I spent about 6 hours today cleaning up my frag tank, this included arranging the corals, removing pest algae with tweezers, gluing frags of pom pom xenia and zoanthids that had grown to eggcrate and powerwashing eggcrate. The temp did drop a few degrees and I turned on the return for a bit in between. 76 degrees when it normally runs 79-81.
The only other thing I did was use a bit of epoxy - I had a really bad experience with epoxy more than 10 years ago and have been hesitant every time I've used it since. I mounted a bowerbanki frag to a rock and attached one other coral.
I have 100s and 100s of corals in the frag tank. 80% are soft corals but there are acros, and lps. Whatever I have done has almost wiped out my 6+ colour chalice. I feel sick just typing this. A piece I have been slowing growing out on a tile. There is still flesh around the eyes but everything else is basically gone. I removed it and put in my display tank as a last hope. It may end up being the only coral I lose. By far my most expensive and favorite. Other chalice corals are also looking stressed, as is the bowerbanki and my baby hammers are also not looking good. EVERYTHING ELSE is looking 100% normal. Pom Pom xenia is pulsing, even some of the fresh cut ones. Most zoas and palys are open. Acros have polyp extension. Even bubble tip anemone is bubbly.
NO3 which to be fair I do not test regularly reads 0 or very close to 0 which is unusual as this frag system has no skimmer, but also no fish. I do target feed heavily. P04 is also reading 0.00 but there is algae so there 100% is phosphate in the water. Live rock is the primary filtration in the system. It just amazes me that pretty much everything is fine except my prized coral.
It has to either be from fragging but I frag a lot and never have toxins in the water caused an issue.
The epoxy it is a well known reef brand for corals, no point naming the brand as I don't want them blamed. It cured fine, and I used a relatively small amount in approximately 100g water volume. I knocked something off the eggcrate. I mostly powerwashed some hard algae - it's some type of hair, not byopsis and not feathery hair algae. It's tougher and can be pulled off with tweezers but there was a bunch. Some sponge and coraline. I'm just at a complete loss over what I did. I am hoping at least one mouth survives and I can grow it back over years
The only other thing I did was use a bit of epoxy - I had a really bad experience with epoxy more than 10 years ago and have been hesitant every time I've used it since. I mounted a bowerbanki frag to a rock and attached one other coral.
I have 100s and 100s of corals in the frag tank. 80% are soft corals but there are acros, and lps. Whatever I have done has almost wiped out my 6+ colour chalice. I feel sick just typing this. A piece I have been slowing growing out on a tile. There is still flesh around the eyes but everything else is basically gone. I removed it and put in my display tank as a last hope. It may end up being the only coral I lose. By far my most expensive and favorite. Other chalice corals are also looking stressed, as is the bowerbanki and my baby hammers are also not looking good. EVERYTHING ELSE is looking 100% normal. Pom Pom xenia is pulsing, even some of the fresh cut ones. Most zoas and palys are open. Acros have polyp extension. Even bubble tip anemone is bubbly.
NO3 which to be fair I do not test regularly reads 0 or very close to 0 which is unusual as this frag system has no skimmer, but also no fish. I do target feed heavily. P04 is also reading 0.00 but there is algae so there 100% is phosphate in the water. Live rock is the primary filtration in the system. It just amazes me that pretty much everything is fine except my prized coral.
It has to either be from fragging but I frag a lot and never have toxins in the water caused an issue.
The epoxy it is a well known reef brand for corals, no point naming the brand as I don't want them blamed. It cured fine, and I used a relatively small amount in approximately 100g water volume. I knocked something off the eggcrate. I mostly powerwashed some hard algae - it's some type of hair, not byopsis and not feathery hair algae. It's tougher and can be pulled off with tweezers but there was a bunch. Some sponge and coraline. I'm just at a complete loss over what I did. I am hoping at least one mouth survives and I can grow it back over years