Adding corals to a new tank

A friend that is setting up their new tank asked me a question that I couldnt remember. She has a 240 gallon tank that is still cycling slightly. It has no fish or coral in there. The ammonia is still a bit high, .50. The tank has been set up for 2 weeks, and it was set up a year before that for someone...

Hypnotic Clove Polyps/Clavularia sp

I bought a 3-polyp frag in June 09 and it has turned into many polyps growing over the LR. I really like the looks of these things and would not mind them taking over a rock as you can see most of the LR underneath them. However they are starting to wrap themselves around the base/plugs of some corals (...

Blue Zoo Aquatics Corals

Anyone ever buy any corals from them ? I have bought fish only and they were in very good health and they sent alittle care pack with them so seems like they care about the fish they sell. So I’m hoping the same would be true of their corals. They are having a sale – 10 frags 1-1.5" for...

Peppermint Shrimp and Aiptasia/Corals

I discovered a small breakout of Aiptasia and a couple of Mojavo Anemones on a piece of live rock I recently bought and today I purchased three Peppermint Shrimp to solve the problem. However, I also have 2 small corals I am growing (a blue spotted mushroom and some sort of finger coral I have yet to be...

White crystals forming at base of polyps

hey guys so i was wondering if anyone knew what this was… it looks like white crystal looking things that starting forming at the bases of what i believe to be red button polyps the polyps seem to be slowly starting to close.. what should i do? can it infect other corals in my tank? there are no other...