mark-aus
New Member
Hi All,
Have an elegance in my 80g - 6 months old tank. Been in there for 3 months and fine until recently. Over the course of a few weeks it has slowly started to be more and more closed, starting with it closing up more at night and then progressing into the day as well. The tentacles are shorter and the disc is mostly staying curled up. This period does coincide with a dino (LCA,SCA) outbreak and bottomed out Nitrate levels for a period. I did think it was just annoyed because of the state of the tank re fighting dinos and maybe it is but looking for some opinions. There is a soft white substance on the skeleton you can see in the video/images. It has been there a while so not sure if its relevant.
I have some Acans, a torch and GSP which going well. We did lose a Nem a few weeks ago which I have not been able to nail why. 2 clowns, scooter blenny, coral goby, fairy wrasse and flame hawk fish wise and trochus and nasarus snails CUC.
Get fed at least twice a week with Mysis and one a week with Reef Roids. I also feed LPS pellets alternating with Roids.
So state of the tank: (all Hanna checkers)
Salinity: 34.5 stable
PO4: 0.05-0.09
NO3: 5
Mag: 1225 - in progress of dosing up to 1500
Cal: 400 - was 440 previously so watching for a decline
Ph: 7.9-8.1 (diurnal)
Alk: 9
I was running carbon for the dinos but i've removed it. I am dosing waterglass to 3ppm and have a significant amount of diatoms, the tank is quite dirty (inducing a diatom bloom to kill of the dinos).
Yesterday I tuned down the lighting based on reading about ECS and success with lower light. Running s 2 x XR15 Blue on the LPS settings with red, white and green removed. 8hr cycle - just tuned the point intensity down to 50% it was at 100%.
8th May - You can see the front bit really starting to retract. The back bit is about 70% of what the whole thing was previously.
18 May - Discs closed up, i did just feed and the response wasnt super strong.
Have an elegance in my 80g - 6 months old tank. Been in there for 3 months and fine until recently. Over the course of a few weeks it has slowly started to be more and more closed, starting with it closing up more at night and then progressing into the day as well. The tentacles are shorter and the disc is mostly staying curled up. This period does coincide with a dino (LCA,SCA) outbreak and bottomed out Nitrate levels for a period. I did think it was just annoyed because of the state of the tank re fighting dinos and maybe it is but looking for some opinions. There is a soft white substance on the skeleton you can see in the video/images. It has been there a while so not sure if its relevant.
I have some Acans, a torch and GSP which going well. We did lose a Nem a few weeks ago which I have not been able to nail why. 2 clowns, scooter blenny, coral goby, fairy wrasse and flame hawk fish wise and trochus and nasarus snails CUC.
Get fed at least twice a week with Mysis and one a week with Reef Roids. I also feed LPS pellets alternating with Roids.
So state of the tank: (all Hanna checkers)
Salinity: 34.5 stable
PO4: 0.05-0.09
NO3: 5
Mag: 1225 - in progress of dosing up to 1500
Cal: 400 - was 440 previously so watching for a decline
Ph: 7.9-8.1 (diurnal)
Alk: 9
I was running carbon for the dinos but i've removed it. I am dosing waterglass to 3ppm and have a significant amount of diatoms, the tank is quite dirty (inducing a diatom bloom to kill of the dinos).
Yesterday I tuned down the lighting based on reading about ECS and success with lower light. Running s 2 x XR15 Blue on the LPS settings with red, white and green removed. 8hr cycle - just tuned the point intensity down to 50% it was at 100%.
8th May - You can see the front bit really starting to retract. The back bit is about 70% of what the whole thing was previously.
18 May - Discs closed up, i did just feed and the response wasnt super strong.
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