Solitaryensis
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No sps at all
No Growth in 1.5 Years - What Gives?
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No sps at all
I have a similar situation, only with "some" of my corals, and oddly enough, it's the "easy" ones. I have great results with everything I've put in the tank, but can't get my GSP or mushrooms to grow to save my life (mushrooms are EXACTLY the same size as they were 2 years ago). Zoas are great. Polyps are great. Euphalia is great (a few different types). Even have a brain coral growing. Have some sort of unidentiified anemone that I got with the tank 2 years ago that I cant get to stop growing. But can't get the "weeds" to do anything. And I'm weird in that I "like" GSP... Guess that's why it won't grow for me.
Ironically, as we're all armchair quarterbacks here, I'd go with he's more likely to stunt growth and/or harm/bleach his corals by getting some massively bright lights like a Hydra on the tank. The T5s might help since they're more distributed, though I have a number of corals that like the shadows of my tank and being out of direct light.
If you can't get mushrooms to grow, you can feed them. They're just little anemones. If you give them meaty food directly, they'll spawn and split and make a mess of your tank in no time at all!
NanoReefWanabe
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Water changes will never bring your readings to a fresh batch levels... nor will they ever bring your tank back to standard levels... typically a tank would have calcium 440 alk at 9... after a will those values would drop to 400 and 7.5ish (hypothetically) doing a water change is not going to reset those numbers to the starting point unless you change it 100% of the water... there is a dilution factor... your 30% water change may only bring your calcium back up to 420 and the alk to 8... another week goes by your values drop yet again... this time calcium goes to 370 (corals are bigger consuming more etc) and alk drops to 7.... and dio on and so on... so first to be getting those crazy good numbers from IO and not dose I don't see how it is possible... where I used IO I had to 3 part dose to get to reef levels and then maintain daily with kalk to keep up with basic lps and sps but primarily softy dominated tank
Skyjacker07
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It's hard to see them not growing, it has to be something you're doing; I run a jbj 28g with stock lighting, a hob-1 skimmer; I dose nothing and do weekly 5g water changes using instant ocean reef crystals. I haven't tested parameters in quite some time. Since getting my coral everything has tripled in size over a period of 9 months.
Skyjacker07
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When I first put the coral in.
Here's about a week ago.
Here's about a week ago.
I just wanted to say, your tank looks great, and has shown great growth in 9 months. An excellent exemplar tank for keeping things relatively simple; regular water changes, skimmer, stock lights, moderate flow. Thanks for sharing!
What are you feeding, and do you direct feed the corals?
Skyjacker07
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I just recently started feeding the coral, when I added the bta a couple of weeks ago, before it got everything from water changes and feeding the fish e/o day. Now I feed reef roids mixed with oyster feast every 3 days. I have noticed a huge difference I. Doing so; my acans are fatter and started to get larger, and my zoas continue to multiply.
