SPS Colonies for sale?

[Surgeonfish1]

I had a kalk overdose last night that resulted in the bleaching of nearly all of my SPS colonies, most were 2-3 years old.

I really do not want to wait another 3 years to have 6-7" across acros, millis and 8-10"+ montipora plates.

Is there a place a person can buy large?

 

[slojmn]

Well a few come to mind, both sponsors on this forum, Dr Mac and Chris at Reefermadness. I am sure there are tons more.

Bummer about your losses . That just plain sucks .

 

[BLKTANG]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8397818#post8397818 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by slojmn
Well a few come to mind, both sponsors on this forum, Dr Mac and Chris at Reefermadness. I am sure there are tons more.

Bummer about your losses . That just plain sucks .

yes i feel your pain "fellow reef dude" :mad2:

 

[poknsnok]

to me, the real reward in this hobby is growing your corals. Providing proper conditions, lighting, suppliments etc to watch 2" or smaller frags become 6" colonies is the real reward. I guess Im a big fan of starting with frags.. Its very satisfying to know you have done something right to allow those little sticks to flourish..

 

[Serioussnaps]

yeah but patience can be a ***** after you already watched your little fraglets grow up and croak from one mistake

 

[poknsnok]

no doubt... but its part of the hobby.. **** happens

 

[xinumaster]

Sorry to hear your lost.
Happened to my tank too. Had a kalk disaster last june that bleached all my corals and all my fish died.

 

[Surgeonfish1]

I only lost a bartlett Anthias (I think). I picked my Powder Blue Tang out with my hand, thought for sure it would not make it through the night - very tough to take. My Hippo tang was not looking too good today but I think it will be OK.

The SPS bleaching was so tough to see. I had done a water change the previous day. I do one a month, approximately 65g so I did not have a fresh change readily available.

I talked to Chris at Reefer Madness he hooked me up with 2 large and 1 medium colony. It really sucks thinking about the cash that it would take to replace all of those large pieces and the thought that I grew them from very small pieces.

 

[auto_loader]

Im curious to know how the overdose happened. maybe we can learn something from your experience.

 

[ezcompany]

i was thinking the same thing. did you just dump it in accidentally? how much to how big a tank?

 

[t0mmy108]

don't feel bad, during my hobby experience, I've gone through probably as many corals as a LFS does in a year. restarted my system and restocked several times due to different accidents and malfunctions. do the frag thing, you won't regret it. At least RM frags from Chris aren't that small. I've ordered the 20 frag pack three times these last two months. :rolleye1:
and I just keep on :rollface: :rollface:

 

[Cody Ray]

IMO its much harder to keep colonies than grow frags simply because colonies have a harder time adapt to new tank conditions. Though I am a very impatient person soo...

 

[Surgeonfish1]

kalk mess

kalk mess

auto_loader Im curious to know how the overdose happened. maybe we can learn something from your experience.

What you can learn is what a dip$hit I am. I would prefer to keep that to myself but here goes................

I use a kalk reactor inline with my autotopoff-ATO. The ATO works 5 times per day dumping a little over a gallon of water each time, 3 times at night twice during the day. The day doses are greater due to only 2 and more evaporation with lights on. The reactor stirs for 10 minutes 50 minutes prior to the ATO checking the water level. My brainstorm was - decrease the interval between stir and dose to increase kalk solution delivered to tank to increase alk level. Well I definitely increased the kalk delivered to the tank, at 5 p.m. there was a snow storm.

auto_loader Im curious to know how the overdose happened. maybe we can learn something from your experience.

I guess I answered the accident part - sort of like a whino playing with a gun, you got to have sympathy to some extent for the loss but you asked for it. The system is about 225 gallons total water volume.


I messed up in a couple of ways recovering as well - first it was worse than I thought. I had done something similar before with no losses, this dump was worse. I had done a water change the day before so I was not so prepared to do changes. I could have, should have done more quicker. I should have also turned out the lights so that everything would have closed up and to help the PH spike.

Either way, I am a dip$hit. I did lose some beautiful coral and Chris is hooking me up for a Friday shipment. Hopefully I learned a lesson although I am still struggling with the alk level balance a little. I was somewhat surprised to see that it was still not high, I obviously need a crash course on alk/calc - balance prior to @$$ing up again. Fortunately myself and others trade frags of our colonies so I did not completely kill the species. I just need to collect back a frag from the group in the area.

 

[kybreos]

are there still polyps coming out of your corals or did they completely die? because if there are still polyps the corals can recover from bleaching

 

[1package]

Some have polyps so I am just watching and hoping at this point.

 

[1package]

Guess I should have mentioned, I had a bleaching episode due to kalk and as mentioned, some of mine came back. I only lost 1 acro, no fish fish or other corals.

Keep an eye on the PH - that was what got way out of whack on me.

 

[Surgeonfish1]

I can not tell about the polyps. I am thinking it is a total loss. I am just wondering if they will continue to go or if now all is OK.

 

[1package]

Have you checked parameters?

 

[Surgeonfish1]

PH is OK - tough to tell on the charts, all of the purples are so close.
Alk is still somehow on the low side 2-2.5, and the calcium is close to 400.

 

[Surgeonfish1]

If I had of been using some type of controller, would a PH monitor have detected the PH increase and been able to turn off a dosing pump?

If so, what controller?