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NanaReefer said:
Nope! Just give your tank time to mature. It's so pretty as it is now!!! :)


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I'm gonna purchase some of those tiny creeturs (copepods, amphipods, etc) to seed it.

That $10 coral I bought....it refuses to open for feeding, but its color is already returning (you know I bought it browned out), which I take as a good sign. :)
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My goniopora was refusing to open regardless of placement, so I peroxide-dipped it very lightly - only two minutes with a capful of 2% and a couple pints of water. That worked twice already in the past with exactly that. It seems to have helped some...I don't think I dipped it long enough, though. If it is still is having trouble in a few days I'll do it again. It seems to have a recurring issue that was aggravated by moving it to the new tank and the mistakes I made. It sounds too aggressive, I know, but it works for this one.

The acan isn't real happy either. It puts its tentacles out but it stays semi-deflated, and when I try to feed it it refuses it and deflates completely. Not normal, at least for this ever-hungry acan. Hopefully it recovers soon. It does seem better today than it was yesterday.

The leptastrea got a bit upset, but it seems to be doing fine now.

The shrooms, as could be expected, are happy as clams.

The gramma in QT is hiding out 95% of the time and I'm not sure whether it ate anything or not, but it did come out for at least 20 minutes today to look around. Since it's only the day after I got it, I suspect it'll be fine. :)

Aaand my turbo snails are hard at work devouring my diatoms...though I'm really not sure how I have diatoms, since nothing is new besides the peppermint shrimp - whom I have not seen in a while, come to think of it.
 
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Looks like I made the right call on the dip. About half an hour later the goniopora _finally_ emerged. It still doesn't look normal. It's puffy. Not like right after a good feeding puffy. More like swollen. It's still out, though, which is a definite improvement. I'll see how it looks tomorrow.
 
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I love this thread Eienna! I feel like I have learned a lot from following along. Thank you for sharing your experiences. You care so much for the animals in your piece of the ocean that I believe your tank is one of the best I have seen.
 
Zero Nitrates said:
I love this thread Eienna! I feel like I have learned a lot from following along. Thank you for sharing your experiences. You care so much for the animals in your piece of the ocean that I believe your tank is one of the best I have seen.
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Me too! We all learn from each other!
 
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So much for that. The gramma is dead today. Params check out...but the water was so cold! I checked the heater and it had gotten turned down to 66F. Fudge.

Thanks, guys...I needed that. I wish I had done better, but at least y'all can learn from my mistakes. :')
 
Now I'm depressed...but it's gonna be better than okay. I'm going to use this opportunity to back up and do things right.
 
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Zero Nitrates said:
What does it do? and is it just some peroxide and water mixed up?
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Yeah, just peroxide and tank water. My monti and clove polyps reacted badly to it, but it doesn't seem to hurt the acan or goni.

I'm not sure what it's doing for the goni specifically because I honestly don't know what its problem is, but peroxide is an antibacterial/antifungal and kills at least amphipods...not sure what it might do to other bugs because I haven't had those. I tried it the first time because my goni frag was growing bubble algae (that somehow kept the polyps from coming out) and I couldn't pay for a proper coral dip.
 
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BTW, what is lanthanum chloride?
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I honestly am not sure what it is, chemically. What I do know is that it binds to phosphate, which makes a big enough particle that it can then be filtered out.
 
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Lanthanum chloride is not to be directly applied to an aquarium. It is best to have the water treated by lanthanum chloride in a filter. It takes special equipment to do it properly. Here's everything you ever wanted to know about lanthanum chloride. In my opinion at this stage in the game it should be used by expert aquarists only.

Foiling Phosphate | Coral Magazine
 
Mike J. said:
Lanthanum chloride is not to be directly applied to an aquarium. It is best to have the water treated by lanthanum chloride in a filter. It takes special equipment to do it properly. Here's everything you ever wanted to know about lanthanum chloride. In my opinion at this stage in the game it should be used by expert aquarists only.

Foiling Phosphate | Coral Magazine
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Yeah...wish I hadn't learned that one the hard way.

You know what else bums me out? The aiptasia didn't die when the fish did. XP I'm getting berghias. I've had it with these things. I'll give them back to the store when it's gone or something. The peppermint shrimp has been no help at all. Not even sure the thing is still with us.
 
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Acan is still refusing food. Goni's doing a little better...just a little...I only gave it a two-minute dip last time, so I think I'll give it another one before I leave to see my Mom for a couple days.

No sign of the shrimp yet.
 
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I'm beginning to think I want to save up for a tank controller before I buy more fish. It's just too easy to make a mistake (misadjust heater, forget to turn pumps on after feeding, etc) when doing everything manually.
 
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