Hello
I have a hammer coral that is getting white. Not sure why. My aquarium is 3 months old. I have an Australian Duncan than is thriving and getting huge and pretty along with a small bi-color frogspawn. With some zoas and Xenia and star polyps.
Currently I have only two breeding shrimp and an arrow crab. No fish.
It's a 30 gal with K-2viper MH 150 watt 20,000K. I recently bought a hydor slim skim protein skimmer and it totally sucks! I can't get it to work properly. It occasionally gets half a cup full of crap. Whatever, I do water changes.
Nitrate is 40
nitrite 0,
Ammonia 0
pH 8.3
Salinity 1.023-4
Temperature kinda fluctuates depending on my room temp, 78-82.
The high nitrates are because I had a massacre of like 6 large turbo snails 2 months down the line. Also kinda weird.. I have an insane amount of copepods and isopods and amphioods... I'm hoping that's an indicator that I'm doing something right? Oh and about 2 weeks ago, it was realeasing what looked like brown jelly. I thought for sure it was dying, but it was completely ok the next day and is still alive 2 weeks later. But not it's getting white. I'm guessing it's realeasing it's photosynthesising cells?
I have a hammer coral that is getting white. Not sure why. My aquarium is 3 months old. I have an Australian Duncan than is thriving and getting huge and pretty along with a small bi-color frogspawn. With some zoas and Xenia and star polyps.
Currently I have only two breeding shrimp and an arrow crab. No fish.
It's a 30 gal with K-2viper MH 150 watt 20,000K. I recently bought a hydor slim skim protein skimmer and it totally sucks! I can't get it to work properly. It occasionally gets half a cup full of crap. Whatever, I do water changes.
Nitrate is 40
nitrite 0,
Ammonia 0
pH 8.3
Salinity 1.023-4
Temperature kinda fluctuates depending on my room temp, 78-82.
The high nitrates are because I had a massacre of like 6 large turbo snails 2 months down the line. Also kinda weird.. I have an insane amount of copepods and isopods and amphioods... I'm hoping that's an indicator that I'm doing something right? Oh and about 2 weeks ago, it was realeasing what looked like brown jelly. I thought for sure it was dying, but it was completely ok the next day and is still alive 2 weeks later. But not it's getting white. I'm guessing it's realeasing it's photosynthesising cells?