Bad to worse
Posted on Monday, 22 October, 2007 at 8:17 AM by miskairal
Hmm, no good news. Virtually all my coral are dead as well as all 4 Trochus snails. I have left my fish, my leather coral, an anemone, a couple of mushies a few snails, some micro hermits and the urchin. Oh and whatever it is that makes the loud clicking/cracking sound. I managed to save my Scolymia, the orange one, by putting it into the 4 foot tank where things seem to be doing a bit better.
It's all so weird and inexplicable. I even setup my ex freshwater 45litre tank one day with lovely clean water and a few pieces of rock, a heater, a good powerhead and a single 150MH light and put the corals that were still alive at that point in there, namely the acans, the duncan, symphillia, cynarina and fungia but they all died dammit! I tested that tank all the time too and the KH was a bit low but everything else was perfect and the caluerpa is still growing (I am going to use the tank as a Q tank for my next fish so it's still running).
I have the nitrates and phosphates under control and I'm running a filter containing carbon in all water used for topups and water changes. I changed the lighting in the refugium and now have caluerpa growing a bit better. Unless I win lotto I won't be replacing the coral so I'm thinking of going FOWLR and getting some more fish. Haven't decided what yet and need to do some research but perhaps a yellow tang and a clown goby.
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