History:
This was a small colony I bought 5 years ago described as "Indo raspberry milli". Pink & green flesh with grayish polyps, and great extension. It overgrew my display and about 6 months ago I removed it, busted it up into frags, and chucked the rest into my CaRx when Reborn ran out. You can see it in the reef pic just left and above the purple stylo.
Pieces went various places at the time (LFS, neighbor systems, etc); and all are doing fine. Less extension but more color. Growing.
Maybe 20 "misfit" pieces stayed in my frag system to "shape up". Frag system chemistry is very close to display water; PAR similar 300-400, flow a bit more (thus the reef tear down in DT).
ALK 8
Ca 500
Mg 1300
pH slightly lower in frag at 7.9 to 8.15
1.026 and 78 degrees
NO3 10ish
PO4 around .07
Current:
The "misfits" are one by one following the same pattern of RTN/STN from the base upwards. Very little PE. Brilliant colors although on the pastel side. I moved some to my LFS and some to my display after the troubles began. (Again, similar parameters. LFS nutrients a bit lower as we keep selling out the darn fish!). But the same thing keeps happening with this "misfit" batch no matter where they end up. Look fine for a week or three then bam.
Attachments:
Dying frags in frag
Living and dying frags in display
a "non-misfit" larger frag that is older and still kicking
Poor picture of colony before dismount (above and right of the purple stylo)
October ICP (not much to see here)
Flag:
In June, I had aefw in frag system but not display. Went on aggressive 6 day dip schedule. Added cleaners, peppermints, springeri (6), and 6 line to my existing melanurus. One liter KZ flatworm Stop (double strength). No flatworms since mid August from dips. Sadly 1 million pods killed in dip.
Coincidence?
This is kinda just forming in my mind as I type. I switched dips from Bayer (super gentle but so much work to keep safe) to KCl in July/August. I am dipping 17 racks per weekend. It really kills aefw, not just dislodge like Bayer (IME). All the other 80 tenuis, tort and milli frags are doing fine with that dip. Everything else in the display is doing fine as well.
I am just going to tag as many folks as I can recall with beautiful stick experience. Sorry for the long rant. Sorry to spam you all, but I need a new way to look at this. Thanks.
@Chaswood79
@jda
@mfollen
@FarmerTy
@bubbaque
@watchguy123
@Perry
@shane backer
@JCOLE
@SawCJack00
@therman
This was a small colony I bought 5 years ago described as "Indo raspberry milli". Pink & green flesh with grayish polyps, and great extension. It overgrew my display and about 6 months ago I removed it, busted it up into frags, and chucked the rest into my CaRx when Reborn ran out. You can see it in the reef pic just left and above the purple stylo.
Pieces went various places at the time (LFS, neighbor systems, etc); and all are doing fine. Less extension but more color. Growing.
Maybe 20 "misfit" pieces stayed in my frag system to "shape up". Frag system chemistry is very close to display water; PAR similar 300-400, flow a bit more (thus the reef tear down in DT).
ALK 8
Ca 500
Mg 1300
pH slightly lower in frag at 7.9 to 8.15
1.026 and 78 degrees
NO3 10ish
PO4 around .07
Current:
The "misfits" are one by one following the same pattern of RTN/STN from the base upwards. Very little PE. Brilliant colors although on the pastel side. I moved some to my LFS and some to my display after the troubles began. (Again, similar parameters. LFS nutrients a bit lower as we keep selling out the darn fish!). But the same thing keeps happening with this "misfit" batch no matter where they end up. Look fine for a week or three then bam.
Attachments:
Dying frags in frag
Living and dying frags in display
a "non-misfit" larger frag that is older and still kicking
Poor picture of colony before dismount (above and right of the purple stylo)
October ICP (not much to see here)
Flag:
In June, I had aefw in frag system but not display. Went on aggressive 6 day dip schedule. Added cleaners, peppermints, springeri (6), and 6 line to my existing melanurus. One liter KZ flatworm Stop (double strength). No flatworms since mid August from dips. Sadly 1 million pods killed in dip.
Coincidence?
This is kinda just forming in my mind as I type. I switched dips from Bayer (super gentle but so much work to keep safe) to KCl in July/August. I am dipping 17 racks per weekend. It really kills aefw, not just dislodge like Bayer (IME). All the other 80 tenuis, tort and milli frags are doing fine with that dip. Everything else in the display is doing fine as well.
I am just going to tag as many folks as I can recall with beautiful stick experience. Sorry for the long rant. Sorry to spam you all, but I need a new way to look at this. Thanks.
@Chaswood79
@jda
@mfollen
@FarmerTy
@bubbaque
@watchguy123
@Perry
@shane backer
@JCOLE
@SawCJack00
@therman