Marinne's Reef

[mariobrothersleeve]

Imo, I honestly think you may have crashed the tank. White stuff off new rocks would be an indication to me of the bacteria die off. I would honestly leave it empty for several months at this time. I would check all your levels and it sounds possibly a alk swing or that additive form reading the rest of your posts.

 

[Marinne13]

This is the cube...not the 65, fish and coral are fine and I havent been dosing yet

 

[mariobrothersleeve]

Can you post some pictures. I really can't help to much without seeing.

 

[Marinne13]

here it is...sorry it's small, I had this on my zoas and basted it off but it was really long

all the corals seem fine, fish seem fine, ph is stable at 7.90 and I am growing chaeto which is doing amazing

I also have a trillion pods everywhere

 

[Marinne13]

it does like to grow on one zoa colony that I have, the zoas do open but some only halfway

 

[mariobrothersleeve]

It does look like some mucus coating from a coral. Is anything else in the tank being bothered? For instance, my nem split and it's clone mounted over a pagoda cup and they do touch. The pagoda cup does spit out the mucus as a defense and it floats around the tank at times.

 

[Marinne13]

all the corals are open and look happy, that said colony is open as we speak...the only thing I added was a Hawaiian feather duster that is somewhat close to it

the only thing I can see that would piss it off is the occasional snail/hermit wandering by it...the only coral close to the little colony is another zoa colony about 2 inches away

heck my hammer and Duncan are happy as can be and they are temperamental corals

 

[Marinne13]

never mind on the white stuff, I was just being overly concerned...its gone lol

anyhow, who thinks I should upgrade to the AI Hydra??? I have the Sol Blue right now

 

[AnthonyTheNewbie]

I do. The hydra is very nice. I'm still rocking the AI 1st Gen on my 60g cube :) (Got 2 of them and a chinese LED fixture. :p)

 

[AnthonyTheNewbie]

Even the AI Nano would do your cube lol

 

[Marinne13]

The sol is nice but not sure if I need more spectrum

My zoas are all reaching for light though, I am only running 40, 45, 44 percent for the 3 channels

 

[Marinne13]

here are some updated pics...some of the zoas are reaching or half and half open/closed, not sure why

In the second pic, you can see that small colony of zoas to the left, one polyp fully opens all day and the others are halfway or closed

 

[Aquarian]

What would be the advantage go upgrading the light as opposed to turning up the percentage on each channel?

 

[Marinne13]

the hydra has more color leds, different spectrums instead of white, blue and royal blue

 

[Marinne13]

but seriously look at the pics and tell me what you thing of the zoa colonies and how they are reaching/kind of opening

 

[Aquarian]

The two frags high in the tank look like they are reaching but the lower ones seem happy.

 

[Marinne13]

I dont want to fry them...I am only running like 40 percent at peak but my ligjt is 10inches off

 

[Marinne13]

got some new acans thanks to Mario's inspiration...only paid 36 a piece!!

found some local guy who sells stuff, I need to start a business...but I need to figure out how to grow coral first lol

 

[Aquarian]

Nice additions!

 

[Marinne13]

Thanks