I've been buying a lot of corals off this guy who lives near me, and is just propogating his harty corals so that he can make some room. Super nice guy and he gives me amazing prices.
Unfortunetly everything i buy from him dies, the only things that have lived are cabbage, zoo's, and ricordia. The things that died are a small toadstool mushroom frag, hammer, green tree leather and a polyp rock. I was attributing most of the death to my hydrometer problem that i'd just figured out a couple days ago (my salinity was at approx 1.028-9, but my hydrometer said 1.024). Since then i've fixed the salinity and i bought another HUGE green tree frag (actually he traded me for a 10 gallon, i couldn't say no).
But it seems, yet again, that the tree leather is dying, i couldn't figure out ANYTHING that could make the difference, his tank is amazingly healthy and thriving, my tank not so thriving but still my levels check out, and my lights are similiar considering tank size.
Then i thought, "he uses natural sea water". Could the change between NSW and mixed water be causing all of this to die? I acclimate for approx 30 min or more everytime i buy somethign, and i still lose a lot. Can anyone answer this?
Another possible attribute to atleast the tree leathers, is they've been fragged off the "mother colony" only a couple of days ago, and they're still trying to attach via elastic. Could moving them to my tank have put the final nail in any chance of re attaching to the rock?
Unfortunetly everything i buy from him dies, the only things that have lived are cabbage, zoo's, and ricordia. The things that died are a small toadstool mushroom frag, hammer, green tree leather and a polyp rock. I was attributing most of the death to my hydrometer problem that i'd just figured out a couple days ago (my salinity was at approx 1.028-9, but my hydrometer said 1.024). Since then i've fixed the salinity and i bought another HUGE green tree frag (actually he traded me for a 10 gallon, i couldn't say no).
But it seems, yet again, that the tree leather is dying, i couldn't figure out ANYTHING that could make the difference, his tank is amazingly healthy and thriving, my tank not so thriving but still my levels check out, and my lights are similiar considering tank size.
Then i thought, "he uses natural sea water". Could the change between NSW and mixed water be causing all of this to die? I acclimate for approx 30 min or more everytime i buy somethign, and i still lose a lot. Can anyone answer this?
Another possible attribute to atleast the tree leathers, is they've been fragged off the "mother colony" only a couple of days ago, and they're still trying to attach via elastic. Could moving them to my tank have put the final nail in any chance of re attaching to the rock?
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