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**Tristan** · December 12th 06, 03:10 PM posted to rec.aquaria.marine.reefs

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:25:30 +0000 (UTC),
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Tristan wrote:

All gthe books
I read says tubipora is only for advanced folks, but its been one of
the easiest simple corals I have ever fooled with and thnnk its even
easier than shrooms are. (Pipe Organ is what I am referring to) All it
needs is decent PC lights, preferably a sand bed but placed in live
rock is also fine, and some decent water flow. It does require a good
level of calcium if you want it to grow, and in which case it will do
so quite readily. I started off with a spring of abot 3 or 4 polyps
about a year ago, and its been fragged numerous times
already.Presently its the size of a softball after the last frag I did
about 2 weeks ago. It also glows nice under actinics or moon lights.
Its very fragile though, and resembles a thick heavy stand of green
star polyps with a much nicer metallic green coloration.

Was this a large or small polyp tubipora?
Only know of tubipora as "Tubipora musica or pipe organ coral. Never
knew there wa a large or small polyp species.

Refuguim or skimmer?
In display tank......although I do have a small piece currently in the
fuge but its normally in the DT. I run skimmers on everything.

What do you feed it?
Nothing in particular. I feed strictly frozen (home made) foods to my
fish / critters, and whatever fine particulate material they may get
when I feed is all they get. I hear they feed off bacteria in the sand
substare and require a deep sand be, which I have to dispute as I
donot have one sand bed in any of my tanks over 1 to 1.5" in
depth....Not a fan of deep sand beds. And as to what the claim is they
ned to be placed in the sand, I have nice growths of pipe organ
thriving and being fragged regularly thats on live rock well above a
sand bed.

They are extremely delecate as yu probably already know. SOmetimes it
seems yu can just look at them and the stems / branches break off, and
my hermits even small blue leggers and my snails often do break off
polyps. I simply take those broken polyps and stick em in a hole in
live rock as they tend to get buried in sand bed since it is a single
polyp and in no time its a nice cluster po polyps.

Etc.

Mike (poor luck so far with tubipora)

Thats really strange........stuff they say is simple give me hassles
;-)

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