Well I had a pretty bad day 2day anyways, but next to that I just bought $450 in corals. They all got brown jelly or started getting skeletal and are in the process of dieing. This has happenned twice before this time aswell. I know everyone will say that I have something wrong with something and it is not the lighting....well im pretty sure this is the lighting..
My paramaters have been stable for atleast a month now at:
Nitrate-0
Mag-1500
Nitrite-0
Phos-0
Alk-8-9
Calcuim-500
Salinity-1.025
Temp-78-80
I have a BM Nac7 skimmer doing a fantastic job and a fuge hooked up to the tank
I have a reef evo120w led pendant over this tank
The tank is 48 by 16 by 13
I acclimate by
10-15 minutes of floating
8-10 of sitting in 1/2 bag and 1/2 tank water
and into the shade for a week,2,3 depending on how the coral acts
Here is why I blaim it on the lights in past experiences
I bought some corals a little while back and after 1 week of being in my tank every single one of them was bleached or recceding.
So I took those exact corals and moved them into my t5 powered 75 gal,this tank's parameters are not the best, and within a week the corals start to regain color and grow in worse tank conditions!! So I moved them back to the led tank, and the corals bleached and started dieing again.
With the most recent corals, they all started developing brown jelly on them and rtning.............
What exactly are the causes of brown jelly.?
And if my tank was in terrible condition wouldnt the present established corals be dieing???? Well they are not, I have over 100 frags of every type of coral in there doing perfectly fine,but now everytime I add a coral something bad happens...
Am I missing something or are leds just to powerful/bright for my tank?
Needless to say im saying adios to the LEDs
My paramaters have been stable for atleast a month now at:
Nitrate-0
Mag-1500
Nitrite-0
Phos-0
Alk-8-9
Calcuim-500
Salinity-1.025
Temp-78-80
I have a BM Nac7 skimmer doing a fantastic job and a fuge hooked up to the tank
I have a reef evo120w led pendant over this tank
The tank is 48 by 16 by 13
I acclimate by
10-15 minutes of floating
8-10 of sitting in 1/2 bag and 1/2 tank water
and into the shade for a week,2,3 depending on how the coral acts
Here is why I blaim it on the lights in past experiences
I bought some corals a little while back and after 1 week of being in my tank every single one of them was bleached or recceding.
So I took those exact corals and moved them into my t5 powered 75 gal,this tank's parameters are not the best, and within a week the corals start to regain color and grow in worse tank conditions!! So I moved them back to the led tank, and the corals bleached and started dieing again.
With the most recent corals, they all started developing brown jelly on them and rtning.............
What exactly are the causes of brown jelly.?
And if my tank was in terrible condition wouldnt the present established corals be dieing???? Well they are not, I have over 100 frags of every type of coral in there doing perfectly fine,but now everytime I add a coral something bad happens...
Am I missing something or are leds just to powerful/bright for my tank?
Needless to say im saying adios to the LEDs