2wheelsonly
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Well, two more beautifully encrusted frags are showing the dreaded white spot of death on the encrusting which means they WILL be dead within 2 weeks. I ripped one off the rocks and dipped it in bayer and coralRX; no signs of flatworms. Of course the shock killed it within 2 hours but I figured it was dead anyway.
I am at wits end, I am about to start doing some MAJOR drastic changes knowing full well I am going to wipe out $1000's of dollars of corals intentionally JUST so I can figure out this fking problem. It makes me literally insane not knowing what a problem is when it goes bad.
I thought maybe nutrients are too low but my rocks have LOTS of green algae on them that I have to blow off daily (20 min process alone). My back glass gets covered in algae in one day so it's not nutrients.
I have no way to tell if it's lights, don't know if I have too much or too little because the coral death is so random.
Looking at my tank it seems all colors are just so faded and bland. I have been feeding and feeding and feeding some more. I am over $150/month in coral food alone. Every single day some random coral starts the death process and I don't care what ANYONE says, once SPS show signs of tissue loss or loss of PE they are done.
FOWLR tank here I come.
Time to turn into a mad scientists and see if I can make drastic changes to my corals and document the effects.
Edit: Experiment #1:
Shutting off my lights for 48 hours to see what my SPS look like after.
I am at wits end, I am about to start doing some MAJOR drastic changes knowing full well I am going to wipe out $1000's of dollars of corals intentionally JUST so I can figure out this fking problem. It makes me literally insane not knowing what a problem is when it goes bad.
I thought maybe nutrients are too low but my rocks have LOTS of green algae on them that I have to blow off daily (20 min process alone). My back glass gets covered in algae in one day so it's not nutrients.
I have no way to tell if it's lights, don't know if I have too much or too little because the coral death is so random.
Looking at my tank it seems all colors are just so faded and bland. I have been feeding and feeding and feeding some more. I am over $150/month in coral food alone. Every single day some random coral starts the death process and I don't care what ANYONE says, once SPS show signs of tissue loss or loss of PE they are done.
FOWLR tank here I come.
Time to turn into a mad scientists and see if I can make drastic changes to my corals and document the effects.
Edit: Experiment #1:
Shutting off my lights for 48 hours to see what my SPS look like after.
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