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03-01-2005, 02:08 AM
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bubble coral
My bubble corral has been deflating for about 2 weeks. It's been in the reef tank for 9 months and always been fine. The zoos look a bit off too. All the other coral, (Torch leather, mushrooms, whip. bush,frogspawn, etc) looks fine. Do they go through some kind of cycle? I am usto it deflating and changing at night, but this is much more significant, and sometimes all day. The zoos seem to be shrinking too. I check the water regularly. PH 8.1-8.3, KH up a bit, between 200 and 250. Calcuim fine, temp fine, salinity fine, phosphates none, nitrate unreadable. Feeding liquid food, frozen food, and cyclopese, and have good light. Any ideas out there.
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72 gal bowfront reef. multiple zoos, ricordea, and tangs. 2X150 watt metal halide, 2X55 watt cp, and moonlights. 28 gal seahorse tank, with 1 pair of seahorses. 
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03-02-2005, 05:29 PM
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I've had torch and hammer corals which are similar to bubble corals and mine did the same thing until they were dead. I can't help you but richtg has kept his torch alive for a long time now, PM him and find out his theory.
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03-02-2005, 05:42 PM
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Do you feed your bubble coral?
When I had mine, I found I did need to feed it. It's odd some LPS are easy to feed, like bubble corals and plates, others I've never been able to find a suitable food for (torch and other euphyllia's). They are definitely sensitive creatures. I ended up losing my bubble coral when I took a large quantity of live rock out. I guess it just couldn't survive the re-cycle of the tank. Everything else in the tank did fine after the rock removal. What kind of lighting does it have? I find that LPS tend to prefer more subdued lighting and more subdued currents unlike their SPS cousins. I'm sorry I don't have anything better to offer.
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03-02-2005, 05:44 PM
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PS. I'll move this to the main reefing forum, you might get more hits on it.
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03-02-2005, 06:56 PM
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That makes sense because Richtg always feeds his torch freeze dried phytoplankton. I never did and that could be why it died.
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THE BARQUARIUM: 55 gallon cube - 50 lbs LR - ASM G3 skimmer - 30 Gallon sump - 22 Gallon refugium / frag tank - 4x 24 watt HO T5's - Mag 9.5 return - Pin Point PH monitor - 400 watt XM 20K MH in Lumenarc reflector - Dual stage GFO/NO3 media reactor - 6 stage RODI auto top up -Wavemaster Pro running 3 Koralia 2's. Fully stocked with fish, corals and usually some fine scotch http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=55041
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