What can affect P.E. ?

Lance · #1 04-21-2010, 01:04 AM

PE up the wazoo! That's gotta hurt!
Darren I have this same thing happen every now and then for no apparent reason. Do the Acros have PE after lights out?

marie · #2 04-21-2010, 01:08 AM

Darren what fish do you have? That's what first clued me when my regal angel started picking on corals

Lance · #3 04-21-2010, 01:29 AM

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Originally Posted by marie

Darren what fish do you have? That's what first clued me when my regal angel started picking on corals

That's just what I was going to say if PE is only after lights out.

PoonTang · #4 04-21-2010, 01:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Lance

That's just what I was going to say if PE is only after lights out.

Also I had all of these fish except for the PB before it happened and it was like an overnight occurance.

Lance · #5 04-21-2010, 01:34 AM

My Coral Beauty tends to nip at my Brains if I don't keep him fed enough.

marie · #6 04-21-2010, 01:41 AM

I have 4 angels and all 4 of them eat acros....I don't trust angels as far as I can spit

*edit*It was an overnight occurrence with my regal angel too. She lived with the corals for months before deciding to start snacking

christyf5 · #7 04-21-2010, 01:57 AM

Did you have decent PE with this tank previously?

$20 says its evil red bugs

H2o2 · #8 04-21-2010, 03:25 AM

something new electrical or something started leaking stray voltage ? maybe test with volt meter

lorenz0 · #9 04-21-2010, 04:17 AM

Some thing i did to increase PE is heavy skimming, run GFO and carbon. Also notice that phos xtra, coral snow, and other KZ products made a difference as well.

PoonTang · #10 04-21-2010, 01:31 AM

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Originally Posted by marie

Darren what fish do you have? That's what first clued me when my regal angel started picking on corals

PB Tang, Purple Tang, Kole tang, Lawnmower Blennie, True Perc Pair, Cleaner Wrasse, Coral Beauty. I spent alot of time watching the tank to see if there was a coral snacker in there but nothing.
Funnily enough the first coral I noticed was the one I got from you. Purple acro with big amazing green polyps. It was doing absolutely fabulous, growing like crazy, PE so big you almost couldnt see the purple. Now its a purple acro with teeny tiny little green dots on it that dont even get any bigger even after lights out. Christys frag is doing great but I think mine is more purple.