wasp Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 Layton do you take angry pills? BTW is that your own coral in your avatar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 Nope, just a random coral pic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pies Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 After a few weeks of using zeovit, people usually notice changes in the colours of corals, without any noticable change in phosphate or nitrate levels. This could be due to iron causing zooxanthellae to leave, or be push out of the coral tissues. So zooxanthellae densities are reduced, allowing underlying colours of flourescing protiens to become apparent. It's around this time that people occasionally notice tissue recession. Possibly from bacterial related problems after iron addition, or boring algae within to coral skeleton, increased by additional iron. How about this for my theory. The Zeovit reduction in phosphate/nutrient begins almost imediatly, but the zoox is the first effected by the change, as we know coral colour changes quickly in a good/bad environment. So nutrient removal happens quicker on the coral than the coral ability to absorb the nutrients back into its tissue. Pie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 So nutrient removal happens quicker on the coral than the coral ability to absorb the nutrients back into its tissue. How would the nutrients be removed from the coral while still being present in the water? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasp Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 How about this for my theory. The Zeovit reduction in phosphate/nutrient begins almost imediatly, but the zoox is the first effected by the change, as we know coral colour changes quickly in a good/bad environment.. Pie Makes a lot more sense than some other theories I've heard recently Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie extreme Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 Layton do you take angry pills? BTW is that your own coral in your avatar? hey wasp is that your coral in your avatar? looks awesome! no need to use pictures that you find on the net when one has great corals to use as your avatar. 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 So you can't discount the iron theory as a possible mechanism then wasp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasp Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 Thanks Cookie, Yes I'm really lucky with some of the corals I've got, That one takes a good photo, but some of the others are better in person. Not getting as good growth as you, but growth none the less. Feel like the tank is really coming together now I'm enjoying the hobby more and more, as no doubt you are Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caper Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 What is ASW & NSW? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 Artificial SaltWater (made up from plain water and salt mix) or Natural Sea Water (from the ocean!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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