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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / October 2006Capnella bent over
Hi All, I bought a Capnella yesterday for my Nano reef tank. I initially placed it half way up the rock work but it fell off so I then put it in the substrate. As the day progressed it started to bend in the middle. Yesterday evening I fed the corals with some phytoplankton including this one. All of today the Capnella has been bent almost in half and has been clamped up. I've moved it up the tank again in case it relates to the amount of light. The tank is a 15 gall with 3 15W flourescents. Do you think I'm on the right track or should it be less light rather than more? Or is it a problem with the coral itself (possibly got damaged in the fall)? Or is it an acclimitization issue and I need to be patient? Tank parameters are:- Temp 26.6C Sg 1.026 pH 8.4 Alk - higher end of normal (Red Sea kit so doesn't give specifics) NO2 0 Ca 550 ppm (which seems a bit high to me) NO3 High Range 25 Low Range 5 PO4 0.1 All other corals, including some others added yesterday, are doing fine. TIA Gill Just regular florescent lights ??? Power compact, vho, t5 ??? You're a bit low on watts per gallon...somebody correct me if I'm wrong but you should at least be around 5 watts per gallon ? What are your water parameters...primarily Alk and PH ? If I had to guess, your Alk may be low. The thing sounds stressed, don't move it so much. Chris > Hi All, > [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > TIA > Gill 3 T8s....one Power-Glo and two Marine-Glo....one Marine-Glo could easily be swapped for another Power-Glo if it would help - no room in the hood to add any more or I would have gone for four tubes. Parameters are in my original post Gill It's probably damaged from the fall. When a coral gets punctured, it can't build up as much pressure when inflating, and so will not fully inflate until it finishes healing. Wayne Sallee Wayne's Pets Wayne@WaynesPets.com Gill Passman wrote on 10/21/2006 1:13 PM: > Hi All, > [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > TIA > Gill > It's probably damaged from the fall. When a coral gets punctured, it > can't build up as much pressure when inflating, and so will not fully [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Wayne's Pets > Wayne@WaynesPets.com Thanks, I'll keep an eye on it....It's back in the substrate as the shrimps were pushing it around a bit last night and it was wobbling. As I didn't want it to fall again I took the risk of moving it....the shrimps then bashed my Xenia off of their rock....I think I might need to invest in some superglue.... Gill |
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