Well, I think I learned a lesson this weekend. I moved some corals from qt into my display tank. I put a chalice up a little higher than I probably should have (at least immediately) and it went from good to bad almost overnight. I am only 10 months in and still learning. With the new additions in the display tank I have about 20 corals in the dt, from softies to lps. I've done fairly well with everything else, but this one mistake sucks (not the only one). I have read and knew that change in light needs to be slow. I've tested par in the qt and dt and thought where I was moving it too was okay (a little higher par but not a lot), but the coral thinks otherwise. About the only other big difference between qt and dt is the phosphates. They are close to 0 in qt and around .3 in the dt. I don't think that would have done it. I've never had any of my other corals do this when moving them over so I really think it was the light.
I just wanted to post to say, for those like me that are still learning, please go slow with a change in lighting, especially when going from one tank to another. Maybe that isn't what did it, but a few days ago in qt, this thing looked great, feeder tentacles were coming out at night and the color was nice. Today it has white streaks going all the way through it and doesn't have much color left. I've moved it to the bottom but not sure that is going to save it.
I just wanted to post to say, for those like me that are still learning, please go slow with a change in lighting, especially when going from one tank to another. Maybe that isn't what did it, but a few days ago in qt, this thing looked great, feeder tentacles were coming out at night and the color was nice. Today it has white streaks going all the way through it and doesn't have much color left. I've moved it to the bottom but not sure that is going to save it.
