I've read the horror stories and have tried to imagine how it would feel to watch your sps tank die, and now I know. It's like being at a never-ending funeral after receiving a horrendous kick to the gut.
My awesome hot-pink birdsnest, gone. My huge gorgeous multi-tiered swirling orange cap, gone. Quite a few colonies of lovely, lovely sps from reefalot, mandoman, naka and others, gone. My huge alien-green montipora monasteriata, gone. rainbow M. aequatuberculosissomethingorother, gone, several turquoise and teal stag colonies, gone. What hurts the most is the loss of my birdnest, which I've had for several years and it came from a friend who had it for many years before me.
Having been too busy lately and not home much of the time, I didn't realize that something went wrong with my wavemaker setup, and my tank was stagnant for a couple of days. No flow = coral death. Now the tank is cloudy with sloughed-off coral tissue and slime, it stinks, and here I am on the eve of starting construction of a fish room for a long-dreamt-for 180 gallon tank while I am completely heartbroken. Having a tank full of stark white skeletons took the wind right out of the sails of that project.
I didn't have top-tier, extreme-high-dollar sps corals but my tank had awesome color, had grown together into a full, cohesive reef from mere frags over a period of years, and had no brown corals.
My awesome hot-pink birdsnest, gone. My huge gorgeous multi-tiered swirling orange cap, gone. Quite a few colonies of lovely, lovely sps from reefalot, mandoman, naka and others, gone. My huge alien-green montipora monasteriata, gone. rainbow M. aequatuberculosissomethingorother, gone, several turquoise and teal stag colonies, gone. What hurts the most is the loss of my birdnest, which I've had for several years and it came from a friend who had it for many years before me.
Having been too busy lately and not home much of the time, I didn't realize that something went wrong with my wavemaker setup, and my tank was stagnant for a couple of days. No flow = coral death. Now the tank is cloudy with sloughed-off coral tissue and slime, it stinks, and here I am on the eve of starting construction of a fish room for a long-dreamt-for 180 gallon tank while I am completely heartbroken. Having a tank full of stark white skeletons took the wind right out of the sails of that project.
I didn't have top-tier, extreme-high-dollar sps corals but my tank had awesome color, had grown together into a full, cohesive reef from mere frags over a period of years, and had no brown corals.
Do you have anything that looks like it will survive?
