Monticap STN

[Reef_junkie91]

Hello all first post in these forums! And my first piece of sps! Iv had it now close to a month the colors look better then when I got it but I think I burned it with superglue... Is that possible even though I only glued the bottom? Did not spill any glue on the top, no nudis and I acclimated it to my lights by raising it up higher over the course of a week.

Photon 24 LED light
Phosphates 0 Hanna ULR
Nitrates 5-10 sailfert
Alkalinity 8.5 DKH Hanna checker
Calcium 430 sailfert
Magnesium 1360 sailfert
Salinity 1.025 refractometer
Temp is steady at 79

Any help would be great! Thanks!

 

[Bogue Chitto]

I don't think the glue would hurt it unless you had a wrong kind or something. I actually spilt a little on top of a leather and it didn't hurt it.

 

[Zacktosterone]

I would dip the whole thing in Bayer first. And if it's still not not working, then Frag it

 

[eddiereefs]

Ive burned an ora hawkings with super glue but that is a very touchy coral

 

[markalot]

> Phosphates 0 Hanna ULR

If this is true then most things will die. Newer tank? Are you using GFO? You need some PO4, 0 is bad. Double check the test.

 

[Reef_junkie91]

> Phosphates 0 Hanna ULR

If this is true then most things will die. Newer tank? Are you using GFO? You need some PO4, 0 is bad. Double check the test.

Tank is 8 months old I was using gfo but only 8 tbspns for a 50g tank. I had a little cyano but once that cleared I removed the gfo. From what I hear 0 on the meter doesn't mean anything, because there are still bound phosphates? Or am I wrong?

 

[Reef_junkie91]

I did a new phosphorous test today after a couple days of having the GFO offline and it reads 8 so that is a little over 0.02 hopefully it stays there and I will see if this was my problem! Thank you for the heads up!

 

[ros_sco]

If you use a big enough portion of superglue the heat it releases as it cures can be enough to damage some sensitive SPS corals.