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Here is a pic of my plate coral which I have had for about 3 months. As you can see clumps of the surface tissue are coming away for no reason. The water quality is good and there does not seem to be an other problems with any of my other corals. Does anybody know what might be causing it and if...

Last weekend I put in a new white, pink tipped, plate coral. For the first few days everything was great, but then yesterday as I walked past the tank I saw it shrivel up to almost nothing. Within an hour it was coming back to normal and then it went again. Since then it has returned to some...

Just noticed this morning as well that one of the stems of the coral (of which there are three) has started to go brown and this brown stem is not extending. The other two stems seem fine (although not pulsing). Any ideas? Water tests show everything to be fine as expected, with no other signs...

Unfortunately I do not have an Iodine test kit so I cannot tell what the levels are. I will go and get one, but what sort of expected levels should I be looking for?

OK, a few answers first. I have not checked the iodine levels so I do not know if they are elevated, but having said tht I thought good levels of iodine were healthy for corals?. when I bought it from my LFS it was under VHO halides about 12 inches from them and seemd OK, it was not pulsing...

Thanks for the help, the xenia is near the top of the tank in good flow and about 10 inches from 300 watts of halide. During the day sometimes it is able to stretch so that it nearly touches the surface. The PH is 8.1 so I am at a loss. Is it worth moving it?. Pioneer

I put in a new pulse coral about 3 days ago and on the face of it it looks very healthy. It grows very nicely during the day (lights on), and retracts during the night. The only problem is that it does not pulse. It is near the top of the tank in relatively good flow. All water paramters are...

Are you using a commercial denitrification process, like sulphur beads or deniballs? I had exactly the same problem some time ago and I found that my denitrifier had stopped working (as the nitrates were at 0), which prompted the denitrifier to turn into a hydrogen sulphide factory. Two or...

Yep couldn't agree more, still, there's nothing like learning from your mistakes :cry:

First disaster since starting up 5 months ago happened today. I came home from work and noticed a very strong hydrogen sulphide smell (rotten eggs). I thought tha this could only be my Aqua Medic Denitrifier, so while having a look at the equipment to see what the porblem was I noticed a kink in...

OK thanks for the insight, my new 150g tank arrives in 2 weeks, so hopefully he will be able to hang on until I can transfer him in maybe 6 weeks time. Cheers Pioneer

I checked the Ph this morning and it was between 8.1 and 8.2, which is about normal for me. The salinty has always been between 1.025 and 1.027 (worst case), normally sitting at 1.026. The nori I use is Sally's Seaweed Salad (Marine Green Algae). It comes from a Company in CA, it does not...

Tank is as follows. 125 litre, 20kgs LR, 2" CC bed, fish as above, 2 x sand shifiting stars, 6 x turbo snails, 4 x emerald crabs, 1 x green button polyp, 1 x green mushroom coral. Lighting is 1 x 35w white flourescent, and 1 x 35 watt blue. Lights are on for 7 hours a day (trying to combat hair...

The YT seem OK, I have not seen him falling out with anything else. I have not added an other fish for a while. I have 1 x clown, 1 x Midas Blenny, 1 x Juvenile Flagfine Angel and 1 x Yellow headed sleeper goby. That along with a few crabs, stars and feather dusters is about it. Seems very odd...

My Yellow Tang is starting to loose his colour and go a bit pale. He is still active, alert and feeding well. He is fed Brine Shrimp, home made food, and flake on rotation. The tank also has a regualr supplier of sea weed which he munches down without a secnd thought. So no obvious reasons...