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Hey!
So, I started a new tank 3 months ago and evereything's been growing really good (of course that I've had my share of all kinds of problems). My Pulsing Xenia is 3 times bigger than when I bought it, my Mushrooms are doing great and my GSP is also bigger and whith a beautiful green color. Until last week...
Last week I tooked a day trip and my overflow system failed so I had to remotely turn off the return pump which led to having less water in the DT and that caused my wave pumps to blow bubbles everywhere for 10 hours. Obviusly all my corals were very stressed so I made a water change, reconnected everything and things started to look up but things hasen't really improved in the last few days and there are some things that I'm not understanding:
1. My corals seem to open a lot more during the night and at the start of the day they are completly retracted (I haven't changed any light schedule and my Ph ranges from 8.0 to 8.3).
2. Since the incident my Xenia hasen't returned to it's beautiful pinky color, instead its greyish with almost all of it's polyp "hairs" are retracted.
3. I found a small tube-like structure in my GSP (which I already removed) and in my glass with a worm inside. Any idea for an ID on this guy?
Tomorrow I'm picking up a new tank with a propper external overflow so this never happens again (I've been working on the tank for a few weeks, I'm very excited haha). Do you guys have any recomendation for transfering the livestock to the bigger tank? (I'm going from 14 liters to 30 liters)
DT: 14lt
Sump: 25lt (approx)
1 Prime 16HD
1 chinese chaeto light
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star Polyps
Mushroom corals
1 Mexican Turbo snail
Chaeto in the refugium
0 Ammonia (API test)
0 nitrite (API test)
0 nitrate (API test) (I do realize this is a problem, I'm still trying to get this one up. Any ideas for doing it?)
8.0-8.3 Ph (API test)
7.5 dKh (Salifert test) (I've been trying to get this one up to)
420 Calcium (Salifert test)
THANKS FOR THE HELP!!!!
PS: I'm leaving some before and after photos
So, I started a new tank 3 months ago and evereything's been growing really good (of course that I've had my share of all kinds of problems). My Pulsing Xenia is 3 times bigger than when I bought it, my Mushrooms are doing great and my GSP is also bigger and whith a beautiful green color. Until last week...
Last week I tooked a day trip and my overflow system failed so I had to remotely turn off the return pump which led to having less water in the DT and that caused my wave pumps to blow bubbles everywhere for 10 hours. Obviusly all my corals were very stressed so I made a water change, reconnected everything and things started to look up but things hasen't really improved in the last few days and there are some things that I'm not understanding:
1. My corals seem to open a lot more during the night and at the start of the day they are completly retracted (I haven't changed any light schedule and my Ph ranges from 8.0 to 8.3).
2. Since the incident my Xenia hasen't returned to it's beautiful pinky color, instead its greyish with almost all of it's polyp "hairs" are retracted.
3. I found a small tube-like structure in my GSP (which I already removed) and in my glass with a worm inside. Any idea for an ID on this guy?
Tomorrow I'm picking up a new tank with a propper external overflow so this never happens again (I've been working on the tank for a few weeks, I'm very excited haha). Do you guys have any recomendation for transfering the livestock to the bigger tank? (I'm going from 14 liters to 30 liters)
DT: 14lt
Sump: 25lt (approx)
1 Prime 16HD
1 chinese chaeto light
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star Polyps
Mushroom corals
1 Mexican Turbo snail
Chaeto in the refugium
0 Ammonia (API test)
0 nitrite (API test)
0 nitrate (API test) (I do realize this is a problem, I'm still trying to get this one up. Any ideas for doing it?)
8.0-8.3 Ph (API test)
7.5 dKh (Salifert test) (I've been trying to get this one up to)
420 Calcium (Salifert test)
THANKS FOR THE HELP!!!!
PS: I'm leaving some before and after photos