Fir what ever reason I just can't seem to keep montiporas in my tank. I can grow acros just fine and I don't see any pest of any sort in my tank. I even went half a year with no montis and they still tend to die off after a week or so. They're in medium to low light. When I placed some in high they just bleach out. My parameters are Alk-9 Calc 400-420 Mag-1380-1450. Any suggestions??
Need help with Montiporas
- Thread starter Ben.91
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Most people have the opposite problem, they do good with montis but not acros.
Besides nudis, only two things have affected montis in my system. First is too low nutients, and second is alk swings.
I just commented in someone else's thread that I just got rid of almost all my montis because uncontrolled growth was eating up alk, cal, and space.
I do believe that montis did better in my tank when I kept higher kelvin [more blue] lighting, gentle current, some nutrients, and stable alk.
Besides nudis, only two things have affected montis in my system. First is too low nutients, and second is alk swings.
I just commented in someone else's thread that I just got rid of almost all my montis because uncontrolled growth was eating up alk, cal, and space.
I do believe that montis did better in my tank when I kept higher kelvin [more blue] lighting, gentle current, some nutrients, and stable alk.
CynicalReefer
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I had the same issue about a year ago. I found that black bugs were eating my montipora. The montipora would look good for a week and then they would show signs of stress, and then deteriorate from there. I did a interceptor regimen to get rid of them. On the freshly dead skeleton, look for black moving specs. They are about the size of a red bug.
organism
code monkey
That would be my guess. The chances of having monti-eating bugs that didn't affect anything after having no montis in the tank for that long is right around 0%.
