merkurmaniac
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SO I moved all of my stuff over to the solartube lit 34 gallon hex. Seemed like everything was going pretty well until one evening, I noticed that a tip of a branch of a small birdsnest coral frag (1.5" across) was white. I thought that it was growing from that tip. The next morning, and half of it is now bleached white. I moved it down to the bottom of the tank, and when I got home from work, the whole thing was bleached and dead. Like maybe 30hours for its demise.
Last night at 4am, I woke up wondering if it could have been some of the nudis that I had been reading about. I put the frag in a plastic cup and noticed some really, really small black things on it when I took the frag out. When I added water to the cup, they floated off it and began crawling around. They are still in the cup and I plan to look at them with my kid's magnefying USB microscope. I think that they have visible legs. I don't get the idea that they are nudis. Perhaps some opportunistic pods ?
So, with that fast a death, I am thinking that it was most likely the change of light with little or no acclimation from metal halide to suntube. I kind of bet that nudi's wouldn't work that fast...but I have no experience with them. Guesses ?
Last night at 4am, I woke up wondering if it could have been some of the nudis that I had been reading about. I put the frag in a plastic cup and noticed some really, really small black things on it when I took the frag out. When I added water to the cup, they floated off it and began crawling around. They are still in the cup and I plan to look at them with my kid's magnefying USB microscope. I think that they have visible legs. I don't get the idea that they are nudis. Perhaps some opportunistic pods ?
So, with that fast a death, I am thinking that it was most likely the change of light with little or no acclimation from metal halide to suntube. I kind of bet that nudi's wouldn't work that fast...but I have no experience with them. Guesses ?
