Troubles with new stock

#1 Blacktip

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Posted 09 August 2009 - 04:59 PM

LO

Last week I got a load of SPS and LPS corals. A week in and all the LPS are doing great but having some troubles with the acros. Half the acros are doing great with colour coming on, polyps extended even some growth. The others are slowly dying from the tips. All parameters are fine. I did have a temp spike middle of last week, went up to 30 but is now stable again. So could there be a problem with the system? but then why would the other corals do so well? Could it be that some didn't ship so well? But then they seemed fine when I got them and a few days after. How many corals do you guys lose when first buy them? The 'stem' of the corals are fine and polyping, should I breah the 'branches' off?

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#2 lindsay

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Posted 09 August 2009 - 08:05 PM

Odd they have tip problems,if water is good are all the fish being good?.

#3 Blacktip

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Posted 10 August 2009 - 07:41 AM

All the fish are well behaved, not much in there really. And some exciting news my pair of Custard Maroon Clowns laid their first batch of eggs yesterday! It's the first time I've had marines lay eggs! So guess the water must be right somewhere...........

#4 Tony B

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Posted 10 August 2009 - 10:16 AM

A picture paints a 1000 words.

Please provide a few close up pictures of the effected corals and, a full tank shot.

What is your calcium level in PPM? What is your Dkh? How do you maintain calcium & Dkh?

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#5 lindsay

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Posted 10 August 2009 - 10:33 AM

Agree with tony,pics would really help.

#6 Social D

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Posted 11 August 2009 - 01:23 AM

Can you give a test result reading for KH from the last 2 months up to the present?

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#7 Blacktip

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Posted 11 August 2009 - 11:38 AM

I'll try and sort some pics later.
KH is 9.8 and stays around that. CA is a bit low at 380 and I'm slowly raising that. Calcium reactor is used with occasional Bicarb soda for KH top ups.

#8 Blacktip

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Posted 12 August 2009 - 04:39 PM

Did some testsand found that my Calcium reactorwasn't working and my KH and Ca is pretty low so hopefully that is the cause. If this is the problemand I bring the parameters up to proper levels over the next few days can I expect the corals to recover or will they waist away now?

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