90 Day Maricultured Sps Challenge

[Zhubbell]

Not certain which one you are talking about.

This one? The green tenuis looking one?

No this one.

 

[Zhubbell]

In your tank

 

[Zhubbell]

Look at that polyp extension, these are all from the same Kupang import!

 

[nbooks]

welp...ive blown it. feeling pretty deflated on this one...

My icp finally came back and may explain some things...

iodine - ZERO
molybdenum - 18 (should be 12 max and was likely even higher thanks to nopox use)
potassium - 324
strontium 5 (should be 10ish)

some back story - my skimmer died back in like august and parts have been unobtainable as have new nano skimmers. I was relying on NoPox as well as a chaeto reactor as best i could, but was struggling with phos of 0.3-0.4. Finally started running GFO a few days before the frags arrived and got phos to around 0.15 for their arrival...but this seems to have zapped a piece or two that have been in the tank for months including a mini colony of pc rainbow, and a nice 3 branch solar flare frag

the drop in phos seems to have also killed alk consumption which led to an excursion from 8.8ish to almost 10 before i realized.

started a 4 day regimen to get potassium up to 380+, trying to find strontium and iodine locally and save what i can.

seems i was tetering on the edge of a tank crash....not a happy Monday

 

[keifferhubbell]

Hey guys update on colors of my two mariculture frags here they are. I am seeing some nice color developing on both- a lot a encrusting growth and new grow out points on the larger frag and very little notable growth if any on the small nub -I think this could make a case for a larger frag size so they aren't stunted and recover faster

 

[Joe462]

here is my update, frags are still doing great, the one is crazy blue

 

[unchaotic]

@keifferhubbell @Zhubbell Got any updates? This thread went cold.