HolyBanana
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I mean, every one ive place in my tank has died slowly to algea growing on it. All my acros do great. But birdnests dont. Anyone have a clue as of why this might be happening?
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For some odd reason I cannot keep birdnests (1 Viewer)
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darrin
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i thought this was a reply to one of my posts..
i cant keep em alive, either,.... although i have one of cakepros and it has survived a month...
i cant keep em alive, either,.... although i have one of cakepros and it has survived a month...
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Hard to really say. Some just dont acclimate as well. Are you putting them at bottom of tank first to let it adjust?
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I am no biologist but from what I have observed we must NOT come close to duplicating what these corals get in nature. Look at shape of how they grow wild compared to healthy captive grown colonies. If it is getting killed by algae I would assume flow.
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Edit: .......but I play one on MARSHreef.comtcarlson said:
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I had always had trouble keeping seriatopora spp. til this 120g of mine has been reset up. I have 3 frags of seriatopora right now and all are doing fine. The major difference I have made is flow. I have these 3 on 1 upper side with a maxi-jet 1200 pointed at them from across the tank. These corals have got to have tons of alternating current.
These are mostly captive raised although my LE frag from Steve Tyree was once wild. It is the green w/pink tips. I also have the hottest pink I've ever seen that has new points coming out daily. The other is my green w/blue polyp from John at Exoticreefs.
Intense lighting and intense alternating flow I believe is the key. If algae does start growing on the tips then that is a sure sign of not enough flow. That is the way 99% of seriatopora do die off.
These are mostly captive raised although my LE frag from Steve Tyree was once wild. It is the green w/pink tips. I also have the hottest pink I've ever seen that has new points coming out daily. The other is my green w/blue polyp from John at Exoticreefs.
Intense lighting and intense alternating flow I believe is the key. If algae does start growing on the tips then that is a sure sign of not enough flow. That is the way 99% of seriatopora do die off.
