Myka's 90 gallon build & 3 province move (Pics Feb 6) - Page 40

Myka · #**391** 09-01-2011, 04:44 AM

Ok, this is a painful post...

...I came back from a trip to BC on Aug 17th to find a frag fell down and was standing upside down like a frickin tripod ON my frickin Scoly!

Never in my life have I ever seen another 3-mouth Scoly. I don't think I'm going to save it, and if I do I doubt it will still have 3 mouths. Here it is today as I am slowly losing the battle:

On the brighter side, through the tears I can see some up and coming pieces:

fishytime · #**392** 09-01-2011, 05:10 AM

that sucks about the scoly Mindy.....I feel for ya.....similar thing happened to mine......except my mishap was a frog spawn and the scoly slowly died over a couple weeks.....I knew it was going to die so I snagged another one from the shop

fishoholic · #**393** 09-01-2011, 05:39 AM

That sucks

BlueTang<3 · #**394** 09-01-2011, 01:57 PM

Mindy those scolys are extremely hardy, I came back from holidays and mine was completely buried. I had shrunk down the probably a dime size and now its back to full size. Took about 3 months or so to recover tho.

Myka · #**395** 09-01-2011, 03:28 PM

The mouths are gaping on it Wes and it won't eat, I think it's a goner.

It was showing feeder tentacles so I was feeding it some Fauna Marin LPS pellets, but it wouldn't eat them. I received some New Era pellets and have been trying to feed it those, but it won't take them either. I tried PE mysis, no luck. My brine shrimp eggs aren't hatching, otherwise I was going to feed it some NHBBS. I will try some frozen foods today. It grabs onto the food, but then lets go.

I moved it yesterday to a place with less flow but more light.

ALang · #**396** 09-01-2011, 03:45 PM

When we were on holidays, Mom allowed an acan to topple onto a totally P**sed-off frogspawn.

Sometime you just need to let it be. It may not feel like eating for a while, poor thing. But I have seem some that did come back, albeit after a long while. Maybe worth keeping at a corner and see if it heals.

Myka · #**397** 09-01-2011, 03:55 PM

My tank isn't a very good LPS tank right now. I'm having troubles with a few brains over the last 6 months. I had a healthy looking Lobo slowly recede to death for no apparent reason, and I have a Symphyllia that's slowly receding real bad right now and I have no idea why. So I'm worried that whatever has been ****ing off those brains may affect the recovery of this Scoly. The Scoly has been off in a corner up until yesterday I traded it to a place where an Acan echinata was real happy. I am actually looking at some of my Asterina starfish lately and wondering if one of them is predatory. I was fighting a cyano outbreak for awhile too after coming back home, but it is under control now.

ALang · #**398** 09-01-2011, 04:47 PM

Well, you might have gotten to the LNS where LPS don't do well, and your SPS are.

Best of luck.

Myka · #**399** 09-01-2011, 11:32 PM

Thanks ALang!

I wish I was at LNS, but I'm still making up for being away for most of the last year and a half. The tank has really suffered in that time. There was a layer of detritus on the sand, and a layer of cyano on top of that! I cheated and used ChemiClean to zap the cyano a couple days ago. Now I'm at home permanently I can do the maintenance on the tank and get it back into shape. It could be the toxins that cyano releases that were affecting the LPS. Combine that with a lack of carbon, and that could be the issue. Fresh carbon a week ago, fresh GFO today...things should be turning around soon!

Lance · #**400** 09-02-2011, 12:03 AM

Sorry to hear about your Scoly Mindy. It's a beauty too.

I had almost the same thing happen to me. A large turbo snail pushed my scoly over and it landed upside down onto a hydnophora. Needless to say, it was fried! Hopefully yours comes back for you.