All TRF corals are broadcast fed Reef Nutrition TDO Chroma Boost™. * While no direct feeding is required if you have good lighting and fish that are being fed, corals grow and look much better when they’re being fed regularly. If you want something that won’t “take over your tank”, this one will be it! If it gets too high, it will probably turn brown and eventually die.
Expert – Time to break out the phosphate test if it gets too low, this one might throw off all of its skin.While they will still be resistant to mild swings, a bit more care should be taken to make sure your tank is remaining somewhat stable. Moderate – You should probably be well aware what your current calcium and alkalinity levels are to choose this level.Just don’t shock them too hard, and they should do well. Easy – While not bulletproof, it’s close! This one won’t mind terribly if your water parameters are a bit off, or if nitrates are a bit high (less than 50).These corals can live through almost anything you can throw at them, and in many cases already have! Bulletproof – To be deemed “bulletproof” at TRF, we have to know that even the newest of newbies couldn’t mess this one up! Therefore, it cannot be a hard coral, (sadly, as some of our hard corals have earned this title) and it must have already been an easy to keep species to begin with.When they really get going, the adults can span almost two inches across! Care Levels * Photo shows other specimens in one of the business’ saltwater tanks.Although they are slower growing than other genus of mushrooms, they’re quick to make up for it with amazing coloration. Ricordea polyps illegally harvested by the defendant. Notice that the polyps are still attached to reef substrate. Ricordea polyps illegally harvested by the defendant for use in the aquarium trade. Attorney’s Office for the District of Puerto Rico. Hale of the Justice Department’s Environmental Crimes Section along with Assistant U.S.
The case is being prosecuted by Christopher L. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with support from the USFWS Inspectors. This case was investigated as part of Operation Rock Bottom and Operation Borinquen Chisel by Special Agents of the U.S. Torres pleaded guilty to similar charges on June 9, 2020. Vargas will be sentenced at a future date designated by the court. While there is some variation in the price of Ricordea depending on coloration, size, and other factors, the aggregate retail value of illegal Ricordea shipped by Vargas was worth at least $90,000. From January 2014 to March 2016, Vargas sent or caused to be sent at least 40 shipments of marine species that were illegally harvested in the waters of Puerto Rico. In order to cover up the nature of his shipments and to avoid detection from governmental inspection authorities, the scheme included falsely labeling many of the live shipments as inanimate objects. In Puerto Rico, it is illegal to harvest Ricordea, zoanthids, and anemones specimens if they are going to be sent off-island or otherwise sold commercially, nor is there a permit available to do so. However, we do not like illegally collected corals from protected reef environments. The Department of Justice correctly points out that reef aquarium keepers like the “glow” under the “UV lights” that are typically used in high-end saltwater reef aquariums. Luis Vargas collected the popular genus Ricordea and sent that genus to customers in the United States waiting for the live specimens. On Monday, he pleads guilty to export smuggling and two felony violations of the Lacey Act for collecting, purchasing, falsely labeling, and shipping protected marine invertebrate species as part of an effort to subvert Puerto Rican law designed to protect corals and other reef species, the Department of Justice announced. A large part of the business was devoted to the sale of native Puerto Rican marine species that are popular in the saltwater aquarium trade. Luis Joel Vargas Martell (Vargas) was the co-owner of a home-based saltwater aquarium business, Carebbean Reefers (spelling error intentional) that also operated online through the EBay store “Redragon1975”.
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