thecoralbeauty Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 no, mine just seems to be mildly annoyed no matter what i do Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted June 3, 2015 Author Share Posted June 3, 2015 no, mine just seems to be mildly annoyed no matter what i do I use IO Reef Crystals with rodi and do weekly water changes keep my temp at 78 I feed everyday sometimes 2x a day I feed my hammer and frogspawn mysis everyday and I dose Sicce 3 part to keep my levels at least 1.024 420cal 8dkh 1300mag and use fuel 2x a week and marine snow 1x a week. Other than that I do not know Quote Link to comment
markalot Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 I use IO Reef Crystals with rodi and do weekly water changes keep my temp at 78 I feed everyday sometimes 2x a day I feed my hammer and frogspawn mysis everyday and I dose Sicce 3 part to keep my levels at least 1.024 420cal 8dkh 1300mag and use fuel 2x a week and marine snow 1x a week. Other than that I do not know LOL, might be enough. I dose a partial cap of Fuel in my 150 gallon and can see a difference. Tank is looking fantastic, jealous of your spongodes, I lost mine to MEN a while back and am a little afraid to add another. Can you white balance a photo so we can get an idea what it looks like to your eyes, or is it that dark and purple? 1 Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted June 3, 2015 Author Share Posted June 3, 2015 LOL, might be enough. I dose a partial cap of Fuel in my 150 gallon and can see a difference. Tank is looking fantastic, jealous of your spongodes, I lost mine to MEN a while back and am a little afraid to add another. Can you white balance a photo so we can get an idea what it looks like to your eyes, or is it that dark and purple? Thank you and This is pretty close I will try to get a better picture tonight. 1 Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted June 3, 2015 Author Share Posted June 3, 2015 LOL, might be enough. I dose a partial cap of Fuel in my 150 gallon and can see a difference. Tank is looking fantastic, jealous of your spongodes, I lost mine to MEN a while back and am a little afraid to add another. Can you white balance a photo so we can get an idea what it looks like to your eyes, or is it that dark and purple? This is about 100% what the color looks like. Sorry its blurry looked good on camera but crappy on computer. 1 Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted June 3, 2015 Author Share Posted June 3, 2015 Took a couple FTS and decided to flip the lens again trick works alright. 3 Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted June 3, 2015 Author Share Posted June 3, 2015 Noticed some bryopsis poping up again its time to do some peroxide spot treating again. Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted June 3, 2015 Author Share Posted June 3, 2015 Nothing like putting peroxide on bryopsis watch it go all shiny then white. Take a toothbrush to it and suck it out and the tanks good as new. Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted June 5, 2015 Author Share Posted June 5, 2015 This morning it looked perfect come home today and it looked like this my params are 1.025 mag1340 cal440 alk8.5 temp78.4 nitrate 1 phosphate unreadable on my test I did some peroxide dosing yesterday but I have done peroxide dosing a lot of times maybe I did to much and it has caused it to RTN or maybe this is some parasite. its only on the one part of the cap. Quote Link to comment
LebaneseDlight Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Thinking about doing an order from Unique Corals anyone do an order from them recently? I have seen there reviews and product but is it really worth the extra money compared to places like saltcritters.com I bought their premium SPS frag pack (Insigna, UC Strawberry Shortcake, Bali Shortcake and Super Blue Aussie Vermiculata) and couldn't be happier. I also bought a pair of red scooter blennies and they ate frozen mysis from day one and, knock on wood, have had them for a month and they are still very active and piggies that eat everything. So, IMO, UC is worth their prices. Regarding montis, one of my monti frags bleached from the inside and I correlate that to an OD of GFO. Montis, from what I've read, are particularly sensitive to quick drop of Phosphates. I ended up supergluing the bleached parts, as they were spreading, and that stopped the STN and then the monti eventually encrusted over the glue again). Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted June 5, 2015 Author Share Posted June 5, 2015 I bought their premium SPS frag pack (Insigna, UC Strawberry Shortcake, Bali Shortcake and Super Blue Aussie Vermiculata) and couldn't be happier. I also bought a pair of red scooter blennies and they ate frozen mysis from day one and, knock on wood, have had them for a month and they are still very active and piggies that eat everything. So, IMO, UC is worth their prices. Regarding montis, one of my monti frags bleached from the inside and I correlate that to an OD of GFO. Montis, from what I've read, are particularly sensitive to quick drop of Phosphates. (sorry, I don't see your question about montis, just the heading of your post and pics that appear to show STN/RTN). I really doubt its from an OD of GFO my chemi pure blue is a month old and not scheduled to be changed for a new set tell June 29th 1 Quote Link to comment
LebaneseDlight Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Another culprit could be starvation (since you have 0 reading Phos), but it looks like you haven't had the colony very long. Good luck with that! It would be a shame to lose that awesome colony or even part of it. Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted June 5, 2015 Author Share Posted June 5, 2015 Another culprit could be starvation (since you have 0 reading Phos), but it looks like you haven't had the colony very long. Good luck with that! It would be a shame to lose that awesome colony or even part of it. I have had it for about 3 weeks I feed my tank at least once a day I upped my dosing once it was added(started to mess with my alk levels ) but I figured out how much to dose within 2 days I use marine snow plus aqua vitro fuel I just did a 20% water change yesterday which is probably why my phosphates are unreadable. normally by the end of the week before the water change they are reading .3-.5 the system has been up for about a year and a half but just moved into this tank about a month and a half ago. I have 3 other months in the tank doing perfect it just doesn't make sense. urgggggggg!!!!! Quote Link to comment
markalot Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Be very careful with peroxide and SPS. Montis will brown when exposed to a little, and experience dieoff if it drifts over the surface. If that happened overnight it's too fast to be a pest (most likely) and is probably peroxide damage. It should stop, I hope. 1 Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted June 5, 2015 Author Share Posted June 5, 2015 Be very careful with peroxide and SPS. Montis will brown when exposed to a little, and experience dieoff if it drifts over the surface. If that happened overnight it's too fast to be a pest (most likely) and is probably peroxide damage. It should stop, I hope. Thanks Mark and I know peroxide can bother SPS I got a little to happy with it last night Im willing to bet your right at least I hope otherwise Im going to have to start fragging if its RTN. Quote Link to comment
ml86743 Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Sorry about the monti:( 1 Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted June 5, 2015 Author Share Posted June 5, 2015 Sorry about the monti:( Its ok I just hope it pulls through. Quote Link to comment
thecoralbeauty Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 me too, its beautiful 1 Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted June 5, 2015 Author Share Posted June 5, 2015 me too, its beautiful Good news it has not spread anymore since yesterday at 6:00pm so I believe that rules out RTN 1 Quote Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Good news it has not spread anymore since yesterday at 6:00pm so I believe that rules out RTN Thats good! If it were continuing I would say to dip the coral and/or block the TN'd places from spreading but if its stopped thats great. Updated picture? 1 Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted June 5, 2015 Author Share Posted June 5, 2015 Thats good! If it were continuing I would say to dip the coral and/or block the TN'd places from spreading but if its stopped thats great. Updated picture? Ill try to get one tonight but my fridays are normally busy. Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted June 5, 2015 Author Share Posted June 5, 2015 Well Im just going to leave this here. Soon you will beable to view my tank at all times. 2 Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted June 6, 2015 Author Share Posted June 6, 2015 Ok Monti is looking better already next time I need to not go so crazy with the peroxide. 1 Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted June 7, 2015 Author Share Posted June 7, 2015 Ok here is the status of my monti is has not gotten worse for the last 2 days which is good but I feel bad that it happened still. Picked up some no name brown acro that was under horrible lighting for $9.99 hopefully it colors up. 1 Quote Link to comment
thecoralbeauty Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Good to hear on the monti. Macro?? are you sure that's macro? Quote Link to comment
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