I've been trying to add some SPS corals to my tank and have not yet had one survive beyond a month or so.
I'll put my water parameters below and maintenance schedule also. But will explain what happens first.
I've put 2 birdsnest in the tank, the last one, I dipped with CoralRX per directions and the polyp extension when I added it to the tank was great. Over time, the extension disappeared and now there appear to be algae growing on parts of the coral. I looked with a magnifying glass last night and did not see any critters.
I also put in a small frag candy cane in, now it appears that the tissue (?) is receding.
These are my latest attempts, the previous ones I won't go into too much detail as my water was not in good shape so I'm not surprised things didn't go we'll.
I have some LPS that are doing very well, frogspawn, torches, octopus, bubble. All of my softies are thriving.
Livestock: Blue tang and Yellow tang, 4 clowns, sm 6-stripe wrasse, 2-spot goby, tiger goby, neon cleaner goby, 2 cleaner shrimp, sand sifting star, 3 nasarius (sp?) snails
System and water parameters
Tank: 48 x 24 x 20 (100g) rimless
Salinity: 1.025
Cal: 400(API)
Nitrate: 3 (Red Sea)
Phosphate: 0.04 (Halifert)
d/Kh: 9.2 (Red Sea), 7 (API)
Mg: 1480 (Red Sea)
ph: 7.82 - 8.05 (Apex - calibrated 12/8/12)
- LEDs, Sunbrite F00015 series, running max 40%
- ATO- tunze osmilator w/1tsp Kalk per gal in ATO reservoir
- CAD Lights skimmer
- 2 vortex MP 40 on the ends, w/3 small rios on the back wall
- BRS double canister w/carbon and GFO. Change carbon bi-weekly and GFO monthly
- bio pellets, up to 300ml, added 100ml at a time and allowed a month in between adding the next round of pellets. Using two little fishes NPX pellets with output close to input of skimmer.
Started with 70lbs live rock and 100lbs of live sand. I've dealt with some hit hikers (mantis shrimp) and there's at least 1 crab I see ever once in awhile but he doesn't seem to be doing any damage.
I'm going to see if I can put some photos of the birdsnest and candy cane here. (Will follow up w/photos, tapatalk doesn't have access to my photo lib and I don't want to lose this text...)
Thanks in advance for the help.
Cheryl
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I'll put my water parameters below and maintenance schedule also. But will explain what happens first.
I've put 2 birdsnest in the tank, the last one, I dipped with CoralRX per directions and the polyp extension when I added it to the tank was great. Over time, the extension disappeared and now there appear to be algae growing on parts of the coral. I looked with a magnifying glass last night and did not see any critters.
I also put in a small frag candy cane in, now it appears that the tissue (?) is receding.
These are my latest attempts, the previous ones I won't go into too much detail as my water was not in good shape so I'm not surprised things didn't go we'll.
I have some LPS that are doing very well, frogspawn, torches, octopus, bubble. All of my softies are thriving.
Livestock: Blue tang and Yellow tang, 4 clowns, sm 6-stripe wrasse, 2-spot goby, tiger goby, neon cleaner goby, 2 cleaner shrimp, sand sifting star, 3 nasarius (sp?) snails
System and water parameters
Tank: 48 x 24 x 20 (100g) rimless
Salinity: 1.025
Cal: 400(API)
Nitrate: 3 (Red Sea)
Phosphate: 0.04 (Halifert)
d/Kh: 9.2 (Red Sea), 7 (API)
Mg: 1480 (Red Sea)
ph: 7.82 - 8.05 (Apex - calibrated 12/8/12)
- LEDs, Sunbrite F00015 series, running max 40%
- ATO- tunze osmilator w/1tsp Kalk per gal in ATO reservoir
- CAD Lights skimmer
- 2 vortex MP 40 on the ends, w/3 small rios on the back wall
- BRS double canister w/carbon and GFO. Change carbon bi-weekly and GFO monthly
- bio pellets, up to 300ml, added 100ml at a time and allowed a month in between adding the next round of pellets. Using two little fishes NPX pellets with output close to input of skimmer.
Started with 70lbs live rock and 100lbs of live sand. I've dealt with some hit hikers (mantis shrimp) and there's at least 1 crab I see ever once in awhile but he doesn't seem to be doing any damage.
I'm going to see if I can put some photos of the birdsnest and candy cane here. (Will follow up w/photos, tapatalk doesn't have access to my photo lib and I don't want to lose this text...)
Thanks in advance for the help.
Cheryl
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