Originally Posted by fishieness
okay, i still hold with everythign i said except two things:
the one under the larger goniopora looks like another species of goniopora
and then there is the way top right. still not sure what it is. it almost looks like an elegance with extracted tenticals. but whatever it is, it isnt healthy and too bleached. what lighting do you have? you should be feeding it too to try to nurse it back to health.
First my camera sucks and that is not a good pic. That coral is actually much more green in color and quite a bit darker than the pic lets on. There is a good reason that it doesnt look healthy, about a 2 weeks ago I bought a water chiller to keep the temperature from getting to high in the summer. The man from the shop came and installed it. Well when he installed it, he failed to tell me that he had not washed out the piping or the chiller itself. Needless to say there was some sort of chemical either in the chiller or the piping and it shocked my tank when he started it up. I lost my Jackii Clown and my Blacktailed Damsel. It also killed my boxer shrimp and the only pistol shrimp that I ever found in the whole city. Of all the Corals that was the only one really bothered by it. I added active carbon to my filter and did several water changes to try to remove the chemical. It has seemed to work. I went to the shop and in a calm yet angry way explained what happened. They were very sorry and replaced all of my fish and gave me two cleaner shrimp, a purple reef lobster and a two snails. They didnt have anymore Jackii Clowns, so they gave me a Tomato Clown instead. They also gave a bottle of Geo Liquid, for Coral and Invertebrates. I have been using that and feeding it Coral Gourmand which is a soup of crushed kelp, fish, whole egg, casein, yeast, minerals and vitamins. Today has been the best day for that coral since the accident. As far as my lighting goes I have been using a single 15 watt blue coral lamp and a single white aquarium lamp. I am considering replacing the white lamp with another blue coral lamp. What do you think?
