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01-31-2008, 09:14 PM
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 Fed Up!!:@: @  I have tried 2 different corals (Xenia and cabbage) and within a week of putting it (at different weeks) they die within 5 days. Water chem is fine, had it further tested by my trusted LFS and is pronounced fine. I've been working w/ this store owner for a couple of years now so I trust his guidance. Just did a water change after taking the rank cabbage coral out. Any ideas? I tried moving them to better light locations, better water movement locations..........sigh.
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01-31-2008, 09:16 PM
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| Re: Fed Up!!:@: What, exactly, are your parameters? And if you havent already test for copper!
__________________ Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it into a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. -Bruce Lee |
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01-31-2008, 09:16 PM
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| Re: Fed Up!!:@: Your tank has been up one month? I hear ya, but you really need your own test equipment, because my guess is either with water parameters or acclimation.
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01-31-2008, 09:18 PM
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| Re: Fed Up!!:@: one month is a little to fast to add stuff to the tank |
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01-31-2008, 09:34 PM
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| Re: Fed Up!! Ok...calming down. I'll test for copper tomorrow, thanks for that!
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01-31-2008, 09:38 PM
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| Re: Fed Up!!:@: Don't trust that Xenia will last in any tank, I have tried and tried in mine and my tank is almost 3 years old, I finally got some Pom Pom Xenia to last over 1 1/2 months. |
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01-31-2008, 09:42 PM
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| Re: Fed Up!! Do you have any other suggestions for corals? Thanks for the advice to all so far!
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01-31-2008, 09:44 PM
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| Re: Fed Up!!:@: Oh, I should add to my profile that I've been doing freshwater for a couple of years now....interesting jump to the "dark" side. Everyone said "SALT??!!! it's sooooooo hard!" blah blah blah....maybe frustrating at times but worth it!!
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01-31-2008, 09:52 PM
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| Re: Fed Up!!:@: with a new tank you can do some shroms and some star polups but even then id just hold of for the next 2 months if you can |
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01-31-2008, 09:55 PM
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| Re: Fed Up!!:@: One of the easist so far that I have found but can become a nusiance it Green Star Polyps, its a great starter coral but it can spread quickly, I have 3 different green varieties and 1 Pink Star Polyp, but at some point you will probably want to get rid of them.... just a fair warning...as far as other coral maybe a Colt coral, but I would have also said your Cabbage. Mushrooms, I have had better luck with the frilly mushrooms, at first the regular ones did fine in my tank but after awhile they all just disappeared... now I think I only have 1 left. |
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01-31-2008, 11:00 PM
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| Re: Fed Up!!:@: Xenia is a pretty harder coral...i've had mine 6 months and switched over from a tank
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