SPS question
 

I'm noticing on most of my sps that they have tiny bubbles coming from them. Is this normal?

Walter

I've never seen bubbles coming from my SPS. Are you sure they are air bubbles? It could be coral spawn! Where are the "bubbles" coming from?

They are bubbles for sure. It looks like a morning dew on all the tips.. Tiny little bubbles..

Walter

That's a new one for me!!

can u get a pic of this?

I'll do my best :biggrin:

Walter

Best I could get with my camera.

http://aquahome.no-ip.com/bub1.jpg
http://aquahome.no-ip.com/bub2.jpg
http://aquahome.no-ip.com/bub3.jpg

Walter

having a cyano problem?

My SPS looked like that when I had a cyano bloom... :question:

Just my .02
Dano

The bubbles aren't anywhere else but the corals?

They are only on the sps I have at the top of the rocks. Everything else looks normal... The only thing I can think of is maybe not enough flow? Maybe micro bubbles from the skimmer are collecting there?

Walter

if you have microbubbles going into the tank and lack of flow those tiny bubbles could stick right onto the tips of the corals.

Microbubbles, bryopsis are the only two things I can think of to explain that.

More flow us needed I'd think.

Its micro bubbles, I used to have the same problem!

i have that problem when the water in the fuge gets low and the return pump puts micro bubbles into the tank.

micro bubbles agitate corals and make them slime, mostly

looks like microbubbles colecting on the corals to me, I had that problem when I first set up the old plumbing. The corals catch them with the stickeyness(or how ever the polyps hang on to them) :mrgreen:

Steve

I guess it's the same old problem, more flow without knocking everything over or kicking up sand... I guess I should have done a closed loop! :biggrin:

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Thats exactly what it is. Bubbles getting trapped in the slime coat of the SPS. A turkey baster should keep them free of this but you might want to adjust your flow and micro bubble issues.