I live in the UK and we have Vitalis food here - I believe it actually started in the UK with the name ‘New Era’ when they expanded to the US they had to rebrand as Vitalis because of the baseball cap brand also called New Era LOL
Had mine under only blue and it slowly melted away for some reason. Was in low flow low lighting and started drastically changing colors. Tanks been up for years 🤷♂️
very nice video very much appreciated Would one of the open brain corals do well in a 40 gallon cube do you think? Since it is a slow grower? I see the new rock work in the background 😎
Ah yes there is the feed mode! I was kind of missing it and thought you had done it off camera, lol you have done it so much in videos it's a thing now. I think you have to show us every time you do it 😅
March, do you know if the vitalis is similar to the nyos ,fauna marin, or aqua forest lps pellets? You can't buy the vitalis over here in the U.S. so I wonder if you had any experience or make any recommendation from those other 3. Thanks.
You’ve got such a nice collection of corals a lot better than what we get in the UK. How deep are your Frag tanks? I’m trying to build one just not sure how deep I should have it
I read that some corals can sting a person and clove Polyps are not good. I'm looking at just lps corals now and what are good and what let's out stingers. I'm using your videos for the advice on what to get and works
I think he said when they ship to his store they are already pissed and if you dip them in the store chances are your going to make it worse . Definitely dip your corals when you get them home though !
My 15 g nano is still doing terrible. 8 months in I still have uncontrolled algae and can’t grow any coral. I’m thinking my salt is messed up I bought it all in the middle of the pandemic and I feel like the mix isn’t right. Idk what else to do
@@lisadimercurio9473 I have not actually. What can that be from ? I use RODI water. I literally have had this algae since July nothing changes. I’m about to break down this system honestly. I been in the hobby for 7 years I never had this much trouble with a tank. I will never ever go with dry rock again. I think it’s this garbage Marco dry rock I started with because of how hard it is to get live rock these days
@@Botzz28 this exact thing happened to me when I used dry rock. Never again. Went back to live rock and have 2 amazing tanks with zero issues or coral deaths.
Unfortunately they do not, in a previous video March suggested that the permits and border clearance to move coral from Canada to the US is both time and cost prohibitive.
@@CalcioFan4Ever Not that I'd be interested in trading Fragbox for any international shipper, but what are you looking for that's not on WWC or Liveaquaria? Or if it's the atmosphere that you like, you can always pop in for a visit to their store in Toronto, although it will be a bit of a drive.
@@CalcioFan4Ever lol, that's fair regarding travel. I'm surprised that WWC is seen to be expensive by comparison, although I know there's variations shop to shop nevermind *country to country*. They've also dived straight into the deep end with "designer coral", so a teal in red blasto becomes a "Deadpool Blasto" and the price triples. I'm not saying that WWC or Canadian retailers are consistently cheaper, but there's some marked variations. You can grab a 3" colony of rainbow clove polyps for $99 USD at WWC whereas you can pay $50-80 for 3-8 polyps in Canada. When I'm itching to get new coral or fish I scroll through 6 different stores, I've seen one store sell black yellow tip torches for $70 and another sell for $250, and that's just stores within 120 miles of where I live.
I found the comment that implied fragging open brain coral was unethical to be interesting. I can understand the general idea of cutting the flesh on an LPS being seen as damaging it before anything else, but you're doing the same thing when you frag some LPS like rainbow dynamite chalices, wall hammers, elegance, and all SPS? If there was issues with the coral tissue healing afterwards I can understand that, but I didn't catch that stipulation if it was made, rather the opposite that they do heal but it takes several months.
@@fragboxcorals 13:36 So the issue isn't so much that you can't frag them, it's that they're difficult to frag cleanly. and that some less reputable shops sell the frags before they have had a chance to heal or prove that they survived, leaving the coral to either die in the shop tank or be bought by someone who doesn't realize the fresh cut wound, causing the coral to be stressed by the fragging then by acclimating to the client's tank. So you're not actually saying that fragging the coral is unethical, it's selling unhealed frags that's unethical, which assuming the shop doesn't point that out when they sell them, I agree.
@@AsThe3rdEye He did mention cutting your flesh. Which I don't get. I've heard others mention the ethics of cutting corals. They are animals yes, but not sentient beings. They have no central nervous system. No brain. They can't feel. They react to stimulus. I'm not sure what the issue is either.
Hey, I do not glue any of my corals does not matter what type. I use a concrete drill bit and drill holes in my rocks, place the purchased coral on its plug into the hole, this way I can move them to a different location easily if for some reason I am not happy or the corals are not happy Thank You 🙏. Peace Out ✌️
I have a hard time resisting the urge to relocate coral, but I also have pieces that I want to grow out from an angled surface. Even if I drill holes in the rockwork, the plug stems are typically not long enough to secure the frag to stay in place against the flow and being bump by the CUC, this is especially an issue if the frag is top heavy on the plug or a small SPS stick. Have you had similar situations?
@@AsThe3rdEye No the plugs that come with my corals are long enough even to put them on the sides of my rock work without them coming out from flow, good luck 👍