Thanks, Mac

I believe him. I have no reason to doubt him. Lets just all cross our fingers that the rest of the coral pulls through, pink or not.

Amanda

[Brules]

Nice Tank

[rjwilson37]

You must train your sun polyp to open at the time you feed the rest of the tank. It does not take very much time as mine opens around 5:30-6pm every night just after feeding the fish in the tank.

[Flipturn88]

That's good. I knew Dr. Mac would help you out! They are such a reputable company.

[tonym10]

Tank looks great, keep us posted how your sun polyps are doing, I would like to get some, I would liek to here how your do after some time.
Here is a pic of part of my tank after almost 1 year

[AEALOVESHERGIRLS]

Tony, your tank looks awesome! I love your tang and butterfly!

[tonym10]

Thanks , I do too. They have become good freinds, they are almost always side by side. And they both eat from the same piece of seaweed on the seaweed clip together.

[Flipturn88]

Tony, is that xenia? That's HUGE. I also see your hammer that you thought was dead at one point is doing very well!

[tonym10]

Yes the hammer took off, has way more heads on it now then before, and is even dripping onto the rock and making a new section. The PomPom Xenia kinda grows outa control, I have to remove a stalk or two every couple months. I recently added a fuge with chaeto, now xenia are growing a little slower or maybe its just my imagination, I hope they are growing slower.

[obarrera]

Originally posted by Flipturn88
Great tank steve68; I love the wood-working, and I bet it looks even better in person! I hope I can find someone some day that will be supportive of this hobby, because it's not going away, lol.

Amanda, is there some sort of soda bottle you could put the top-half on the polyps when feeding (squirt inside the bottle with a turkey baster) to prevent your other critters from getting to the polyps?

That's why I said you are the perfect girl for me cause you're beautifil and you like reef tanks.(sorry just had to say it)

[Flipturn88]

LOL thanks, obarrera.

[obarrera]

Your welcome.

[lori7973]

Amanda, sorry about your coral.... it's terrible to lose anything, especially something that costs so much. Hey Kayla I can give obarrera some compitation.... I have a 15 yr old son (step-son) who will be 16 in Nov. we keep telling him that in order to talk to you he would need to learn a bunch of stuff... he stays in his room alot cause he says all we talk about is fish stuff. lol... He's a good kid, I'm gonna show him your pic .... Maybe you can get him interested in our awesome hobby ?? hehehe

[Flipturn88]

LOL sure Lori! Sign him up; we'd all be glad to help him out .

[SALTFISHDUDE]

may I ask what kind of lighting you have over your tank???

NICE TANK!!

[AEALOVESHERGIRLS]

Thanks. I have 2 of the Coralife PC units for a total of 4 10 k bulbs and 4 actinic. 520 watts of PC.

Good news! Tonight when I went to feed the fish, all my sunpolyps were closed, but by the time I finished feeding the fish, all my orange polyps were open!!!!! AND, my pink ones, that are still alive look like they will open tonight!!!!
I'm so excited!

[AEALOVESHERGIRLS]

Here are some pics I just took!!! My pink ones look promising!








Amanda

[AEALOVESHERGIRLS]

Whoo hoo!!! All my orange ones are open and feeding!!!! They are pigs by the way! By the time I made it all the way around the whole coral, the ones I started with had already finished their food and were open for more!

[obarrera]

They look great.

[Flipturn88]

Please stop posting pics of those guys; You are really making me want to get one .

[obarrera]

I know they look awsome.

[rjwilson37]

There open, but not really open yet. They will still open up alot more than that after a few more days.