My 55g 2.0

Very nice MD!! I was excited when I got my first bansai. You got a nice frag there. That and the sunset Monti are the faves in my tank.

 

Thank you! There was also a Rainbow Monti I saw but I thought I should probably not get another plating. I think other than a few more zoas, namely Rastas and Fruitloops, I only plan on getting maybe 2 Digitata and I probably don't have enough room for them.

 

Nice Purple Undata, love that coral and need one. Ditto for the Purple Bonsai.

 

Thank you! I had a budget going into this sale, so at the end i was already way over and decided I should not buy the undata. Then when it was still there about an hour later, I thought if it is still there when I had to got to work a couple hours later I would buy it, so here it is. I am not sure how it didn't get snagged early. Tidal has the Bonsai pretty regularly but not as mini colonies like you high rollers are used to.

 

I was just at the store yesterday looking at frags and said to my wife we have no room for them but......we made room!!!!

 

It is pretty hard to make room in my 55g. But there is all this glass on the back!

 

So after adding my new corals, the SPS have developed these spots. I am not sure what is going on with them and need to know if there is something I can do to help them.


I have never seen any of my sps do this. The flesh is not gone and you can still see the polyps on the white portions but they are not as extended as the non effected part.

I have had no swings in any parameter
Mag 1410
Cal 440
Alk 9.6
Salinity 1.026
Temp 79
phos undetectable
No3 undetectable

these values have been stable for quite some time

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated

 

I'll let others chime in because I know very little about sps but have read where a little phosphate and nitrate are good for them. I'm not sure what the white spots are other than it looks like it is receding?

 

Not much i am able to do with the phosphate and nitrate levels and I don't think it is receding because it still has the flesh and the polyps on them. The pictures are substantially blurry but you can see the polyps on the last one, still there and extended. The first and second pictures you can't really tell in the pics but the polyps are there just not nearly as extended as the others. The bonsai looks to be the least effected but I am still concerned.

 

well, I am known for my nitrates lol - feeding a little more can help sometimes