Had a zoa frag melt.. Dang

[KevinK]

interesting I moved 2 big rocks from my old tank to my sump (we moved and I made a sump sof my new tank in a few months.

before moving them, thy where going down a bit (the 10 inch rock was 60% covered, both of them)

so now in the new house thy are even going down more and more, and the frags I had from them, do the same, 3 months ago 30 polyp's a frag, a week before moving only 20, and now a month after the move, there is only maybe 10 polyp's left on the disc,

the 2 big rock went from 60% covarage, to only 25%

as there is nothing on the rock, other than zoa, would I be able to dip the entire rock, and than afterwards, rins it all.

as a foot note, when I moved, the temporarely tank (later to be my sump, holds 100 gallon, and was completly filled with water from the old tank, and the trip was only 15 minutes, not tempreture swings ore nothing, it was gust going down before the move, and is still going down

[Nano]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

Sounds like you are going through many problems since you started your tank.
I've seen many of your posts and would like to know what I will be up against when I start mine.
What do you think happened to cause you such grief?
Did you populate your tank too soon?
Or was it that your rock wasn't cured?
What do you think happened?
Greg

Just didn't do my research properly lol. I waited about 6 weeks for the tank to cycle before adding critters. Apparently zoo's melt sometimes. If your looking for what not to do my threads are definitely. Good place to start lol. But in terms of setting up a new tank I'm not the guy to ask Haha

[Nano]

I couldn't say about the rock, as said I cycled for six weeks til the parameters were where they should be,
put in my clean up crew, waited about 1 week, then one clown, turned out he was carrying ich.
Personally though I see them as learning experiences haha, cause now I have an idea of what to do in some situations
I lost a shrimp due to stray voltage which I still can pinpoint the exact location, I think it actually might be a bad ground
in the wall plug it self, cause unplugging cords from the tank proved fruitless, until I unplugged the power bar
Salinity spike came from stupidity mostly not think that I should have been topping off with fresh water
I wa topping off with salt... (duhhh) lol I sure felt dumb on that one, also I started with a hydrometer,
which was reading 3-6 points lower then what my salinity actually was so I would see 1.025 and think it
was good, when it was acually 1.028+!! luckily as I'm sure you are finding lots of people love to help one here, one actually gave me his spare refractometer, so I haven't had that problem since.
now its pretty much just narrowing down the zoa frag melt situation, but as I said, a few others have told me
its happened to them too. Luckily again, I now know what to do, and how to do a peroxide dip

Point is here that I think yes I have had tons of problems, I think some could be from my equipment (hydrometer)
but mostly from not doing my homework prior. I think we all make mistakes in this hobby even the experienced
but its learning from those mistakes that ensures our tanks survival in the future. And hopefully I dont
have many more problems Cause I'm tired of being the village idiot on here lol