Got Some New Corals.......

Hey guys and gals i got some new corals just wanted to show them to ya and I also had a couple questions about em.

Here is my Leather Toadstool........
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Here is my Trumpet coral.......
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Here are my Shrooms......
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Here is my Hammer Coral.......
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Here are my green Zoas.......
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Here is a Full tank shot........


Ok my question is i want to make sure that i have all the identifications correct. Also do you have to feed these and if you do how often and what do they prefer? Now on the full tank shot you can clearly see that i have hair algae. I believe that i am doing everything possible to get rid of this stuff. I am doing water changes every week at the moment and pulling out manually. I also have a GFO and Carbon reactor going that i just purchased. Is there anything else that i can or should be doing to get rid of the hair algae? Thanks..........:mrgreen:
 
You're going to want to get that hair algae under control -- it will grow on your corals and smother them if you let it. Pull out as much of it by hand as you can. But you probably already know that ;)
 
mennazeher04 said:
Ok my question is i want to make sure that i have all the identifications correct. Also do you have to feed these and if you do how often and what do they prefer? Now on the full tank shot you can clearly see that i have hair algae. I believe that i am doing everything possible to get rid of this stuff. I am doing water changes every week at the moment and pulling out manually. I also have a GFO and Carbon reactor going that i just purchased. Is there anything else that i can or should be doing to get rid of the hair algae?
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You are correct on the IDs, but I think the hammer may be a torch or frogspawn. It's hard to tell when they're small and only have one or two heads, but either way it doesn't really matter -- they all require the same care.

The hammer/frogspawn/torch will accept meaty foods -- the same things you feed the fish. If you squirt a bit of food on the tentacles, the food should stick and the coral will move it towards the mouth. At night (after the lights go off), the trumpets should extend their feeding tentacles. You can squirt food on them too, and they'll close up around the food. I feed my corals once or twice a week.

You are on the right path with the hair algae. Pull out the tufts by hand as much as you can. If you are using tap water, STOP! If you are feeding pellet and flake foods, switch to frozen. Also, with how bad your algae is, I highly recommend a sea hare. It will clean off those rocks in no time. When the algae is gone, you will have to return the sea hare to the store, or else it will starve to death. Keep up with 10 to 20% water changes every week.
 

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