acan lords or micros

[chadfarmer]

i cant to seem to keep them alive in my 58


everything is in check

alk 9.8
salanity 1.025
calcium 400
magnesium 1250
phos 0.01
temp 79-81
everything else is 0

is it maybe to much flow

 

[Deepwater]

How much flow do you have on them,(they really dont like lots of flow) I find them to be happier with Mild flow and not to much light.
what lighting are you using ?

 

[Hypertek99]

Mine likes med to low flow and high light. The micros love the high light near the top. The Acans i have on the sandbed but in the middle of the tank. And i have a 250MH on a 29Gal. I have over 18 different Acans and 5 different micros. All have been popping out babies like crazy. The only one i have found to be very picky is my Pink Lemonade micromussa. I started with 1 poylp then it grew to 4 poylps in 2 months. But then it started to melt away??? I managed to save it and now there's 3 poylps and growing again.

 

[chadfarmer]

58 gallon

seio 1100

tunze 1-6100 2-6000 and a nano 6045


lighting is dual 150w pheniox 14k sunlight supply ballasts and luminmax reflector

 

[JGoslee]

I just took my tunze 6000 out of my 58gal because most of my acans and other LPS were not happy. I was using 2 - 6025's and 1 - 6000. I just got 2 more 6025's today. So now I have 4 - 6025's and thats it. I still have alot of flow but it seems like its much weaker and spread out more.

 

[I-K@ndY]

Raise you calcium a bit and do you dose magnesium?

 

[chadfarmer]

calcium reactor geo 6X12 ph in reactor is 6 cant remember the effeuent dkh coming out


i dose some magnesium to my water change water to get it up to 1300

 

[chadfarmer]

all acan lords look bad but i have an enchita that looks good and growing

the same thing happened the micro i had

 

[RandyO Verified Sponsor]

What exactly is happening to them?

Peeling away from skeleton? Color loss? RTN? STN? Polyp bail out? Or just not opening up?

The way a coral dies can tell us a lot.

 

[chadfarmer]

just not opening up

and stn

 

[korndogg091]

do you have anything in your tank that would pick at them and stress them?

 

[Hypertek99]

Sounds like too much flow to me.

 

[chadfarmer]

do you have anything in your tank that would pick at them and stress them?

not that i have seen or added would do it


i put some in chelseys tank a lot less flow and they are doing good



i am starting to wander if it is the flow

 

[msman825]

I almost lost this one last year cause too much flow right on it