Sticks dying top down

[pandaparties]

Some acro do well for me in my mixed reef and some don’t. Happens. I’m not chasing numbers and keep stability the best I can.

I loathe the feeling of slowly watching a coral die and not knowing how to fix it lol buti guess that's how it goes sometimes

 

[HudsonReefer2.0]

My no3 is like 20 and po4 is around .1 things seem ok.

 

[Lavey29]

I loathe the feeling of slowly watching a coral die and not knowing how to fix it lol buti guess that's how it goes sometimes

So true, you can have the same coral in a tank and one thrives while the other dies. Survival of the fittest for the tank nutrients? Natural evolution so only the strong survive? Who knows...see what your ICP shows.

 

[vetteguy53081]

These are growth tips and not tissue loss. However your others pics are tissue loss and can occur from many different scenarios such as:

- Alkalinity spike *
- Temperature spike
- Salinity spike *
- Low dissolved oxygen
- Poor water quality related with phosphate levels up to 5 ppm
- Change in water flow *
- Additions of sand
- Changes in brand of salt *
- Bad test kits giving faulty results
- Levels of minor elements such as Iodine, Potassium, Strontium
- Light intensity *
- - Changes in water flow *
- Addition of new corals
- - Pesticides
- Airborne Contaminants or sprays

 

[sculpin01]

What's the source of your frags? Are they aquacultured, maricultured, or wild? How are you testing nutrients (which kits)?

 

[saltyfins]

Yeah there's no coralline but to be fair I have urchins that munch on it. My issue is without gfo my phosphates shoot up to like 2 in the span of a day

running higher p04 and NO3 isnt an issue. as long as they're somewhat balanced. you could possibly be starving them...Just a thought.

 

[pandaparties]

What's the source of your frags? Are they aquacultured, maricultured, or wild? How are you testing nutrients (which kits)?

Aquacultured, most from TSA and SBB. Using Hanna for my test kits though I'm also sending out an ICP test this week