My holy grail Soft Coral! Uh, tank crash incoming? 

second the carbon - pull the reactor out and throw 1/2 cup in a bag.

Quite a few fellow reefers, including myself, agree with your assessment! I'm not glad that I joined the club, but hey, here I am!

Pigments are inorganic. Carbon doesn't remove anything organic

Second this. Had great success keeping mine yellow under 6500K T5

I may very well be, I always thought it’d just be pulling out pollutant. How did running Carbon Reactor impact your parameters?

@@InappropriateReefer I don’t think it is so much a parameter issue, but one of rapid change in PAR due to removal off coloring organics. Essentially, corals get blasted with a higher intensity of light.

@@diyreef chatting with Daniel and he pointed out the same thing; on top of that I also switched light. Thank you for the clarification, it makes sense! 🙏

Love when you watch! 🙏

When mine was out in the open under the light + flow, it was a beast! It seems to like flow.

I lightly rinsed the carbon but did not thoroughly rinsed it. I remember carbon dust being a contributor to HLLE in tangs, how does the dust affect corals? I see mentions of trace elements being removed by carbon a few times in comments -- let me do some research on this, I always thought carbon only removes pollutants and potentially metals, would be good to know if it does also remove useful elements too!

@@InappropriateReefer I don’t know for sure if the dust affects corals, but I thought it could possibly affect corals since it can affect fish. But I think the main thing is just a bunch of changes is stressing the coral, and making them succumb easier to bacteria. BUT. As far as bacteria and coral disease. I have been through it! I went through an almost year long battle with ALL types of stony corals being affected. Some bacteria/pathogens i believe are a lot more dangerous. And I think it all depends on the balance in the tank. Generally I’ve researched and most people lose one to several corals, but things usually improve when things are stable in the tank. But for me things kept persisting, and it seemed as if the bacteria was just affecting the healthy corals no matter what. The imbalance in my tank was insane. But I finally tried a product to try and help things. I’m super skeptical about certain products claiming to help with STN/RTN. But this product shocked me. If things get worse I’d use it. It’s the Fauna Marin STN X. It’s VERY expensive. But I think it really changed things. I did the full 10 day treatment, and I added ecobalance occassionally during treatment, and some after. And then I just didn’t dose anything and kept things stable. I was shocked that nothing looked stressed from the treatment. I left skimmer on but just made it skim super dry so it didn’t pull out anything from the treatment. But all my urchins, and inverts weren’t affected at all which shocked me… I can answer more questions if need be. But I think you should be fine if things don’t persist and more corals don’t become affected. But maybe consider getting this product just in case.

Thank you!

It’s a classic coral!! Did yours have the nice canary yellow?

The percent doesn't really show the full picture since they're paired w/ strip lights (AliE bars before, AI Blade now); the 135g was running ~300 PAR at the top of the rock work. It's now ~250 PAR at the top. Small tank if I remember right is chugging along around ~320 PAR at the top part of the tank.

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Thank you, I'm dialed back the light since and stopped the carbon reactor (will run it for an hour maybe every other day instead of 24/7). Thanks for the heads up to y'all, I would never have thought the carbon reactor would impact the system so much. Always learning!

I have not yet, will be sending one out this coming week 🤞

I only did epoxy putty for one of the larger piece of SPS attaching it to rock. All the other ones I just use super glue gel, lol. Or if there's a crevice and the frag is a loose frag, I would glue it to a plug first, then glue the plug to the rock structure.

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Same

I do sell / trade locally in the DMV area; Although going to hold off for now until whatever is happening is resolved 🥲

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@@InappropriateReefer awesome thanks!

Honestly didn’t do anything different! BTAs just seems to look and be however and wherever they want! 😆

@@InappropriateReefer dang I wish mine would bubble up. Like that one. Maybe one day

Mine did have green skin red polyps.. Did being the key word here 🥲

@@InappropriateReefer ohhhh dang, been there 😪

Absolutely; want to email me inappropriatereefer@gmail.com with the details?

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NooOOoOooOo say it ain't so!! 😂 But hey, I'd rather know it than continue chasing a dream! I guess the hunt continues........? (And yes, I feel like I relearn the same lessons once every few years, lol!)

You’re sooooo wrong 😂. It’s definitely a Sarcophyton elegans.

I thought I was too but you know how it goes.. 🥲

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