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I don’t know exactly what they feed on but this is what I use generally. Phytoplankton (live & preserved), frozen copepods, red plankton, Calanus, lobster eggs, fish eggs, brine shrimp, Mysis, baby brineshrimp, dried reefroids, benepets & Brightwell reef blizzard-O

I’ve had the colony for 16 months now. I did lose a few of the worms during the first few months but since then the rest have been doing fine (I think). 😀

@@lisapage8939 Thanks for the update! Are you going to make another video entry soon? No pressure or anything. 🙂 The whole rock is full of wonder. A branching Cyphastrea is so alien looking and beautiful.

@@NinjaXryho I’ll do an update soon 😆

@@NinjaXryho update posted 😉

Sadly no, apparently this species has separate sexes so I would need a male and female to spawn at the same time and I only have the one. It has spawned on 3 separate occasions now that I know of. I have searched the shops for others in the hope of finding one of the opposite sex but this species is rarely imported to UK now. 😢 Congratulations on getting yours to spawn by way, did you record a video or have any photos? I would love to see them if you did. 😀

Yea i only have two heads they are not common like dendro

I haven’t found them to be too tricky but then I do feed a lot which helps. Regular additions of phytoplankton and other products and aimed at filter feeders. Also I don’t keep any fish likely to annoy the worms and/or may want to eat them. 😆

@@lisapage8939 i have to decide if i want to keep wrasses in the tank if i get a christmas tree work rock. thanks for the tip!

Thank you! I have a website if you want to find out more about my tank (there are lots more photos) 😀 lisasreef.weebly.com

Thank you, I would love to see a video of your colonies 😁

@@lisapage8939 oh I just got your message I don’t know how to video this morning I think I lost a worm it was laying on bottom with its crown have you ever had this happen??

@@christineschultz3176 The whole worm or just the feathery crown? My Coco worm has shed its crown before and regrown a new one after a few weeks. I’ve not seen any of the Christmas tree worms do the same but a few have vanished never to be seen again. 😕

Thank you! The Tubastraea does like to spread babies everywhere, 😆 The Balnophyllia is the solitary polyp to far left. As far as I am aware the orange and pale yellow colonies are branching Dendrophyllia. There is a large T. micrantha out of sight at the back sadly. Do you have some videos too? If so I need to see them. 😁

@@lisapage8939 I will do one tonight. Those I have are more shots by chnce filming the complete reef. Thank you for the information about the branching D.s

@@charitas4347 I’m more than happy to see your other corals too 😁

@@lisapage8939 ok haha, I did a quick mobile video though

can not load it up for now. Have to find out how sorry

Yes, it's all for show. I'm dangerous keep away. 😆

Yes, so far so good. I did lose a couple of worms right away and another couple more two months later, the rest however look great. They’ve extended their tubes which I take to be a good sign and the Cyphastrea is growing well too.

@@lisapage8939 Good to hear! I always read that they were hard to keep, but they're just so entertaining to watch at the same time!

@@Chtigga I will take an updated video soon. 😀

@@Chtigga Sorry it's taken so long but I have finally posted an updated video. 😁

Thanks, I was gutted to lose the thorny. I should have listened to the literature who said they were difficult to keep. The good news is I still have the attached Frond oyster and Jewel box clam.

Hi, they are ghost cardinalfish, Apogon leptacanthus

Regular fish food, Mysis and fish eggs are particularly favoured. 😀 Target feeding works plus they streal food that the host coral catches too.

@@lisapage8939 i bought two today but it seems it is not doing well with my cleaner shrimp. They are fighting.

@@panalv.-creativity8813 Do they have a host coral?

@@lisapage8939 yes they have. Hours later it seems they getting well now.

@@panalv.-creativity8813 That's great, I'm glad things have settled down. Are the new shrimp a mated pair?

No idea I'm afraid, Powderblue surgeons are quite territorial so it could be that . Maybe they were just saying Hi? 😀

Yes I believe it is a mating dance!

You are too kind, most of my wrasse footage was rubbish. Blink and you miss them. 😂

@@lisapage8939 I am not being too kind. I know what rubbish shots of wrasses look like - I have a large collection of bad still photos of wrasses!

@@mariashaffer-gordon3561 😂

Thanks so much! I never thought to name things on my reef tank videos. I will try from now on. Here's a quick run down of those featured (tentative identification for some). 😀 Rhizotrochus sp. Cirrhipathes sp (yellow wire coral) and Protula bispiralis (red coco worm, top right) Balanophyllia sp. Tubastraea sp. (yellow sun coral and black sun coral underneath) Tubastraea sp. (yellow sun coral) Dendrophyllia sp. (pale yellow branching sun coral) Cirrhipathes sp. (orange wire coral) Tubastraea sp. (yellow sun coral) Holothuria hilla (tigertail cucumber) Tubastraea micrantha (black sun coral) Wetmorella tanakai (Possum wrasse) at the end

@@lisapage8939 Thank you Lisa! I grew up in Key West, Florida where we lived in a neighborhood on a small island. Most of my early life was spent in salt water studying the creatures I saw. I would have become a marine biologist if more jobs had been available when I got my degree. Those that existed were always along the US coast and I didn’t feel I would be close enough to my family. It is exactly where I ended up later on because I can’t seem to shake my need to be near the ocean! Now, the closest I can get is with a marine aquarium. I will be setting one up once I get a house with a generator. My nano tank was ruined because we lost power due to a hurricane, something that is part of our reality on the coast. It was traumatic coming home to what I knew to expect. I valued the lives of each of those little creatures. They had bigger and better personalities than most of the humans I know! Thank you for responding to my suggestion of identifying the aquarium inhabitants. I am in love with the spikey worm!

@@deborahmerkerson1145 Me too, I would have loved to have trained as a marine biologist. I had to be happy with just being a biologist. 😆 We are fortunate not to have too many power cuts here but still a generator gives peace of mind. A reef tank can go rapidly downhill without power as I know only too well. If you are interested in all things reef tank then I do have a website: www.lisasreef.weebly.com There are lots of photos and a diary of all my trials and tribulations. It's a work in progress as always.

@@lisapage8939 Lisa, we are two peas in a pod! My undergraduate degree is in Biology. I had started working on my Masters degree but because I married at 22 (big mistake!) one of us needed to earn a living. I began working full time and taking a course load of as many hours as they would allow, two graduate level courses per semester. The agreement with my husband was that when he finished his Masters I would get to go full time. That didn’t happen. He didn’t want me to quit my job…he liked having money! The University wouldn’t change requirements so I finished my Masters as an Education degree, rather than with a theoretical science degree. I taught high school science (Chemistry, Biology and Environmental Science) for six years and changed careers. I became a pharmaceutical chemist with a company that was completely vested in drug discovery. My area of research was with antivirals and anti cancer drugs. I loved it as much as I had teaching but it paid three timers better! I had a great career until I became disabled from a little understood illness that is now known to be a brain disease. I lost most of my chemistry and math skills because that part of the brain stopped working. I learned to count and can do basic math but anything else is impossible. I must spend time reading and writing daily or I will lose my language skills also. Bummer! I worry for people getting Covid-19 because some of the people who have had it are showing signs of my illness. I always suspected that a virus triggered it. They believe we are born with it and something triggers it. I was 44 and had the flu. Then it came back two weeks later. I was never the same. I began losing brain function but it was disguised by all the other things that were wrong. I do not want anyone to go through what I have. I will definitely check out your website! I have been looking for a house to buy for four years. This area has become too expensive because it attracts retirees. I am looking at moving towards the central part of my state, partly because houses are less expensive. My consolation is knowing that there are lots of pet stores with marine aquarium inhabitants in that area. I will love that. I will be less than a three hour drive to the coast so I can still see my beloved Atlantic Ocean!

I think the burrow system always requires work of some sort, the pistol shrimp seem to shovel sand and move bits of rocks about endlessly. Water movement probably shifts the sand a little, also the shrimp are quite particular about their homes. Or maybe they just like to keep busy? 😀

It was pretty spectacular, I never knew that male Chromis changed colour during spawning. 😍