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Post by scoobnoob on Feb 10, 2014 21:27:15 GMT -5
I know Xenia is notoriously smelly out of water. Tonight I took out my pink hairy colony to frag for the first time...and comparatively Xenia smells wonderful after cutting just two the smell made me feel sick to my stomach. Curious if the smell is any indication of how toxic the coral is and my water change still mixing. I stopped fragging it. So why do corals stink...anyone else have any similar experiences?
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Feb 11, 2014 7:52:22 GMT -5
Wow
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Post by scoobnoob on Feb 11, 2014 8:38:10 GMT -5
My next attempt to frag this will involve the entire colony under water in my waste water bucket immediately after a WC all propagation will be under water to avoid air contact.
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Feb 11, 2014 8:44:16 GMT -5
How are you guys fraging these mushrooms? Got a pic of the mushrooms your talking about?
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Post by scoobnoob on Feb 11, 2014 10:01:26 GMT -5
I have the same ones christian mentioned I just googled it...$75 a mushroom!!! Ryan I have a pic on my S&S Facebook page.
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Post by scoobnoob on Feb 11, 2014 10:04:25 GMT -5
I'm cutting them at the base and putting the crowns in low flow rubble
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Feb 11, 2014 10:54:23 GMT -5
What are you guys cutting them with? Seems weird that you'd get that much airborne smell to the point that it makes you feel sick. Scoob, I just looked at your pic, that 10k is so crazy blue! Looks like the 20k setting on my radions. Anyway did you get those mushrooms from me at any point? Can't tell from your pic but if the base flesh glows green then they look identical to my giant neon green pink tipped rhodiactis mushrooms. With mushrooms your better off cutting or shaving off the rock underneath the base of the mushroom with bone cutters so you don't damage the coral itself. I frag dozens of these rhodiactis mushrooms all the time without issues. Seems like the smell is a weird thing to have happen.
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Post by scoobnoob on Feb 11, 2014 11:11:06 GMT -5
Lighting is a combo of 10k and 20k. The bases glow green but I didn't get them from you.
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Post by gotareef on Feb 11, 2014 12:21:53 GMT -5
the only tine I have had a coral smell that bad was a blasto I had cut a couple years ago the skeliton of the coral was filled with the black sulfur crap
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Feb 11, 2014 12:47:31 GMT -5
Weird, I've fragged tons of those same hairy mushrooms. Never cutting them through the center though. They grow so fast that I just peel them off the rocks my hand.
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Post by reefking on Feb 11, 2014 13:24:05 GMT -5
When I have to cut back my waving hand it smells like that it's the weirdest one of a kind stink lol
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Post by scoobnoob on Feb 11, 2014 14:21:25 GMT -5
I used the tissue scissors. My only other experience has been with my blues I cut mid stalk and move the crow to low flow rubble. The crown grows a new base the old base grows a new crown. This method has been very successful for me. This is the first time I've done any other mushroom. Mine look like Christians but the tentacles are pink and bases are neon green.
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