Monti having trouble. What are your thoughts?

[Mykesocalreef]

50 lbs of live rock is a little low for a 165gal system. I have found that SPS need lots of biodiversity with pods, mircofauna, etc. All mine died until I created a) a very stable system with no alk swings and b) a very biodiverse environment.

There is a youtube video of Mike Paletta talking about setting up a new system with new rock and everything he put in there (mostly SPS) died for about a year until he finally added live rock from a older system to help with the microfauna, etc and then everything was fine.

other than that, i've also come to the conclusion that some corals just die. No need to tweak the tank constantly because one coral isn't doing well.

Well it’s been in the tank 1.5 yrs. 20 pounds from another system. That was running for 4 years. I understand the not tweaking but haven’t done much other than water changes and normal routine cleaning.

 

[AtlCPA]

Well it’s been in the tank 1.5 yrs. 20 pounds from another system. That was running for 4 years. I understand the not tweaking but haven’t done much other than water changes and normal routine cleaning.

good the rock has been around that long, that helps. You may need a little more if you have room.

I didn't mean you were tweaking the tank too much. I was just saying in general some people are constantly tweaking their tank every time one coral doesn't look good and that can be a bad idea. That's all I was saying.

 

[Mykesocalreef]

Yeah I understand that, if my reply came across as rude or anything that was not my intention. My apologies if so.

 

[HB AL]

I would give it an iodine bath if you haven't already. It might be asking for more light, more flow is my guess. I have a pretty large mystic sunset that I moved down in the tank over a year ago, just doing some rearranging of things and it started to look like that around the edges after a week or so. At that point I moved it back to its original location up higher and it went back to normal. I think it was less light that caused it.

I just found the pic of my mystic that I took of it of what it looked like after I had moved it down in the tank when rearranging stuff, looked pretty rough, I dipped it and moved it back up to its preferred location. Other pic is it back to normal. It's encrusted the whole rock and the new growth grows like a cap to stay in the light so I regularly break off chunks and trade it to my lfs.

 

[Mykesocalreef]

I just found the pic of my mystic that I took of it of what it looked like after I had moved it down in the tank when rearranging stuff, looked pretty rough, I dipped it and moved it back up to its preferred location. Other pic is it back to normal. It's encrusted the whole rock and the new growth grows like a cap to stay in the light so I regularly break off chunks and trade it to my lfs.

That does look a lot better!

 

[HB AL]

I like to document bad changes changes, in this case lowering it 8 inches down seemed to be the culprit.