Might seem like a strange question- but did/how did you acclimate it? How different is the lighting & the water parameters between the two tanks?
I just got 4 monti caps and 2 other corals & I drip lined them & put them about 8" from the surface on a 4x54w T5 fixture about 4" off the water. They came from a tank with a 8 bulb T5 fixture.
All of them but one seem to be fine. The one started loosing color so I moved it down.
They came from a 8" deep frag tank, where they were about 4" below the surface on a rack. Above them were T5's as well.
Can you tell us what your parameters are? Phosphate, nitrate, PH, KH,calcium, temperature.
What size tank is that, are you running skimmerless? Do you run carbon in the filter?
Waffleman
looking at the picture again, there seems to be a lack of coralline algae. How long has this tank been running?
Waffleman
Params:
0
lol...no really, they are all 0. I do big water changes every week, and have nothing but atrea's and nassarius snails and sessile inverts. Its really just a glorified frag tank on my desk.
s.g: 1.026
pH: 8.0-8.1
temp: 78-81 (daily is about 1 degree swing, but the weekends the heat is turned down so it settles down to around 78 for the weekend...the above range is over 4 days including a weekend)
0 TDS make up water, 0 TDS top off water
Cal and alk are both dosed daily @ 10 ml/day. Between the big water changes and the daily additions cal/alk/mag are all kept up quite well. The tank is 15 gallons (24*12*12).
Coraline looks non existent because i scrape it off the glass. The left rock is about a month old, but the right rock is about 18 months old and covered in a few kinds of coraline. All growing pretty quick.
No skimmer, i run GFO and carbon in the hang on filter. That is changed out every month, but ive been leaving the GFO for every 2 months because its not getting exhausted in the 1 month time span.
Im willing to bet i was just cooking it...i was doubting the 4 T5's output, but evidently i was wrong.
I came in this morning and the pavona maldensis (in FTS, bottom left orange coral) is missing a 1/8" circle section of tissue.....damn it. I love that stuff and finally found some! I am turning the lights off for a few days in hopes that it is/was light shocked as well and that this will stop the stn. I cant really frag it because its so small and also because of the location of the tissue necrosis.
