I kill plates

[brettinteriors]

I don't get it. SPS good, lps good, elegance good, chalice, monti, zoas, all good. plates dead in a week with low flow.

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[ynnhoj86]

Are you refering plates as in Montipora Capricornis?

 

[brettinteriors]

Are you refering plates as in Montipora Capricornis?

not caps, my caPS grow like weeds. fungias

 

[ynnhoj86]

How are they dying? Also whats your alk at?

Sometimes new corals dont adjust well like others and are more stressed.

 

[Tanque Verde]

How many times has this happened and whered you get the plates? Seems awfully quick for a plate to die in a healthy tank without a preexisting condition. What is your substrate?

 

[brettinteriors]

Alk is 12. A little high but not deadly. Mag calcium all in check. Medium sandy substrate.

 

[Jmnazari]

Sometimes the contact of the fungia and substrate can cause nitrogen fixation points on the coral...Do you have flow or a DSB under the fungia?Also some fungias contain bacteria in their skeleton that have a nifH gene, a gene known for causing nitrogen fixation. Maybe testthe water near the fungia for amm, tirte, and trate.

 

[savageAJC]

At least you can keep everything else alive! Lol

 

[ynnhoj86]

I think it is your alk that is killing it. I dont know many that keep there alk at 12 esp fish stores. Could be that they aren't adusting like your other corals when you put them in so they end up dying. Or you could of gotten bad fungias.

 

[prickles]

check your salt. i switched to reef crystals from IO and it killed all my fungias. Even ones I had alive in my tank for 3 years or so.

 

[aquaph8]

Did your alk go up a bunch with the change?

 

[prickles]

dont know it was a year or two ago

 

[brettinteriors]

found another possibility. I run a small t5 as a moon light. it got stuck on 24/7 for am unknown time. maybe too much light for too long.

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