kevantheman35
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Dang sorry to hear. Your tank is one of my favorite cubes
60 Gallon Cube Build
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Thanks guys. I don't know. I have an independent system in the basement but it is not very mature yet. Most of the colonies with issues I think are too stressed to survive in either tank.
Water changes seem to help. But all of a sudden. another one will have burned tips. Some other ones are starting new growth so who knows.
I am guessing some bug I can not see that was dormant for at least 3 months and woke up one day and started eating my acros. My other guess is maybe they just don't like the LED's any more... But that's probably BS because the color is fine, it is just dying.
If I lose all my sps I may redo my rock work and start over. I never liked the aquascaping anyway. Or maybe go all anemones. My RBTA's in my other system keep splitting...
Water changes seem to help. But all of a sudden. another one will have burned tips. Some other ones are starting new growth so who knows.
I am guessing some bug I can not see that was dormant for at least 3 months and woke up one day and started eating my acros. My other guess is maybe they just don't like the LED's any more... But that's probably BS because the color is fine, it is just dying.
If I lose all my sps I may redo my rock work and start over. I never liked the aquascaping anyway. Or maybe go all anemones. My RBTA's in my other system keep splitting...
well my frag system is maturing nicely and alk intake is increasing. Whenever I move colonies that are half dead they seem to continue dying. I think they might already be too stressed. If my frag system continues to improve I am debating a restart on the DT... but if I never found the issue, I don't know how much success I will have...
Vadafallon
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How do you keep the cube looking so clean and crisp with no algae? It just looks so pristine. Do you run a UV light?
sahin
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This is more or less the issue I was having...I suspected my issue was due to someone spraying air freshener near my tank. However, the RTN issues did not start immediately. They took a while...one coral after another...
I sent all my corals to a couple of buddies tanks. Some of the more stressed out stuff died in their tanks. I got some of my nice pieces back...but lost many others.
I chucked all the rocks away. I usually dry out rocks and keep for future use...but with these rocks I just had a bad feeling.
I completely clean my whole system in vinegar and restarted with new rocks and sand and all is well again.
I feel for you man. Sorry about all the coral loss.
sahin
Ultimate Reefer
Thats exactly how mine were...seemed liked some of the acros gave up...even after being put in a couple of buddies systems most of the Acros that looked like they had given up died many weeks later.
The only that lived and I still have today, are mostly the Aquacultured ones; stuff I grew from tiny frags into colonies...these I still have.
Anyway, hope your system recovers. Happy New Year to you.
well, I finished the new aquascaping and gravel cleaning. Two pieces of the branch rock were frozen in place, Some brute force was making some noise I did not like. I think it was fused to the egg crate under the sand and lots of the sand solidified. This dictated what I could and could not do with the aquascaping.
905 of the rock in buckets and I broke out my canister vacuum and went to town on the sand. Not too bad. I always had good flow so there were only a few pockets of detritus. Put all but 2 pieces back in the DT and broke up some to put in the sump. Freed up a lot of space in the DT. The fish seem to like it. I will take and post a video in a few days...
One remaining sps colony still looks happy. 90% of my palys are gone. Gonna need a majano wand to get the rest...
Put one of my BTA's in the tank. I had 3 of them in my frag system. Figure I would let him find a home for a week before I put any test frags back in there...
905 of the rock in buckets and I broke out my canister vacuum and went to town on the sand. Not too bad. I always had good flow so there were only a few pockets of detritus. Put all but 2 pieces back in the DT and broke up some to put in the sump. Freed up a lot of space in the DT. The fish seem to like it. I will take and post a video in a few days...
One remaining sps colony still looks happy. 90% of my palys are gone. Gonna need a majano wand to get the rest...
Put one of my BTA's in the tank. I had 3 of them in my frag system. Figure I would let him find a home for a week before I put any test frags back in there...
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