Please tell me if my sps are okay thanks

03whiteg · 01/31/2015, 03:01 PM

Hi guys I'm no expert with sps but I bought a frag pack I'm new to sps so just wondering if this was normal on a couple of my corals I have these little brown hairs all over them I'm really sorry I don't know the species but I have took a picture there like little bunches of hairs scattered is this new growth

tmz · 01/31/2015, 03:20 PM

I don't know what you mean by little brown hairs and rally can't see much from the pictures.

dkeller_nc · 01/31/2015, 03:28 PM

Hmm - if what you mean by the "little brown hairs" the fuzzy-looking specks on your coral, those are individual corallites. A "coral" in the macro sense is an assemblage of colonial animals, the individuals of which are corallites. If you google "corallites" and select the "images" tab, you'll pull up several diagrams that will help explain.

snorvich · 01/31/2015, 03:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tmz

I don't know what you mean by little brown hairs and rally can't see much from the pictures.

Likewise.

03whiteg · 01/31/2015, 03:39 PM

Sorry not very good at explaining! I guess it's the certain species because some are full of colour but the green one in the picture just has these tiny little specs all over it that are actually brown bundles of tiny haired which move around I guess these must be the corralites you speak off

Lights are 2 ever grow 2080 UVX and are on 11 hours a day atm ? Max I've allowed them to ramp up to us 70 percent atm was just wondering if I was doing something wrong

jrr98002 · 01/31/2015, 03:44 PM

Hard to tell anything from the first picture but the second, I agree, looks like corallites to me. Supposed to be like that.

01/31/2015, 03:01 PM	#1
03whiteg Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2014 Posts: 40	Please tell me if my sps are okay thanks Hi guys I'm no expert with sps but I bought a frag pack I'm new to sps so just wondering if this was normal on a couple of my corals I have these little brown hairs all over them I'm really sorry I don't know the species but I have took a picture there like little bunches of hairs scattered is this new growth

01/31/2015, 03:20 PM	#2
tmz ReefKeeping Mag staff Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: West Seneca NY Posts: 27,691	I don't know what you mean by little brown hairs and rally can't see much from the pictures. __________________ Tom Current Tank Info: Tank of the Month , November 2011 : 600gal integrated system: 3 display tanks (120 g, 90g, 89g),several frag/grow out tanks, macroalgae refugia, cryptic zones. 40+ fish, seahorses, sps,lps,leathers, zoanthidae and non photosynthetic corals.

01/31/2015, 03:28 PM	#3
dkeller_nc Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Central NC Posts: 5,062	Hmm - if what you mean by the "little brown hairs" the fuzzy-looking specks on your coral, those are individual corallites. A "coral" in the macro sense is an assemblage of colonial animals, the individuals of which are corallites. If you google "corallites" and select the "images" tab, you'll pull up several diagrams that will help explain.

01/31/2015, 03:39 PM	#5
03whiteg Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2014 Posts: 40	Sorry not very good at explaining! I guess it's the certain species because some are full of colour but the green one in the picture just has these tiny little specs all over it that are actually brown bundles of tiny haired which move around I guess these must be the corralites you speak off Lights are 2 ever grow 2080 UVX and are on 11 hours a day atm ? Max I've allowed them to ramp up to us 70 percent atm was just wondering if I was doing something wrong

01/31/2015, 03:44 PM	#6
jrr98002 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Little Rock Posts: 235	Hard to tell anything from the first picture but the second, I agree, looks like corallites to me. Supposed to be like that.