Whats up with Frogspawn
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Guss
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They look to me like the start of small feather dusters, and coraline algae. However there is no movement and have been there since I got it. It does have some new shoots coming out of the stalk closer to the fleshy parts. But in the last few days the fleshy part has started receeding up the stalk toward the heads. Salinity is 1.024. It is a third of the way down the tank (10 inches from surface). Should I try target feeding it?
Guss
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Three weeks they are in a low flow area of the tank, receive good light the tank they came from had halides, I run T5's. But they didnt seem to mind the change in lighting and had no issues until mid this week. Nothing in the tank has bother them, havent seen the snails or hermits climbing on the either.
Guss
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chrisfont23
Reef Monster
Guss...my Euphylia close up when they are growing or about to split. Maybe this is a good sign. My torch for instance, was closed to moderately open....nothing like normal though....two weeks ago for about 2 days. Then wham - I saw another mouth.
SushiGirl
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Without full information and being there with your tank every day, all anyone can do is ask questions to try to figure it out. You didn't provide any water parameters except salinity, so questions are going to be what you get until you provide all the info necessary to try to figure it out.
Guss
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All Parameters are in the sig and are current the only one missing was the salinity was hoping for an opinion of what was happening, and don't mind answering question as long as something comes out of it. So any idea of what may be going on? I have found much of your info very useful SushiGirl.
I know someone will give me slack, but move them to another place that gets more flow, when they were in my tank I know there were getting most of the flow from the closed loop. So it might be a chance the lack of flow(maybe) may be the issue.
Guss
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I will watch for a split that would be awesome.
Ok I will give them a better flow area and see what happens. Did you ever target feed these guys?
No never I have tried but fish were to greedy, so I never bothered.
chrisfont23
Reef Monster
Personally, I think having no NO3 in an LPS tank is too clean, esp if you don't target feed.
SushiGirl
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Mine gets just enough flow to make it wave a little, and it eats mysis every day greedily. Nitrates are usually 5 in that tank (was up to 10 after cycling). I still have questions, though LOL. Do you update your signature line every time you test your parameters and when was the last time you tested? Also did you do a water change before this happened, how long have you had the frag, and have you noticed the damsel messing/playing with it?
Maybe the trates are what's wrong, mine used to test 20 ppm , since I started vinager dosing mine are holding steady at 10 ppm.
Guss
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Yes, I update everytime I test. I tested Friday morning thinking something was wrong causing its issues. I did not do a water change recently the next change is scheduled for this Sunday. I have had him for about three weeks. Everthing was great until a few days ago. An no I have not seen anybody messing with him even the hermits have left him alone. The tank has been done cycling since the begin of October. Perhaps its to clean?
Guss
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So having some trates is ok? And if so How do I go about rasing them with vinager?
ReeferKimberly
Marley & Me
Adding small amounts of sugar, vinegar or vodka adds carbon to the tank which feeds bacteria that feeds on the nitrate and phosphate so it lowers them rather than raises, and yep you will need some of them (nitrate, phosphate) to feed corals anyhow. With your params you don't need to carbon dose however. Just search carbon dosing tons of info if you want to know more though. Gotta have a skimmer and I don't, so I don't do it myself.
Guss
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So I think I am going to try target feeding it today. And should I shut down the skimmer to "dirty up the tank a little"?
Which test kits are you using to test your water? I would look into flow, alk swing, or not enough nitrates. I have niticed this before and find my frogspawn to be a little more inflated. I have a wall frogspawn on the sandbed in 300 par and I would say mod high flow and does good.
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