Tharsis' 20 long ~2-11-12~ sps and lps pics!

Yeah, I guess all you can do is to keep a real close eye on it, if you see any spread, get rid of the dead(?) part and frag the piece.

 

Yeah I think thats what I will do. Incidentally, I was just thinking about it and that little spot has had algae since I put the frag in, so I then realized that the Vodka dosing must be working.

I then checked out the other little 'problem areas' that I had directly in front of my powerheads, and they are totally clean of algae as well!! It is one of those things that you don't really notice because you see the tank every day, but overall, most of the algae is gone.

 

I don't see any signs of tissue loss spreading. Just keep a close eye on it and frag it back 1/4" at least into the good flesh if it does. An iodine dip might help the recovery. ReVive or CoralRx should work also.

 

Thanks John! I will look into the iodine dip, and I will monitor it for now. Will the tissue slowly grow back over that spot if it is healthy?

 

That will depend on any algae growth, if there is algae then it will not grow back.

 

The area appears to be algae free, so that is a bonus.

I was just playing with my camera under the moonlights and I was amazed at the color I was able to get from adjusting the white balance.

Here is a pic of the frag without the white balance and then with:







Its strange in the last pic though that the color of the rims changed from green to orange lol, I guess I have to pkay around with the settings a bit more, But I like that the colors really pop alot more when you adjust the white balance.



I always had a hard time taking pics under the moonlights because the colors always looked washed out in comparison to the real color but this is a fairly close representation.

It really makes me want to add some more actinics to my light fixture for daytime to get some more pop in my colors. I am thinking of adding a strip of leds to my odyssea fixture.

 

It is amazing what you can with pics with the right editing programs.

 

Here is a vid from this evening... 8)

 

Question regarding possible correlation between vodka dosing, flatworm die-off, and coral stress:

So my tank has not been doing very well over the last week or so. The polyp extension on the accro and birdsnest is non-existent, the zoas are only half opened and the shrooms are all shriveled up. I thought it may be a nutrient issue but the PO4 and NO3 are both reading zero and the Ca and alk are 480 ppm and 9 dkh so that was a little puzzling.

I then noticed today during my wc that I no longer had any red flatworms! I have religiously syphoned them out during my weekly wc for the last 6 months and their numbers have remained fairly constant. But this week they are all gone except for a few stragglers. I am wondering if they died off for whatever reason and released their toxins which is now causing stress in my corals.

If this is reasonable, I am wondering what could have led them to perish…and I realized that the only difference in the tank is my vodka dosing. Is it possible that the vodka dosing led to the demise of the flatworms? Is it possible that the reduced nutrient availability from the dosing caused them to die which then released a toxin which is stressing the coral?

Anyone have any thoughts with regards to this?

 

I would get with Steve Wright.