All of my zoanthids have been closed up for about 8 months now. They will start to open a little and I even see some new polyps growing but they just stay closed.
This first started happening last July. Everything was growing fine and my polyp extension was awesome. Not too sure on water param at that time because I didnt check it too often because everything was growing fine. A buddy brought me about 50 heads of zoanthids and a couple of small birdsnest frags. I dipped everything and placed in my tank. Everything did fine for a couple of days and then all of my zoanthids started closing up and staying closed. I also noticed my large birdsnest that I had started to look bad. The polyps started receding and the base was all white. This was all in a 28 nano cube with 24 led kit from rapidled. I did no changes when all of this happened. The only filtering I did was filter floss, chemipure elite and purigen. Tank was a year and half old. Had two premium snowflake clowns and a firefish.
I started looking around on forums to find an answer to why this was happening. The only thing I could find was the my alk was possibly low at 5-6. ammonia, nitrites, nitrates and phosphates were all undetectable with the large hagen test briefcase. I used B-Ionic two part to increase alk and calc. No changes. At this time I was wanting to upgrade and thought this would be a perfect time to almost start over. I got to building my new tank. 40g breeder with a 29g sump.
Long story short. My new tank has been up for three and a half months now and nothing has imporved. Thought my ph was too low at 7.7 to 8.0. It is now in check at 7.9 right before lights come on and 8.3 right before they go off. Same leds over tank but added a few more to it.
The only thing I can come up with now is that my tank is too "clean". Im OCD with my tank and try to get everything perfect. Ive backed off and just started feeding my tank heavily with Aquavitro Fuel and MarineSnow. Any advice would help. All of my other corals are doing great.
Please HELP!
This first started happening last July. Everything was growing fine and my polyp extension was awesome. Not too sure on water param at that time because I didnt check it too often because everything was growing fine. A buddy brought me about 50 heads of zoanthids and a couple of small birdsnest frags. I dipped everything and placed in my tank. Everything did fine for a couple of days and then all of my zoanthids started closing up and staying closed. I also noticed my large birdsnest that I had started to look bad. The polyps started receding and the base was all white. This was all in a 28 nano cube with 24 led kit from rapidled. I did no changes when all of this happened. The only filtering I did was filter floss, chemipure elite and purigen. Tank was a year and half old. Had two premium snowflake clowns and a firefish.
I started looking around on forums to find an answer to why this was happening. The only thing I could find was the my alk was possibly low at 5-6. ammonia, nitrites, nitrates and phosphates were all undetectable with the large hagen test briefcase. I used B-Ionic two part to increase alk and calc. No changes. At this time I was wanting to upgrade and thought this would be a perfect time to almost start over. I got to building my new tank. 40g breeder with a 29g sump.
Long story short. My new tank has been up for three and a half months now and nothing has imporved. Thought my ph was too low at 7.7 to 8.0. It is now in check at 7.9 right before lights come on and 8.3 right before they go off. Same leds over tank but added a few more to it.
The only thing I can come up with now is that my tank is too "clean". Im OCD with my tank and try to get everything perfect. Ive backed off and just started feeding my tank heavily with Aquavitro Fuel and MarineSnow. Any advice would help. All of my other corals are doing great.
Please HELP!
