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Looking for some ideas to test why my new zoas are closed. Added the frag on Friday. Opened up within 1hour. Stayed open until Sunday. Fed the tank and they closed. Never opened up again (24hour)
-tanks about 2 months old
-IM 25g lagoon (shallow tank, 12in)
-Radion xr15pro
-Frag placed near bottom
-Mp10 on lagoon @ 40%. Frag on opposite end
-salinity 1.025
-Ammonia/nitrite 0
-Nitrate 5–10 (pic below cuz I hate this color chart)
-Phosphate reads 0 via Hannah ppm but ULR ppb is in the mail. Can’t get more accurate until then
Dkh 7.5-8
Ph 8.2
-water change yesterday (zoa closed prior) about 15%
frag was out of the box and into a holding tank within 30 min (floated for temp) after being overnighted. Reputable/well known vendor. Don’t want to say as I do not believe it has anything to do with them. Stayed in holding until the evening. Dipped with bayer for 5min. 1 cup tank water to 10ml bayer. Rinsed twice in 2 separate tank water cups. Put directly into DT after I visually Inspected. Don’t think anything jumped off. Few black specs but nothing I could identify as a pest.
This is the first coral addition to the tank so nothing to compare it to. Just lookingfor some advice of things to try over the next few days to narrow down the problem. so far all I’ve done is the WC last night and today turned the MP10 down to20%
-tanks about 2 months old
-IM 25g lagoon (shallow tank, 12in)
-Radion xr15pro
-Frag placed near bottom
-Mp10 on lagoon @ 40%. Frag on opposite end
-salinity 1.025
-Ammonia/nitrite 0
-Nitrate 5–10 (pic below cuz I hate this color chart)
-Phosphate reads 0 via Hannah ppm but ULR ppb is in the mail. Can’t get more accurate until then
Dkh 7.5-8
Ph 8.2
-water change yesterday (zoa closed prior) about 15%
frag was out of the box and into a holding tank within 30 min (floated for temp) after being overnighted. Reputable/well known vendor. Don’t want to say as I do not believe it has anything to do with them. Stayed in holding until the evening. Dipped with bayer for 5min. 1 cup tank water to 10ml bayer. Rinsed twice in 2 separate tank water cups. Put directly into DT after I visually Inspected. Don’t think anything jumped off. Few black specs but nothing I could identify as a pest.
This is the first coral addition to the tank so nothing to compare it to. Just lookingfor some advice of things to try over the next few days to narrow down the problem. so far all I’ve done is the WC last night and today turned the MP10 down to20%