reef tank 2.0
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the past couple weeks, my corals have been doing well. Up until yesterday or the day before.
They are all starting to slowly close up and not look so healthy.
My starburst polyp isnt open like a flower anymore. They were starting new stars and those are now gone. They look rather limp. He is located at the bottom of the tank.
My Zoa is not fully open now. Till yesterday, they were wide open and looked pretty darn close to a disk. Open, taking everything in....nice pink rings. Now, not so much. They are curling at the ends and looking fat and plump. Not healthy. These guys are located in the middle of the tank. I recently glued them to my rock structure cause they were doing so well. figured they were happy and found their home.
My orange colored coral is open but agin, not completely. They stopped producing new heads. We were up to 9 in a week or close to two from the original 7 heads it had. THose stopped growing too. located close to the bottom
My leather coral is still nice and open, but the colors are not much to look at. It was a greenish color, now its greenish white. it's close to the bottom
None of the corals have been moved or messed with. I havent done anything different.
Carbon runs 24/7
Lately I have been smelling the ocean throughout the house. The skimmer cup hasn't been filling up but it has had stuff inside it. I have been emptying that every day or two, just to keep it clean. It didn't smell nasty, but I did smell the tank. Primarily the sump.
The ph is around 8.1, but that was the level about 2-3 weeks ago.
the alkalinity was around 8.5 last night
I was doing 50g water changes every couple days but have resorted to one of those per week.
(reminder: this tank has been running with fish since December 20th 2015. Just finished the diatom breakout. Very minimal of that left.)
no chemical filtrants are being used either.
I have an acan (spelling?) that I just picked up from a LFS, and I"m afraid to place it in the tank now. It's either gonna die in the container or in the tank, right?
Parameters:
nitrate: 20
nitrite: 0
ammonia: 0
temps: 78
salinity: 1.025
any ideas whats happening?
Here is a photo of them
http://s804.photobucket.com/user/crankbait09/slideshow/fish tank/Coral
They are all starting to slowly close up and not look so healthy.
My starburst polyp isnt open like a flower anymore. They were starting new stars and those are now gone. They look rather limp. He is located at the bottom of the tank.
My Zoa is not fully open now. Till yesterday, they were wide open and looked pretty darn close to a disk. Open, taking everything in....nice pink rings. Now, not so much. They are curling at the ends and looking fat and plump. Not healthy. These guys are located in the middle of the tank. I recently glued them to my rock structure cause they were doing so well. figured they were happy and found their home.
My orange colored coral is open but agin, not completely. They stopped producing new heads. We were up to 9 in a week or close to two from the original 7 heads it had. THose stopped growing too. located close to the bottom
My leather coral is still nice and open, but the colors are not much to look at. It was a greenish color, now its greenish white. it's close to the bottom
None of the corals have been moved or messed with. I havent done anything different.
Carbon runs 24/7
Lately I have been smelling the ocean throughout the house. The skimmer cup hasn't been filling up but it has had stuff inside it. I have been emptying that every day or two, just to keep it clean. It didn't smell nasty, but I did smell the tank. Primarily the sump.
The ph is around 8.1, but that was the level about 2-3 weeks ago.
the alkalinity was around 8.5 last night
I was doing 50g water changes every couple days but have resorted to one of those per week.
(reminder: this tank has been running with fish since December 20th 2015. Just finished the diatom breakout. Very minimal of that left.)
no chemical filtrants are being used either.
I have an acan (spelling?) that I just picked up from a LFS, and I"m afraid to place it in the tank now. It's either gonna die in the container or in the tank, right?
Parameters:
nitrate: 20
nitrite: 0
ammonia: 0
temps: 78
salinity: 1.025
any ideas whats happening?
Here is a photo of them
http://s804.photobucket.com/user/crankbait09/slideshow/fish tank/Coral
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