All right so here's my story!!!
I recently purchased a PC Rainbow Acropora from @WWC and after leaving it in my 29 gallon for 24 hours I dipped it in Revive from 2 little fish and moved it to a recently established 10 gallon quarantine tank. I had used water from my old aquarium and some bioballs from the sump so I beleived I would not have any issues. Boy was I wrong!!! First thing I noticed was white filaments growing everywhere (bare-bottom tank with only egg crate and bioballs). I asked someone and they said it was a bacterial bloom and shouldnt hurt anything. I kept the Quarantine tank running and after a couple of weeks I saw my PC Rainbows Acropora was completely bleached out!! My heart sank as this was a coral I had wated since the Coral Maynia sale from WWC!! So I ran a full batery of tests and my ammonia was at 4 ppm!! I immediately rinsed them out with fresh saltwater and moved them to the sand bed of my 29 gallon tank again. Here are the pecs for the 29 gallon tank.
I am a new reefer and have a 29 gallon tank with a 10 gallon wet/dry sump using approx. 100 bioballs and 1 small box of marine pure geodes. I am using butaminous carbon and SeaChem Phosguard media.
My last test were (using API test kit):
Temp. 78°F,
salinity= 1.025 SG,
ammonia= 0.25ppm ALWAYS!,
nitrite=0 ppm,
nitrate= 10 to 20 ppm,
pH= 8.0,
Calcium= 480ppm
DKH= 9
Magnesium=?? (Will get salifert kit 6/15)
Phosphate= 0ppm
I am dosing 2 Part from BRS.
After everything happened I have beed feeding reef roids with targeted feeding using turkey baster. Will be getting Brightwell Coral Amino on Tuesday 6/15 and will start dosing that as well!
How do I bring my PC rainbows back to life after bleaching? Is what I am doing enough? What else can I do?
Sorry for the long post and thank you in advance for any help you can give!!
I recently purchased a PC Rainbow Acropora from @WWC and after leaving it in my 29 gallon for 24 hours I dipped it in Revive from 2 little fish and moved it to a recently established 10 gallon quarantine tank. I had used water from my old aquarium and some bioballs from the sump so I beleived I would not have any issues. Boy was I wrong!!! First thing I noticed was white filaments growing everywhere (bare-bottom tank with only egg crate and bioballs). I asked someone and they said it was a bacterial bloom and shouldnt hurt anything. I kept the Quarantine tank running and after a couple of weeks I saw my PC Rainbows Acropora was completely bleached out!! My heart sank as this was a coral I had wated since the Coral Maynia sale from WWC!! So I ran a full batery of tests and my ammonia was at 4 ppm!! I immediately rinsed them out with fresh saltwater and moved them to the sand bed of my 29 gallon tank again. Here are the pecs for the 29 gallon tank.
I am a new reefer and have a 29 gallon tank with a 10 gallon wet/dry sump using approx. 100 bioballs and 1 small box of marine pure geodes. I am using butaminous carbon and SeaChem Phosguard media.
My last test were (using API test kit):
Temp. 78°F,
salinity= 1.025 SG,
ammonia= 0.25ppm ALWAYS!,
nitrite=0 ppm,
nitrate= 10 to 20 ppm,
pH= 8.0,
Calcium= 480ppm
DKH= 9
Magnesium=?? (Will get salifert kit 6/15)
Phosphate= 0ppm
I am dosing 2 Part from BRS.
After everything happened I have beed feeding reef roids with targeted feeding using turkey baster. Will be getting Brightwell Coral Amino on Tuesday 6/15 and will start dosing that as well!
How do I bring my PC rainbows back to life after bleaching? Is what I am doing enough? What else can I do?
Sorry for the long post and thank you in advance for any help you can give!!