Duncan help

[pete.healey]

My Duncan closed two days ago and now has this stringy bit coming from it. I’ve noticed the same type of stringy substance on some turbo snails a few times also. Any help or advice would be appreciated

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Its very receded, barely even there.
If you can share details on your tank folks will be able to offer suggestions..... water parameters, lighting, flow, tank age..

 

[p1u5h13r4m24]

I’m also curious about the stringy substance on your turbo snails?. My Duncan’s can sometimes be finicky but yours is definitely unhappy.

 

[Uncle99]

For how many days was it fully open before this?

 

[DanyL]

I’m not sure it’s recession, but rather a very unthoughtful fragging, cutting the very end of the head.

I’ve done frags like this by accident, they are very fragile and take a long time to heal and regrow. The perimeter where it was cut will usually die off.

As for the stringy substance, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a reaction to the Turbo snail that touched it when it cleaned off the plug, a healing Duncan can slime very easily.

 

[pete.healey]

I’m also curious about the stringy substance on your turbo snails?. My Duncan’s can sometimes be finicky but yours is definitely unhappy.

Nitrite 107 ppb

Nitrate 9.0 ppm

Ammonia .07 ppm

PH 8.6


That’s the only tests i have

I stop at my local store every few days for a full test and as of Monday, when the Duncan closed up. I got a thumbs up across the board.

I just did my first water change today of 25%

Sand bottom

The tank is 32.5 Gallon Fluval Flex

Small amount of green algae on the love rocks that the cuc has been feasting on, not an algae bloom though


The Duncan closed one other time for a day and looked like it does now.

The only other thing that was off that I noticed was my temp was lower than usual at 75.6. I think the thermometer was turned the wrong way. Temp is going back up to 78 now. All other corals seem happy. 2 hammers, green hairy mushroom, 2 gsp’s, one new acro put in yesterday, two candy cane trumpets, and green goniastrea

Fish
2 clowns
2 Banggai Cardinals
1 yellow Coris Wrasse
1 Coral Beauty
1 Royal Gramma
1 juvenile yellow watchman goby
1 tiger pistol shrimp
1 emerald crab
1 orange starfish (don’t know the official name)
11 turbo snails
12 small hermit crabs
6 small rainbow anemones

 

[pete.healey]

For how many days was it fully open before this?

I’ve had it for two weeks. It’s been open all days except half a day last week

 

[jabberwock]

How old is the tank?

 

[pete.healey]

How old is the tank?

6 weeks

 

[jabberwock]

6 weeks

You have a lot going on in a very new tank. You are going way too fast. Buckle up, the ride is just starting...

 

[pete.healey]

How old is the tank?

You have a lot going on in a very new tank. You are going way too fast. Buckle up, the ride is just starting...

I was deferring to my local shop which is well respected. Monitoring water and added after it cycled. Nothing else is planned for the tank for quite bit also. Appreciate the input and feedback!

 

[jabberwock]

I was deferring to my local shop which is well respected. Monitoring water and added after it cycled. Nothing else is planned for the tank for quite bit also. Appreciate the input and feedback!

Your local shop is making a bunch of money off of you. Is that purple painted rock? Caribsea?

 

[pete.healey]

Your local shop is making a bunch of money off of you. Is that purple painted rock? Caribsea?

It’s the live rock all three local stores have, not sure the type

 

[DanyL]

Your local shop is making a bunch of money off of you. Is that purple painted rock? Caribsea?

If it’s really live rock, than 6 weeks is fine and can be fully stocked rather safely.
I’ve done so with my frag tank and fully stocked it with SPS within the first days after filling it up with water.

That being said, I have a lot of prior experience, it wasn’t my only tank and I didn’t pay for a single frag I added, but rather just fragged from my main system, so the risk for me was low to non existent.

By the size of that frag, lack of testing (and lack of testing kits) for the bare minimum (Alk, Ca, Mg, PO4), and this over reliance on the expertise of your LFS, it does indeed seem like they are pushing you to make purchases faster than you should.
Solely in terms of what an educated (but not necessarily experienced) reefer vs an uneducated reefer would do.

Edit: It was originally meant to mainly focus on the message in quote, but I added quite a bit more than that.
It still follows up to what it says though.

 

[Uncle99]

You should be testing yourself, not relying on others.

You’ll need to monitor water chemistry closely for the first year, so you’ll need to do your own testing. It’s not hard.

At least measure salinity and Alk daily to ensure both, are rock solid.

It was happy, then not.

That could result from salinity, Alk or , to a lesser degree, phosphate or MG, being out of whack.

The other option is someone bugged it.

Third option you bugged it.

Not overly unusual for this coral to sulk when bothered.

 

[pete.healey]

You should be testing yourself, not relying on others.

It was happy, then not.

That could result from salinity, Alk or , to a lesser degree, phosphate or MG, being out of whack.

The other option is someone bugged it.

Appreciate the feedback!

 

[Uncle99]

Appreciate the feedback!

When you put each of the 6 major parameters both in the traditional bands and super stable day to day, everything you drop in does great right from entry.

Work 100% of the time.

 

[brclark82]

That is so much stuff you have going on for a 6 week old tank!

First- Did the "Live Rock" they sold you come out of a tank with water or was it just on the shelf and labeled "live rock"?

Also it makes me question your LFS expertise if they are testing Ammonia and Nitrite after they've already fully stocked your tank. I'm assuming they saw your tank was cycled before selling you anything and if you're fish aren't dead at this point then its cycled and you never need to test for either of those again.

Why aren't they testing Alkalinity and Phosphate?

Who sells someone 6 anemones for one 30 gallon tank?

It actually looks pretty good all things considered so fingers crossed for you. I would keep reading and learning as much as you can and probably take a break for while and monitor tank parameters while you wait for it to stabilize. And make sure to get some test kits for yourself as well.

Good Luck!

 

[kevgib67]

A little off topic but unless it’s not just a bad picture that is definitely not a yellow coris wrasse. I can’t id it , anyone else?

 

[pete.healey]

A little off topic but unless it’s not just a bad picture that is definitely not a yellow coris wrasse. I can’t id it , anyone else?

That’s what I was told at a shop i do t typically go to
Now after researching more it seems it’s a canary blenny