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Old 07-11-2014, 12:44 AM
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Nope none of it was dead when I bought it I have pics to prove so. None of the frags from this is in the pic only the colony. Pic is with no lights on so mybe it looks worse than it is but I am battling green hair algae. Just bought one of those API phophate removed bags n it's currently in my sump. My doser's powe supply broke last week so I'm manually dosing till a new one ships in. Alk fluctuating from 7 to 5.4. Should I chop up the colony or leave it n let it encrust? Or does blue German digi even encrust at all?
if water quality is the issue chopping it up wont do anything but just that...chopping it up...it will still stn

if your having troubles with dosers, po4 etc. then thats your issue and would need fixing before anything will heal or grow..

sps are hard corals to keep as in they dont like sudden changes to water quality and especially new pieces as they go through twice as much change just changing tank to tank.
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Old 07-11-2014, 02:26 AM
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Not to mention an alk level of 5.4 seems very low to me. Im sure that would have something to do with it.
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Old 07-11-2014, 06:47 PM
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It does another cm in each branching direction!! I'm lost in to what I do. I'm about to do a water change today or Tmr. I can't keep alk steady without my doser.
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Old 07-11-2014, 07:34 PM
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It died another cm in each direction *
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Old 07-11-2014, 07:48 PM
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i would cut it or super glue it too stop the RTN and give you time to figure out the water parameter issues
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Old 07-11-2014, 10:09 PM
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my doser power adapter just arrived in mail!! ok if it starts to rtn more i guess ill have to chop it off.. i tried to chop off a few small frags that had its base rtn and they just fully died
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Old 07-12-2014, 08:32 PM
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Decided ill finally have to chop it up =( tested chopping a few branches last night n those pieces did not RTN at a but my colony is. N it's dying up to multi branches pieces! After cutting is it possible to glue it back those pieces to the main dead branches so it will encrust back?
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