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button polyps
We have had a 48 gal. tank for about 8 month. It has been doing great until this past week. I have 5 fish that are doing well. Tank levels are acceptable. All my coral seems to be dying off it seems over night. It started after I introdued and bubble coral. Now everything is shrinking. My star grass polyps are gone, my green buttons have cloed up and have falled off of the rock they came om my leather keeps shrinking up and slothing off it's skin. What is going on? Where the buttons used to be it looks like "sawdust" on the rock! HELP!
AnswerHello Sherise,
I htink you understand that trying to figure this out will not be easy, nor can i do this with the information you have given me... I will need some more info andit WILL be easier if you log into my new forum at www.thelittleocean.com so we can communicate easier and quicker...
Register, then post a 'thread' in the introductions secion...
You will propbably get more answers and 'INSIGHT' from other members also..
Some of the info that i will want, are the actual water peramters... Temperature, pH, CALC, and ALK, AMMONIA, etc...
I will want to know more about your tank also... How often do you do water changes? How many gallons are the water changes? Where do you get the water, (both salt and fresh water)
Also, what type of filters do you have? Are they hang onthe tank filters? are they cannister filters, or is it a sump filterration
As for the 'dust'... Im not sure at all, but, ... when you do water changes? do you blow off the rock??? this is using a turkey baster, and literally blowing hte poop off the rock...
You would do this to about 1/3 or so of the rock, and then i would blow off the rock prior to doing hte water change, then after blowing off the rock, i suck up the dirty/cloudy water.. this is basically getting all the dirtiest water in the water change...
If your rock is covered, it will prohibit the live rock from doing what it is supposed to do, (but if that were the case... your ammonia would be higher, as would be the nitrate...
Also, if you are using hang on tank filtration, do you replace, (not just clean), but replace the foam pads OFTEN????
And by often, i mean monthly...
Throw out the foam pads monthly and get new pads.
In fact, I would just throw the pads away and not use them at all...
If you want to use the foam pads, then you need to replace them every montyh...
I use the foam pads ONLY when I expect company/guest to help catch the larger particulate matter...
But it is the ability to catch the larger particulate that causes problems.. becuse it keeps the particulate trapped and constantly leaching back into the water...
anyways, PLEASE log onto the new forum at www.thelittleocean.com
and we can continue this dicussion over there.
btw: they have a live chatroom so we can chat live, if we are ot the same time...
cya there
bill
Usually I wont blow off all the
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