Why can't I keep stony corals?

[Serioussnaps]

Oh Sera salt, never heard of a successful reef keeper using this salt or never even heard of this salt
go TM or IOor RC

 

[cwegescheide]

I also think your lighting is somewhat suspect... 450 liters is a pretty big tank to have 150W lighting don't you think? I'm thinking 400W is what you'd want over that baby. That Turbofloater skimmer does not hold a candle to a Euro Reef. I had that Turbofloater and then got an ASM... HUGE difference in the amount of skimmate it pulled out over the ASM or the Euro Reef I have. I'm trying to sell my Turbofloater now...

ALSO.... MAKE SURE that your salinity is correct. For the longest time I couldn't keep acro's either successfully and I found out my refractometer was WAY OFF. Instead of thinking my salinity was 1.026 it was 1.017.

Just my .02

 

[Wiskey]

From what I have read I am thinking lack of light. The corals went brown, but had huge PE possible trying to get more light, plus you had the acros mid-bottom?

I don't know on the monti, it should have been fine but the acros sound like they could have been shadowed out.

If the tank is more than 18 inches deep I doubt the MH was even really reaching. If the tank is 24 inches deep 250W MH would be the tiket, if it is 24 inches + deep then look into 400.

But before you get any lighting upgrades try the acros right under the bulb, that may help, and make sure you get frags from other peoples tanks, not wild cought colonies. Frags are easyer to keep.

What are the dimentions (in inches) of your tank?

HTH,
Whiskey

 

[nemofish2217]

Re: Why can't I keep stony corals?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6983096#post6983096 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by weblance


All my leathers are doing great. I even have a Dendronephtya that is thriving very well and growing.

i think there is a lot of your answer right there.... are you running carbon? i know that when i had softies, they murdered my sps.....