- Joined
- Mar 10, 2012
- Location
- Rocky Mountains BC
I have to admit... Darryl is sort of the guy to watch. He has what I almost consider "overstocked", yet he doesn't suffer the losses that I see in a lot of "overstocked" tanks. I think (I may be wrong) that he is careful in mixing and matching regions when it comes to corals, ie: he doesn't put a gulf coral next to a fiji or australian. I'm not sure but if anyone was that careful it would be him.
Overstocking of fish is also a big nono for me, too hard to keep corals looking good when they're overloaded with nutrients, they all go dark brown.
To be honest, I don't think your setup is to blame, it's the maturity of the tank (and the owner)
opcorn:. It really takes a good lot of time for a system to balance itself out and settle in. There's war going on in there, and when one faction wins, it might just kill off something your corals were using for food, or a pest suddenly explodes unchecked, etc. Once your tank is stable, and you have a really really constant schedule of water changes and dosing, then things sort of just start doing well on their own (well and you also get a feel for where you can put certain coral in your tank and have it do well).
My biggest earlier mistake was bulbs...I always left them too long and the spectrum would be weak and wonky for months. LED fixed that, as I likely would still be slack. Hence my love of the LED.
Overstocking of fish is also a big nono for me, too hard to keep corals looking good when they're overloaded with nutrients, they all go dark brown.
To be honest, I don't think your setup is to blame, it's the maturity of the tank (and the owner)
opcorn:. It really takes a good lot of time for a system to balance itself out and settle in. There's war going on in there, and when one faction wins, it might just kill off something your corals were using for food, or a pest suddenly explodes unchecked, etc. Once your tank is stable, and you have a really really constant schedule of water changes and dosing, then things sort of just start doing well on their own (well and you also get a feel for where you can put certain coral in your tank and have it do well).My biggest earlier mistake was bulbs...I always left them too long and the spectrum would be weak and wonky for months. LED fixed that, as I likely would still be slack. Hence my love of the LED.
