184g basement 8ft reef

[FishyFishy!]

I foresee future TOTM!

[Roskoreef]

Bodianus anthioides, new favourite fish.. this guy even cleans like a cleaner wrasse..red coris wrasse is not a fan so far... also got some new brains.























on a bad note, had an alk swing due to apex not being updated (fixed now) and dropped my ph in the calc reactor to 5.9 and temp to 29c, it just left all outlets on regardless of programming..anyway my huge efflo and several others have began to stn.. some from top, some from bottom, but alot of my favourite pieces... may have to frag some or glue. everything else was good but there were several swings...hope they can stop and heal.

[Slyguy00]

Tanks looking awesome. Sorry to hear about your sps. Hope it comes back nicely.

[Roskoreef]

sigh.... more stn issues, fairly certain it was a combo of slight overdose of zeostart, slight change in zeo reactor output (when i changed pump and reactor 2mths ago) and an alk swing from 7 dkh to 8.75 dkh overnight (apex malfunction)

only my largest colonies are dying, i was hoping it would stop but this morning nearly a 1/4 of my large bonsai, yellow mille, efflo and teal deepwater... i dont think i have a choice but to frag out...

I fragged out the teal deepwater and cut most of the dying tissue, but i found this black inside the skeleton, anyone know if this is whats killing my nicest stuff? besides stn from recent issues..

pics after cutting most of the bottom off,



black stuff, was inside the part that was dying,

[Roskoreef]

frag tank was a mess so i picked up some of these new nifty frag racks from IM. I saw them on a MACNA review, so i snatched 2 when i saw them.

[Skimmer Juice]

did you find them local? price?

[Roskoreef]

Originally Posted by Skimmer Juice

did you find them local? price?

yeah i found them at pisces, not cheap 89% ea. they had 2 smaller versions for cheaper but i didnt look into them.

[Myka]

Sorry to hear about the STN troubles... I sure hope that beauty Efflo pulls through!

[Roskoreef]

Originally Posted by Myka

Sorry to hear about the STN troubles... I sure hope that beauty Efflo pulls through!

Stn has moved down about an inch everywhere, im devestated.. im going to attempt to save some part of it but cutting it with a dremmel, pretty sure to save any of it i will have to, any suggestions?

[Myka]

Originally Posted by Roskoreef

Stn has moved down about an inch everywhere, im devestated.. im going to attempt to save some part of it but cutting it with a dremmel, pretty sure to save any of it i will have to, any suggestions?

I haven't found that fragging always helps. In fact, I'm not sure that it even helps at all. I've tried fragging and not fragging, and sometimes the frags will survive when the rest of the colony perishes, and sometimes just the opposite. If you do frag, try to clip in-tank, and leave the rest of the colony in there.