FishyReef
Broke Reefer!
Hi guys
A couple of my LPS have been looking progressively worse over the last several days and I'm not exactly sure why or what to do about it. First up is the pearl bubble - which if you've followed my posts know the problems I've had with it related to the clownfish. Well I moved it to another part of the tank, changed the flow pattern, and it improved. The female clown "found it" again, but I managed to prop my long tongs in front of it and that kept everyone away from it, and it rebounded again. But yesterday I noticed more tissue loss and closing in areas that have previously been super healthy. Next up is a tiny frogspawn. It was growing like crazy and super happy for a few months, then this week it's been increasingly retracted and yesterday was retracted entirely and looked like tissue had receded substantially on the head. Finally is a 7 head trumpet that was super happy, super inflated, and extended its tentacles every time I fed the tank. I went on vacation a few weeks ago and even though I was monitoring the tank, the trumpet shrunk up. I noticed a ton of pineapple sponges growing on, so I pulled all of those off thinking they might be irritating it. It started to look a little better after that, but has been really retracted again this week.
Parameters are <5 nitrate, 0/0 ammonia/nitrite, 8-9 alk, sg 1.025, temp 79-80. I did up the intensity of my lights by about 5% last weekend as I've had the intensity really low (25/25/30 max for a 1.5hr period during the day, and less than that the rest of the day) and thought it was time to start ramping it up. I was also thinking that maybe my corals were needing some more light after adjusting to the LEDs for a few months. I don't think I changed the intensity so substantially that it would have such a big impact on these three corals. I also did add black sand last weekend too, though, which probably made the change in intensity a wash since there was no longer reflection off the bottom glass. I have not tested calc, mag, etc. - would these impact tissue recession if they were off, or just skeletal growth? I'm out of ideas and need some help. Oh, I should also add that I did put the pearl bubble back in its original place last night and moved the flow back to its earlier pattern in case my corals were unhappy due to the change.
A couple of my LPS have been looking progressively worse over the last several days and I'm not exactly sure why or what to do about it. First up is the pearl bubble - which if you've followed my posts know the problems I've had with it related to the clownfish. Well I moved it to another part of the tank, changed the flow pattern, and it improved. The female clown "found it" again, but I managed to prop my long tongs in front of it and that kept everyone away from it, and it rebounded again. But yesterday I noticed more tissue loss and closing in areas that have previously been super healthy. Next up is a tiny frogspawn. It was growing like crazy and super happy for a few months, then this week it's been increasingly retracted and yesterday was retracted entirely and looked like tissue had receded substantially on the head. Finally is a 7 head trumpet that was super happy, super inflated, and extended its tentacles every time I fed the tank. I went on vacation a few weeks ago and even though I was monitoring the tank, the trumpet shrunk up. I noticed a ton of pineapple sponges growing on, so I pulled all of those off thinking they might be irritating it. It started to look a little better after that, but has been really retracted again this week.
Parameters are <5 nitrate, 0/0 ammonia/nitrite, 8-9 alk, sg 1.025, temp 79-80. I did up the intensity of my lights by about 5% last weekend as I've had the intensity really low (25/25/30 max for a 1.5hr period during the day, and less than that the rest of the day) and thought it was time to start ramping it up. I was also thinking that maybe my corals were needing some more light after adjusting to the LEDs for a few months. I don't think I changed the intensity so substantially that it would have such a big impact on these three corals. I also did add black sand last weekend too, though, which probably made the change in intensity a wash since there was no longer reflection off the bottom glass. I have not tested calc, mag, etc. - would these impact tissue recession if they were off, or just skeletal growth? I'm out of ideas and need some help. Oh, I should also add that I did put the pearl bubble back in its original place last night and moved the flow back to its earlier pattern in case my corals were unhappy due to the change.
