ninjamini
Active Member
Well I am comming up on 10 months with the nano cube dx. I have had heat issues and bad luck with some corals. The good, the bad and the ugly:
I thought the tank needed more flow so I added a pump into the show area of the tank. But due to soaring head issues I removed it. Heat is an issue in this tank and it does not have the cooling ability for the second pump.
The good I have a Gorgonian that does great no matter what I do to it. Resilient little bugger.
I recently got a toadstool leather and although I think its too big for the ascetics of this tank I do love the way it acts.
I got a small torch coral which I thought had a slime issue and was gonna die. It has a little brownish-orange stuff on both stalks. Its right between the stalks facing each other. But it does not seem to be getting any better or worse so I am just kinda watching it. After removing the power head and cutting out the extra heat and standing it up at the bottom of the tank (I had it at the top before and laying down) it seems happy.
I have a mat of Green star polyps. Well there supposed to be green there more brown now and rarely make an appearance. I have had them for 3-4 months and most of the time its just a mat. When they do show there very small. Its been this way since several days after I got them. This is why I got the second pump I read that they like a lot of flow but that really had no effect on them.
Yellow button polyps. I had a really nice rock of yellow button polyps that I got for $10 at the LFS. Same store I got the green star polyps for (also $10). Well they were very cool to watch. Then they started to disappear in sections. Well I found the culprit. A Fire worm 9" long and 1-1.5" thick. It really was pretty...but I caught it and flushed it. I don't like things that sting bad. I hate thing that eat my corals. I was left with ONE polyp left. Just one. I i'll have to wait and wait for it to re-grow. Anyone know how long before it will be 2?
Orange polyps. I had a rock that was like $33 that had a lot of life to it. It was doing great. Spreading to the rocks around it. Really growing well. It was a roundish rock and got knocked around several times when I had the extra pump. After removing it cuz of the high heat..Well it was several days to a week later...They just stopped opening. They stayed tightly closed and then started to turn brown and now there gone. I tested the water perimeters...all good. I did a extra water change for good measure. They just died. I don't know why. It could be the water and i cant figure it out. It could be something new to the tank (some kind of hitchhiker)...it was only a few weeks after the torch was introduced. The torch was right under it maybe it was some chemical warfare. I thought torches were fairly friendly. and never extended close enough to touch it. It would have had to have tentacles 3-4 times longer than it did to sting it.
I just don't know. I love the tank and really want a bigger one. I am a little discouraged killing things off due to my inexperience. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
I thought the tank needed more flow so I added a pump into the show area of the tank. But due to soaring head issues I removed it. Heat is an issue in this tank and it does not have the cooling ability for the second pump.
The good I have a Gorgonian that does great no matter what I do to it. Resilient little bugger.
I recently got a toadstool leather and although I think its too big for the ascetics of this tank I do love the way it acts.
I got a small torch coral which I thought had a slime issue and was gonna die. It has a little brownish-orange stuff on both stalks. Its right between the stalks facing each other. But it does not seem to be getting any better or worse so I am just kinda watching it. After removing the power head and cutting out the extra heat and standing it up at the bottom of the tank (I had it at the top before and laying down) it seems happy.
I have a mat of Green star polyps. Well there supposed to be green there more brown now and rarely make an appearance. I have had them for 3-4 months and most of the time its just a mat. When they do show there very small. Its been this way since several days after I got them. This is why I got the second pump I read that they like a lot of flow but that really had no effect on them.
Yellow button polyps. I had a really nice rock of yellow button polyps that I got for $10 at the LFS. Same store I got the green star polyps for (also $10). Well they were very cool to watch. Then they started to disappear in sections. Well I found the culprit. A Fire worm 9" long and 1-1.5" thick. It really was pretty...but I caught it and flushed it. I don't like things that sting bad. I hate thing that eat my corals. I was left with ONE polyp left. Just one. I i'll have to wait and wait for it to re-grow. Anyone know how long before it will be 2?
Orange polyps. I had a rock that was like $33 that had a lot of life to it. It was doing great. Spreading to the rocks around it. Really growing well. It was a roundish rock and got knocked around several times when I had the extra pump. After removing it cuz of the high heat..Well it was several days to a week later...They just stopped opening. They stayed tightly closed and then started to turn brown and now there gone. I tested the water perimeters...all good. I did a extra water change for good measure. They just died. I don't know why. It could be the water and i cant figure it out. It could be something new to the tank (some kind of hitchhiker)...it was only a few weeks after the torch was introduced. The torch was right under it maybe it was some chemical warfare. I thought torches were fairly friendly. and never extended close enough to touch it. It would have had to have tentacles 3-4 times longer than it did to sting it.
I just don't know. I love the tank and really want a bigger one. I am a little discouraged killing things off due to my inexperience. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
