wetWolger
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So my SPS has been declining over the last two weeks...fast and hard! There have been no new additions for about a month.
My plating acro was the first to die. Another acro is looking really bad. My millipora and last remaining acro are hanging in there, but you can tell they are struggling. My monitpora has lost most of it's polyps!
Surprisingly my birdsnest is the only SPS that seems completely unaffected. My zoas, hammer, acans, all look good.
Everything _was_ growing great and looking good till recently. I have been struggling to figure out what the problem has been. Params look good:
Ammonia & nitrite = 0
Nitrate = 4ppm
Phosphate = 0.05 (might need to change the gfo soonish)
Ca = 440ppm
Mg = 1300ppm
dKH = 8.5
pH = 8.2
Because params were looking good I was wondering if I was starving them. I have recently increased my feeding as a response (from a lack to know what else to do).
Well...Today I found two nudibranches, and am guessing this may be my cause? They are purple with orange gills.
So that poses my questions:
* For those that have had sps eating nudi's how did your SPS show the issue? What did the SPS look like? I always assumed it would look like a dying section, rather than a general health issue.
* I removed two today...what are the chances there are more? How many more? Am I doomed?
* I looked for more on my sps, plugs, anywhere I could find them, but saw nothing I would think is an egg, or other nudi's. One of the two I found was on the glass, the other was on my bare bottom.
Any other recommendations or ideas? It's hard to watch all my SPS die!
My plating acro was the first to die. Another acro is looking really bad. My millipora and last remaining acro are hanging in there, but you can tell they are struggling. My monitpora has lost most of it's polyps!
Surprisingly my birdsnest is the only SPS that seems completely unaffected. My zoas, hammer, acans, all look good.
Everything _was_ growing great and looking good till recently. I have been struggling to figure out what the problem has been. Params look good:
Ammonia & nitrite = 0
Nitrate = 4ppm
Phosphate = 0.05 (might need to change the gfo soonish)
Ca = 440ppm
Mg = 1300ppm
dKH = 8.5
pH = 8.2
Because params were looking good I was wondering if I was starving them. I have recently increased my feeding as a response (from a lack to know what else to do).
Well...Today I found two nudibranches, and am guessing this may be my cause? They are purple with orange gills.
So that poses my questions:
* For those that have had sps eating nudi's how did your SPS show the issue? What did the SPS look like? I always assumed it would look like a dying section, rather than a general health issue.
* I removed two today...what are the chances there are more? How many more? Am I doomed?
* I looked for more on my sps, plugs, anywhere I could find them, but saw nothing I would think is an egg, or other nudi's. One of the two I found was on the glass, the other was on my bare bottom.
Any other recommendations or ideas? It's hard to watch all my SPS die!