Tank crash - Update 2...Meet Pablo
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Glad to see you've bounced back from your crash. Looking good.
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Good to hear that your tank is back on the road to recovery.
I may have some insight as to the explosion in growth with your SPS corals. Late last year I had issues with my tank and I experienced many SPS corals having RTN. After I figured out my issues and got my water parameters under control, some of my SPS corals started growing in unusual growth forms. The tips of some of the staghorn corals exploded with new growth; not staghorn-like. In several discussions, we believe that this unusual growth was the result of the coral trying to recover from the "crash" by creating as many new branches as possible to improve the success rate for the coral's survival.
Here's the latest picture of one of the staghorn coral's new growth. More info can be found in my build thread; here.
I may have some insight as to the explosion in growth with your SPS corals. Late last year I had issues with my tank and I experienced many SPS corals having RTN. After I figured out my issues and got my water parameters under control, some of my SPS corals started growing in unusual growth forms. The tips of some of the staghorn corals exploded with new growth; not staghorn-like. In several discussions, we believe that this unusual growth was the result of the coral trying to recover from the "crash" by creating as many new branches as possible to improve the success rate for the coral's survival.
Here's the latest picture of one of the staghorn coral's new growth. More info can be found in my build thread; here.
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Good to hear that your tank is back on the road to recovery.
I may have some insight as to the explosion in growth with your SPS corals. Late last year I had issues with my tank and I experienced many SPS corals having RTN. After I figured out my issues and got my water parameters under control, some of my SPS corals started growing in unusual growth forms. The tips of some of the staghorn corals exploded with new growth; not staghorn-like. In several discussions, we believe that this unusual growth was the result of the coral trying to recover from the "crash" by creating as many new branches as possible to improve the success rate for the coral's survival.
Here's the latest picture of one of the staghorn coral's new growth. More info can be found in my build thread; here.
Exactly the same thing has happened, loads of new tips
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I think the SPS growth explosion is directly tied to the lower volume of mushroom and finger leather corals. I'm sure there was some chemical warfare at play... main reason I don't keep leathers or mushrooms in my SPS-dominant tank.
