Frag order delayed until this week.
Interesting observation. About 10 years ago, I had a mushroom explosion. Following that about four years ago I also had a anthilia explosion. You have seen shots if my tank, I had loads of mushrooms and waving hand (anthilia). About a year ago, I started wanting to lower my P4 in order to help my SPS grow better. It worked and stuff like my GARF purple bonsai took off growing. In fact all my hard corals took off except, my caps aren't doing well, my mushrooms are bleaching and dying back and the anthillia is crashing. My assumption is these soft corals need more nutrients in the water and may not be compatible with a SPS dominant tank. ??? The caps being hard corals confuse me even more.
This happened twice before. I grew out basketball sized colt corals. They lasted la little over a year, then would melt. What a mess. But it would always grow back from a tiny spot of tissue and 6 months later is was basketball sized. This repeated over and over again until I got fed up with it. Seems these colonies might have a cycle they go thru.
I guess since most of these spectacular SPS and LPS corals are doing so well, I can afford to not worry about the loss of some softies. Funny thing is my soft coral frag tank is plumbed into the same system and the softies there are still flourishing. I have a big green leather in the main tank that is also flourishing.
Still fighting some Cyano but it seems to be a result of these softies dying back. Gonna do some siphoning tonight to keep thing under control. In one way it's a blessing because I was going to cut these softies back anyways to make room for some of the big SPS and euphilia colonies I have grown downstairs in the hard coral frag system.
