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This has already happened to me with pocyllophora. I got it half a year ago, and now at least more than 15 of it's sprouts throughout the aquarium.Well like I said all i want to do is helping to solve the sps problem. With all the technology that we have now our progress of reef keeping should be improved not going downward. I believe soon the coral will start spawning in our tank and we will be able to see a single polyp grow to colony in front of our eye.
Pocillopora is known to do that, and a reason why many avoid keeping them (They take up good real estate).This has already happened to me with pocyllophora. I got it half a year ago, and now at least more than 15 of it's sprouts throughout the aquarium.
This is the very first seen, it is already 1 "
Pocillopora is known to do that, and a reason why many avoid keeping them (They take up good real estate).
Complete crash? Depends, was it fast? Slow? Systematic or random?So beyond bacteria, what are other issues that may cause this:
This discussion is pretty coincidental.. I’m relatively new to reef keeping, but I’m an avid researcher and ocd with tank optimization. In short, I’ve had great success with LPS coloration/growth. But, my acropora were lagging, relatively. I feed often, dose aminos/trace etc., but wasn’t seeing the accelerated growth in my acros compared to my LPS.. I finally hypothesized that the only thing that I was overlooking as a possible deterrent to accelerated Acro growth was seeding additional beneficial bacteria. That maybe, over the course of time with the addition of new inhabitants/specimen growth, that the foundational beneficial bacteria via the cycle could no longer support the livestock. So, I bought a bottle of MicroBacter7 and did an initial dose.. I can literally say that I had new frags with very little to no frag encrustation, visibly start encrusting overnight. Im not here to try to convince anyone of anything.. or, to even suggest that supplementing the same with provide results to others. This is actually my first response to a R2R thread. I just felt compelled to respond as I’ve recently come to a similar conclusion based on my experience and observation with my tank.
Yes, my acros’ coloration was already fine. I was getting some branching, but very slow. I should make it evident that when referencing my new frag plugs, I was referring to Acro frag plugs that were glued to my rock. The visible overnight encrustation occurred across almost all my acros glued to my rock. I have two frag plugs in a rack, and they haven’t seen the same type of encrusting occur (at least yet). Therefore, I think there’s something to be said about the beneficial bacteria taking to the rock and therefore accelerating encrusting growth. * I’m about one week into seeding the additional beneficial bacteria, and I would say most of the acro plugs glued to the rock are about 60% covered on average.. Thus, I feel it’s reasonable to conclude that the addition of the beneficial bacteria, as it relates to my tank, has had a significant impact on the vast majority of acros glued to my rock...Wow, I wonder if it was coincidence or not. I would think that these bacteria would take a bit to benifit the reef and in turn affect growth in acros but maybe struggling acros benifit from it more than most of us think? Either way I do agree that it benefits some struggling tanks at least enough to get them turned around.
I'm gonna have all the successful reefers I know spit in a bottle
Although I DO agree with you, I know of reefers who are successful with starting with dry rock, all new everything, dead rock, reboots, etc. and who don't use bacterial products and their tanks are awesome. I'm gonna argue that THE common denominator between all of them is... experience. We are forgetting we get bacteria for free in their fish poop. The other common thing is just to feed the dang tank, alot.
I used MB7 and ecobalance to add to my already poor system, so to me, it didn't hurt to add it to *maybe* help with any strains i was potentially lacking. I can't say it helps or hurts. I feel alot of people have issues with "perfect" parameters because 1) their source water isn't as clean as they think 2)running their systems too lean 3)overthinking things/experience.
It depends. If only Anthony spits in it... $100. If Bubba, Ty, Chas, Big E, Coral Euphoria, Mr V, Ricky, Therman, etc spit in it TOO... $1K. If I spit in it too? Free.How much do you charge to send me some magic spit elixer?
Kind of makes you wonder if the recommended “line” should be changed. I’ll take a guess. 8.5 alk, <5 no3 and <0.05 po4?The top container belongs to a friend. His parameters were in line and one by one the SPS die until the one day when they all die. He was so frustrated that he ripped his reef apart and is going to start from scratch.
The bottom container came from my reef. We got a bunch of huge cuttings and when we opened the containers, they smelled like rotten fish and were starting to RTN.
So not much I could do with mine except do a quick acclimation and try to frag the good parts off. We did manage to save a lot.
My friends reef still remains a mystery.
Cheers! Mark
I tried to get actual numbers from him to help. His response was nitrate unknown and phosphate normal. Alk 8.5 but using black bucket (12dkh) and hand dosing 2 part. I think if you want to be serious about SPS, you should at least do minimal testing?Kind of makes you wonder if the recommended “line” should be changed. I’ll take a guess. 8.5 alk, <5 no3 and <0.05 po4?
I can’t believe more ppl have not noticed that the majority of the “help my sps are dying” threads have “in line” parameters. I have not seen 1 death thread associated with the range I keep.
I try to keep my no3 10-25 and po4 0.10-0.30 but it doesn’t sound like this would of helped your buddy much if at all. Using 12 dKh salt with 8.5 dKh display doesn’t sound like they’re ready for sps. I really don’t think my range is a magic recipe either, just safer. The most important variable is heavy in and a touch less heavy out. So if you’re struggling keeping sps alive longer than a couple months, there is no magic “bacteria, or blue bottle etc” that is going turn your tank around. Check your source water, lighting and bio load.I tried to get actual numbers from him to help. His response was nitrate unknown and phosphate normal. Alk 8.5 but using black bucket (12dkh) and hand dosing 2 part. I think if you want to be serious about SPS, you should at least do minimal testing?
What is your range?