Dead Live Rock??????

[fishgod336]

I have had my tank for almost two years now, I have about 60 to 70 pounds of fuji live rock, up until about two months ago, my rock has been beautiful but now there is no algae growing and I used to see all of these little feather dusters on the rock, they are all gone, my rock looks boring and bland, I have tried to add calcium, but no results, do I need better filtration? or more water changes, or different fish? here is my list of fish in my 150
1. V-Tail Grouper
2. Huma trigger
3. blue jaw trigger
4. Stars and stripes puffer
5. gren wolf eel
6. snowflake eel :help: :help: :help: :help:

 

[ejensen]

What kind of lights do you have? What have you used in your tank. If you treated your tank for Ich then that would kill alot of things.

 

[chipmaker]

Dead liverock, now thats a oxymoron (sp?)......I seriously doubt its really dead. Its not necessarily the critters you see "on" the rock as much as the microscopic critters that live within the rock that makes it live rock. Could be the fish nipping or grazing on the critters that used to inabit the external area of the rock....feather dusters can die if they have not gotten proper foods, and it al depends on how and what you were feeding the fish, as the dusters may not have gotten sufficient nutrition, but they can go for a long long time with little to no foods so it seems. Other than no tiny feather dusters, have you been keeping parameters where they should have been all this time? Just arbitrarily adding cacium when you see a problem is not a cure......If you have goodlights (not old bulbs etc) been keeping the parameters of the water where it should be, in regards to alk, ph, Ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, and calcium, doing water changes, suffieint lighting schedule and keeping temp within limits and have not added any of those miracle concoctions sold in the lfs, your rock should still be doing good. So tell us what has changed......something has had to change somewhere?

 

[saltfan]

From that stocking list I'd say you also don't have any clean up crew. These guys are the ones that keep the rock clean so that the ugly algea don't take over.