Mr. Arbuckle
New member
Hello,
Im usually lurking around the forums and don't post much....but I'm having some issues with my tank at the moment. Namely, my Blastomussa coral, which seems to have lost a lot of color on the largest polyp overnight, and has gotten progressively worse over the past couple days, and now spreading to another larger polyp. Pictures are attached.
I just checked the water parameters, and they are as follows:
Specific Gravity = 1.025
pH = 8.4
Ammonia = 0 ppm
Magnesium = 1380ppm
Calcium = 1400ppm
Alkalinity = 11 dKH
Phosphate = 0.25ppm
Nitrate = 10ppm
For lighting I have a 42W LED system (Steve's LED's Biocube 14 upgrade kit), and I'm running white lights at 55% and the blue lights a little higher at 57%
Temperature generally stays between 74 and 79F.
The rest of the setup is a Biocube 14 tank with a MJ900 (Italian made) pump, and I'm running a media basket with filter floss up top, siporax in the middle, and on the bottom I'm running activated carbon, Rowaphos, and purigen.
Livestock includes:
1 skunk cleaner shrimp
2 peppermint shrimp
1 lettuce nudibranch
6 nassarius snails
2 astrea snails
5 head blastomussa coral
many-headed Duncan coral
Acan coral
pulsing xenia coral
green/green-orange Zola colony
a small-ish sun coral
a galaxea coral hitchhiker (just a few polyps)
Ive had this blasto be very healthy for about 8 months, and this seemed to have lost a lot of color quickly; I didn't change anything in the tank.
About two two days after the initial color loss, I added a bunch of new livestock (3 shrimp, two clownfish) and moved the rocks around a bit, and did a 25% water change which seemed to make things worse, with a second large polyp now losing color.
Please help!
Im usually lurking around the forums and don't post much....but I'm having some issues with my tank at the moment. Namely, my Blastomussa coral, which seems to have lost a lot of color on the largest polyp overnight, and has gotten progressively worse over the past couple days, and now spreading to another larger polyp. Pictures are attached.
I just checked the water parameters, and they are as follows:
Specific Gravity = 1.025
pH = 8.4
Ammonia = 0 ppm
Magnesium = 1380ppm
Calcium = 1400ppm
Alkalinity = 11 dKH
Phosphate = 0.25ppm
Nitrate = 10ppm
For lighting I have a 42W LED system (Steve's LED's Biocube 14 upgrade kit), and I'm running white lights at 55% and the blue lights a little higher at 57%
Temperature generally stays between 74 and 79F.
The rest of the setup is a Biocube 14 tank with a MJ900 (Italian made) pump, and I'm running a media basket with filter floss up top, siporax in the middle, and on the bottom I'm running activated carbon, Rowaphos, and purigen.
Livestock includes:
1 skunk cleaner shrimp
2 peppermint shrimp
1 lettuce nudibranch
6 nassarius snails
2 astrea snails
5 head blastomussa coral
many-headed Duncan coral
Acan coral
pulsing xenia coral
green/green-orange Zola colony
a small-ish sun coral
a galaxea coral hitchhiker (just a few polyps)
Ive had this blasto be very healthy for about 8 months, and this seemed to have lost a lot of color quickly; I didn't change anything in the tank.
About two two days after the initial color loss, I added a bunch of new livestock (3 shrimp, two clownfish) and moved the rocks around a bit, and did a 25% water change which seemed to make things worse, with a second large polyp now losing color.
Please help!
