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Old 10-09-2010, 04:43 PM
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tank ended up being super duper cloudy. I couldnt see to the back of the tank. I added activated carbon. Feeding a lot less (Im afraid of starving animals in there now), running skimmer 24/7 and guess what i have now... green water.
In any case I have too many organics in the water. My pod population went way way down after adding the prazi pro.
Stupid thing said it was supposted to be safe in the display. I guess its not. Never again!

All params are still good. The corals are suffering a bit now because of the lack of light due to the cloudyness.

Im going to try another WC to see if it temporarily helps but all i can do now really is play the waiting game until the green water goes away. In my planted tank it took almost a month (2 years ago) but then it was super crystal clear.
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Old 10-16-2010, 04:26 AM
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So now my tank is clearing up. I can see to the back of it now. Its still cloudy but not anywhere near as bad as it was previously.
Go figure my zoas are all open and looking good where as when the water was clear they were closed and unhappy and wrinkley covered in brown slime. hmmmm

Anyway All the other corals are not happy, my mushrooms are white and my green with orange spot mushroom is almost gone. My lps are shrivelled up. Rics have no colour to them anymore. Macro on the other hand is BRIGHT RED!

I guess it was too long with minimal light (about a month) so now i dont expect many of my coral to survive
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Old 10-16-2010, 04:50 AM
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Is there a reson you treated your whole tank with prazipro? Someone else should chime in but I think that stuff kills alot of things such as pods and inverts. Was it for a flukes treatment? You may have had alot of die off in your tank that could cause the nitrates. Not the greatest idea to add chemicals like that in your display tank. More for quarantine tanks.
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Old 10-18-2010, 01:38 AM
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Prazi pro says its supposted to be safe in display tanks and causes no harm to inverts, corals, etc. Yes it was for flukes
Well my inverts are completely fine but my pod population is at almost nothing. So, im guessing thats what helped cause the green water.

in any case its getting much better now... despite coral loss from lack of light
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Old 10-25-2010, 09:16 PM
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Water is almost clear YAY!
Coral loss:
All monti caps (4)
orange spot green mushroom
green spot mushroom and its babies


Coral almost gone but may recover with superb care:
frogspawn
candycane
superman rhodactus
blue with green skirt rhodactus


coral unaffected or doing way better than before:
zoas (5 frags)
green sinularia
baby blue rhodactus
brown ish rhodactus
blue mushroom
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Old 10-30-2010, 02:52 PM
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we need a picture. I dont have any of the tank yet but maybe this halloween pic of my baby will do
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Old 11-02-2010, 02:44 AM
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So, I went shopping today at the lfs looking to get a small piece of LR to put some pods in my tank; since my population went to pod heaven.
I ended up buying 2 rocks. 1 which had red bubble algae on it, very pretty as well as a bunch of calpura; grape and razor? I need to look it up. which i didnt want but oh well. second rock had a hawian feather duster on it. I took it home and found it had way more feather dusters on it. It has a few red ones and a few blue ones on it. Very cool. Lots of baby ones in red and blue that are under the rock right now. Im hoping they grow and stretch to the front where i can see them. Right now I can only see the hawian feather duster and the back of the blue one.
I also picked up another candycane coral. It has 11 heads on it. I got it for $34. I really love how they fluoress under my lights.

Anyway still no pics yet. Ive been super duper busy. Im hoping I will take one within the next couple of days.
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