Tank crashing...could it be due to these?

[Doug]

As for my personal beliefs from my own limited sps experience and the reading of a million sps threads, ,

I do not like the higher temps that are promoted by some but have always run under 80, which follows the "preachings" of many very experienced aquarists, like Terry Siegel, Richard Harker, Greg Schiemer and others.

I also think the fruit stand overcrowded sps tanks have more RTN cases than the sparce look, letting the large growing sps colonies mature. It will be interesting to see down the road if tanks like Richard Harkers or Jerels, {Spanky}, do in the long run.

RTN is also an overused word, for the passing of corals that could have died for many other reasons. {perhaps like something being released from Brads sandbed disturbance for instance}.

Anyhow, just think of a packed sps tank, with alkalinity being overdriven to higher levels, temps run in the high end range and being blasted with high light to promote growth and colour. Perhaps its no wonder some of them get sick in our tanks.

To me, they are also very finicky at times. You look at them wrong and they bleach. Crap, no matter how many times I tried, I could not get montipora caps from Mikes 180, with 400w bulbs, to stop bleaching under my new Radiums. We also have a nice acro colony, that we can move back and forth between us, but every frag we have tried has bleached.

I sometimes laugh to myself when I think of Bobs anology, {is that a correct word}, of sps. Just fuzzy sticks that dont move.

Then I look at tanks like Brads before his problems and some other beautiful sps tanks here, or my favorite still, that picture Steve took of his digita, and you think its all worthwhile.