Hi, Sorry to hear that you are having trouble with your frags. In my opinion, the maturity of the tank makes a BIG DIFFERENCE. You have stated that your tank is only 10 month old. Young tank can't support the life of many different corals, especially Acro. It took me 2.5-3 years to mature the tank in order to successfully keep and grow acropora and other corals.
Good Luck on this great hobby.
I disagree completly if his tank is new and he is testing daily and monitoring everything and has had an sps tank before and knows how to make a successful tank then I completly disagree.
I have had my tank up for three months and within the first month and a half I added 32 frags. None have died. And the two that didn't ship well have recovered and are growing.
I fully believe that (besides maby a coral here and there because they are sps and of course after the cycle) if a frag dies with a week or two of putting in your tank the frag was either clipped and shipped way to small of a frag and or came from a not so good vendor.
If you do your research and find high quality sps sellers that will limit the death. People like battle corals jason fox or wwc or even hobiest like aquavista or spspirate who have a religious qt program and who sell corals that are encrusted on the plugs people who won't ship the frags till a week or two after you pay those frags are healthy and have the best chance of thriving in your system. You pay a little more for the corals but the quality is there in that u know they are not coming in with pest and you also know theses corals had time to recover from having there body chopped off.
I don't believe tank age has anything to do with a frag dieing or not at least not in a week or two. There are tons of threads on this site of people setting up a tank and a month later it's filled with frags and then a year or two later those frags are colonies.
Just my opinion of course and you could be right. Now u said u had a problem in the first two and a half years But did you test alk and calcium everyday and replenish what was absorbed trace elements and all and did u have the proper equiptment to succeed from the beginning the right flow the right lighting proper skimmer and way to control the temp?
Corals aren't like fish they don't really need biological filtration as much as fish do as long as ammonia stays at 0 then corals will be fine.
There are tons of frag tanks out there with no fish or massive amounts of rocks in them so that's a new tank right? What biological filtration do they have? Some rocks in the sump? That's nothing. Corals consume nitrate and phosphate not add it to the system
I'm not trying to pick a fight either I'm just trying to broaden ur vision. Everyone's vision because to me that's one of those things brs could do reef certainty or reef myth.
To me it's an easy answer to give to someone instead of looking into what can be done to have a successful sps tank after a cycle. Cause think about it most hobbiest when they first start out struggle to have fish let alone corals and to do the proper reasearch and get the proper equiptment to have sps corals isn't easy or cheap.
That's all sorry for the rant and hope u don't think I was trying to pick a fight
