HELP WITH BIRDNEST NOT OPENING!

[staromsa]

Hi guys, Yesterday afternoon i actually bought this birdnest from Iwarna.. But was wondering why hasn't it been opening?

PLEASE ADVISE!

TQ IN ADVANCE!

[staromsa]

But as for my other birdnest, They are opening well.. Why is this like this?

[jxlex]

presuming all parameters are fine, i suggest you give it a few days to stablise... from collection to collection station to shipment to LFS to you, alot of stress...

btw, the majeno behind no disturb ur other corals?

[staromsa]

Nope bro. Its very well behave. It just stays right there. LOL.

[jxlex]

lucky you... i took out the whole rock with that 1 majeno and burn the bugger up before putting my rock back... lol evil

how are you managing your nutrients btw?

[staromsa]

Bro, what do u mean by " managing my nutrients? " Ps ah not really an expert. LOL

[jxlex]

how you export your nutrients? Biopellet, Rowa,Algae Scrubber, etc?

[staromsa]

Im using ,

SkimZ FR Running the ROWAPHOS

Biopellet

Bubble Magus NAC 3

Algae Scrubber

Activated carbon.

[jxlex]

Interesting cos from ur earlier photo nutrients like quite high... Sps will do better with controlled nutrients

[staromsa]

Yeah. Im facing a battle with terrible algae! Any ways to help?

[jxlex]

Clean up crew, manual removal of algae, check your media is working, rowa and carbon not exhausted... Control feeding and addition of new stuff for the time being

[staromsa]

Bro, add coral can? But not fishes? NP Biopellets just added today only.

Added rowaphos to my FR on Sat only leh.

Bro can you emphasize more on the manual remover of algae part?

TQ!

[jxlex]

Coral also must slowly add la... Ur system must be ready for the extra load, so if u do it slowly u allow time for nitrifying bac population to grow and handle the extra load progressively...

Manual = use hand go in and pluck Nything u can lor... If cant then allow cuc n the bio pellet n rowa to do their magic...

[jxlex]

Btw bio pellet takes awhile to kick in and best start with half dosage first and slowly increase

[staromsa]

Jxlex bro, how long will it take for the biopellet to actually show its "magic" ? Bro u keep sps?

[staromsa]

Paisehh for the late reply anyway. Kinda busy earlier on!

[jxlex]

hmm.... i also cannot say for sure leh.... mine took 2 weeks to kick in but i made a mistake and put full dosage, resulting in multiple mini cycles to kick in, massive bacteria bloom.... patience la... the more you ignore your tank, the better it will become! hhaha

by ignore i dun mean no maintenance hor.... just that sometimes when doing stuff, we tend to be over eager and hope for over night miracles...

[staromsa]

Yeah.. i totally agree on that.. Bro disaster happened .. One small frag of Birdnest broke of the colony days ago. place it somewhere at the top. BLEACHED!

[jxlex]

ok la small frag bo pian... what lighting u using? like it or not u need to acclimatise the sps to your lights too... if you can adjust your light lower it and progressively increase the intensity. otherwise put it lower and manually shift up until the exact location you want to place it... too sudden too much light will also cause the sps to release the zooxanthellae.

In case you are not familiar, zoox are tiny algae that resides within the soft tissue of the coral.. it is the zoox that give the coral their colours. The zoox photosynthesis during lighting hours and the coral benefits from the by product. if too much light, the coral dun need so much zoox to produce "food" for them and have the ability to "release" these zoox. Problem comes when the corals are stress and they over release the zoox resulting in the so call bleaching. hope the info helps, i plugged off the internet.

btw, frags from members existing tanks tend to be hardier and do better then wild colonies. nonetheless, maintain good para and they should still do decently well and acclimatise to your tank.

btw, was also reading up on polyp extension recently, try to take a torch light at night when lights are off bout an hour or so see if the polyps open out, if they do, at least still got a decent amount of hope...

good luck bro!

[staromsa]

Thank you so much bro! Anyw, They are wild colonies from Iwarna. Hasnt even open there. LOL.

Should really check on my parametres liao.

Bro, How frequent do change your water?

[jxlex]

I got a colony of acro dunno what from iwarna same shipment too... The blue blue one... Seems ok so far la... Touch wood! I change water biweekly 10% w ddh2o...

[staromsa]

Bro u make salt? Wah so heng ah? I think ive gotten the leftovers from iwarna thats why... Haizz ...

[jxlex]

Ya... Make my own salt mix... Dun think so la, by the time I went down nothing much Liao

[staromsa]

Wah if make salt horh. Super troublesome lehh.. Thought of using iwarna DI water to change water.

[jxlex]

U cannot use DI for water change bro... For top up yes, water change must be salt mix or nsw... I hope u referring to nsw and not DI bro