Did you soak any of the foods in garlic or anything? Ive always heard that helps stimulate appetite but never really found any proof of that first hand. Congrats on the copper band, one of the most beautiful reefing fish imo
I like the second location. It is more centered and its nice to see the tank from all three sides. You can do much more with aquascaping considering every angle. Makes it more of an art piece ;)
Solid point. Happened to me a lot with Acros in general but especially stag acros. If they truly are dead, I also would not throw it away. Their skeletons are perfect for calcium reactors given they are the exact ratio of parameters needed to dose the tank. If you don't have a calcium reactor...
Which one are you talking about? The two in the top left or the four in bottom right? The four looks like Armor of God. The two I really don't know lol. Don't think its Cat Eyes though because they usually have green mouths, but then again Im not a zoa expert
Welcome! I like the 1.7gallon a lot. Ive always wished micro tanks were as big in the reefing community as it is in the planted community. Hope all goes well
Don't feed. You might want to reconsider frogspawn or anything within that family given they are notorious to emit toxic slimes that kill other coral. Ive kept Xenia and zoas in a mason jar and the only two parameters I really checked daily were salinity (keep an eye on the water level) and...
Soak it in nutrient rich water everyday till there is improvement. Take a small tupperwear container and fill it with tank water and some sort of coral food (smaller particulate size would facilitate eating for the chalice) and soak for an hour or two. Put the chalice back in and throw away the...
Usually I don't dose anything that I can't accurately test for consistently. I have dose iodine in the past and I think my zoas benefited from them? Mightve been placebo. Tbh nothing really changed so it didn't really help nor was it detrimental.
The problems that many people had (myself included) with biopellets usually didn't arise from the biopellets themselves, but rather the reactors that ran them. For example, my first experience with biopellets was with the reactor that BRS sold. It simply was poorly designed for biopellets and...
To prevent any die off, ideally you should keep the LR in the same parameters as your aquarium (temp, light source, dissolved oxygen in water). So id put some sort of light source, heater, and either an airpump or just a pump
99% of the time, messing with the pH will be more detrimental than not. The remaining 1% is usually when the aquarist fucks up (HCL acid to clean, Kalk aiptasia, etc.). Agree with everyone else, don't mess with it