jjboods
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that it causes corals to die within 48 hours. I have recently added a soft coral and some polyps. The coral died within 2 days, the polyps have survived. Although there has been no growth. I added 3 Xenia over six months ago. All three were surviving until about a month ago when two shrank and died. The other is the same size it has always been. I purchased about 70 lbs of LR last week from a fellow hobbyist. It had been in a tank so there should have been minimal, if any, die off. He was generous enough to give me a frogspawn and some mushrooms. All "melted" and died within 2 days. I also found my urchin dead. One fish was missing for a several hours and then came out again with a fin damaged...looked chewed. Other fish are fine, cleaner shrimp is alive. Crabs and snails are alive.
Temp seems to be a steady 80 degrees. pH seems to be a steady 8.0/8.2. Ammonia is at .25ppm. I know it should be zero and possibly spiked from the new LR, but would that cause such a fast death to the corals?
The tank is a 75g with 2 150W DE HQI MH's.
15 gallon sump with Turboflotor 1000 Skimmer.
Temp seems to be a steady 80 degrees. pH seems to be a steady 8.0/8.2. Ammonia is at .25ppm. I know it should be zero and possibly spiked from the new LR, but would that cause such a fast death to the corals?
The tank is a 75g with 2 150W DE HQI MH's.
15 gallon sump with Turboflotor 1000 Skimmer.