My holy grail clam - a tiny 2.5” blue squamosa.
Hopefully coming tomorrow.
Hopefully coming tomorrow.
Chapter 2: 50g Lowboy LPS
- Thread starter Rainblood
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Clam came from Austin Aqua Farms.
Absolutely gorgeous. Bigger than I expected as well. It was listed at 2.5”
Absolutely gorgeous. Bigger than I expected as well. It was listed at 2.5”
Nice!
Some pics…just because they look nice 
How's the clam doing?
I'll have to take better photos
Pretty happy as far as I can tell.
I started its own thread https://atlantareefclub.org/boards/index.php?threads/blue-squamosa-diary.1183735/
Well...went on a 5-day holiday and set up an autofeeder (just 1x per day revolution).
So here is the finalized casualty list:
Wild pink arco - RTN'd
Walt Disney - completely brown, no polyp extension (pretty sure its going out)
2 heads of hammer melted
One crocea keeps jumping off its rock (I'm not sure whats going on with it)
And I'm missing 1 davinci clownfish
I didn't even measure the params when I got home, I just did a water change.
So here is the finalized casualty list:
Wild pink arco - RTN'd
Walt Disney - completely brown, no polyp extension (pretty sure its going out)
2 heads of hammer melted
One crocea keeps jumping off its rock (I'm not sure whats going on with it)
And I'm missing 1 davinci clownfish
I didn't even measure the params when I got home, I just did a water change.
Final death tally
1 crocea
1 clown
2 heads pink hammer
1 wild torch
WD
Wild Pink Acro
Cherry bomb
fire n ice echinata
red robin
omg acro
voodoo magik
Good news is that everything is done dying
My alk was in the high 6's when I got back and I think its sort of re-stabilized again in the high 7s - low 8s
1 crocea
1 clown
2 heads pink hammer
1 wild torch
WD
Wild Pink Acro
Cherry bomb
fire n ice echinata
red robin
omg acro
voodoo magik
Good news is that everything is done dying
My alk was in the high 6's when I got back and I think its sort of re-stabilized again in the high 7s - low 8s
Sorry to hear it. That just sucks
Haven’t figured it out. The only thing that while we were away was the feeding. We feed frozen & pellets but went to an auto feeder for 5 days with just pellets. I can’t think of anything else
Is this tank nutrient limited potentially? Hypothetically, if excessive feed (feeder malfunction) or the dead clownfish spiked nutrient levels which then increased the coral calcium uptake, that would explain the drop alkalinity. What I learned the hard way is that low nutrient levels plus alkalinity swings rapidly effect corals where when alkalinity changes with higher nutrient levels there is less of an affect on SPS coral health.
Man that stinks, sorry to hear that! Worst thing for me so far in this hobby is fear of going away for a few days.Final death tally
1 crocea
1 clown
2 heads pink hammer
1 wild torch
WD
Wild Pink Acro
Cherry bomb
fire n ice echinata
red robin
omg acro
voodoo magik
Good news is that everything is done dying
My alk was in the high 6's when I got back and I think its sort of re-stabilized again in the high 7s - low 8s
So my 6" derasa was gaping this morning and I took it out.
I dunno wtf is going on with this tank. I checked the Alk and it was low 6.8 so I've bumped up the dosing.
Other than that - the numbers look fine
I dunno wtf is going on with this tank. I checked the Alk and it was low 6.8 so I've bumped up the dosing.
Other than that - the numbers look fine
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Sorry I missed this.
This tank would probably be considered high nutrient - my phosphates bounce around up to .2 and my nitrates are usually always between 5-10.
I actually dose nitrates to keep them up.
It might be that the tank is maturing and I haven't been upping the alk dosing to keep up.
Ive really been neglecting the frag tank bc of all the other sh!t I’ve got going on. A buddy came over recently and silently judged my tank and I was like dammit he’s right.
Anyhow I cleaned it up and am giving things more space
I need to keep a closer eye on the nutrients as well as I have move about 60% of the fish out of this tank
Anyhow I cleaned it up and am giving things more space
I need to keep a closer eye on the nutrients as well as I have move about 60% of the fish out of this tank
