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01/01/2010, 08:09 PM
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Location: Boston
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Need help with bleaching frag
Greetings and happy new year, fellow reefers!
I had a bunch of frags (8) shipped three days ago from out of state. I acclimated them very carefully (checked pH, salinity; kept them at the same temperature as the source tank, and then dripped them in over 5 hours). They looked great after I put them in the tank (see pix). Put them at the very bottom to allow them to acclimate to my lights. I was off work yesterday so I did not see them. This morning one of them (the montipora in the pic) is starting to bleach at one of the of the borders. By this evening, the bleached area had advanced, and another edge was starting to bleach (I don't have pictures of any of the bleached areas yet). Is there anything I can do? It's already at the bottom of the tank. Should I try to find it some shade? Or put it higher in the tank? Could this be RTN? All of the other frags are doing great except for the other montipora under the candy cane in the first picture, which has white spots on it. Could the candy cane be injuring the montiporas at night? Please help!! My tank is a 6 galon nanocube (about 12 inches deep) with 36 watts of 50/50 PCs running 11 hours/day. It has a small fuge and I maintain the water parameters meticulously. It's ben running for a couple of months and other than the new frags has some snails, a small dottyback, the candy cane head, a small acan head, a moselaya head, and a birdsnest. Any suggestions you may be able to give me will be appreciated. |
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01/02/2010, 06:27 AM
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01/02/2010, 06:35 AM
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Location: north central OH
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everything else looks pretty good. when everything is good except one, it is either the harbinger of doom, or a problem with that particular coral.
too bad that is not a Montipora digitata. looks more like an oregon grape. Encrusting Montis need good flow and are not as easy as Monti d. more light will only screw with it more. more flow and less light is what i would give it. edit: the candycane can indeed be burning the Monti at night when it puts out its longer tentacles to feed. they can cover some volume.
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