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Old 12-12-2008, 08:47 AM   #4 (permalink)
BigAl07
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Re: Deflating Hammer Coral

Ditto! Those SG swings are hard on everything in your tank except the Sand and Rock. You need to resolve that issue yesterday and watch your PH.... it's getting lower than I would personally want to see.

Hammers, Torch, and FroGSpawn are all very soft tissued animals and their tissue tears very easily. If they do get a tear then the dreaded "Brown Jelly Disease" (BJD) could be knocking on your door. This is a very fast acting infection that can spread through a colony and literally dissolve it in a day's time. If you see symptoms of this you'll want to dip and increase flow to help "slough" off the tissue but you'll have to act the same day... next day it's run it's course.

Good luck! Euphies are among my MOST favorite coral.

Allen
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Live Rock Rubble will do the SAME thing as Bio-Balls and is NOT a suitable replacement for BIO-BALLS in a Reef System! It's ALL gotta go!!

Nitrate (NO3) reduction is directly proportional to percentage of Water Change.
Allen's home-made formula...currentNO3-((%WC*.01)currentNO3)=finalNO3 (thanks Luukosian)
This means if you change 50% of your total water volume (That's EVERYTHING) you'll get a net reduction of (NO3) somewhere around 50%.

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