Hi All!
Fairly new to the hobby and have just about a month old salt water set up going. Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated! Here's a little background and details.
90 g Marineland Tank
about 70 lbs of live rock
40 lbs of live sand* roundabout
Aqueon Sump model 4
Vertex Alpha Royal 200 Protein Skimmer
Acan A102AC LED Lighting
Vortech mp40 (2)
* Calcium reactor not setup yet.
Also waiting on our Neptune Systems Apex.
Water Per.
SG 1.024
Mag. 1230
Ammonia 0ppm
Nitrite 0ppm
Nitrate 0ppm
PH 8.1-8.2
Calcium 420 ppm
KH 143 ppm
Phos <.24 ppm
Temp 78.9
2 different palys
1 pink octo frogspawn
devils hand toadstool
yellow hornets
red hornets
green and pink zoa plugs
4 turbo snails
10 smaller snails
tons-o-crabs
2 shrimp
So basically we just added a few frags recently about a week or so ago and i had placed them in the sand bed to acclimate to our lights. Everything looked great and happy. A few days later i decided to move somethings around and this is when I saw my Magicians(palythoas) and some hot pink palythoas looking quite different. The magicians are folding their skirts in and not as plump as they once were. The hot pink palys had been opening on and off before the move except one had looked constricted towards the opening and the skirt was squirting out of the top? (pics to follow.) i tried to brush off some of the diatoms with a toothbrush very gently and moved them to try another spot. Still no change with the magicians and it has been a few days, i tried to dip them in coral Rx. Hot pink have not opened up yet, i'm assuming they are still ticked off from me brushing them but the one that HAS decided to try and push out is the odd ball i described above. There are no signs of nudibranchs as far as i know. Just wondering if this is a common thing or if there are suggestions on what i can do for either of these lil guys?
Here is the link to the pics..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62425577@N03/
sorry so txt and picture heavy, don't want to lose my palys so any help would be great! thank you!
Corey
Fairly new to the hobby and have just about a month old salt water set up going. Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated! Here's a little background and details.
90 g Marineland Tank
about 70 lbs of live rock
40 lbs of live sand* roundabout
Aqueon Sump model 4
Vertex Alpha Royal 200 Protein Skimmer
Acan A102AC LED Lighting
Vortech mp40 (2)
* Calcium reactor not setup yet.
Also waiting on our Neptune Systems Apex.
Water Per.
SG 1.024
Mag. 1230
Ammonia 0ppm
Nitrite 0ppm
Nitrate 0ppm
PH 8.1-8.2
Calcium 420 ppm
KH 143 ppm
Phos <.24 ppm
Temp 78.9
2 different palys
1 pink octo frogspawn
devils hand toadstool
yellow hornets
red hornets
green and pink zoa plugs
4 turbo snails
10 smaller snails
tons-o-crabs
2 shrimp
So basically we just added a few frags recently about a week or so ago and i had placed them in the sand bed to acclimate to our lights. Everything looked great and happy. A few days later i decided to move somethings around and this is when I saw my Magicians(palythoas) and some hot pink palythoas looking quite different. The magicians are folding their skirts in and not as plump as they once were. The hot pink palys had been opening on and off before the move except one had looked constricted towards the opening and the skirt was squirting out of the top? (pics to follow.) i tried to brush off some of the diatoms with a toothbrush very gently and moved them to try another spot. Still no change with the magicians and it has been a few days, i tried to dip them in coral Rx. Hot pink have not opened up yet, i'm assuming they are still ticked off from me brushing them but the one that HAS decided to try and push out is the odd ball i described above. There are no signs of nudibranchs as far as i know. Just wondering if this is a common thing or if there are suggestions on what i can do for either of these lil guys?
Here is the link to the pics..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62425577@N03/
sorry so txt and picture heavy, don't want to lose my palys so any help would be great! thank you!
Corey
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