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11/25/2007, 07:49 PM
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Why do some do well and others die?
I have a 65 gal reef tank that I have my fair share of problems with over the past 11 months it’s been up. I finally have seemed to iron the problems out but I can't figure out why some sps does awesome and other die not matter what I try. I have a pink slimmer doing great a very large colony of some kind of purple/ green/blue Arco I think its a tort of some kind, a small monti and some others. I cannot get a bird’s nest to live to save my life or a styloforia which sucks b/c those are 2 of my favorites. I have tried lots of light; lower light, high flow and low flow I can’t figure it out. My prams are stable so what’s the deal? I worry about adding new things b/c I am never sure if its going to survive or not. Any ideas?
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11/25/2007, 08:30 PM
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Are the ones you're having trouble with wild colonies, or aquacultured? People seem to have a higher success rate with aquacultured sps. Wild colonies are pretty fickle. Some do fine, but others can be impossible to keep.
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11/26/2007, 04:44 PM
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Well as far as I know they were all aquacultured. I got a few different frags from a few different friends who have large colonies and I had bought one large colony from my lfs but none of them have survived more them 3 months. Its all of a sudden. They look great and open and then its RTN while the remaining polyps are still open, its weird. And its always these 2 corals.
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11/26/2007, 06:02 PM
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Get some hardy, aquacultured frags and you'll do fine. I have both a pink and a green stylophora, and they grow like weeds. I visit S. Fla often, and picked up the green stylo frag from a place in Pompano Beach on Atlantic (it's an ORA). Also, there's a pretty active club in S. Fla, so you should have no trouble finding a healthy acro frag. I feel your pain, though. For some reason, I have trouble keeping blue corals; they don't turn colors, but rather RTN. I have a blue tort from ORA that's going on 6 mos., so maybe the blue frag curse has been broken....
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11/26/2007, 07:02 PM
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I can get the Ugly ones to grow good but the nice expensive ones always die within a few days. I give up. on sps from now on.
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