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sadly i didnt even use the pipework i worked my *** off to make. im pretty sure i used 3/4 pipes and the holes have to be just big enough so that theres a gentle flow coming out and so that it doesnt get clogged with something. and it should be like 2 inches or something off from the sand bed and sturdy enough to support your rock

annnnd one of the branchs on the birdsnest is bleaching and badly, but all the other branches on the thing are fine, polyps out and everything... i dont understand, it colided with a another branch with its gorwing but i doubt thats it.

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Odd.. I had the same thing happen with the same birdsnest when I first bought it. It actually started bleaching/dying from the base upwards within a few days in my tank. I think it had to do with to much light although not sure why the problem started from the bottom of the coral and move upwards (had it at the top under 10ks) so I had to chop it up to cut off the dead areas and replant the 7 frags I ended up making out of it in different places in my tank to find its happy spot, which I did and was lowerer than I had it. Birdsnest don't seem to light high lighting. The montipora digi you got also seems to react negatively at first when placed up high under MHs but the digi seems to acclimate to the lighting after about a week (not much polyp extension for a week) but then once acclimated the digis seem to do fine most places from my experience.. the birdsnest on the other hand doesn't seem to recover like the digi when places too high in a tank. Just a thought..
 
the digi is perfect! no bleachig and its polyps are always very nicely extended. i dk what i hould do. i have no idea how to frag things and i feel like if i tried id just ruin the coral, its so wierd becuase on the backside of the coral there's so much extension but on that one branch its dieing, maybe i should try moving it lower?
 
yes, move it lower.

To frag it if it comes to that you can just break it with your hands (birdsnest, wouldn't recommend doing that for acros though) or use scissors to cut it. It is very scary when you have never done it before but so easy once you have a few frags under your belt.
 
would i just cut it off from the dieing part? or would i cut it all up? i dont have any plugs or aything
 
i moved it lower, and examined it, one of the three main branches is great, the other 2 seem to be indeed dieing from the base, no i idea man
 
If it continues, it may be necessary to clip the main healthy branch. You'll want to cut into some of the healthy tissue.
 
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If i do end up having to cut my birdnest how would i put it back onto a frag?!

i can clearly see it going up from the base and affecting 2 of the three main branches, i told my LFS guy, he said that it could just die off at the bases and continue to grow off the tips and have a dead bottom..

i dk

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Now your getting brave.. the acros are the hardest ones to keep happy. Looks like a Borealis in the first picture.. not quite sure what on the other one .. Plum Crazy maybe? As far as fragging, cut with scissors about 1/4" above the dead areas leaving some good stuff behind and then take the good piece you cut off and either put a dab of superglue gel on the bottom and glue it to a rock or find a hole to wedge it into carefully.
 
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