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  1. meg&ran

    will phosphate more than 2.0 kill coral

    ok im toping my tank off. Then im going to change the salt water. i bought a needle applicator. the shrimp is already smashed up but i will smash it up some more. i will put it on the corals. but the x-mas rock, should i put some phytoplex in the needle and spray it over the rock? by the way...
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    will phosphate more than 2.0 kill coral

    thanks tizzo, i went to the lfs and the dont know what cyclop-eeze is. is there a nother name of are they crazy. i have frozen mysis shrimp. i take it that isnt good to put on candy cane. i live in lima, north of dayton about a hour and a half up I75
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    will phosphate more than 2.0 kill coral

    it all is in a 75 gal. tank w/fish
  4. meg&ran

    will phosphate more than 2.0 kill coral

    i have 100 pounds of LR. and i think 50 pounds of LS. two power heads and a skimmer. i also have brown polyps, a large leather finger, a xmas rock closed brian and a blue bubble. i will try what you told me. but with the other corals should i stop doses
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    will phosphate more than 2.0 kill coral

    Originally Posted by wax32 A phosphate level of 2.0ppm is lethal to corals. Levels of .25 or higher are bad, stunting their growth. Dumping all that phytoplex and marine snow is dirtying up your water. That other additive is wasting money and might hurt your corals... you get all the strontium...
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    will phosphate more than 2.0 kill coral

    yes not sure what one is for it. but i and puting a cap of kent phytoplex, strontium & molybdenum every week. and marine snow in after ever water change. i bought tank already situp. doing what seller did and its not working. Also i for more info i have tree candycanes the two that are dying...
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    will phosphate more than 2.0 kill coral

    you can see the skelten where the half of it dyed. and the green center is almost gone
  8. meg&ran

    will phosphate more than 2.0 kill coral

    i have a candy cane that is dieing ph,ammonia,nitrite, and nitrate are good so can the phosphate be the problem
  9. meg&ran

    help my corals are DIEing

    i dont know about the power head. but tank is three year old . when i moved the tank to my place a month ago. i put the same water back in. i didnt add anything in the tank that the guy i bought it off already had. it was about a 1/2 hour move for the tank
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    help my corals are DIEing

    i give up i will talk to the lfs to see if on of them have one. it just the guy i bought this from told me how to feeding both fish and coral, he had it for three years and it worked for him. im starting to think i am losing my corals and i'm mad. i guess if they die they die. i just want to...
  11. meg&ran

    help my corals are DIEing

    yah i've just found that and it is TO big man i am mad. the pic is out dated i took it two weeks ago it looked so good then. can anything be eating them
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    help my corals are DIEing

    im new to this site i am trying to get pic
  13. meg&ran

    help my corals are DIEing

    ca. is 450-400 i dont have a alk. lfs didnt have one and told me they have never seen a problem with it?? (idont know). every thing looks good. so why is two of the canes doing so bad and one isnt. o and the three are right next to each other in a high flow of water.
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    help my corals are DIEing

    i just done a water change three days ago (ammona .25) i tested the water thinking of it first. now ammania 0 ph 8.2 nitrate 0 nitite 0 i moved the tank, i put all but five gal. back in. didnt add anything the guy didnt already have in it. i have four bulb icecap
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    help my corals are DIEing

    I bought this 75gal fish and coral tank about a month ago. The fish are doing great. but the coral notso. I have three candy canes. (red with a green center) there is one by its self. It is doing ok. but the other two are a "Y" and between the two both are dieing. i dont know what to do...
  16. meg&ran

    tiny starfish i found in some empty shells i bought

    Tiny White Brittlestars is what it looks like, but mine has a brown dot for a body. for the brittle part it is to small to make out. not being sure do i put it? can it do to much harm? im not SURE 100% it is a Tiny White Brittlestars .
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    tiny starfish i found in some empty shells i bought

    i found this thing and it shouldnt be in there. i havent put in, dont know if i sould?? it is so small you can hardly see it. hell im new at this it may not be a star fish
  18. meg&ran

    newbe bought tank w/fish and all, no filtration

    yes your right on the Chromis. but getting back to the water testing is that in safe shape
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    newbe bought tank w/fish and all, no filtration

    thanks, to day the test is better i think lol pH_7.8 ammonia_.25 nitrite_00 nitrate_0.0 is the ph and ammo in a safe place. the thing i dont like about this testers, is some times there hard to tell witch color it is shading to. Is there a better tester that dont have you guessing or am i just...
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    newbe bought tank w/fish and all, no filtration

    yah the fish are good Im new so i take it "lfs" means the fish store, i will but dont know b/c i bought the same one they use.
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