Puffer Chick's 46 Gallon Bowfront Reef

Discussion in 'Show Off Your Fish Tanks!' started by Puffer Chick, Jul 26, 2009.

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  1. Puffer Chick

    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    parts looks bleached, growing weird, no polyps, and the underside looks like its discolored weird
     
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  3. SkyFire

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    Love the new scape...bigger caves for the new and bigger fish.
    Tanks is looking good.
    Sorry to hear about the monti maybe doesn't like the flow or where you put it???

    The bubble and brain look happier.
     
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    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    thanks deffeintly needed the bigger caves for the bigger fish and they seem to enjoy it :D both paprika and blossom are covered in ick i hope it goes away

    it is possible that it doesnt like the flow ill see if i can figure something out to try to save it, and the brain and bubble are much happier now since they have adjsuted to new new flow and all of the other corals are doing great, its just the monti
     
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    What makes you believe the Monti Cap is dying? Is it losing tissue?
     
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    not the best pics but when i first bought the monti it didnt have any polyps but at the time i didnt know they were supposed to have polyps

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    Have you noticed any small "bugs" crawling on it?
     
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    havent seen any sort of bugs, back when i still had my melanurus he was constantly poking at my acro, i got these two at the same time from same place and i think he probably saw bugs on that coral but he didnt poke t the monti at all, could it be possible that something has been eating it?
     
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    puffer, what exactly is wrong with the monti cap? i dont see anything terrible from the pics...
     
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    its got like hole in it not really a hole but its like its decaying or something, you cant really see it very well but it's that weird patch on the right side it started off white like it was bleached then it started like lossing layers for a while, im doing a horrible job at explaining it and i cant get a pick but it looks like its starting to heal back up again.

    But the bottom part of the coral doesnt seem to look right, like in the pic

    lol i bet this just confused you even more :D
     
  12. kcbrad

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    I think you're being paranoid!! ;)