Scolymia Coral Care Tips

[@tidalgardens]

Thank you very much for watching. I appreciate all the support. So what do you think? Are Scolymia on your wishlist?

[@insanity4224]

Than, Scoly’s really do need to be captive bred.. hint hint..

[@error50012]

On the wishlist not in the budget...

[@jnava121]

mine is getting huge- put some polyp booster at night he opens up like aliens then feed - give 100 -150 par on the bottom of tank - deep dark blues

[@SnakeJr1225]

I just bought my first scoly! Cant wait. Beautiful bleeding apple

[@giorgioisgaming5814]

I will start my first reef aquarium soon adn those corals are definitely on my buying list when my tank has matured! Love your great vids! They taught me a lot!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@zacharyczternastek]

Commenting for the sake of algorithms ❤. Thank you Than, these videos have always been a reference point for me to start finding new pieces to add to my tank.

[@krazed3717]

I like my clowns and nems, just can’t beat the symbiosis. It’s beautiful to watch every day. I spent 2k on a nice dslr and a couple lenses hoping to mimic some of the amazing camera work you do. Still can’t get it anywhere near the quality you have mate. Love your work AquaThan!

[@tidalgardens]

It is definitely an expensive hobby to get into. Best of luck!

[@TechGearTalk]

Great info Than! Dat Master Scoly tho... I like the new intro!!

[@tidalgardens]

Thanks TGT!

[@frankpohl8746]

Another great vid and I learned more. I'm interested in how certain corals grow. Micromussa as example. I've seen them on sand bed and on rocks.

[@michaelcaserta3249]

Than, your attention to detail is second to none. Video quality is absolutely amazing. Keep up the great work.

[@MMSAJ]

Love these kind of videos from tidal gardens.

[@bocram523]

New to reefing! Fowler for 35 years. Thank you for all your videos! I love them all. Except I am going to fill out my comment card. I would love to see the aggressiveness of each coral in your videos. It would help me immensely in placement. I got flashlight out the other night, and was very surprised to see 6” stingers swaying in the currents. Wow. Did some rearranging and still watching all of you videos. Thanks again and great job!

[@briansfishtanks]

Awesome looking Scolys! Great video!

[@AZor19able]

Thank you for the information. I always love your videos. They help me build a good knowledge base when looking at and for corals!

[@Waynerock77]

Than you are the David Attenborough of the reef world! Love your videos I always learn so much!!! Can’t wait for the next one

[@bluerider0988]

Really liking these descriptive videos.

[@2pleez122474]

Than ...I Love Love Love all your videos!! Always so very informative! You are the verbal and video dictionary of the saltwater coral industry! Thank you so much for your videos and all your hard work!! I have no Scolys yet but do plan on getting some in the near future!

[@DJ_LittlePea]

Than your videos are totally amazing you explain everything so perfectly and your voice is so relaxing and easy to listen to ... I love the red in these corals they look fantastic 😍😍

[@tidalgardens]

Thank you!

[@DJ_LittlePea]

Tidal Gardens always a pleasure 😍

[@JackieTrainwreck]

Easily one of my favorite corals to look at

[@navsreef5869]

Definitely one of my favourite corals especially my crocodile island

[@RookieReefer]

One of my favourite corals hands down! That's weird you should mention loosing colours.. Every single scoly I've owned has produced new colours over about a year period 🤔 but then again I can't afford masters so I get the more basic ones 😅 Great video as always Than

[@gabesreef]

Definately on the dream list. If they weren't damn expensive I'd put in on my wish list. Great video none the less

[@ArrickthaRed]

Great video. I have never really had good long term success with these corals and can't afford to keep trying unfortunately.

[@raj21rai]

Great video Than... Happy to see the scoly which I bought from tidal has been highlighted in this video

[@tidalgardens]

Thank you for your purchase. I hope it is doing well for you.

[@raj21rai]

Tidal Gardens Yes the scoly is doing great... Just that it’s always hungry 😜. Quick question do you think it’s beneficial to keep scoly’s below 77 F?

[@4runna-4X]

Read your featured article on this month's 'Coral ' Magazine, good reads on SPS, congrats.!

[@tidalgardens]

Thanks! That took me forever to write.

[@uhoh094]

Who dislikes a vid about coral!!!?

[@aidenstowell9555]

Hey than another perfect video you inspired me to finally make he plunge into a reef aquarium

[@Mr_Tequila_Travels]

Excellent video as usual

[@markm266]

Love those, wish I could afford them lol

[@justinjohnston6756]

My favorite coral. Got me into the hobbie. Happy Reefing

[@TheReeferYT]

Great footage Than. My LFS had some mini scolies half a year back. Think they must have been the Croc island variety? 🤔 Really nice but very small. 1 to 2 inches.

[@reefrockcritter8943]

Excellent thanks

[@DontWorryImNorwegian]

You mention that there were three species we should never have in the home aquarium hobby, but you did not say why? It might be obvious to you pro's, but I'm left curious :)

[@tidalgardens]

The Caribbean is a national park and there is no collection of stony corals or live rock permitted. It is a Federal crime to collect or possess stony corals from the Caribbean.

[@DontWorryImNorwegian]

@@tidalgardens thank you so much for that answer - makes perfect sense :)

[@mrsuarez430]

@@tidalgardens what if they're imported like from Cuba lol

[@mr.reeftank1456]

How about an awesome video on fragging wall hammers or frogspawns? Thanks great video

[@paullee3005]

Hey Tidal Gardens, great content as usual. You might have covered this in your previous videos but what do you use to take such great Photos/Videos? I assume you use Macro lenses, would be so interesting to see a video on how you take these shots! :0) I think there would be a lot of Reef keepers out there that would benefit from your advice lol

[@doghousereefer]

Love your videos, would you mind sharing your lights schedule for radions g5 for Euphyllia/LPS? I agree with you 100 percent about how important spectrum is and I can’t seem to find anything on what spectrum/light schedule to use for best coloration/growth

[@ricosaquariums7992]

👀 love it!! I made your intro😁😁😁😁😁😁🤗🤗🤗🤗👊👊👍

[@tidalgardens]

Yup, when are you going to add water to your tank?

[@RobBoryckiGolf]

Thanks than

[@gabe5476]

Hey so I love the shots you get. What kind of filter do you use to get that blue lighting out of the shots?

[@gimmeytailor860]

Inst it better to dont buy it and keep it if its not possible to propergate?

[@adron4845]

Curious if reefkeeping hobbyists want to share their opinions on the ethics of keeping corals that can't (readily) be aquacultured. I'm personally feeling like, unless you're a career marine biologist, it doesn't make much sense to be keeping corals that came straight out of the GBR or other reefs and that you can't propagate. I'm passionate about aquarium reefkeeping but I feel like in the end, we should still keep our thoughts on promoting the health of the earth's coral reefs, not just our own simulations of them. Thoughts?

[@Jeff_G86]

I'm not sure how an ethics arguments can be made for any of the things we keep considering the likelihood our inhabitants will die (shipping, acclimation, power outage, equipment failure, negligence, etc.) Not to get political but its the same as the gun control argument. People like guns and are willing to accept (or deflect) the consequences of their hobby. Clearly there are significantly more pressing ethical concerns in society than the non-aquacultured coral trade, but I personally share your concerns about housing them and I do think about it and avoid wild caught specimens in general.

[@kensellick4892]

Thank You Than

[@koreanfishguy9651]

Love this video as scolymia are my favorite coral, i just got my hands on a candy apple scoly, I was doing some research and there were a few forum threads that showed scolys getting buds much like a fungia plate, are those possible not scoly? or a possible new development that could lead to propogation?

[@PETRIXXXX]

There's this "Peter Scully" meme on iFunny and this video is driving me insane

[@JheregCG60]

Nice new intro.

[@tidalgardens]

Thanks!

[@billray7703]

Hello great video can you make one but on the ultra aussie lord please

[@Gorgula]

...roll that beautiful bean footage!

[@GOOOOTRIBE]

Mmmmmmm.... Beans!

[@fuffoon]

Do Scoly grow or just die really slowly? I have had some beauties but they are all paper weights now.

[@tnipp1285]

👍👍

[@jasonalred6012]

What kind of pellets do you feed your corals?

[@cspencj5or7]

What would you consider high Nitrates?

[@kp-gbuniqueinterest]

So you say you dont cut them than how to you get these. Does it create another head and than you cut?

[@kieranmunns1214]

what are your thoughts with their compatibility with seahorses? I am exploring potential sps and lps corals for my new seahorse tank and would like a centerpiece such as this for my reef

[@tidalgardens]

I have never kept seahorses before. I would worry about any coral with aggressive feeding response eating smaller weak swimming fish.

[@kieranmunns1214]

@@tidalgardens I appreciate that, unfortunately so many sources say different things about what's acceptable or not. But thank you for answering

[@josephfriedrich9792]

The scolly at 4:33 with the skeleton peaking thru on the right hand side, is that something to be concerned about? My lfs has a warpaint and master with about the same amount of skeleton showing, and didn't know of they heal pretty well.

[@BillyPipes]

Yup. Check out 8:45

[@josephfriedrich9792]

@@BillyPipes I know haha. I was typing before finishing the video.

[@siggyincr7447]

You say that they are difficult to propagate by fragging. Do they eventually develop side polyps? Or is the best you can hope for is growth of the single polyp?

[@tidalgardens]

No they do not replicate in that way. I think the only thing they do is sexual reproduction.

[@siggyincr7447]

@@tidalgardens, That's too bad. I wonder if anyone has tried getting them to reproduce sexually in captivity.

[@charlesoberg5703]

This is a subject of great interest to me, my last reef tank was a 125 gallon back in 1995. It was coming along great when the wife decided to start smoking again and it really started going down hill. I ended up cutting my losses, sold off the fish and corals and got out. Want to get back in and am immersing myself in 30 years of tech improvements and absorbing as much wisdom from people who generously share there knowledge (such as yourself, thank you) Now my question, about induced spawning. My thoughts on the subject are this, once you can maintain healthy thriving corals it seems some are spawning accidently, mostly sps corals from what i can see. Has anyone tried to duplicate the lunar tidal cycle and daylength solar cycle completely? I'm talking set your pumps to immitate the tides perfectly, from low tide to high tide where for a couple hours the flow reduces to a slow roil as water flow reverses. For instance as the high tide starts going back out it slowly ramps up to it's maximum speed until the moon approaches the low tide point where the flow starts slowing again until you reach the near calm of the slack tide, then actually reverse your flow direction in your aquarium to mimic the next six hour twenty five minute cycle of the incoming tide, slowly ramping up your flow speed until you approach high tide and slowly ramp the speed back down to your high tide peak. But lets not stop there, now you actually need to match this to the actual position of the moon in the sky, corals are sensitive creatures and this may help them settle into a more natural biorythm. Now we do the same with the lighting, pick the lattitude appropriate to the coral's natural habitat and imitate the lengthening and shortening days of the annual solar cycle, complete with the slow ramping up of sunrise and vice versa for sunset. Match your full moon to new moon cycles with the tidal cycle of your water flow so the coral can get into a completely (fake) natural biorythm. Has anyone tried this? I have been searching the web but have found no info. To do this you would probably need to have a fairly sophisticated computer program to tie the lunar and solar cycles together in a cohesive synchronicity. Maybe I'm just being a 'tard but this makes sense to me, what do you think? Has someone else already tried this or is it just dumb?

[@gwhahaha]

How do I revive a receding scoly Australis?

[@antonp6917]

Feed, feed, feed

[@bradbellomo6896]

Above my pay grade, but I've heard they are very difficult to keep alive and I've heard they are very easy. Which is it?

[@thiagocrisanti9897]

Watch the video until the end.

[@anthonypreciado9183]

Any tips or tricks I should know ? I just started a 20 gallon and want to make it a reef tank

[@2pleez122474]

Anthony Preciado ..... Lighting, Flow and water parameters to start 😊 Get that tank cycling before you do anything. Pick up a test kit and check your water throughout the cycling process. Pick yourself up a nice HOB filter and be sure to get one bigger than your tank requires. Down the road you can get a nice protein skimmer, but in the meantime you’ll rely on regular water changes to keep your water clean and replace trace elements. Sub to my channel if you’d like by clicking on my icon to take you there 😉

[@anthonypreciado9183]

2PLEEZ hi thanks for the response and I’ve been subbed for quite some time now and I have a protein skimmer and 45 gallon filter and my thank should be cycled i had it running for about 1 month maybe more I have a clown and a pebble snail everythingbis working great since I think my tank has a good balance of everything needed to be taken into consideration now I would like to begin the reefing hobby

[@2pleez122474]

How much live rock do you have in there? The rule of thumb is 1lb per gallon

[@avaseigel3624]

Do you think a scoly can do well in a relatively bare smaller tank, if they are one of the only corals resulting in most of the nutrients going to them? Also, Have you ever heard of doing a scoly only tank? Thanks and let me know!

[@jasepoag8930]

Not my thing. They're pretty, but they're also REALLY expensive, and as you pointed out, can't really be propagated to recoup any of that cost. Then again, I have $300 in clams in my tank, so what do I know? lol

[@scottclark7592]

be careful feeding pellets- I have had a couple not do well and have mouth issues after feeding pellets. I dont say this lightly- I have been fragging corals since 92-before it was called fragging! We called it cloning. If you feed pellets- feed sparingly.

[@paulpaul5086]

What's wrong with Carribean Scolys?

[@tidalgardens]

The Caribbean is a national park and there is no collection of stony corals or live rock permitted. It is a Federal crime to collect or possess stony corals from the Caribbean.

[@landenmcdonald4912]

Scolys are awesome corals, but I am more into elegance corals.

[@jackjiang7062]

First

[@sarahallen8739]

yeah I got scolies... *scoliosis*

[@tanlony7532]

Why shouldn't a Caribbean coral ve in the hobby, half the zoas are Caribbean.

[@dontreply8346]

Zoas aren’t stony corals, taking stony corals from the Caribbean is a federal crime.

[@tanlony7532]

@@dontreply8346 it was not always, and you should only be buying aquacultured specimens in the first place. If you've bought Indonesian corals in the last few years, until recently, you've bought illegal coral. So I think my question is still valid in the philosophical way I meant, and also believed he did, that all said, thanks I didn't know that.