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I have some high end corals for sale. PM please.

Sunburst Bounce. $150 OBO 

Frankenstein. $500 OBO        

Neptune Bounce $300 OBO  

Jersey Bounce $300 OBO     

Electus Mushroom $400 OBO  

Jawbreaker $250 OBO               

Indo Dragonsoul Torch 3 Heads $800 OBO

Pink Diamond 3 polyp $75 OBO                

Space Chaos 2 polyp +baby $325 OBO

Queen Strat 3 polyp $125 OBO 

Bitcoin Zoa 3 Polyp + baby $250 OBO

Badlands Zoa 6 Polyp $250 OBO   

Some zoas can be split into singles. Please PM. Thanks for looking.

Thanks for all the thoughts everyone. I also get a couple degree swing up to about 78.5 I do not have a controller set up on both tanks hiqever the one with the apex only varies maybe half a degree. Super solid. Just kinda wanted everyone's thoughts. Thanks again

Just wanted to see what everyone's opinion was.  What is your idea on max temp and max temp swing in a tank before affecting SPS corals in a negative way?

8 minutes ago, Emerald525 said:

Nice looking shrooms !

I think we should throw them all in a blender !

High end mushroom smorgasbord group buy!

HAHA thanks.  The blender idea not sure about though, I think my wife and wallet would leave me lol.

Thanks.

Hello everyone. So I have a few mushrooms I am possibly looking to sell, including a Jersey and Frank bounces, and an eclectus. I'm in no huge need to sell them but if the price is right I am willing to get rid of them. The jersey and Frank are both over an inch. The eclectus is probably just under. Also willing to split them for a less. PM if interested. I will try to get pictures on here as soon as possible. Thanks

Jersey- SOLD   

Neptune- $225 obo   

Sunburst-$150 (SOLD)   

Eclectus- $400 obo       

Frankenstein- $550 obo                              

Godspawn-$200 obo   

Lol that's what I'm doing so far. Just little cheap tester pieces. Nothing I'm in love with in the tank yet. 

One thing I've noticed about the coral pro salt is that after 48 hours of mixing the alk drops to between 9 and 9.5. Also quite a bit of precipitation. In the mixing container. I've been keeping mine around 9 but am contemplating dropping it slowly more towards 8. Just trying to get this tank dialed in .

Yes same rodi water for both. I was thinking about changing to the tropic Marin. The levels seem easier to handle on that salt to begin with and I've heard nothing but good things.

Alson as long as my nitrates and stuff stay down I think I'm going to bot do changes until I get new salt. I can dose to keep my alk stable

4 minutes ago, albertareef said:

Ah... never mind 🙂  That being so, it still seems like a strange coincidence that your SPS would RTN so closely following the water change.  Hmmm.

My thoughts exactly. It happening directly after the water change makes me think it has to do with that since all test are showing really well. I think I may change salts and see if it makes a difference

Oh so mistyped that. Alk only shifted .1. It was a 5 gallon change on A red sea 250. 

So just an update. I'm starting to think it's my salt mix. (Red sea coral pro)  did a 5 gallon change last night. The mix was only .2 alk off of the tank. After the change it moved the alk. 1 total. Not a big change. All other parameters are spot on. But 2 hours after the change had 2 sps go from looking pretty decent to losing all tissue and dead. What a mystery.

14 minutes ago, Vance164 said:

sorry to hear this nick I do not have any insight but I do have some more tester frags for you if need be. 

Thank you for the offer. Hopefully I can keep these going. Moving everything in the right direction I think. Nothing is completely gone yet so hopefully things will turn around over the next week or so.

54 minutes ago, milesmiles902 said:

Scrub that cyano/bubble algae off too 

👍👍

I didnt even see the bubble until you mentioned it.

Pink boobie chalice. This is close to actual color

Not the best pic but here is an example. The under side is still looking great. 

I was wondering myself. Because I was looking and the ones on my frag rack on the side definitely look better than the others.

Sounds good. I have the nitrates down to 10 now. And the clamp out so that's a start. They seem to start dying where the light is hitting them hardest of course but very slowly. Just wierd because I k ow my intensity isnt too high.   I wonder if maybe due to the tank being newer if I should still turn the lights down due to the nutrient intake of the corals being lower. Just a thought maybe 

As you can see the clamp didnt look too bad. However the screq in it was rusting pretty bad. 

Nitrates are down to 10

I dont have a build thread but I can make one.  Here is exhibit 1  and the possible issue. 

So total volume is around 70 gallons. It's a red sea 250. Using rodi water.  Sounds like I have a couple things to handle. The clamp being one and high nitrates being two. I think I'm going to remove that clamp and do a few water changes. Maybe 3 over the next few days. That should handle the nitrates and if anything has leached in the tank and go from that point. All the advice definitely helps. A lab test sounds like a good idea too.  It's just odd that the sps are dying the way they are. It's so slowly without any tissue loss. So something is just off but only just enough to slowly choke them out. I'll add updates and see where it goes. Thank you for all of the information..

Hanna alk tester. Red sea pro for everything else. Also thank you for the link

8 at night 8.2 day time

Plan on getting a dose pump soon. I checked my mix and it has all of 9.5. Mag 1500 calcium 480. I usually do a water change and dont dose all that day and it keeps it steady. I work nights and dose when I get home in the morning. It drops over night to 8.8 and the dose takes it to 9. Same on water change days. The water change takes it back to 9. However the dose pump will be coming soon

I was relying on water changes but three days ago started dosing sugar 1/4 tsp a day which seems to be working. Nitrates are slowly going down and algea is slowly going away also. The clamp does have rust spots which is what made me think of it.