Minced meaty foods?
Does finely ground shrimp, mysis shrimp, and formula one cubes qualify? If so, it's not attrition.
No other identifiable stress or changes in water quality.
This seems to be an ongoing pattern of nonsurvival about which I have been complaining for months. There's something wrong with my system, although I had thought I had set it up pretty good.
Here are the specifications (again):
Tank Specifications
- 200 gallon display (73ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚ÂL x 24ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚ÂW x 27ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚ÂH)
- Approximately 180 lbs live rock added on 6/25/03 (plus base rock in the main tank and another 40lbs of rock in the sump and refugium)
- 3 ReefOptix III Metal Halide Pendants ââ"šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“ 250W each with 10,000 K bulb
- 2 VHO Actinic bulbs hung 3ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚ from water
-Circulation loop through sump ââ"šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“ Iwaki 100 RLT ââ"šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“ alternate flow between pipes with 3-way motorized valve on each side of center overflow box
- Closed loop with GRI 520 alternate flow between pipes with 3-way motorized valve on each side of tank
- 45 gallon sump
- CS-12-1 Euroreef skimmer
- 40 gallon refugium
- Temp 79.2 ââ"šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“ 80
- PH 8.05 ââ"šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“ 8.2
- Salinity is approx. 1.025
- Calcium approximately 400 (Korallin C-4002 calcium reactor and drip kalkwasser)
- Dkh 9 - 11
- DI/RO water
-No ammonia
- Nitrites - Approx .1 ppm or less
- Nitrates ââ"šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“ Approx. 3 ââ"šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“5 ppm or less
Livestock
9 Fish
Corals still alive: a bubble, ricordeas, encrusting gorgonian, torch corals (doing poorly), lots of halimeda, maroon mushrooms, zoos (only some have survived), green/brown pulsing xenia, lemnalia, daisy polyps, tree coral and colt coral, yellow polyps (almost gone).
Other invertebrate still alive: two rose anemones, two cleaner shrimp, fan worm and a clam, two yellow cucumbers, various snails.
Corals that have been lost: three different open brains, two elegance corals, two stylophora, Ã"šÃ‚½ dozen SPS frags, blastomussa, pom pom xenia, pachysera, hammer coral, pagoda coral, plate coral, orange montipora capricornis.
Other casualties: two clams, two fan worms, bristle star, tiger tail cucumbers, fighting conch.
Miscellaneous
Coralline algae grows well
Halimeda grows well
5ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚ DSB in main tank ââ"šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“ oolitic sand
6ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚ DSB in refugium ââ"šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“ oolitic sand
Caulerpa in refugium and Chaetomorpha in overflow box
