can't grow montis

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FatWrasse

I cannot grow monti corals besides plating. but can grow birdsnest and other acros and etc. with no problem anyone have any idea why?

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I won't have an answer for you, but someone who might is going to ask for your lighting specs and water parameters, so you might as well post them now. [smilie=rofl.gif]
 
well my calcium and Dkh is a little low

dkh -7
cal-380
nitrate-0
phos-.5
1.025
i am running 2x250w 20k mh 4x65w actinic pc

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Your calcium and alk are a bit low as you stated, but not too far out. I don't think those parameters are it, but as you know, stability is crucial for SPS, so it won't hurt to bump them up a bit.

If you can grow the plating ones, I assume you're referring to the encrusting types? What do they do? Do they bleach out? Or do they just not get bigger?
 
they just slowly die like my rainbow monti is just slowly whiting out and dying

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@joelq wrote:
[I]@Deanb wrote:[/I][quote="You might have monti eating nudis said:
That's a good thought, although wouldn't those guys also go after the plating montis?"]
They may have not had time to spread. 29Biocub29, Do you dip your corals?
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I had monti eating nudis once. Luckily I only had one frag and I took it out and haven't had food for them for over 6 months so I assume they are dead. Look closely for them and you will see them. They like to hang out on the underside of the coral.
 
Monti eating nudis are awful! I had them a couple years ago, killed every monti I had. If I remember correctly, they would eat the coral from the outside in, and laid their eggs on the underside. You can see them pretty easily if you take a macro photo of the coral/s.
 
Monti eating nudi's are bad new's and are rather hard to get rid of if they have spread. As mentioned, look underneath for egg's and wait until an hour after lights out then turn the lights back on and inspect for live nudi's. The ones I've seen are white which makes them harder to see against the dead bone white area they are munching away on from the outside in. A fellow member "once" had an total monti dominant tank and brought in some nudi's, needless to say after much fighting he resorted to removing what was left and tossing them. It's been a couple of years and I believe he mentioned trying monti's again. With all that said monti's seem to react to low mag level's by slowly lighting in color and then receding. High salinity(1.028) also seem to affect them as well while other coral's don't appear fazed.

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@29biocub29 wrote:
so maybe i have low mag i need a test kit and mag booster Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using Tapatalk 2 said:
Quality test kit's for Alk,Ca and mag are essential, I personally use salifert for magnesium but there are other good ones out there. I would either let a LFS test it first or another member test it to see where you are at. Also keep in mind that if you do need to boost your Mg level's, it takes an ungodly amount to raise it a couple hundred ppm. Large correction s to mg levels can also raise your salinity so you have to check on that also, 100ppm a day is about as far as you want to raise it, if your coral's start sliming big time then you know you have really went too far. Shoot for 50ppm a day increase to be extra safe if you do need to raise it. Even if mg is low still make sure you do not have nudi's in there, you do not want those to spread.

Cheers,
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