CubanPete
Active Member
OK, so let me start with some history...
I have a 72 gallon bowfront alive with LPS...acans, three torches, 5 wall hammers, two branching hammers, three octospawn, two frogspawn, brain, welso, huge grape coral, smaller three headed grape, three separate duncans, feather duster and about 10 fish. Decent clean up crew. I switched to LEDs from T5s about 6 weeks ago. I didn't know what a huge difference they were. I started them with 2 hours blue, 5 white, then 2 blue after. I noticed a wall hammer receding as well as a torch. Did more research and found out I didn't acclimate well enough. I raised the lights to 12" above the water (approx 26" to bottom from top). Cut the lights to 4 hours of blue only, and ran that for four weeks. Increased to 6 hours a couple of weeks ago. Due to the light issue, I lost a few LPS.
After I thought the light stabilized out, and the tank looked good, I purchased two new wall hammers. One has since died, as has a huge wall hammer that was pretty much my show piece. I've also lost the branching hammer and a couple acans seem to be receding. My params all seem to be pretty good...
Salinity 1.026-7
Trate/trite 0
Amonia 0
PH was 7.8...working on buffering to 8.2
Calcium 420-460
I'm at a loss. I don't know what to do, and it feels like I'm losing a piece a week. Right now, a golden torch isn't opening all the way, and even though skeleton isn't showing, I am afraid of losing it...
Anyone have any ideas? Everything else is doing awesome. The LPS that was dying had the brown jelly. Super sad and need some help...
Pete
Oh...been dosing a little bit of iodine and melafix...been doing that for the last 7 days or so...
I have a 72 gallon bowfront alive with LPS...acans, three torches, 5 wall hammers, two branching hammers, three octospawn, two frogspawn, brain, welso, huge grape coral, smaller three headed grape, three separate duncans, feather duster and about 10 fish. Decent clean up crew. I switched to LEDs from T5s about 6 weeks ago. I didn't know what a huge difference they were. I started them with 2 hours blue, 5 white, then 2 blue after. I noticed a wall hammer receding as well as a torch. Did more research and found out I didn't acclimate well enough. I raised the lights to 12" above the water (approx 26" to bottom from top). Cut the lights to 4 hours of blue only, and ran that for four weeks. Increased to 6 hours a couple of weeks ago. Due to the light issue, I lost a few LPS.
After I thought the light stabilized out, and the tank looked good, I purchased two new wall hammers. One has since died, as has a huge wall hammer that was pretty much my show piece. I've also lost the branching hammer and a couple acans seem to be receding. My params all seem to be pretty good...
Salinity 1.026-7
Trate/trite 0
Amonia 0
PH was 7.8...working on buffering to 8.2
Calcium 420-460
I'm at a loss. I don't know what to do, and it feels like I'm losing a piece a week. Right now, a golden torch isn't opening all the way, and even though skeleton isn't showing, I am afraid of losing it...
Anyone have any ideas? Everything else is doing awesome. The LPS that was dying had the brown jelly. Super sad and need some help...
Pete
Oh...been dosing a little bit of iodine and melafix...been doing that for the last 7 days or so...
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