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Yes, haven’t seen them around this colony
That’s what I’m wondering, If chronic harassment by a verified can cause this. I may move the rock mine are on and try to rid it of all of them, see if it makes a difference...They effect them, mostly if the tube or feeder touches them.
Interesting development in all of this. Got a PAR meter to map my tank's PAR. Really been wanting to do this since I haven't seen much SPS growth. To my surprise the areas where the Zoas are struggling are only getting 70 PAR under whites and roughly 65 PAR under blues.
The zoas that are continuing to do well in the tank are receiving north of 90PAR.
Back when problems started on only zoas on the frag rack I had measured the par with and without diffusers. PAR in that location without the diffusers ~90PAR, and with diffusers was ~65 PAR.
With all that being said the slow SPS growth is due to receiving less than 150 PAR at the peak. I will need to make a big lighting adjustment from 45% intensity to 80%, which give me roughly 90-130 on the bottom to hitting 200+ on the top. This will have to be done over a long period of time....
Keep in mind the differences in PAR meters I am using the Apogee with the 510 sensor from BRS.Thanks for the update! This is great information. My Seneye Reef is supposed to come in the mail today, so I'm interested to see how my PAR measurements compare to yours. I suspect I may get similar results.
Keep in mind the differences in PAR meters I am using the Apogee with the 510 sensor from BRS.
Thanks for the heads up and I definitely will! Although from a testing video BRS did, I believe the seneye got pretty similar results with its PAR measurements.
What was the result of the PAR?
Dose Chemiclean and be done with it. I had the same problem and my parameters were great as well. Dosed Chemiclean and the zoas went back to normal and have been normal since (about 2 months).