Why won't my monti's live

[newfish]

Ok,

I have tried a couple of different types of montis from Orange and Green monti Cap, "Superman" encrusting monti, Monti digi.

 

Every single one ends up bleached out. Do I not have enough lighting or is my tank just not ready for that type of coral. All of my other corals are doing great.

Any suggestions.

 

Thanks

Josh

Edited May 16, 2008 by newfish

[Grav]

Light, flow or water quality.

 

It is almost always one of those 3.

 

Parisites disease and other coral preditors could do it too... but 99% of the time it is one of the 1st 3.

[lanman]

Ok,

I have tried a couple of different types of montis from Orange and Green monti Cap, "Superman" encrusting monti, Monti digi.

 

Every single one ends up bleached out. Do I not have enough lighting or is my tank just not ready for that type of coral. All of my other corals are doing great.

Any suggestions.

 

Thanks

Josh

 

Your other corals are all softies and LPS corals. It might be your tank just isn't set up for SPS - but monti's in general are pretty hardy for an SPS.

 

bob

[Lizzie]

Do I not have enough lighting or is my tank just not ready for that type of coral.

according to one of my books, strong light bleaches coral. so maybe your light's too strong...?

[gmubeach]

Josh I gave up on sps:) for me the nano world fluctuated too much... I even had someone offer me some free sps at the last meeting.... but I am a firm beliver that if you can't grow it there are plenty of things you can grow:) Keep trying though:) My problem wasn't lack of light but instead the fresh vs salt ratio water flow and other water chemistry problems hope it helps Troy

[davelin315]

You've been going full bore since you started the tank and you've added quite a few things to a very new system, I'd say that you've gone too quickly for the corals you have selected. No offense meant, but it's very difficult to set up a brand new tank and expect everything to work without fail. When I started, I began with a couple of mushrooms and then moved on to some soft corals. I didn't get my first sps until years into the hobby and, even then, I had already been a "seasoned" vet for over 10 years. I think that this club is very generous and, being so, we often give corals to people with less experience because we'd like them to have as beautiful a system that we have. Unfortunately, the result of that is that sometimes new systems that cannot handle sps get just that, sps. When I first started, the rule was at least a year before sps so that the tank could go through all of its phases. Heck, there was even a train of thought that you wait 6 months, then get corals, then wait until 1 year had passed until you get fish! Wait it out for awhile, then when your tank is settled in a bit more, try a simple digitata and go from there.

[newfish]

Thanks everyone for the advice. I understand that my system is new and may not be quite ready yet. I will wait a while to try again. I will stick to softies for now. They seem to be easier anyways

 

Thanks again everyone

Josh

[Grav]

I wouldn't be shy of the monti family. I Often add Monti to tanks that are a month old. Caps are easier than digi.

 

You just need to get the right paramiters. Good strong light, Med/high to high flow and good water quality Nirtates < 10 Amonia 0 Nitrite 0 CA 400+ ALK 4.0 and you will be fine.

 

That said, something must be wrong now... find it and correct before trying again.

 

Give more info on your system (lighting, water parms...) filtration, flow if you want feedback on what is really wrong.

 

Good luck