gevavery
New Member
I'm new to this hobby. I've got a 24 gallon Nano reef setup. 25 lbs. of live rock and 25 lbs. of live sand. Tank has cycled so I started adding my coral and fish. Parameters are: Amonina - 0; PH - 8.0-8.2; Nitrite - 0; Nitrate - 0; Phosphate - 0.25; and Calcicum - 500-520. From what I'm reading the Calcicum is high.
But here is my problem. I just (one week ago) purchased a small piece of live rock with probably 100+ green ricordia polyps (at least I think that what the guy at the fish store said). Anyway, within two days one end of the stone was covered with a white snow-like cap. It continued to get thicker. So I removed and went back to the LFS. I was told it was something they had never seen. They advised me must to cut off that section of rock. Which I did. Now I did that yesterday, and today there is more white snow like stuff starting to cover other sections.
Could someone please tell what going on? Should I just remove this and throw it away? Thanks in advance for any assistance you can give me.
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gevavery
But here is my problem. I just (one week ago) purchased a small piece of live rock with probably 100+ green ricordia polyps (at least I think that what the guy at the fish store said). Anyway, within two days one end of the stone was covered with a white snow-like cap. It continued to get thicker. So I removed and went back to the LFS. I was told it was something they had never seen. They advised me must to cut off that section of rock. Which I did. Now I did that yesterday, and today there is more white snow like stuff starting to cover other sections.
Could someone please tell what going on? Should I just remove this and throw it away? Thanks in advance for any assistance you can give me.
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gevavery