75reef
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I have a brief history here.... SORRY- LONG STORY
I have a 75 gal, 260W PC lighting tank that was established for 8 months. I had several fish in there and everything was doing great. The only problem I ever had with it was I couldn't get my nitrate levels down. They always hung around 30-40.
I finally decided to get some button polyps and some mushrooms. I had then in my tank for a week or so and they were both all closed up and didn't look like they even wanted to open any time soon. I called the LFS and they said it could just be acclimation.
Finally after 3 weeks, I actually put them in my wifes tank that is a little 12 Gal setup that was established for about 5 months at the time. Everything started coming to life. She has a 32W PC light in her tank. Her water perameters were pretty much the same as my tank. I then tried putting them back in my tank a couple weeks later after they were pretty much flourishing in her tank. They did not open up once in my tank and I gave it a week and back in her tank they went. They literally started opening up the same day they went in her tank ( the jerks).
Now, (many months gone by) since then I have completely redone my tank. I have about 90Lbs of live rock in there, Metal halide lighting, added a whole sump system with a good protien skimmer and waited almost two months till everything was stable. I even use RO water now and have no problem with nitrates.
I finally decided to add those corals again and they haven't opened up in the past 4 day they have been in there. I even put them at the bottom a little bit shadowed from the new more intense lighting so they didn't get a lighting shock. I am at a total loss for what is going on. An these are supposed to be some of the easiest corals to keep!!! I am going to give them a couple more days to see if they adjust, if not, I'll have to put them back in her tank.
Anybody have any idea what is going on!?!!? what else I could check for?
I have a 75 gal, 260W PC lighting tank that was established for 8 months. I had several fish in there and everything was doing great. The only problem I ever had with it was I couldn't get my nitrate levels down. They always hung around 30-40.
I finally decided to get some button polyps and some mushrooms. I had then in my tank for a week or so and they were both all closed up and didn't look like they even wanted to open any time soon. I called the LFS and they said it could just be acclimation.
Finally after 3 weeks, I actually put them in my wifes tank that is a little 12 Gal setup that was established for about 5 months at the time. Everything started coming to life. She has a 32W PC light in her tank. Her water perameters were pretty much the same as my tank. I then tried putting them back in my tank a couple weeks later after they were pretty much flourishing in her tank. They did not open up once in my tank and I gave it a week and back in her tank they went. They literally started opening up the same day they went in her tank ( the jerks).
Now, (many months gone by) since then I have completely redone my tank. I have about 90Lbs of live rock in there, Metal halide lighting, added a whole sump system with a good protien skimmer and waited almost two months till everything was stable. I even use RO water now and have no problem with nitrates.
I finally decided to add those corals again and they haven't opened up in the past 4 day they have been in there. I even put them at the bottom a little bit shadowed from the new more intense lighting so they didn't get a lighting shock. I am at a total loss for what is going on. An these are supposed to be some of the easiest corals to keep!!! I am going to give them a couple more days to see if they adjust, if not, I'll have to put them back in her tank.
Anybody have any idea what is going on!?!!? what else I could check for?
