Acros do well but montis die???

[Reef Bullet]

I haven't read every thing but did u do fresh water dips on the montis? Montis can't handle FW dips like acro can.

No fw dips

 

[Emac909]

What ur salinity.

Side not I don't care what other people parameter r. Ur the one asking us for help.

 

[Emac909]

R u using calibration fluid or RO/DI water to calibrate refractormeter

 

[Reef Bullet]

What ur salinity.

Side not I don't care what other people parameter r. Ur the one asking us for help.

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It was a rant and I couldn't help myself after reading your post that prompted it.

R u using calibration fluid or RO/DI water to calibrate refractormeter

I haven't calibrated it but I've checked it against 2 other refractometers that have been calibrated.

 

[Reef Bullet]

Pics of the montis and whatever is growing on my rocks.

You can see best in the red circles where the peaks have started growing the rust stuff on them. Still alive with polyps though.

Dead superman monti frag starting to get covered with the stuff and surrounded by nasty.

Profiles of the rocks showing the clearish "hairs". They're actually more defined and fine looking in real life but I can't get that detail to show in a pic.

 

[pgr11]

Is this the same stuff you thought was a bacteria growing on the rocks? I think your tank has the bad juju since the move. Time for the new tank

 

[Reef Bullet]

Is this the same stuff you thought was a bacteria growing on the rocks? I think your tank has the bad juju since the move. Time for the new tank

Yes. What do you think it is? I agree and can't wait to get everything done so I can change over to the new tank! BUT I was planning on using my old rocks in the new tank and really don't have a choice in using at least some of them unless I get rid of all my polyps and my favorite huge holey/branchy rock. I wonder what a hydrogen peroxide dip would do to this stuff... but also, my clam is on that rock...

 

[JOSE CASAS]

Hi Lindsey suck to see a thread like this. What salt are you using and do you test for potassium?

 

[Reef Bullet]

Hi Lindsey suck to see a thread like this. What salt are you using and do you test for potassium?

Thanks Jose.
I have used RSCP for a long time but when filling my tank after moving I ran out and didn't have enough for the amount of water I needed to fill it completely so I bought what I could get locally which was Instant Ocean.

I do not test for potassium, nor do I dose it. Should I be?

Let me in on what you're thinking... do you have a theory?

 

[Reef Bullet]

Hi Lindsey suck to see a thread like this. What salt are you using and do you test for potassium?

Thanks Jose.
I have used RSCP for a long time but when filling my tank after moving I ran out and didn't have enough for the amount of water I needed to fill it completely so I bought what I could get locally which was Instant Ocean.

I do not test for potassium, nor do I dose it. Should I be?

Let me in on what you're thinking... do you have a theory?

JOSE CASAS, don't leave me hanging!

 

[wickedfish]

I don't know why he went to potassium but the Elos test is a good one. Now that my tank has more Sps it was a Lil depleted and I dose some of the pohls to replenish