Hello everyone, I started my 60 gallon shallow reef tank last Aug 2018 and all is doing fine until the other day. I noticed my birdsnest "in the middle top of the picture" is starting to have tissue loss. It might be STN. tissue loss is on the top side of the BN so i know its not phosphate...
So I've got a 1 year old system.
150 gallon total system volume.
The lights were all measured out with an Apoge PAR meter.
Nutrients are all in check and all of my SPS, LPS, and Softies are growing like crazy.
To clarify I've several acorporas, a pocilapora, and a stylophora that are all...
I came to work only to see this. One of my nicest pieces is STN in the middle. Do you guys have any idea what it could be?
Salinity: 35
Alk: 8.6
Calcium: 440
Nitrates: 10
I too have been struggling with SPS STN. I have been chasing numbers and trying to attack this from all angles. It keeps coming down to this: If I try to balance the nutrients, I get a hair algae outbreak.
Here are my numbers:
alk 8.6
CA 390
MAG 1470
PO4 .ZERO
NO3 5
SALINITY 1.022
TEMP 78.2...
Hello everyone,
My first post. I am fairly new to the hubby. My tank has been up and running for 8 months. I have been wanting to enter the world of SPS. My bird nest have been doing great so I ventured to get one frag of the Blueberry Fields acro. I believe that it is suffering from STN. Any...
I've never had luck with Red Planet frags, but I traded some hammer and acro corals for a large piece of Red Planet and am trying again. I figure a larger colony will have a better chance of survival.
Parameters:
Ca - 450
Alk - 7.3
Mg - 1290
PO4 -.04
NO3 - 0-5
I've had the red planet about...
Good afternoon all,
My SPS have been suffering from STN (all of them), so I performed a Triton Test and have received my results. A quick note; I've been battling GHA for the past few months, and I've almost won the battle (only a little left in the crevices of the rock). My STN started...
As the title suggests I need you guys to help me with your experience in keeping Acropora.
I stopped posting pictures on my tank thread over christmas and sort of forgot to update it. To my biggest regret - Acros did not do good and i feel sort of ashamed of posting pictures now :(
Basicly...
Hi guys and gals!
Having some STN recently and cant really put my finger on why.
The coral in the picture started a little over a week ago. Triton test showed some areas to improve.
Ive dosed strontium. Reduced my gfo by 2/3 kalium and iodine dosage started. Copper is pretty consistant...