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how long should i have to wait for Corals ??

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i had a 100G reef tank and i upgraded to a 220G tank and i put all my LR and most of my water in it and all my fishesh corals and inverts , they are all fine but when i add corals they die ina couple of days but this wont  happene with fishesh , the new ones arre healthy like the others , when can i add corals , its been 10 days since my tank started ! help please

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What are your water parameters?

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i had a 100G reef tank and i upgraded to a 220G tank and i put all my LR and most of my water in it and all my fishesh corals and inverts , they are all fine but when i add corals they die ina couple of days but this wont  happene with fishesh , the new ones arre healthy like the others , when can i add corals , its been 10 days since my tank started ! help please


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What are you calling a fishesh coral?   Sometimes a tank can let one type of coral thrive but more delicate corals can’t because of the water quality not being good enough. For example, I could keep soft corals and mushrooms but LPS and SPS were out of bounds.

 

I started cleaning up my water, doing more WCs and now I can keep the LPS corals. Until I have my nitrates and phosphate at 0 consistently I won’t be able to keep SPS coral.


 

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i meant fishesh and Corals . i will give you my parameteres in a couple of hours .

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i meant fishesh and Corals . i will give you my parameteres in a couple of hours .


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I was just rereading your original post. Healthy corals don't die in a day or two...it takes weeks as they ever so slowly shrink up or shrivel up and die. I always laughed at SWF for their 15 day guarantee. It takes longer than that for coral to die, so they would seldom have to pay out.

 

So besides posting the water specs, exactly how does your coral act as it "dies" where did you get the coral, and what type of coral have you tried to keep? 

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i bought them from many different places, my original ones from the 110G tank are  ok but new ones died in 3-4 days , they disingrated or melted or the way T-1000 died in the last part on the terminator 2 movie in the LAVA .

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acclimation maybe?

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whats does acclimation even mean ?

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what are the corals you are trying to keep what kind of lights do you have,also what fish you have

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justy forget  about croals

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whats does acclimation even mean ?


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I just noticed this, and nobody answered you...

 

It means to get the new critter used to the new home..Your tank.

 

You add a little of the new tanks water to the critters and remove some of the old as you go. The new critter, be it a fish, invert or coral gets used to the new SG level and dfferences from your tank to the one they came from.
 

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how boring is that , i had around 30 corals before and none needed this . EVER

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and what happened to your corals and tank?

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how boring is that , i had around 30 corals before and none needed this . EVER


is that why your tank crashed

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the main page to this site has a page that goes over acclimation ...its a big help

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found this a good guide...

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how boring is that , i had around 30 corals before and none needed this . EVER



WOW....did you even temp acclimate????

 

If you had no tank issues you were very lucky.......You should at least temp acclimate corals, and a dip is also recommended to make sure there are no unwanted critters on them

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how boring is that , i had around 30 corals before and none needed this . EVER



 How boring?

Its a matter of life or death, not a matter of your boredom or entertainment.

 

How does anyone own a fishtank and not know what acclimation is? Poor fish/corals

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