 State
of the Tank (cont.) |
| time,
until I reached my normal 125g water
change. This took maybe six weeks or
so. By then I began to notice a few
complaints on the boards from reefers
who'd been having the same cloudiness
problems I did. Others were having
troubles with their pH, magnesium levels
and other water parameters. I dismissed
this, figuring they simply added their
new water far too quickly; not giving
it time to clear or cure; certainly
not understanding that this was a sensitive,
delicate salt that had to be aged and
stroked and read to before adding it
to the tank. Barbarians. Of course,
I was having no problems whatsoever
at this point. Yeah, my cyano wasn't
clearing up much and my coralline wasn't
coming back as quickly as I'd
hoped but I thought I hadn't
used the salt long enough for it to
bring an end to these problems yet.
So I just got on with my life and went
back to my fish problems. Spring seemed
to fly by…or maybe since the
temps never went above
50, maybe I figured we'd just
be skipping it this year. But soon
my daughter would be out of school
for Spring Break and that meant that
we could travel. Life was good. |
| Except… |
| This
was about the time I began to notice
that several reefers who had switched
to CS began to complain that certain
corals were showing signs of bleaching:
soft corals at first and also 'zoos'.
Then, I began to read of 'lps' corals |
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| This
was about the time I began to notice
that several reefers who had switched
to CS began to complain that certain
corals were showing signs of bleaching:
soft corals at first and also 'zoos'.
Then, I began to read of 'lps' corals |
| By
the time I left, there was a full-scale
wave of concern, if not panic, sweeping
the boards. Though everything was still
fine with my tank, I can’t say
I didn’t begin to get a little
nervous. Remember, I WAS about to leave
for a while, and that is the prime
ingredient in the dark potion responsible
for the curse known to thousands now
as Moye's Law |
| I
wasn’t down south two days before
I got my first call stating that one
of my acros had bleached. |
“Fortunately”,
it was ‘just’ one of the
daughter colonies of Acro #9  .
I tried to keep my cool; Ray, the service
technician/tank sitter said that a
mushroom had tagged it from |
| underneath and there was no way to
see it until the damage had been done.
As I mentioned earlier, there actually
WAS a precedent for this, so I exhaled. |
| A day or two later
Ray called again to tell me that Acro
#4 had
developed some ‘white spots’.
Then the frag of Acro #21 .
That one seemed to be receding from
the base upwards. There was a hint
of panic in his voice. Me? I was too
depressed to panic... |
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