Torch head died after lights were off two days
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reefkprz
Active Member
Originally Posted by Cranberry
http:///forum/post/3175892
I've done it with dinoflagettes.... darn dinoflagettes. The worst plague in this hobby.
how did it work out with the eukaryotic algae?
http:///forum/post/3175892
I've done it with dinoflagettes.... darn dinoflagettes. The worst plague in this hobby.
how did it work out with the eukaryotic algae?
flower
Well-Known Member
Originally Posted by nuro
http:///forum/post/3172908
sooo... i acclimated a new fish, and during that period i typically leave the lights off for two days, when i kicked them back on, one of the heads of my newest(like 3 months old) torch had disinigrated. my levels are perfect and i have another torch that is about 9 months old on the other side of the tank that is also doing excellent. any ideas? i refuse to belive two days with out light is the culprit
*i have 216 watts of t5ho and this torch is placed midlevel in a 55 where the other is on the bottom.. could i have burned it? this head was the highest up.
Maybe something got hungry and ate the coral. I had a huge frog spawn that disintegrated in one night( chewed to bits)...I had one of those centipede looking worms. I hadn't added anything new..The worm just finally got big enough to be a problem.
You may be just associating the death of your coral with your move, when you may just have had a worm that matured.
http:///forum/post/3172908
sooo... i acclimated a new fish, and during that period i typically leave the lights off for two days, when i kicked them back on, one of the heads of my newest(like 3 months old) torch had disinigrated. my levels are perfect and i have another torch that is about 9 months old on the other side of the tank that is also doing excellent. any ideas? i refuse to belive two days with out light is the culprit
*i have 216 watts of t5ho and this torch is placed midlevel in a 55 where the other is on the bottom.. could i have burned it? this head was the highest up.
Maybe something got hungry and ate the coral. I had a huge frog spawn that disintegrated in one night( chewed to bits)...I had one of those centipede looking worms. I hadn't added anything new..The worm just finally got big enough to be a problem.
You may be just associating the death of your coral with your move, when you may just have had a worm that matured.
cranberry
Active Member
Originally Posted by reefkprZ
http:///forum/post/3175972
how did it work out with the eukaryotic algae?
I ended up tearing the tank down.
http:///forum/post/3175972
how did it work out with the eukaryotic algae?
I ended up tearing the tank down.
reefkprz
Active Member
Originally Posted by Cranberry
http:///forum/post/3176038
I ended up tearing the tank down.
thats dismaying.
http:///forum/post/3176038
I ended up tearing the tank down.
thats dismaying.
nuro
Member
Originally Posted by Cranberry
http:///forum/post/3175868
I think it was a coincidence. Do you see any brown jelly anywhere on the coral?
I'm the voice of reason?
no brown jelly or anyhtign out of the ordinary
Originally Posted by TruPerc
http:///forum/post/3177085
Without a before and after picture, we are left to make assumptions.
If the coral was healthy before lights out, and decimated after lights out.
I would have to guess predator.
this is my thinking as well, i just thought the timing seemed odd
on a side note to clarify, when i callimate wiht the lights offthere is ambient room lighting as well as my LED mood lights on so its not pitch black
http:///forum/post/3175868
I think it was a coincidence. Do you see any brown jelly anywhere on the coral?
I'm the voice of reason?
no brown jelly or anyhtign out of the ordinary
Originally Posted by TruPerc
http:///forum/post/3177085
Without a before and after picture, we are left to make assumptions.
If the coral was healthy before lights out, and decimated after lights out.
I would have to guess predator.
this is my thinking as well, i just thought the timing seemed odd
on a side note to clarify, when i callimate wiht the lights offthere is ambient room lighting as well as my LED mood lights on so its not pitch black
lastchoice
New Member
Corals are shipped from online stores over night in dark bags. If going with no light would kill a coral then all online corals shipments would be dead.
I also have turned my lights off at time when my fish were attacking a new addition. It works, but not always. Days might be a little too long for this. Sometimes turning them off for an hour does the trick or just using lunar lights.
I did read on wet media where someone (not Bob) said to do the opposite and keep the lights on all day and all night, so the new fish can see his attacker, get away and find a place to hide because the old fish has the advantage of knowing the tank. I don't buy it, but its another theory.
Anyway I agree a coral will not die from a few days with no light if it was healthy.
I also have turned my lights off at time when my fish were attacking a new addition. It works, but not always. Days might be a little too long for this. Sometimes turning them off for an hour does the trick or just using lunar lights.
I did read on wet media where someone (not Bob) said to do the opposite and keep the lights on all day and all night, so the new fish can see his attacker, get away and find a place to hide because the old fish has the advantage of knowing the tank. I don't buy it, but its another theory.
Anyway I agree a coral will not die from a few days with no light if it was healthy.