So I really need some help figuring this whole coral thing because it doesn’t make sense to me, I can keep zoas/palys no problem I recently added a red monti cap and it is doing fine so far, I can keep Duncan corals as well but every single time I try to add a soft coral like pulsing Xenia or green star polyps or any other LPS besides Duncan they all seem to melt or die, not matter what I do or how perfect my parameters are I cannot seem to keep anything besides monti cap, Duncan,zoa/palys, my parameters are great 9.0 alk, 475 calcium, 0 ammonia, nitrate 0-5 “api test kit” l, mag 1360.
I really am getting frustrated with this hobby right now and so far it’s not worth the effort to me, I added some photos of corals that are doing good and the ones doing bad
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I really am getting frustrated with this hobby right now and so far it’s not worth the effort to me, I added some photos of corals that are doing good and the ones doing bad
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