Hi, in all your SPS keeping life ,how many acropora corals have you lost? I have lost many due to my mistakes(darnet!).
Have you lost...
0?
1-5?
6-10?
11-20?
orrr...
21+?
I myself am in the 11-20 range. Why? Because of heat issues and water quality issues? Wanna hear? OK.
When I had my 75 gallon in another location 1 and a half years ago, I had mabe 11 or more fish. Crazy, I know. I soon learned that that amount was wayyy too much. My nitrates were in the 80's range I beleive? Bye bye acro's! (dont worry, now i only have 4 fish)
Once, also when my 75 was in the other location, in the early years, I was like..."My tank doesnt feel warm...it should feel warm!" So wanna know what I did? I turned that heater up to 82 or something!! mistake. I got back from boy scout camp and guess what...my new wild cought expensive BEAUTIFUL acroporas(2) were bleached 100%!
one was neon orange, the other was cream with pink tips and super hairy polyps..my favorite. Now dead. (dont turn heater past 78 IME!)
Wanna hear more? mabe not...but here it goes
Most recently...a few months ago...
on my 75 I added a mag 9 pump for my new sea swirl and with the 175w MH's in a 6" tall hood 3 " above the waters surface with one tiny fan...just doesnt cut it. So my temps were in the 90's!!!!! Yes, you heard right...the 90's. so ofcourse things bleached....some died.
Now my temp reaches a miximum of 84ish. I still think thats too high. I am gonna have to do sumthin I have a huge fan blowing across the waters surface....
those new 250 XM's are HOT!
So were looking at 3-5 colonies and countless frags that I have lost...how about you???
Have you lost...
0?
1-5?
6-10?
11-20?
orrr...
21+?
I myself am in the 11-20 range. Why? Because of heat issues and water quality issues? Wanna hear? OK.
When I had my 75 gallon in another location 1 and a half years ago, I had mabe 11 or more fish. Crazy, I know. I soon learned that that amount was wayyy too much. My nitrates were in the 80's range I beleive? Bye bye acro's! (dont worry, now i only have 4 fish)
Once, also when my 75 was in the other location, in the early years, I was like..."My tank doesnt feel warm...it should feel warm!" So wanna know what I did? I turned that heater up to 82 or something!! mistake. I got back from boy scout camp and guess what...my new wild cought expensive BEAUTIFUL acroporas(2) were bleached 100%!
one was neon orange, the other was cream with pink tips and super hairy polyps..my favorite. Now dead. (dont turn heater past 78 IME!)
Wanna hear more? mabe not...but here it goes
Most recently...a few months ago...
on my 75 I added a mag 9 pump for my new sea swirl and with the 175w MH's in a 6" tall hood 3 " above the waters surface with one tiny fan...just doesnt cut it. So my temps were in the 90's!!!!! Yes, you heard right...the 90's. so ofcourse things bleached....some died.
Now my temp reaches a miximum of 84ish. I still think thats too high. I am gonna have to do sumthin I have a huge fan blowing across the waters surface....

So were looking at 3-5 colonies and countless frags that I have lost...how about you???
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