Just trying to start a discussion! I’ll begin
It took almost 2 weeks for me to find a spot where my hammer coral and Florida ricordea were happy. Then it took another week trying to figure out how strong to set my powerheads. Things have been going well for a bit now.
just added a few more CUC for hair algae and decided to manually remove/scrub some off while temp acclimating the inverts. Didn’t want to cloud my water up too much as I don’t plan on doing a water change for a couple more days. Well I got carried away and ended up with a very cloudy tank.
my next bright idea was to turn my powerheads up from 50% to 60%. I had given the hammer and ricordea time to adjust and I thought “maybe my SPS want some more flow and it might help cycle the carbon through faster”
i leave the room for 30 minutes and come back to find the hammer completely retracted and the ricordea shriveled up in less than half its size. Being my two most finicky corals, of course they were the only two who showed any adverse affects.
I turned my flow back down to 50% and waiting to see a reaction.
Anyone have similar experiences to share?
It took almost 2 weeks for me to find a spot where my hammer coral and Florida ricordea were happy. Then it took another week trying to figure out how strong to set my powerheads. Things have been going well for a bit now.
just added a few more CUC for hair algae and decided to manually remove/scrub some off while temp acclimating the inverts. Didn’t want to cloud my water up too much as I don’t plan on doing a water change for a couple more days. Well I got carried away and ended up with a very cloudy tank.
my next bright idea was to turn my powerheads up from 50% to 60%. I had given the hammer and ricordea time to adjust and I thought “maybe my SPS want some more flow and it might help cycle the carbon through faster”
i leave the room for 30 minutes and come back to find the hammer completely retracted and the ricordea shriveled up in less than half its size. Being my two most finicky corals, of course they were the only two who showed any adverse affects.
I turned my flow back down to 50% and waiting to see a reaction.
Anyone have similar experiences to share?