Chalice hobbyist pls read

[SharkLover]

Hi guys,
One of my chalice's are showing white blotchs. Is this bad or does it appear to be forming new eyes? I see around the white blotchs the skin of the chalice is actually swirling itself which was why i initially thought a new eye was forming. Any info is appreciated.

 

[pvh]

put it in my tank...it'll go away.

 

[brokereefer]

reefcentral had some talk about this
2 things i can only think about

1 new eyes
2 black bugs which are like red bugs but attack lps theres a thread on it on rc

if its black bugs easy fix do what you would do for red bugs

 

[SharkLover]

reefcentral had some talk about this
2 things i can only think about

1 new eyes
2 black bugs which are like red bugs but attack lps theres a thread on it on rc

if its black bugs easy fix do what you would do for red bugs

I hope its not black bugs. my tanks nuisance free as far as I know. The worst thing my tanks ever had was Dino and Cyano which I man handled with strict husbandry. If it were black bugs I would think i'd see it affect more than just this single chalice.

 

[SharkLover]

put it in my tank...it'll go away.

It would only get lost in your forest of coral.

 

[SharkLover]

So i'm assuming by the little amount of responses either nobody has chalices (which is soooo not true), or you hit the nail on the head and i have nothing to worry about if infact the white swirls are new mouths. If it were more distinctive of black bugs someone woulda came out already most likely and +1 it.

 

[s_kelley]

Kinda looks like bleaching, hows the light and flow in that area.

 

[SharkLover]

Kinda looks like bleaching, hows the light and flow in that area.

it was extremely low on the sand bed, the Par was about 20-30. (i changed my bulbs and the order was wrong. fixing the bulb order par went up to 40-60) I Just moved it into an area with around 80-100 par.

Previously little to no flow, now decent medium flow.

Calcium was around 300.
Alk was 6.7

Since i just moved I've been lacking. I just recently bumped alk up to 8.7 and now i'm starting to dose calc to bring it up. I brought it up to 350 today. gonna do another 50 tmrw, and maybe a 3rd set of 50 the following day if i dont have to buffer alk in between the doses.

 

[s_kelley]

Sounds like your on the right track with fixing your small issues, it might just be a little stressed and bleached a bit. keep doing what your doing and see what happens, just keep an eye out for any receeding flesh.