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**Instar** · Fri, 20th Aug 2004, 07:35 PM

I might add one more thing here about dying at the tips. In all the large tanks I've seen recently there was direct current from a power head or tunze blasting across the tips and/or into cups of some sps. They will die off if blasted directly or with a continuous hard current. Redirect the pumps, use timers and wave makers to solve this. I've seen this pump blast at everyone's place I've been in the past couple months. It most definitely will kill the corals from the tips or edges. Imagine the cutting power of some micro bubbles and tiny amount of plankton and so on in that fast moving current on the delicate tissue of an sps. The polyps will also not come out to feed under strong continuous currents. Thats why the RedSea wave makers all have a softer night mode.

**Instar** · Fri, 20th Aug 2004, 07:38 PM

If you have a carnation coral, sell it. Montipora is allergic to carnation toxin.

**wkopplin** · Fri, 20th Aug 2004, 08:30 PM

what is a carnation coral? Is it like a candy cane coral? I do have one of those in there.

BA · Fri, 20th Aug 2004, 08:45 PM

no carnations aren't like the candycanes..they sometimes have them at texas and aquatic, they are colt lether like, and are mostly pink and have big extensions...but they are hard to keep i've heard...

**Instar** · Sat, 21st Aug 2004, 12:12 AM

I have this image in my head of a triple orange-pink like thing (carnation aka various names such as nepthia, schleronephthia, etc.) in the middle bottom of your tank. They actually look a lot like cauliflower with polyps to me. Not the candy cane and actually not at all like any of the lps corals. I don't recall if it was yours or not now. That could have been someone else's tank. If the carnation is adapted and growing, then its not much of an issue, but, if its not happy or a new arrival, it is an issue. Lots of good carbon and water changes might handle it. You may not have one and if not, then this is just an FYI for someone who might need some insight into it.