Marie's 175g mixed reef (new pics added jan 27)

[marie]

This is the bali that Dave gave me and I bleached it out badly. It's now recovered and turned into a very nice coral


The pearlberry acro doing very well

[marie]

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by marie

LOL, oh I recognize all of them The above right one (purple) was super tiny in May too (I remember this because I coveted it ). Man I wish I knew your secret for growing corals, you're like the Coral Whisperer or something!!

[marie]

This last week the coral growth has slowed right down, I even had to turn down my calcium reactor a bit. I think its because I shortened the photo period from 10 1/2 hrs to 8 1/2 hours because of the heat and the renos

[marie]

I'm moving my tale of woe to this thread so I don't mess up Lance's

Originally Posted by marie

I'm not really sure whats happening, the tank did get up to 86 the day we started to tear everything out of the living room and then I switched the light cycle to night/early morning so the tank could be covered during the day without heating up ( it never got above 84 again).
At some point the sump room started reeking of coral sex (kind of distinctive once you've smelled it once) and the skimmer shut down for 2 days.Unfortunately I wasn't in a position to do any water changes.
A few acros are losing tissue, the monti caps are bleaching and looking decidedly unhappy and the digis are losing their growing tips.
I bought a bucket of salt from Bob today ($80 ) and I will start water changes as soon as the paintings done tomorrow night/wed

Originally Posted by Chaloupa

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Marie...OH NO! That's not good.....ack...do you think it's related to the drywalling or? Wish I were closer to take a piece of that superman digi.

I don't think it was the drywalling because it started when we were still tearing out the carpet and wood paneling.
I suspect it was the whole thing combined with the change in light cycle, a/some corals going sexual, the heat, and dust going in the tank.
My Plan of attack right now is to get everything back on a normal schedule and doing 3 or 4 large water changes

[marie]

Interestingly, I just remembered it was this time a couple of years ago that my purple cap released a massive amount of eggs I wonder if maybe the other caps joined in as well this year and thats why they appear to be suffering the most

Notice the date on the thread
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=34582

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

If we end up coming later in August to PR, do you want me to bring up some buckets of salt?

[Navarchus]

Have mercy ….. This tank is awesome

It seems you’ve selected your fish with tweezers.
The corals are magnificent as well, great aquascape!

[marie]

Originally Posted by Navarchus

Have mercy ….. This tank is awesome

It seems you’ve selected your fish with tweezers.
The corals are magnificent as well, great aquascape!

....With tweezers??

Thank You, I think