Ron448
02/21/2015, 11:17 AM
so just recently only some of my polyps are not completely opening. here is a pic of what the ones that don't open all the way look like:
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the single red people eater was originally attached to the same frag disc as the other three in this picture but it fell off so i glued it down to a separate frag plug. the other three people eaters are fine as you can see.
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here is another green people eater frag that is also doing fine.
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i just tested all my parameters before i posted this and they are:
ammonia: 0
nitrite: 0
nitrate: 0
phosphate: 0
Calcium: 460
Alk: 9
salinity: 1.026
temp: 78 degrees F
My tank is a 28 gallon nano cube by jbj. I'm leaning towards two causes right now. one being that i recently removed the rim of my tank and some tiny plastic and silicone shavings fell into the tank during the process. i would think the silicone used to attach the rim would be aquarium safe but who know it could have been regular silicone. it was black silicone if that means anything. I would imagine that the silicone is aquarium safe though. the other suspicion i have is that I've been seeing some astern starfish in my tank. I know they can sometimes eat zoas but I have not seen them crawling on any of my corals yet, but just because i haven't seen them doing it doesn't mean they aren't. does anyone know if this is what a zoa should look like if asterinas are eating them or what else could be causing this?
thanks in advance for any help
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the single red people eater was originally attached to the same frag disc as the other three in this picture but it fell off so i glued it down to a separate frag plug. the other three people eaters are fine as you can see.
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here is another green people eater frag that is also doing fine.
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i just tested all my parameters before i posted this and they are:
ammonia: 0
nitrite: 0
nitrate: 0
phosphate: 0
Calcium: 460
Alk: 9
salinity: 1.026
temp: 78 degrees F
My tank is a 28 gallon nano cube by jbj. I'm leaning towards two causes right now. one being that i recently removed the rim of my tank and some tiny plastic and silicone shavings fell into the tank during the process. i would think the silicone used to attach the rim would be aquarium safe but who know it could have been regular silicone. it was black silicone if that means anything. I would imagine that the silicone is aquarium safe though. the other suspicion i have is that I've been seeing some astern starfish in my tank. I know they can sometimes eat zoas but I have not seen them crawling on any of my corals yet, but just because i haven't seen them doing it doesn't mean they aren't. does anyone know if this is what a zoa should look like if asterinas are eating them or what else could be causing this?
thanks in advance for any help