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Velodog2
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Really? Did acros survive? I find this bizarre.
Watching my reef die.
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Really? Did acros survive? I find this bizarre.
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Velodog2
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The great thing about this tank was that everything was growing extremely well and the only maintenance was a weekly 5 gal water change. No supplements, reactors, testing, or $250 electric bills. I love nanos, except for the susceptibility to upsets, stupidity induced or otherwise. I'd used the vinegar thing in my old 240 system many times before. I failed to guess right at how much this tank could handle. No room for error.
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Acro's are fine. Birdsnest that survived are still coloring back up.
https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/member-tanks/74613-mikes-deep-blue-75-rimless.html
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Velodog2
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Well that's pretty strong evidence then that I killed it with vinegar. Doubt anyone could shed light on why the acros would be unaffected, but I'm sure the explanation would be interesting. Birdsnests seem pretty thoroughly nuked. Under actinic moonlights last night I could see there was still tissue deep in the grooves of the leptoseris and Pavona colonies. Not sure what will come of that. The frogspawn and hammers lost tissue up the stalks to the polyps themselves, but those seemed to be reinflating last night a little. One caulastrea colony seems to be recovering while another continues to deteriorate. There were a few specks of color in the polyp cavities on some montis.
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Well a week on and dust has settled and bodies have been counted. It turned out that the leptoseris and pavonas survived with tissue deep in the grooves althought there is a lot of die back. Caulastrea, frogspawn, and hammer survived pretty well also. Only one monti is left - the blue flower still has quite a lot of polyps on the underside of the plate. That one would be harder to replace so that's a happy thing. Acros all continued to grow through the whole event, so that's a very happy thing.
I needed to feel better about this debaucle so I went out and got replacements for the Tyree undata, JF orange/violet monti, and meteor shower cyphastrea. I replaced the purple digitata with a JF Orchid stylo. Then I had the opportunity for a Hawkins echinata frag, so I grabbed it. So $300 later the tank is looking ok again and I feel better about it. Could have been worse.
I needed to feel better about this debaucle so I went out and got replacements for the Tyree undata, JF orange/violet monti, and meteor shower cyphastrea. I replaced the purple digitata with a JF Orchid stylo. Then I had the opportunity for a Hawkins echinata frag, so I grabbed it. So $300 later the tank is looking ok again and I feel better about it. Could have been worse.
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I don't understand why you would even chance doing that instead of fragging the coral and selling it or getting rid of it or allowing it to grow. You take a 50/50 chance when that is done on killing everything other living organism in that tank some i think cost a good dime and it just not a good chance to take because of the outcome your currently experiencing . I'm sorry to head about the misfortune but i don't think it should have occurred.
By the way i'm not being rude or mean just my thoughts.
By the way i'm not being rude or mean just my thoughts.
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Velodog2
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Lol. Why would I argue with perfect 20/20 hindsight? I hereby vow to never make another mistake again by never making another judgement call or taking another risk. Too easy to be wrong.
How do you own a reef with no risks?
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My point exactly. I always forget that sarcasm does not convey easily on bulletin boards.
Lol...I was hoping you had a miracle answer 
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As much as this thread needs to die, having degraded to the point where I'm being called out for stupidity lol, I have one more observation I have to report a week and a half post debaucle. My LPS were the first to react and initially reacted the worst to the contamination, but actually have all recovered. And although a little tissue was lost in some cases, they have come back undeniably bigger and buffer than before. The caulastrea colony's polyps are packed together tight where there was space between them before. The acans blow up like balloons when food hits the water. And although less clear-cut I believe I am getting some better polyp extension on some acros.
I have never tried dosing vodka, but could this be a similar effect? I in effect dosed about 3 ml of vinegar to a roughly 18 gallon system. Additionally, afterward, I did 4-5 water changes in a 2 day period of 5 gallons each. Most of those water changes were made with water that read about 7 ppm TDS because my DI resin was close to pooping out when the need arose and I didn't have replacement handy. I also begain running cheap activated carbon which has since been removed. Anyone want to speculate on what is happening?
I have never tried dosing vodka, but could this be a similar effect? I in effect dosed about 3 ml of vinegar to a roughly 18 gallon system. Additionally, afterward, I did 4-5 water changes in a 2 day period of 5 gallons each. Most of those water changes were made with water that read about 7 ppm TDS because my DI resin was close to pooping out when the need arose and I didn't have replacement handy. I also begain running cheap activated carbon which has since been removed. Anyone want to speculate on what is happening?
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