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Hi seniors, pretty new to this hobby and need help and advice here.

Anyone can help with advising what could be wrong for my coral? Everything seems fine after I got it yesterday and when I got home today I saw this. :(

Realised my water temp went up to abt 31 degrees.

Rest of params are ok.

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Thinking of that and trying to source for an affordable one here. :)

Same with my previous 45 x 45 tank at 29 deg. But the cheap zoas and normal gonio just can take it moderately. Got a second hand chiller from fellow Reefer.


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1 hour ago, kakak99 said:

All LPS and SPS cannot tolerate high temperature.

Try to lower temperature to 26 degree. Short duration 27~28 still acceptable. 

 

Well I have been running my tank at around 28 - 29 degrees and my LPS is all doing fine.

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2 minutes ago, ronnieloong said:

Temp set at 26 and pump flow rate is 600


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Did you measure the flow rate or are you assuming that you 600 lph pump is givin you that. All the hose and fittings and height difference from intake to discharge will add resistance to the flow and will lower the flow.

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Personal experience. It may be better to use an external probe to monitor and control the tempeature. As the probe will be monitoring the tank/sump tempetature this will give a more accurate feedback to the chiller to respond to the cooling requirement. I use a HS 28a for my 200+ litre system. Set the cut in at 26 and cut out at 25. Chiller will normally take about 1 hour to bring the temp down and cut out for about 2 hour before cutting in again. I use external temp probe.

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btw back to your question why the torch coral is doing badly. There may be other factors other than temperature. I find that if the LPS is from a fresh shipment it may not do well if we buy it immediately on the day of arrival. It is already stressed from the journey. So if it did not rest enough and we subject it to another trip to our home it may stress them further. So did you get yours from the lfs or from another reefer?

 

 

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I got it from a lfs.

btw back to your question why the torch coral is doing badly. There may be other factors other than temperature. I find that if the LPS is from a fresh shipment it may not do well if we buy it immediately on the day of arrival. It is already stressed from the journey. So if it did not rest enough and we subject it to another trip to our home it may stress them further. So did you get yours from the lfs or from another reefer?
 
 




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There are times I get an LPS from a fresh shipment that looks fine. But after a day in the tank it starts to die. When I cut it up it is already rotting from within. So I suspsect it is already stressed and dying when it arrived from overseas.

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44 minutes ago, reefbuilder said:

Personal experience. It may be better to use an external probe to monitor and control the tempeature. As the probe will be monitoring the tank/sump tempetature this will give a more accurate feedback to the chiller to respond to the cooling requirement. I use a HS 28a for my 200+ litre system. Set the cut in at 26 and cut out at 25. Chiller will normally take about 1 hour to bring the temp down and cut out for about 2 hour before cutting in again. I use external temp probe.

 

My cut in cut out is 27 and 26.  Thought you say

 

1 hour ago, reefbuilder said:

Well I have been running my tank at around 28 - 29 degrees and my LPS is all doing fine.

 

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10 minutes ago, kakak99 said:

 

My cut in cut out is 27 and 26.  Thought you say

 

 

I have 5 tanks. two of them on chiller. The 28 - 29 degree  LPS tank do not have chiller. The one with chiller just started not long ago. Currently cycling will post some updates soon.

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Personal experience. It may be better to use an external probe to monitor and control the tempeature. As the probe will be monitoring the tank/sump tempetature this will give a more accurate feedback to the chiller to respond to the cooling requirement. I use a HS 28a for my 200+ litre system. Set the cut in at 26 and cut out at 25. Chiller will normally take about 1 hour to bring the temp down and cut out for about 2 hour before cutting in again. I use external temp probe.

Hi bro, any recommendation for the probe or where do you get it actually.


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