HerthaYid
New Member
So i've had these green zoas for around 6 months now, and they have not grown at all, if anything they have got smaller and a couple smaller heads have died. The orange ones are new since yesterday, so this is only regarding the green ones. I have pulsing xenia which is really growing quite fast. I also have GSP which is growing slowly, and had some Tricolour Clavularia which was growing at a nice rate until it dissapeared (think my Tuxedo Urchin got it).
My current levels are as below:
PH - 7.47
Ammonia - 0
Calcium - 470
Magnesium - 1500
Nitrate - 2.6
Nitrite - 0
Phosphate - 0.05
Salinity - 1.025
Temperature - 24.6c
I had a cyano problem for quite a while which I couldn't fix, so i used chemiclean as a last resort which got rid of it, and its not been back since. However since then, a bubble algae outbreak has occurred which has become quite severe. I currently have 3 emerald crabs battling that. My nitrates have often read 0 in the past, so i tried to up the feeding but i feel that is just fueling the algae. Is it a case of the algae consuming all of the nutrients instead of the corals?
I have a chaeto refugium in the sump as i wanted to build up a healthy copepod population so i could get a mandarin fish. Do you think that maybe I did this too early, as the nutrients are already too low? I currently feed a small pinch of flakes in the morning, and half a cube of mysis or brine shrimp in the evening. The tank population is as below:
2 x Clownfish
1 x Firefish goby
1 x Peach fairy basslet
6 x Blue green chromis
1 x Cleaner shrimp
1 x Tuxedo urchin
1 x Luzon sea star
3 x Emerald Crabs
and a bunch of hermits, various snails etc in the clean up crew
I also had a candy cane coral that died after a month or 2, the flesh just slowly melted away. I had a hammer that never grew and eventually the polyps bailed. I can't pinpoint what is wrong in my tank. I dose phytoplankton 1-2 times a week. Last month i started dosing zooplankton once a week, and have just started using reef roids this week to see if that helps the zoas grow.
My current levels are as below:
PH - 7.47
Ammonia - 0
Calcium - 470
Magnesium - 1500
Nitrate - 2.6
Nitrite - 0
Phosphate - 0.05
Salinity - 1.025
Temperature - 24.6c
I had a cyano problem for quite a while which I couldn't fix, so i used chemiclean as a last resort which got rid of it, and its not been back since. However since then, a bubble algae outbreak has occurred which has become quite severe. I currently have 3 emerald crabs battling that. My nitrates have often read 0 in the past, so i tried to up the feeding but i feel that is just fueling the algae. Is it a case of the algae consuming all of the nutrients instead of the corals?
I have a chaeto refugium in the sump as i wanted to build up a healthy copepod population so i could get a mandarin fish. Do you think that maybe I did this too early, as the nutrients are already too low? I currently feed a small pinch of flakes in the morning, and half a cube of mysis or brine shrimp in the evening. The tank population is as below:
2 x Clownfish
1 x Firefish goby
1 x Peach fairy basslet
6 x Blue green chromis
1 x Cleaner shrimp
1 x Tuxedo urchin
1 x Luzon sea star
3 x Emerald Crabs
and a bunch of hermits, various snails etc in the clean up crew
I also had a candy cane coral that died after a month or 2, the flesh just slowly melted away. I had a hammer that never grew and eventually the polyps bailed. I can't pinpoint what is wrong in my tank. I dose phytoplankton 1-2 times a week. Last month i started dosing zooplankton once a week, and have just started using reef roids this week to see if that helps the zoas grow.
