I cant keep Tenuis!!!

[Camaro Show Corals]

Tenuis need higher levels of available nutrients than most acropora ime. That does not mean that you should try raising your levels, but maybe add some more fish or feed meaty foods more often. Also, as stated above they do not do well with KH swings (in general) there are some Tenuis that are hardier than the rest.

Much agreed, tenuis hate alk swings and enjoy feedings. Walt Disney is a pretty easy tenuis IMO. When you say your having success with other acros how long have you had them? Are we talking you put in frags a month ago and they are surviving or your able to grow to colony size?

 

[Camaro Show Corals]

Polyp retraction within 24 hours seems odd. Sounds like you might be over dipping them or getting some bad Tenuis. I don’t disagree with the other suggestions. I have a 50g cube with over 60 Tenuis and haven’t lost a new one in years. I’ve lost a couple here and there many months later but not within a week after receiving it. I do feed a lot more, 3-4 frozen cubes per day, and my no3/po4 fluctuate 10-30/0.10-0.30. My alk is all over the place.

What’s the one in picture #8?

 

[Camaro Show Corals]

I also have a large amount of tenuis, but here’s a few quick pics of ones in my camera roll.

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

What’s the one in picture #8?

The 8th pic is rainbow envy
The 8th coral is a future release I call Redrum

 

[merereef]

So keep alk super stable.. feed heavy frozen foods nutrients higher thats they key im guessing? What about flow guyss... what type of flow do they prefer strong low etc and what patterns?

 

[Camaro Show Corals]

So keep alk super stable.. feed heavy frozen foods nutrients higher thats they key im guessing? What about flow guyss... what type of flow do they prefer strong low etc and what patterns?

All sps like lots of flow, random patterns and not directly at them.

 

[Sarlindescent]

It could be the specific strain depending if you keep getting the same ones. For instance, my frag tank cannot seem to keep strawberry shortcake and pink lemonade. I have a wide variety of around 60-80 sps no problem. Those 2 normally die within a week to a month.

 

[merereef]

It could be the specific strain depending if you keep getting the same ones. For instance, my frag tank cannot seem to keep strawberry shortcake and pink lemonade. I have a wide variety of around 60-80 sps no problem. Those 2 normally die within a week to a month.

Yeah its an odd one.. i have a SSC its never shown signs of stress polyps always extended. Grew about 4 heads in 6-8 months ... i keep it in lower light like 150 par ish

 

[ajjw0828]

To me it sounds like you have everything down. I'd give it a week or two and make sure your Alk is pegged and not fluctuating +/- .5DKH and then order a frag from a reputable aquacultured source. I ordered some stuff from TCK recently and was very happy plus I've heard nothing but good things from others. Only other thing I would do is send out an ICP test, as well as verify your water RO water is good. Good luck either way!

 

[Perry]

Crazy PE on this Mattv Cookie Monster

 

[Sarlindescent]

Have a perfect example of how certain strains may not like your tank. Here is a forest fire digi left and a bubblegum digi side by side. Received at the same time, forest fire looks great and has grown 10x in the time frame. Bubblegum still looks faded and no growth in 10 months or so.

Same tank, same light, same flow, same chemistry, same duration.

 

[Silent]

Have a perfect example of how certain strains may not like your tank. Here is a forest fire digi left and a bubblegum digi side by side. Received at the same time, forest fire looks great and has grown 10x in the time frame. Bubblegum still looks faded and no growth in 10 months or so.

Same tank, same light, same flow, same chemistry, same duration.

Funny you mention this as I have tried twice to keep a neon green sinularia leather and both times they dwindle away after 3 months. I have tenius and other sps but can't keep a leather.

 

[merereef]

So i created a small aquascape shelf to house the new acros... i removed them from the frag rack at the back and put them in the middle.. ive noticed a few things...
they have been in the middle lower part of the tank for the last 2 days.. since placing them there ive noticed the polyp extension has not been so strong but if i turn the powersheads off for an hour i get much better polyp extension... so maybe they are getting too much flow in the middle or is it that they just need time to adjust. The flow is not direct and is random.
The second thing i noticed was one of the tenuis was going from blue to fading white slowly and polyps agains barely comjng out... i figured maybe they are getting too much light right now and need to be acclimated.. so ive lowered the light by 20% and after an hour or so i noticed the polyps were coming out more... when they were originally on the frag rack at the back of the tank it was low light and lower flow so what do you think is best thing to do here? Thanks in advance. The store i got them from i noticed the lights they had acros u der seemed considerably lower in brightness than mine does. Both LED lights so thats why ive lowered them too

 

[merereef]

They seem to be happy thanks for the help everyone

 

[merereef]

Update corals are doing well but i did notice one of the tenuis wasnt happy and developign this brown like slime on it... i figured MAYBE they were getting TOO much flow.. the flow has never been direct but they were meeting in the middle so i moved the powerheads so the corals are now getting medium ish flow and the tenuis all seeem happier.. polyps are out and the brown slime on the tips have gone.. so im wondering maybe medium flow is best for these

 

[Sarlindescent]

Cool, good to hear. I run around or slightly north of 100x turn over (granted in random so who knows how frequently it hits max). But one thing I do is the thicker the stick, the higher the flow. So stags are closest to the pump, tenuis behind stags, red dragon type behind tenuis and whatnot. As long as the polyps are in motion and flesh is not ripped off, all is well.

 

[AquaticOttawa]

Polyp retraction within 24 hours seems odd. Sounds like you might be over dipping them or getting some bad Tenuis. I don’t disagree with the other suggestions. I have a 50g cube with over 60 Tenuis and haven’t lost a new one in years. I’ve lost a couple here and there many months later but not within a week after receiving it. I do feed a lot more, 3-4 frozen cubes per day, and my no3/po4 fluctuate 10-30/0.10-0.30. My alk is all over the place.

Wow those look incredible

 

[SBB Corals]

I think the Main problem and this helps most people.... what is the DTS coming out of your tap? also when is the last time you changes your membrane and all the pre filters to your RODI machine?

 

[nbooks]

I pulled the trigger on my first two tenuis pieces, quickly gotten addicted to milli's/tenuis and am looking to ditch some other pieces to make space already lol

Tank is 9 months old, pieces added 3/29. Doing ok so far, just waiting for color up impatiently

TCK Mimosa and TCK pink avalanche. you can see the avalanche already basing out and its almost half way down the epoxy ball on the side which really surprised me!

Ive actually been battling high phos since i won a 4 month battle with GHA/bryopsis. Running Alk around 9 but phos is hanging at 0.28-0.30 on hanna LR, not ulr.

now i just need something better than an iphone 7 for pics.

 

[Barnabie Mejia]

what would be a recommended feeding for :
1 - Tomini Tang
3 - clowns
7 - Chromis
1- diamond goby
?

After reading this, I am wondering if I am feeding enough! haha
I am dosing 3ml of redsea AB+ daily on a 75 gallon and my Nitrates float between 5-10ppm depending on the day. I am running filter sock and a reef octo 150INT.
I am feeding only LRS frozen food.


I have an incredible hulk and a walt Disney and a no name millie and they seem to be doing good, but my WD doesn't seem to have the intense colors that I see online... the others have good coloring.

Thanks Reefers!

Barnabie