when coral dies.....

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azhunter

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when coral dies does it release bad stuff into the water like a dead fish does? as mentioned in a previous post, the transplanted colt coral didnt survive and im wondering if it'll mess up my water.
also, i have a horrible brown algea covering my sand that gets worse by the day...i've stirred the sand around and it just comes back, i have a nassarious snail in hte sand...but i havent seen it in about a month even when i feed the one fish (clown) i have in there. how do i get rid of that brown stuff on my sand (and glass)?? it seems to get worse right after a water change..
thanks,
mike
 
Fleshy corals (softies, polyps, leathers) do release quite a bit of organic matter into the water column if they die and are left to decompose.

SPS corals don't really.

two months sounds like traditional new tank syndrone. the brown stuff are diatoms/dinoflaggelates (simple one celled algaes).

nothing a good skimmer wouldn't cure.

Also, I'm concerned as to why a colt coral wouldn't survive. Those things will survive anything. Do you have sufficient lighting and water turnover (flow)?
 
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Thank you.
 
ok, first....my tank is a bio cube...unfortunately, no skimmer...
but this brown stuff is frustrating!!

second, the colt coral was a transplant from a freinds tank, he had a VERY large colt that was taking up a lot of his tank so he cut off two big branches and we zip tied them to rocks, they did well for a few days then the zip tie cut through the colt and they were under a lot of stress at that point. i HOPE i have adaquate lighting and current, the zoos and cauliflower coral (i think) that i put in at the same time are doing great!

I'm still extremely new to this hobby so all i have to go on is what people tell me and as a lot of you know, if you ask ten people what to do, you seem to get 10 different answers!

i'm running my tank basically "stock" i didnt modify it at all. i have the basic filter that came with it (that gets full and clogged about every 3 days) the bio balls and....well thats about it!
some people say take out the bio balls and make a refugium, some say take out the bio balls and put in a protein skimmer...some dont like the little protein skimmer...
then i have the people who give me advice but only use acronyms so i dont know what they are saying: "change your BTK with a new NTCC thatll make more GLP's and it'll fix your MMRX, only at 1000 STNS"!!!!!!
UH!?
 
my nitrate and amonia are fine, but thats all the test kits i have right now, i've been taking water samples to the LFS and they say everything is fine...honestly i hope that eventually something wont be right so i can learn how to correct different problems. as it stands now, i wouldnt know how to fix a problem if i did have one. i really enjoy this hobby and i'm really eager to learn but MAN there is a lot to this!!!
 
i only have one fish, and i give him two crushed pellets twice a day (its a nano clown!).

ah...lights, thats another issue all together, since i have NO idea what lights are supposed to be on when, what i do is turn on the "blueish" light in the morning for an hour then turn it off and turn on the daylight all day while i'm working, then i get home in the evening and turn the blue light back on for an hour before i turn them both off for the night. i figure this is as close to natural as possible but again, i have no idea what im doing.
thanks for taking the time to help!
 
Start out with the blue for an hour have the white come on for 8 hours and then shut the white off and leave the blue running 1 more hour. 10 hours blue-8 hours blue and white
 
THANK YOU ok, that helps out a lot! thats about the amount of time that i've been keeping them on, but i wasnt doing the blue and white at the same time.

as for the live rock rubble instead of bio balls, should i put in that green hairy stuff that is in refugiums also, or just the LR? i've noticed that at ATR they have a few nano tanks with no filter, no live rock, no bio balls....

i really just want to have a nice looking healthy tank with a variety of corals and fish.
 
The green hairy stuff or (cheato) should help if you can give it light. I have never owned a bio cube so I am unsure if the light gets to the filter area.
 
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