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Rich Ross - Home Tank - guess the phosphate
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Thales
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Some STN going on this week, both on this (I think) Red Planet and the blue purple coral behind it. Could be from a salinity drop (1ppt, but maybe) or temp drops (seasonal) or the corals finally coming into contact with each other in a way they didn't like. Or something else - the Red Planet is like 7 years old so maybe it is just old. Not going to do anything about it at all at this point. Fingers crossed it doesn't spread more.
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Some STN going on this week, both on this (I think) Red Planet and the blue purple coral behind it. Could be from a salinity drop (1ppt, but maybe) or temp drops (seasonal) or the corals finally coming into contact with each other in a way they didn't like. Or something else - the Red Planet is like 7 years old so maybe it is just old. Not going to do anything about it at all at this point. Fingers crossed it doesn't spread more.
I have nothing to offer than I hope you have a good day and the tank corrects it and/or the coral recovers. Just on a haunch what about that green polyp thing under it? Could that be causing irritation? I had a birds nest frag that was doing fine. Then a green paly thing started to grow around it and I left them alone. Now the polyps are touching the birds nest and it is irritated and showing similar signs.
Brew12
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Knowing that corals need stability, the issue is obvious. Too many changes. You had been releasing 2 podcasts a month and here we are at December 19th and there isn't any Skimmaahte content yet. I would do a 50% intro music change and then release 3 new episodes ASAP.Some STN going on this week, both on this (I think) Red Planet and the blue purple coral behind it. Could be from a salinity drop (1ppt, but maybe) or temp drops (seasonal) or the corals finally coming into contact with each other in a way they didn't like. Or something else - the Red Planet is like 7 years old so maybe it is just old. Not going to do anything about it at all at this point. Fingers crossed it doesn't spread more.
Samina
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Ummmmm yes!l, like what is going on!!!! I know holidays can make schedules crazy, but there’s no excuse after the start of the year!
But on a side note, sorry to see that happen to those colonies.
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The STN on the red planet seems to have stopped. The first skeleton that showed is now greening up. This is good.
The second pic is wider and you can see some of the STN on the topp coral, which also seems to have stopped.
The second pic is wider and you can see some of the STN on the topp coral, which also seems to have stopped.
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I think it is a flow issue. The gyre on the left side of the tank gives these corals a lot of motion. That gyre has been goofing and going off program and doing nothing, but if it is power cycled it comes back on properly. I thought I was power cycling it often enough, about once a week, but I just did an experiment and it looks like it needed to be restarted daily. Which also explains why the STN may have stopped.
I now have the APEX programed to cycle the outlet daily so that flow will be doing what it is supposed to do once again. When I get time, I'll switch out the pump and the APEX interface and see if I can isolate the problem. Honestly, I probably wont do that last if the daily power cycling works. I AM KING LAZY
I now have the APEX programed to cycle the outlet daily so that flow will be doing what it is supposed to do once again. When I get time, I'll switch out the pump and the APEX interface and see if I can isolate the problem. Honestly, I probably wont do that last if the daily power cycling works. I AM KING LAZY
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Sincerely Lasse
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Larry L
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I was wondering why you were asking those Apex programming questions on Facebook, makes sense now... Are you using Maxspect Gyres, and if so, programming the flow with their controller? I have been running two pumps on the 230 controller for quite a while and have not (AFAIK) seen the problems that you described.
Flippers4pups
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Rich, do you have any other pumps low in your system for flow? Being it's a packed tank.
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Thales
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The main return hits the front glass in the middle and heads down to the left. There are three loc line runs to spin streams pointed down. And there is a closed loop to two penductors along the back wall.
Brew12
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I run the Icecaps off my of GHL and don't have that issue unless I go a few months without cleaning them. If they bind up, the Icecap seems to sense it and shuts them down. The red light on the icecap flashes when that happens. I have also had it happen if a big chunk of food or a small snail gets up in the impellers.
Edit: running 4 XF250's off the Icecaps.
Edit: running 4 XF250's off the Icecaps.
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Thales
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I have two of the icecap interfaces. One is fine the other is not. They both have two channels, so when I get round2it, I'll try them both on the same or switch the channels and see if that continues.
