Tank Journal Archive

[Trentwalsh]

Rumour has it that my blue acro?or stag? Has growth tips?

White/purple tip on the main stem tip......

Got this from willy about 3-4 weeks ago and for abit it has lost some colour and browned a tad on the main stem due to phos/nitrate id say... But yet gas growth?


I will be uploading 2 pictures from yeterday, and 2 from the day it went in my tank... It looks a tad smaller now but thats because it broke off the frag plug and is now lodged in some rock deeper...

 

[ezza]

When you have high phosphates and nitrates, SPS go crazy and start to feed voraciously on all those excess nutrients. They look good for a short time until the zooxanthellae explode with exhaustion and the coral browns out and dies. It happened to my tank over Christmas. It is not really possible to keep SPS with high nutrient levels. If nitrates are over 10, it's bad, phosphate should be 0. It's super important to read legitimate and reliable sources and ensure your water params are as perfect as can be. SPS are just used to extremely high quality conditions.

 

[Savage Henry]

When you have high phosphates and nitrates, SPS go crazy and start to feed voraciously on all those excess nutrients. They look good for a short time until the zooxanthellae explode with exhaustion and the coral browns out and dies. It happened to my tank over Christmas. It is not really possible to keep SPS with high nutrient levels. If nitrates are over 10, it's bad, phosphate should be 0. It's super important to read legitimate and reliable sources and ensure your water params are as perfect as can be. SPS are just used to extremely high quality conditions.

This is why I don't keep any except for Hydnphora and a couple other (questionable) sps corals.

 

[MagicJ]

This is why I don't keep any except for Hydnphora and a couple other (questionable) sps corals.

There's nothing wrong with recycling a thread from almost 2 years ago :p

 

[Trentwalsh]

Lmfao! My thread of them all.... Loveit

New tanks coming along

 

[ezza]

There's nothing wrong with recycling a thread from almost 2 years ago :p

I was wondering why he thought I gave a fuck what he did...

 

[MagicJ]

@e

I was wondering why he thought I gave a fuck what he did...

But, we all know you do :p

 

[Trentwalsh]

Am i misssing something here???

 

[MagicJ]

Am i misssing something here???

Not really :p

 

[Trentwalsh]

Hahahahaha okayyyy???

 

[Savage Henry]

Hmmm, OK.