Keroppi667
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Now I understand why ppl give up on this hobby so easily.
So I set up my 1st saltwater tank a few months ago, cycled it, got a couple of fish (ocellaris and damsel, had a little tang but he got stuck to the gyre when the power came back after a quick outage)
So, night before last, I decided it was time to get some frags. Bought a 15 pack off a nice local reefer. Asked for all soft/lps, but he threw in a couple "easy" sps. Whatever.
Water parameters:
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate 0-5ppm
ph:~8.0
PO4: 0.06ppm
Alk: 144ppm
Temp: 78.6
Salinity: 1.025
Ca: Have a Hanna checker but need de-ionized water
...drip acclimated the corals 3 hrs, turned the light (Ocean Revive T247b) down to 1 (of 100) since ppl say too strong of light will kill, but too dim generally won't (although this thing certainly isn't dim on it's lowest setting). The schedule is: ch2 (blue/moon) is on 24/7, ch1 (day) is 0700-1800.
I put everything in, nothing opened up/extended polyps. Fine, I read that is no reason to panic, give it time.
the next (yesterday) morning: No change.
Yesterday evening: no change exchept the damsel is eating one of the SPS (watched him bite off 3 polyps with 5 minutes)
Today: everything is bleaching, withering away, and receding from it's skeleton. I turned the light off a bit ago, just in case it's killing them. I really don't know what to do. I did my diligence, spent plenty of money, check all the parameters 15000 times. I go to my LFS and see "swamps" sustaining corals. I can't even keep a few frags alive for a few days?
Anyone, please help!
When first put in:
Now:
When first put in:
Now:
When first put in:
After Damsel got a hold of it (it's bare/gone now):
Closed zoas (no change):
Frogspawn (visibly receding, retracted this whole time):
So I set up my 1st saltwater tank a few months ago, cycled it, got a couple of fish (ocellaris and damsel, had a little tang but he got stuck to the gyre when the power came back after a quick outage)
So, night before last, I decided it was time to get some frags. Bought a 15 pack off a nice local reefer. Asked for all soft/lps, but he threw in a couple "easy" sps. Whatever.
Water parameters:
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate 0-5ppm
ph:~8.0
PO4: 0.06ppm
Alk: 144ppm
Temp: 78.6
Salinity: 1.025
Ca: Have a Hanna checker but need de-ionized water
...drip acclimated the corals 3 hrs, turned the light (Ocean Revive T247b) down to 1 (of 100) since ppl say too strong of light will kill, but too dim generally won't (although this thing certainly isn't dim on it's lowest setting). The schedule is: ch2 (blue/moon) is on 24/7, ch1 (day) is 0700-1800.
I put everything in, nothing opened up/extended polyps. Fine, I read that is no reason to panic, give it time.
the next (yesterday) morning: No change.
Yesterday evening: no change exchept the damsel is eating one of the SPS (watched him bite off 3 polyps with 5 minutes)
Today: everything is bleaching, withering away, and receding from it's skeleton. I turned the light off a bit ago, just in case it's killing them. I really don't know what to do. I did my diligence, spent plenty of money, check all the parameters 15000 times. I go to my LFS and see "swamps" sustaining corals. I can't even keep a few frags alive for a few days?
Anyone, please help!
When first put in:
Now:
When first put in:
Now:
When first put in:
After Damsel got a hold of it (it's bare/gone now):
Closed zoas (no change):
Frogspawn (visibly receding, retracted this whole time):