alianated
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Ok.. I have 255 watts of PC light hitting my tank. My tank is less than 2 feet tall so the lighting is at LEAST strong if not adequate. (I have a VHO fixture and plan to add a VHO bulb as well in the near future but have my 2nd thoughts for the same reason Im posting this)
My water conditions all read out great. I have even taken them to my local store and had them tested with their heavy duty equipment (grin) and all of it reads fine.
My issue is this:
I CANT KEEP EASY THINGS ALIVE!! By easy, I mean that I have lost 2 Leathers almost immediately (within 2 weeks of introducing them) I have lost 1 mushroom.
Here is the kicker...
I have Xenia that started as 1 stalk and is now 3. I have another stalk of Xenia that has multiplied into 3 seperate stalks and is kicking good as well as yet ANOTHER stalk that is 2 now and alive and pulsing.
I have a bubble coral that is also just THRIVING. He eats fine, he is always bubbly and never withdrawn (cept at night sometimes)
I also have a frogspawn, a green bubble coral, and an open brain. They are ALL doing great.
So for one reason or another... Leathers, which have been named often one of the easiest to keep, die. Mushrooms I have 5 that lived, but lost 3 total. Almost as if the easier ones (supposedly) to keep just dont make it.
On the same note it seems like some of the other corals that people say are a little harder, are all thriving. Ironically, even the mushrooms that DID do good were the not so common ones. (Forget their names, but they were the ones with the little bubbles on top of their heads.)
Is there anything anyone can think of that would make it hard on Leathers and more common shrooms that would make the tank more suitable for less hardy species?? (lighting? etc)
And considering what you know about the animals in my tank, would you have any suggestions of other corals that would be likely to live under conditions that my bubble, frogspawns, brain, and polyps are all thriving under???
My water conditions all read out great. I have even taken them to my local store and had them tested with their heavy duty equipment (grin) and all of it reads fine.
My issue is this:
I CANT KEEP EASY THINGS ALIVE!! By easy, I mean that I have lost 2 Leathers almost immediately (within 2 weeks of introducing them) I have lost 1 mushroom.
Here is the kicker...
I have Xenia that started as 1 stalk and is now 3. I have another stalk of Xenia that has multiplied into 3 seperate stalks and is kicking good as well as yet ANOTHER stalk that is 2 now and alive and pulsing.
I have a bubble coral that is also just THRIVING. He eats fine, he is always bubbly and never withdrawn (cept at night sometimes)
I also have a frogspawn, a green bubble coral, and an open brain. They are ALL doing great.
So for one reason or another... Leathers, which have been named often one of the easiest to keep, die. Mushrooms I have 5 that lived, but lost 3 total. Almost as if the easier ones (supposedly) to keep just dont make it.
On the same note it seems like some of the other corals that people say are a little harder, are all thriving. Ironically, even the mushrooms that DID do good were the not so common ones. (Forget their names, but they were the ones with the little bubbles on top of their heads.)
Is there anything anyone can think of that would make it hard on Leathers and more common shrooms that would make the tank more suitable for less hardy species?? (lighting? etc)
And considering what you know about the animals in my tank, would you have any suggestions of other corals that would be likely to live under conditions that my bubble, frogspawns, brain, and polyps are all thriving under???
