I've been looking all over the place and cannot get a straight answer. My tank is coming up to its 1 year anniversary on July 27th and for some reason my sunny d's don't look nice and plump with a nice round skirt like they used to. They are multiplying but they seem to be doing the same thing as their older polyps. I have some pink zoas on the same Rock that are doing the same thing but lights are out and I can't take another picture ATM to show.
I checked for pests and the only thing that I can come up with is maybe the odd small bristle worm. I've seen my orchard Dottie back eyeballing something around the base of the polyps and thinking he's scoping out his next meal. I don't have very many bristle worms and anytime I shine the light at night I never see any crawling on the rocks. I'm lucky to see one underneath a rock that's sitting on the sand bed if I'm lucky so I know there's no infestation. They are receiving decent randomized flow and they are clean.
Tank parameters
Sg- 34.6 ppt
Temp- 77-78
pH- 7.86 - 8.15
Dkh- 8.5
Cal- 455
Mag- 1400
No3- 7.1
Po4- .08 - .10
I do 10% water change every Saturday using tropic marin pro reef salt. I add 7.5ml of All for Reef everyday at noon and it's keeping the alk steady at 8.5
I add 15 drops of Brightwell Coral aminos pretty much every day, then once a week I'll add 7 ml of Red Sea ab+ aminos. I do spot feed reefroids twice a week basically to keep the phosphate from dipping too low. When I do spot feed the polyps don't close up properly and instead they umbrella. My light was only 7.5" off the water so I purchased the solid mounting kit and maxed out I get 11"
I thought there may have been a hotspot so I put the colony on the sand bed where in theory there shouldn't be much of a hot spot at all.
Using a single Prime 16HD @11"off the water line as BRS suggests it's the optimal height. I'm running a 12-hour lighting schedule and it peaks at 29 Watts from 26 Watts every 20 minutes or so.
Pretty much everything in the tank is doing really well and I have some green Palys and purple people eaters which I believe they're called and is another paly. I know the sunny D's are also a paly so I'm kind of stumped here on what's going on. Someone told me they are morphing, whatever that means?
One more thing that I've kind of stroked off the possible problem is some of the polyps are being shaded from my plating Coral so obviously it can't be a hotspot.
Anyways if anybody can toss me some useful information on what's going on I'd really appreciate it and thank you
I checked for pests and the only thing that I can come up with is maybe the odd small bristle worm. I've seen my orchard Dottie back eyeballing something around the base of the polyps and thinking he's scoping out his next meal. I don't have very many bristle worms and anytime I shine the light at night I never see any crawling on the rocks. I'm lucky to see one underneath a rock that's sitting on the sand bed if I'm lucky so I know there's no infestation. They are receiving decent randomized flow and they are clean.
Tank parameters
Sg- 34.6 ppt
Temp- 77-78
pH- 7.86 - 8.15
Dkh- 8.5
Cal- 455
Mag- 1400
No3- 7.1
Po4- .08 - .10
I do 10% water change every Saturday using tropic marin pro reef salt. I add 7.5ml of All for Reef everyday at noon and it's keeping the alk steady at 8.5
I add 15 drops of Brightwell Coral aminos pretty much every day, then once a week I'll add 7 ml of Red Sea ab+ aminos. I do spot feed reefroids twice a week basically to keep the phosphate from dipping too low. When I do spot feed the polyps don't close up properly and instead they umbrella. My light was only 7.5" off the water so I purchased the solid mounting kit and maxed out I get 11"
I thought there may have been a hotspot so I put the colony on the sand bed where in theory there shouldn't be much of a hot spot at all.
Using a single Prime 16HD @11"off the water line as BRS suggests it's the optimal height. I'm running a 12-hour lighting schedule and it peaks at 29 Watts from 26 Watts every 20 minutes or so.
Pretty much everything in the tank is doing really well and I have some green Palys and purple people eaters which I believe they're called and is another paly. I know the sunny D's are also a paly so I'm kind of stumped here on what's going on. Someone told me they are morphing, whatever that means?
One more thing that I've kind of stroked off the possible problem is some of the polyps are being shaded from my plating Coral so obviously it can't be a hotspot.
Anyways if anybody can toss me some useful information on what's going on I'd really appreciate it and thank you