In this episode we look at the very popular Blastomussa coral ! Check out www.reefcasa.com for the nano all in one aquariums we talked about in this video AND www.fragbox.ca for Canada wide live coral shipping !
Another fantastic and informative video March, cheers mate. If I ever get to Canada I'd like to have a tour through your shop, happy to buy beers or whatever currency you like 👍
Blastos are probably my favorite beginner coral. I remember getting one with 2 heads 4 years ago, and 2 years later the bottom of my tank blew out and i gave it away to a friend. After i repaired the tank and got it funning again my friend reached out to me saying it wasnt doing well because one of his fish had destroyed it. I got it back from him and all that was left was just a tiny piece of flesh on the mouths of the coral. I dipped them and put them back in my tank. I fed them reef roids every other day, and within 4 months they grew back to normal, and are a massive colony. Its one of the few corals that I visually love that you cannot really kill unless something is eating them. Dont sleep on blastos.
Good job on that video how to take care of Blastoise looking forward of the egg cans how to take care of those also enjoy your videos you guys are great
You said you were to talk about the good and the bad, but spoke only good. What about the bad, when you see your blasto retracted in the skeleton, with some algae on it ?
Question about lighting parameters, I guess. I've got Acans and Blastos on the sand bed of a 16g BioCube using a AI Prime 16 HD, the Blastos are shaded and perfect but the Acans started retreating at night after just a few days. Is that more normal, they seem fine during the day? If not and the unshaded Acans are getting light shock, what light intensity would you run with to leave them unshaded? Or should I just try to shade them all - trickier? Also, getting decent flow in a 16g is tough without beating them silly. I'm using Jaebo SW20 and have another. Set up two or where would you position the single? Curious about your lighting parameters.
What is that? At 10:20 just to the upper left of the orange/blue Blasto is a little polyp under an overhang. It's black and white, and resembles a aiptasia.
Hello I am having issues with my tank, it is a 7 gallon cube, It has been running for 10 years now, I just added some hammers, torches, can and a open brain, they are all small frags but they were really nice at the LFS, they have been in my tank for 2 weeks, I have been feeding small doses of Oyster Feast and Reef Roids, I have a 360X 3 feet off the water at the lowest setting in blue. I use Tropic Marine Salt, and I did a 60% water change prior to adding the corals. I have a Aqua Clear filter on it with a small power head. I would say the corals do not look good and one looks like it is almost gone, in two weeks. Any ideas or course to take.
@@bretthuffine Yeah but it is a powerful light for a 12" cube tank, I have been to wholesalers and there lights are really high off the water as well. So far it is working I keep turning up the power very slowly. I want to upgrade the tank to a 15" cube and put my other AI Prime HD on it it.
