hi all, tank has been up and running for a few years 90 gallon mixed reef, heavily LPS, just recently dipped my fingers into some scolys as everything has been doing great.
last water change was on 7/14 I try and do a 20 gallon change weekly, we are currently going thru a reno so last change before this was 6/25, and 6/13 respectively.
parameters are
78-79 * F
1.025 sg
9.5 dkh (hanna checker)
420 cal (salifert)
.0113 p04 (hanna PPB checker.)
I run ROX carbon and change monthly
livestock are pair of clowns, royal gramma, leopard wrasse, cleaner shrimp and 2 pistol shrimp.
I have 2 gyre 3k's running 7 mixed but mirrored schedules throughout the day, minimum flow is 10% max flow 80% mag9 return with a RFG nozzle.
lights are china box mars aquas running no lens 10" off water blues 40% whites lowest % to turn on. blues run 1130 am to 930 pm whites from 130pm-830pm
ok so my issue is with a new scoly I got from @AquaSD it looks like a possible piece of tissue came in damaged that I didn't see I did not dip as I normally do for fear of stressing a scoly.
here is a picture day I received it and placed in tank, notice in the upper right corner small area of tissue damage? looked pretty good otherwise, plumped up quickly.
I moved it (dumb probably) after it started to deflate and show skeleton from what I thought was too much flow/light
7/15 you can see skeleton poking through it's flesh.
I fed it reefroids, and it did eat which I know is a good sign, just looking out for it as it's the first time I've spent this much on a single coral.
fast forward to today, you can see my mini's are pretty happy nearby, I tried to move the big guy into a lower flow/lower light area, should I move it back?
here is a FTS to give you a better idea of where they are at, left hand side under that ledge.
sorry for the long post, just trying to include as much info as possible.
last water change was on 7/14 I try and do a 20 gallon change weekly, we are currently going thru a reno so last change before this was 6/25, and 6/13 respectively.
parameters are
78-79 * F
1.025 sg
9.5 dkh (hanna checker)
420 cal (salifert)
.0113 p04 (hanna PPB checker.)
I run ROX carbon and change monthly
livestock are pair of clowns, royal gramma, leopard wrasse, cleaner shrimp and 2 pistol shrimp.
I have 2 gyre 3k's running 7 mixed but mirrored schedules throughout the day, minimum flow is 10% max flow 80% mag9 return with a RFG nozzle.
lights are china box mars aquas running no lens 10" off water blues 40% whites lowest % to turn on. blues run 1130 am to 930 pm whites from 130pm-830pm
ok so my issue is with a new scoly I got from @AquaSD it looks like a possible piece of tissue came in damaged that I didn't see I did not dip as I normally do for fear of stressing a scoly.
here is a picture day I received it and placed in tank, notice in the upper right corner small area of tissue damage? looked pretty good otherwise, plumped up quickly.
I moved it (dumb probably) after it started to deflate and show skeleton from what I thought was too much flow/light
7/15 you can see skeleton poking through it's flesh.
I fed it reefroids, and it did eat which I know is a good sign, just looking out for it as it's the first time I've spent this much on a single coral.
fast forward to today, you can see my mini's are pretty happy nearby, I tried to move the big guy into a lower flow/lower light area, should I move it back?
here is a FTS to give you a better idea of where they are at, left hand side under that ledge.
sorry for the long post, just trying to include as much info as possible.
