去年春天，我承担了一个荒谬的任务，即在期待新生儿时重新启动礁石水族馆。我在写作更新中逾期逾期。为什么要延迟？好吧，确实有三个原因。一方面，婴儿出生后生活真的很疯狂。我低估了第二个孩子对空闲时间的影响。第二期是我的日常工作。我们在2015年进行了一些非常疯狂的工作项目，并进行了严格的截止日期。当我在假期期间终于出现空气时，礁石众神决定在我的礁石上倒计时。但稍后再详细介绍。
在夏天的某个时候，我决定讨厌拥有树冠。我发现要处理的很痛苦，并且会被困。添加风扇无济于事，只会增加更多的噪音。我错过了旧坦克的开放式上衣和悬挂的光。我还决定切换到ATI SunPower。除此之外，没有太大的改变。
珊瑚在整个夏季和秋季都蓬勃发展。着色和增长率是出色的。但是在11月的某个时候，我所有的Acropora都开始从基础上向上缓慢地退出。无论我尝试什么，我都以慢动作失去了殖民地。奇怪的是，只有Acropora受到影响。我的Stylophora，Pocillopora和Montipora继续蓬勃发展。“ SPS”家庭之外的其他珊瑚也做得很好。我的真菌甚至产生了。
The fact that only Acropora were affected seemed like a good clue. My initial suspicion was a parasite. Lengthy inspections turned up nothing. No AEFW or anything else. Maybe my alkalinity levels were out of whack. I’ve seen some corals bothered by Alk fluctuations while others aren’t bothered. But Alk turned out fine as well. I looked at my additives. The only things I dosed were TLF’s Acropower and Dr Tim’s Waste Away. Waste Away is just a bacterial additive. I stopped dosing both, but nothing changed.
经过一个月的死亡，我决定需要进行协同攻击。我以前的坦克是炸弹证明。尽管我谨慎地忽视了珊瑚。因此，我问的第一个问题是：在这个坦克中，我在做什么不同？主要区别在于我添加了一个浅沙床。我最初想到要保留一些需要基材在晚上睡觉的扭曲。我从来没有添加wrass，去除冠层意味着跳跃鱼是不可能的。一天早晨，我摇摆音乐，酿造一杯咖啡，然后将沙子拉出来。如果我决定讨厌沙子，我已经选择在Intial构建过程中添加切菜板底部。我很高兴自己做到了，因为它给了我一些不仅仅是玻璃底部的东西。 I doubt the sand bed was the culprit. There are plenty of nice reefs with sand. But removing it allowed me to crank up the flow even more which may have helped.
I also took on the task of some massive water changes. Finally, I considered the possibility of toxins. I inspected my pumps and magnets for cracks or rust, to no avail. Water tests turned up nothing. I still threw in some Polyfilters, Seachem Cuprisorb, and Two Little Fishies MetaSorb. The combination was probably overkill. The other major step was increase the temperature a bit. I was hovering in the 75-76 range before. If my thermostat was off by a few degrees, then 75 could actually mean I was really too low. I felt that 78 was a better target, since a degree or two off in any direction was still in good territory.
只有几个星期,但组织recession seems to have stalled. I will not declare victory until I see actual growth. At this point, I’m still not 100% sure what the issue is or was. I’m currently leaning towards a bacterial thing or a temperature issue. It is strange that only Acropora are affected. The recession was at a strange pace too. It wasn’t an overnight thing, and wasn’t super slow either. The living portions always looked fine with good polyp extension during feeding.
The action plan for this month is to order up some Triton tests to rule out anything I’m missing in my own tests. I will also hack out the dead portions of Acropora. Healthy branches will be remounted.
所以你有它。我对这样的更新表示歉意。但是，当我在家庭和工作之间确实有一些空闲时间时，我真的不想写珊瑚苦难。如果您经历了类似的事情或有想法，我很想收到您的来信。希望当我再次播出时，我会有更好的消息。
