Finally found the culprit

devonjevon

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Ok my corals were doing great
they were growing fast.
they were coloring up and looking stong till 3 weeks ago.
they started looking sickly colorless and very poor polyp extension.
I couldnt figure out what was going on.
I started feeding less ut thats hard to do when you feed very little anyway.
I did bigger water changes 20% instead of 10%
nothing helped and i didnt see any predators.
I even started to get cyano. I always had a little but not this much
well yeturday at about 9pm i looked in my sump and decided that i hadnt shaken my cheato in a while it was looking grayish.
It is about the size of a big FOOTBALL well even bigger and it grows like crazy big chunks of it i cut every 2 weeks.

anyway i shook the cheato and it litterally decintegraded in my hands. It had died the entire freakin clump. and it was decaying.
For the life of me i cant think of a reason why it did that.
well I took it out.(as much as i can) and already this morning I have alot less cyano. I mean alot less.

I think im done with cheato. I know its benefts are in debate by some reefers.

hey I gotta question. my sump is lit buy a shop light with a grow bulb on a reverse cycle. I know this helps reduce ph drop at night. but do I still need a grow bulb spotlight. or can any kind of light source serve this purpose?
 
I'm using a regular 60 watt light buld and my cheato is still growing, in fact I had to cut out about half of it just last week, so I get good results without a grow bulb.

Norman
 
dying chaeto

dying chaeto

I have had the same problem with chaeto dying off in my tank?? I haven't been feeding my tank as much nori recently but even with the nori feedings the chaeto still seems to be dying off??
 
I buy one of those clamp on shop lights with those twisted flourescent light bulbs, I think 57000k to 65k if I remember right. Give it lots of flow and it'll do just fine.
 
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