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Correct, I posted about this last week. I didn't update you any faster than I was updated, and I didn't push the mfg since my schedule packed and the livestock was okay in the temporary tank. I'm expecting it to arrive Nov 28-30, and have asked the local club members to help me bring it on Saturday Dec 1.

He is having it delivered after thanksgiving as he will be away for the holiday.

wow......it's been so long that I actually almost forgot about it....WE NEED AN UPDATE MARC!!!!

i agree, i havent been around much since school started and the move but ive still been checking every couple weeks in hope of an update...sadly nothing

I nuked 'em. Thanks for the heads up.

i dont think its the bio pellets, do you dose anything? making dkh rise? the pellets are not just dosing, its an actual biological filter by shutting them down the bacteria dies and if you restart them can cause other problems. they take about 4-6 weeks to "kick in" and start working, how fast are you tumbling them, reactor, pump?

Closed up how? Simply no polyps? We need pictures. How much did you use on what size system? Letting the alk drop would be wise.

My few SPS have closed up and I started pellets a few weeks ago. My dkh is near 10dkh. I've temporarily taken pellets offline as an experiment for cause and effect. Thanks for the input.

with bio pellets i have run esv B-Ionic 2 part and kept my dkh at about 7.5, i switched recently to BRS 2 part but have yet to test. before adding pellets dkh ran in high 8's, maybe because i do less water changes.

If you let the Alkalinity rise up to 9 or 10 dKH, tips of your SPS corals may burn. As soon as you get it back down to 8 or 8.5 dKH, all is well again and the corals heal up completely.

Mine used to close up then open again several times each day. Tough to kill, but I never did figure out what it takes to make them happy all the time. Alkalinity seems to be important though. Mine allways seemed to stay happier if I kept mine in the 9 to 10 dKH range, if it got down below 8 it was always closed up.

too funny...

I have a toadstool purchased with a beautiful polyp extension and cream colored. After about a week the polyp extension receded and has been non-excistent since. The cream color has changed to a neon green and that is where it stands. I intend on playing with different lighting scenarios, in hopes of seeing a beautiful neon green toadstool with the once beautiful "hair" it once had. I would appreciate any input from other members. Thanks.

every time my shrimp molts i still let out a gasp......and what makes it worse is how they have to hide from protection after a molt and may not see them till the next day or longer then all of a sudden HEY! your not dead at all!

I have also observed the same thing as stangchris. Usually when mine would open up again after being closed a couple of days, it seemed a little more colorful and a little bigger.

i have owned some very large toadstools, and they love light but also will close up for days while they sloth off old skin. they are weird and will close up slump over for days then come back.

My experience with toadstool leathers is they enjoy a good deal of light. They also tend to be sensitive to nitrates... where many other soft corals might actually thrive under a little more nitrate.

Is your tank as dark as the picture makes it out to be? I have had mine for a year, it was the size of a quarter, now it is 4 inches across and three times taller. can we get a close up of the leather it self and tank parameters?

HAHA! One of my dwarf hermit crabs gave me a scare as well when it molted several months back, but then I looked and all were accounted for. I'm so used to insect molts which are much paler in comparison.