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FAQs about Soft Corals of the Family Nephtheidae Compatibility Related Articles: Soft Corals of the Family
Nephtheidae, The Soft Corals of the
genus Dendronephthya, Soft Corals, Order Alcyonacea
Related FAQs: Nephtheids 1,
Nephtheids 2,
Neptheid Identification,
Nephtheid Behavior, Nephtheid Selection,
Nephtheid Systems,
Nephtheid Feeding, Nephtheid Disease,
Nephtheid Reproduction/Propagation,
Soft Coral Propagation,
Alcyoniids, Dendronephthya,
Paralcyoniids, Nidaliids,
Xeniids,
Soft
Corals/Order Alcyonacea,
Most fishes leave these soft corals
alone.
Hemitaurichthys polylepis
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Lamnalia, say what?
8/20/07
Happy Sunday Crew. I'm trying to position a Lamnalia sp. In my 110g. I know
that this coral should not be placed too close to mushrooms, but I was wondering
how close is "too close"? 6"? 12"? 24"? More?
Thanks!
Andy Bulgin
<Try the correct spelling: Lemnalia; here:
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/WWMAdminSubWebIndex/question_page.htm
BobF>
Re: Lamnalia 8/20/07
Dear Bob,
<Andrew>
The misspelling in my e-mail was a typo not picked up by Outlook, which doesn't
correct Latin words. I Googled the term, using the correct spelling in WWM,
found and read the same articles obtained via your link below, and came up empty
handed as to discussions re: required separation of this coral and mushrooms.
Hence the question. The only meaningful thing I could find was Anthony's
statement that mushrooms will eventually kill the Lemnalia, but other posts seem
to imply otherwise.
<... is a loser to Corallimorpharians... physically distancing a good foot or so
will/can help in terms of mechanical competition... chemically though... A few
things can be done... as you will read on WWM... Bob Fenner>
Nephtheidae compatibility... re the dangers
of small system-induced troubles 6/21/07
I have a 10g softie tank with only Xenia and Briareum.
<Trouble in such a small, unstable volume...>
I have space to add one, maybe two other compatible
<Not possible here>
soft corals to the left side of the tank. The Briareum is in the center on a
rock, Xenia cover the whole right side. Doctors Foster and Smith have under
their aquacultured section two different colors of Neospongodes sp. Both are
noted to rely on symbiotic zooxanthellae within and easy care; the temperament
is listed as "semi-aggressive". They also list a Heliopora caerulea that I was
looking at and although they are currently out of stock it is listed as a
'peaceful' coral, containing zooxanthellae as well. Whatever soft coral I add
would be closer to the Briareum but of course the concern is the unseen
allelopathy. Would either of these corals be okay? Thank you.
<I'd use the money saved up for new livestock to buy your time back to
investigate more... save up for a much larger system... You're otherwise setting
yourself up for failure here by jamming too much incompatible life in too little
space. Bob Fenner>
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