Birds nest not doing well - Page 2

Lsufan · 07/24/2017, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Robert Boukari

I plan on upgrading my tank in the next week from my 32 BC to a tank within the 55-90 gallon area. Will this set back the maturity of my tank?

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Yes it will set back the tank. It is hard to say how much because we don't know much about your system. Being u are upgrading to a larger tank u won't have enough liverock in the 32 to go in the upgrade. So it depends where & what kind of rock u get for the new tank. Same thing for the substrate. If u get real live rock from somewhere then it may not set u back much. If u get dry rock then u will be essentially starting over

der_wille_zur_macht · 07/24/2017, 06:34 PM

I agree that this frag doesn't look like a birdsnest. I also agree that in the end it probably doesn't matter.

Stability of major water parameters (salinity, temperature, alkalinity, calcium, magnesium), reasonably low nutrients (ammonia and nitrite at zero, nitrate and phosphate low but not zero), strong flow, and strong lighting are all you need for SPS. People spend a lot of time talking about how hard they are or how they should only go in old tanks, but really it's not much of a challenge once you get in the right regimen. Think carefully about your water change schedule, dosing, how often you're testing the major parameters, and work your hardest to get everything stable. Don't make any changes you don't understand. Pay attention to the tank - test kits are great, but it's just as important to try to learn the signs of what's going on. Try to spend as much time just watching the tank as you do maintenance - if not more. Try to notice small changes in livestock behavior, growth on the rocks, and so on - THEN do your tests, and see if you can start picking up on trends. For instance, I know when GFO is getting close to being exhuasted because the film on the glass starts to get bad after 3 or 4 days instead of 5 or 6 days. Things like that are subtle but can be important in helping you keep the tank stable.

Keeping SPS is like riding a bike. If you don't know how to do it, it can seem intimidating. You can read all you want about it, but you'll still probably fall a few times. But once you've figured it out, you realize it's not that challenging after all, and it just sort of comes naturally from then on.

07/24/2017, 06:34 PM	#27
der_wille_zur_macht Team RC Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NY Posts: 17,749	I agree that this frag doesn't look like a birdsnest. I also agree that in the end it probably doesn't matter. Stability of major water parameters (salinity, temperature, alkalinity, calcium, magnesium), reasonably low nutrients (ammonia and nitrite at zero, nitrate and phosphate low but not zero), strong flow, and strong lighting are all you need for SPS. People spend a lot of time talking about how hard they are or how they should only go in old tanks, but really it's not much of a challenge once you get in the right regimen. Think carefully about your water change schedule, dosing, how often you're testing the major parameters, and work your hardest to get everything stable. Don't make any changes you don't understand. Pay attention to the tank - test kits are great, but it's just as important to try to learn the signs of what's going on. Try to spend as much time just watching the tank as you do maintenance - if not more. Try to notice small changes in livestock behavior, growth on the rocks, and so on - THEN do your tests, and see if you can start picking up on trends. For instance, I know when GFO is getting close to being exhuasted because the film on the glass starts to get bad after 3 or 4 days instead of 5 or 6 days. Things like that are subtle but can be important in helping you keep the tank stable. Keeping SPS is like riding a bike. If you don't know how to do it, it can seem intimidating. You can read all you want about it, but you'll still probably fall a few times. But once you've figured it out, you realize it's not that challenging after all, and it just sort of comes naturally from then on. __________________ Inconveniencing marine life since 1992 "It is my personal belief that reef aquaria should be thriving communities of biodiversity, representative of their wild counterparts, and not merely collections of pretty specimens growing on tidy clean rock shelves covered in purple coralline algae." (Eric Borneman)