issues when everything is fine....

[dadstank]

howdy...

it has been a while since i put up a note that my tangs were eating my button polyps. i have since increased their food amount, and they don't appear to be eating them anymore, but i am not able to sit and watch 24 hours straight, i have been testing the water everyweek, doing an 8-10 gallon change every 10 days, regular with my top offs, gotten over my fear of my sailfin tang, and almost everything and everyone seems to be quite happy.

that being said, my button polyps still will not open as much as they once had, and my mushrooms are beginning to show signs of bleaching. (red and green/white striped)...
and my beautiful clam was just found dead. an investigation is pending....

any thoughts?

parameters are:
55 gallon tank
20 gallon sump
40ish lbs of live rock
red mushrooms
button polyps
white star polyps
cabbage leather
HUGE toadstool leather
1. sailfin tang (medium to large)
1. TWO YEAR old damsel
1. tiny hippo tang
1. 12" convict blenny
1. 6" convict blenny


nitrate = 0
nitrite = 0
PH = 8.4
phosphates = nearly undectable
calc = 410-420
amonia = undectable


--and i am using RO/DI water that has been tested.

 

[Anonymous]

What kind of lighting?

Louey

 

[dadstank]

lighting is as follows:
all on digital timers,
Metal hallide 250W 10000K (1)
Coralife compacts with 9w(?) white and blue 10000K (x2)
Coralife actinc 03 florecent (x2)

--euroreef protein skimmer,

maybe noteworthy, i changed the carbon tuesday night with a water change.... usual three month change.

 

[Anonymous]

hmm.

Beats me.

A carbon change sometimes makes SPS wig out a bit, but I thought shrooms were impervious to it.

Louey

 

[dadstank]

thought i would throw some photos up of the whitening of the mushrooms, and the unopened buttons...

sorry for the dark photo, the lights have just gone off.