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- Thread starter DustanT
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Oh sorry. Then yea, that's a problem. Still decaying matter in the tank and the filtration system isn't built up yet. You could even put a sponge in if you still have one around to spike the nitrate from the nitrite, then lower the nitrates over time. Just don't leave the sponge in long term, only as a temporary nitrate boosting site.
So I lost another turbo today, I'm kinda dumbfounded on why some things are thriving and others are not. I would think with my high levels of nitrites with some ammonia I'd not see the corals like the GSP and torch exploding. Still can't narrow down the cause of this 2 week long and going strong spike. I have a guy in my area wondering why himself. He is coming to check my tank and see for himself this Friday, with 15 years of salt tanks I hope he can give me answers. I'm starting to see another diatom bloom as well. Last week my skimmer was pulling some nasty brown skim, i cleaned it with my WC and now it's not skimming anything but clear water and not foaming up like it used to. Thinking maybe a nice HOB skimmer that will work better than this AL 115 but IDK. Maybe add a sump. Last week I noticed a bunch of small feather duster looking guys on the rocks and back plastic, small ring white guys about the size of a pinhead.
So I grabbed a nice size frag this week, (the wife wanted it) It's a GSP but white, I believe it has a few names like white star polyp, neon or pink. My LFS said when you frag it he wanted it because it isn't all that easy to get. When first looking at it I thought it was dying GSP myself.
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We'll see how it does over time. If it is dying GSP, people will be more interested in what managed to kill it 
If there is a parasite/bug that is only killing that, I'd be interested in a frag!
I hope that it's just a cool morph, and doesn't drive you crazy with growth everywhere. About a year ago or so I had to pull my rockwork apart to peel away every last trace of GSP that I could find in my rocks. A year later, it's back, and probably in another 6 months, I'll have to trim it all back again.
If there is a parasite/bug that is only killing that, I'd be interested in a frag!
I hope that it's just a cool morph, and doesn't drive you crazy with growth everywhere. About a year ago or so I had to pull my rockwork apart to peel away every last trace of GSP that I could find in my rocks. A year later, it's back, and probably in another 6 months, I'll have to trim it all back again.
So I ordered the intank fuge basket and using some leds from rapidled controlled by my storm for fuge lights, 2 660 reds and 1 420-430 blue. Also added a hammer frag with 5 heads I got for 25 bucks, color looks good and out after a few hours in the tank. Here is that white polyp next to the GSP, white has way bigger polyps.
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