Alexraptor Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Anyone know what makes a Montipora Digita so resilient to the extreme? Ive recently had major issues with my reef tank, both from a initial problem that just crept up to me and my own foolish mistakes in panic trying to rectify the problems and causing large and unacceptable fluctuations in water parameters. That said, ive suffered a number of casualties, my birds nests being completely wiped out and my two Monti Cap colonies bleaching and dying. My brain and my hammer corals have bleached "a little" and my Zoas and GSP's are not quite as vibrant as they were. But in the midst of this mess one coral stands completely unaffected by all this... and that is my digita!? It stands there branching and proud, colors as bright as always and with beautfiul white tips and edges of fresh growth, when all around it are ailing.... how is this even possible? Link to comment
Dani3d Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 IMpossible to explain, or maybe you can take example on humans...some will catch every cold that come around while some never seem to catch anything. Like humans, coral have their immune system. Each aquarium is unique and each crash is due to different things. Some of these things might affect some species of corals more than others. In my case, my sps, all of them are much more resistant than my zoanthids wich can be looking awesome one day and gone the next...melt away to nothingness. Some people can keep xenia and they multiply like weeds and some cannot keep any alive. So I think nobody can really explain why in your case. I have read that people have lost their orange digitata by simply switching to H2O salt (2 persons) and nothing else in the tank was affected... Anyone know what makes a Montipora Digita so resilient to the extreme? Ive recently had major issues with my reef tank, both from a initial problem that just crept up to me and my own foolish mistakes in panic trying to rectify the problems and causing large and unacceptable fluctuations in water parameters. That said, ive suffered a number of casualties, my birds nests being completely wiped out and my two Monti Cap colonies bleaching and dying. My brain and my hammer corals have bleached "a little" and my Zoas and GSP's are not quite as vibrant as they were. But in the midst of this mess one coral stands completely unaffected by all this... and that is my digita!? It stands there branching and proud, colors as bright as always and with beautfiul white tips and edges of fresh growth, when all around it are ailing.... how is this even possible? Link to comment
Builder Anthony Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Could you post a picture?I stay far away from branching corals but im curious as to which one you have. Link to comment
shadowninja Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Same happened to me. I had the same problem yet my digitata is one of the few things that fully recovered and is doing fine. I got things back in check now as my green frogspawn turned neon yellow, its back to neon green and my xenia are growing & pulsing again, as well as my other montis growing again. Also my beautiful acans which turned a dull gray have turned a green color now. Link to comment
m05tw4nt3d Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Same happened to me. I had the same problem yet my digitata is one of the few things that fully recovered and is doing fine. I got things back in check now as my green frogspawn turned neon yellow, its back to neon green and my xenia are growing & pulsing again, as well as my other montis growing again. Also my beautiful acans which turned a dull gray have turned a green color now. Good to hear Link to comment
Alexraptor Posted September 7, 2011 Author Share Posted September 7, 2011 Don't have a pic handy at the moment, though you can see it in this video of mine from february, though its grown A LOT since. Its the one in the back, up front is the fragment and then eventual mother colony of all my birds nests that recently perished. Link to comment
Euphyllia Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 I noticed my digi started to bleach and STN when the nitrates and phosphates were high. (7.5 & 2.5) Once I added chaeto, the levels dropped and the digi was all better. What are your ates/ites? Link to comment
Alexraptor Posted September 7, 2011 Author Share Posted September 7, 2011 Nitrates and phosphates are unmeasurable. But that does not mean anything, as ive been fighting a major cyano outbreak. But I too recently added chaeto to my system which is growing like a weed, and though the cyano is still around it seems to be getting weaker. Link to comment
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