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Being new to this hobby still (I think we will be for years to come) I don't know what to make of this?
We have had this coral in our possession for 18+ months and it has always done well and grown rapidly no matter what the conditions when it was in our old tank. We moved it from our 70 gal reef to our 34 gal cube back in August. The cube had been set up in our house since June of this year and for quite a while with the previous owner. When we bought it and moved it here it was only down for a couple of hours as he lived close by. We left about 3-4" of water in the bottom of the tank to keep the sand covered and reused all of the original water when we set it back up. We did not experience much of anything of a cycle doing it all this way. The lighting is a 150W MH with an unknown age Phoenix 14k bulb. The lighting cycle is 11 hours every day. We just changed the bulb today to a new Phoenix 14k bulb so we know how old it is now but have no idea about the old one that we just took out. I have noticed these white spots slowly increasing in number and getting larger. The polyps seem to be extended even though they are within the white flesh area. Is this STN? Water parameters are:
Temp 77
Sal 1.0265
Mag 1300
Cal 400
Alk 8.0 dkh
PH 8.1
All test kits are Elos and current
We do a 5 gallon water change every 2 weeks. We run Chemi-Pure Elite which we just changed about 2-3 weeks ago so it is a fresh batch. There is no skimmer on the system and only 1 occ. clown fish in the tank. There are 2 sexy shrimp and 1 emerald crab along with a handful of snails for the CUC. The rest of the corals are mainly zoa's and a couple of LPS (duncans and scoli)
Here is a pic of the placement in the tank (right side about 2/3 of the way up from the bottom)
We have had this coral in our possession for 18+ months and it has always done well and grown rapidly no matter what the conditions when it was in our old tank. We moved it from our 70 gal reef to our 34 gal cube back in August. The cube had been set up in our house since June of this year and for quite a while with the previous owner. When we bought it and moved it here it was only down for a couple of hours as he lived close by. We left about 3-4" of water in the bottom of the tank to keep the sand covered and reused all of the original water when we set it back up. We did not experience much of anything of a cycle doing it all this way. The lighting is a 150W MH with an unknown age Phoenix 14k bulb. The lighting cycle is 11 hours every day. We just changed the bulb today to a new Phoenix 14k bulb so we know how old it is now but have no idea about the old one that we just took out. I have noticed these white spots slowly increasing in number and getting larger. The polyps seem to be extended even though they are within the white flesh area. Is this STN? Water parameters are:
Temp 77
Sal 1.0265
Mag 1300
Cal 400
Alk 8.0 dkh
PH 8.1
All test kits are Elos and current
We do a 5 gallon water change every 2 weeks. We run Chemi-Pure Elite which we just changed about 2-3 weeks ago so it is a fresh batch. There is no skimmer on the system and only 1 occ. clown fish in the tank. There are 2 sexy shrimp and 1 emerald crab along with a handful of snails for the CUC. The rest of the corals are mainly zoa's and a couple of LPS (duncans and scoli)
Here is a pic of the placement in the tank (right side about 2/3 of the way up from the bottom)
