NCReefing
New Member
Hello everyone, sorry in advance for my first post being a novel, i am concerned im at a tipping point and I am hoping someone can tell me I havent sentenced multiple coral to an early grave. A little background, we have a 180g tank running for almost a year and last week I setup a flex 32.5 tank for myself with the goal of 1-2 coral and anenomes and a couple fish. I assumed i could grab water from the 180 to Jumpstart the 32 gallons and avoid the tank acclimating period (Tank was also previously a saltwater tank.)
Well day one my single long tentacle anenome found it's way into the small powerhead and after a few days of hopeful recovery ended up not coming back. I also had 2 turbo snails from the 180 tank but one also died. So currently I have a hammer coral, goniopora, GSP, 2 clown fish, 1 sailfin, 1 hermit crab and 1 turbo snail. This was more than i was expecting but my tank quickly became the place to put the fish that were getting picked on in other tanks.
I had one other rock with some SPS that wasn't happy in my tank and although I was worried about putting it back in the 180g I'm case it was sick, I still moved it back and within hours everything was fully open and happy again. This makes me assume my parameters are what's wrong.
I've tested my water and Magnesium was at 1020 and ammonia was high (assuming was the anenome.) Performed a water change yesterday but haven't retested yet.
I had to swap lights since the fluval light cord broke and am waiting on a meter to measure PAR in case I am overwhelming the tank. I was running the 2 G5 Aqua Star lights in LPS mode but now I realize I am probably providing too much light.
My GSP is always a weed and in the new tank it looks like it's on the verge of death. The hammer coral is retracted but nothing crazy to me, and the goniopora has some white growths but I am not sure if that is normal and either I am misidentifying the coral or I fail at google searching goniopora growths.
Best case scenario, adjusting lights and the water change raising Magnesium with dropping ammonia will fix everything. But I want to pick everyone's brain and see if I am overlooking something again or if my old water shortcut was such a bad idea that my animals are paying for it.
Thank you if you made it all the way to the bottom!
Well day one my single long tentacle anenome found it's way into the small powerhead and after a few days of hopeful recovery ended up not coming back. I also had 2 turbo snails from the 180 tank but one also died. So currently I have a hammer coral, goniopora, GSP, 2 clown fish, 1 sailfin, 1 hermit crab and 1 turbo snail. This was more than i was expecting but my tank quickly became the place to put the fish that were getting picked on in other tanks.
I had one other rock with some SPS that wasn't happy in my tank and although I was worried about putting it back in the 180g I'm case it was sick, I still moved it back and within hours everything was fully open and happy again. This makes me assume my parameters are what's wrong.
I've tested my water and Magnesium was at 1020 and ammonia was high (assuming was the anenome.) Performed a water change yesterday but haven't retested yet.
I had to swap lights since the fluval light cord broke and am waiting on a meter to measure PAR in case I am overwhelming the tank. I was running the 2 G5 Aqua Star lights in LPS mode but now I realize I am probably providing too much light.
My GSP is always a weed and in the new tank it looks like it's on the verge of death. The hammer coral is retracted but nothing crazy to me, and the goniopora has some white growths but I am not sure if that is normal and either I am misidentifying the coral or I fail at google searching goniopora growths.
Best case scenario, adjusting lights and the water change raising Magnesium with dropping ammonia will fix everything. But I want to pick everyone's brain and see if I am overlooking something again or if my old water shortcut was such a bad idea that my animals are paying for it.
Thank you if you made it all the way to the bottom!
