Conskis 34 Gal Solana Build

Storms happen in the ocean all the time.. corals go days with dark clouds above. They will be fine with limited lighting in your 14G for a week as long as the water quality is good.
 
thats the thing i dont thinkt he quality is even half as close to as good as my 34, i just did a quick transfer didnt acclimate. im gonna ask my LFS to help me out. how should i get rid of the bad crap?
 
Pretty much do a 100% waterchange with using just the turkey baster to remove water (ie, sucking out all the bad stuff one squeeze at a time). It will take quite a while to do and not be fun, but the quicker you do something to get rid of that stuff the quicker the tank will be good again. It won't go away on its own. I am not sure myself on how it starts out, my LFS used great water, good salt mix, all parameters where spot on, but after about the second month of setup on the new frag tank within just a couple days those dinos took hold and made the tank look like a bunch of white sticks with brown snot streaming all over the tank. Bad bad stuff that kills SPS corals very quickly.

You could ask your LFS to QT the corals for you if they have a QT tank setup for that. That would be the best option if it is one. Definately mention to them why you need to do that so they don't stick corals from your tank into a high value tank of theirs.
 
I called my LFS.. nothing they wont take my frags for a little bit.

He said dino wont kill corals either.. "from everything hes read"

and that i should just turn the lights off in the tank for a little bit?

100% .. with a turky baster.... :(you got to be kidding me, theres so much of the stuff i dont even think i could get it all if i work the entire night..

are you sure its not diatoms... omg you have to be kidding me :( :(
 
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Turning off the light will definitely help.. as far as Dinos not killing corals.. I watched with my own eyes about $10,000 worth of frags get "smothered" to death from dinos, they can most certainly kill SPS corals. Not by attacking/poisoning the corals, but by smothering/irritating them so the polyps don't come out, zoox expels from the corals (bleaching out), and given just a little time, since polyps won't come out, it can't feed and it dies.
 
what about my clam? with no light that sucker will die and hes beautiful
 
Im gonna do basically the only thing i can do.

Im gonna switch the lights on my tanks that way my sps doesnt suffer neither does my clam.

Im gonna buy a viper like i shouldve in the first place.

and im gonna do the baster trick all day tomorrow until my tank is 100% perfect again.

why out of all the people who do this hobby did this happen to me
 
well on the brightside of all this... my 14 gallon looks absolutly amazing with the light over it, the clam in there and all the sps
 
i might just end up making my 34 gal into a super FOWLR.

Buy an mp10 for my 14gal
buy a big *** anem for my picassos and a nice leapord wrasse in there too.

im so upset right now i dont even know what to say

i really am so happy looking at my 14gal right now though.

i might even swtich the fish too put the tomato int he 34 and the picassos back in here just cause such beautiful fish shouldnt be in a lonely tank with nothing to make their colors pop
 
LOL.. you can't get discouraged that easily in this hobby.. believe me.. there is always some problem that pops up that requires immediate attention, more so when you get into the SPS coral arena. Your problem isn't a new one, just not a common one, but it is certainly beatable. I know today is discouraging but it will only get better. At least you moved the corals to another tank.. I think that alone will save their lives at this point vs keeping them in the tank with dinos.
 
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