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I disconnected it today just in case, but I ran the line thru a container filled with activated carbon. My apartment complex also usually notifies us if they're going to be doing any spraying/maintenance. I hope that was it and everything sorts itself out though.I would suspect it was your new line running to the outside before anything else.
You do not need a new setup for the time being get all the healthy acros that WERE NOT fragged due to rtn and place them in the right side of the tank with 2 inches apart in every acro and on the right side put all the acros that WERE fragged duse to rtn. And get coral rx and start dipping the ones that you fragged due to rtnYeah I have close to 100 acros all over the tank & in a frag section in my sump. How would you seperate them? I don't have another system setup but might be able to setup something basic/smaller. Or did you mean to just remove/throw away the dying ones?
Yeah, this is my thought. If nothing else, he probably had a big pH swing. May have been enough to irritate things and set it off.I would suspect it was your new line running to the outside before anything else.
I've had 2 mini crashes at the onset of heat coming on in the fall. Now I take measures to ward it off.Yeah, this is my thought. If nothing else, he probably had a big pH swing. May have been enough to irritate things and set it off.
Yes, I did the Witch Hazel from TN.Dickinson, the brand and picture from my FB post to be used.I had been keeping an eye on my ph before/after running the airline outside and noticed no change, it stayed between 8.1 and 8.3 which is what my normal values are but I did disconnect it yesterday.
Also stopped adding aminos/other supplements minus alk/cal/mag yesterday. I have been testing my alk/cal daily since my issues started and haven't noticed a drop in consumption, it has stayed between 8.0-8.3dkh and 400-420ppm. I suppose that is a good thing, it means the corals are still consuming alk/cal? I test alk almost daily and everything else anywhere from once a week to several times a week, I keep a logbook and have not had any major changes/spikes since I started this tank up.
I will try lowering the temp by one degree/day for the next few days till I hit 77.
I also setup a seperate tank and put anything that had rtn there after cutting off any dead tissue.
Andre, are you saying that I should use the witch hazel as a dip or dose my tank with it? I did try it as a dip but noticed no difference with the rate of rtn/stn, have also tried coralrx dip. I'm not sure I feel safe dosing my tank with the witch hazel, have you dosed your tank with it? I don't have any prodibio biodigest but i have a bottle of dr Tim's eco-balance, I use half the recommended amount with every water change which is 15% weekly. I also kept on carbon dosing when I started using your program because your manual said "The Moonshiner method is intended to manage the Reef Chemistry with the focus on Trace elements and can be used along with any method that is applied to reduce nutrients.", so I figured it would be ok. I'm not trying to say that using your program or anything related is the cause of my issues, I am sorry if that's how it came across as. In the 2 months I've been trying it out my colors and growth seem to be much better than normal and I plan on continuing to use it.
I don't feel that it is a issue with my ph or anything I'm able to test for with what I have, all the corals look good as far as color/pe and inflating/opening up (i have clams, sps, lps, ps and nps gorgonians, mushrooms/softies and they all look good/happy). Just random sps corals that look good one day are starting to rtn (so far just acros and a stylo). I don't know if this helps or not but the rtn always starts from the outer rim of the base and moves towards the branches and then the tips. It has never started from the tips or the body.
I sent off a icp test last week and am waiting on the results, the last time I used this company it took them a month to get me my results, hopefully they're quicker this time around and it sheds some light on what is going on.
Keep us in the loop and how it looks like down the road. Frags with Ampicillin treatment in that range before got reinfected after a while in the tank.Update:
Recieved my icp test which showed nothing abnormal/out of range, several others corals started to rtn during that time.
I started dipping all affected corals in ampicillin, 500mg/250 ml after reading about others having success with this method. It has completely stopped rtn in its tracks and I have dipped everything else that I could as a preventative measure. I don't want to jinx myself but I think that has fixed whatever was wrong, several frags that never showed much pe before are starting to have their polyps out a noticeable amount. Corals that had rtn stopped and hasn't progressed further. Haven't had anything else start to rtn in the past 24 hours, previously I would have atleast 2 - 3 daily with the whole piece going within 12 - 48 hours depending on size.
And please share the ICP result please, like to have a look at it.Update:
Recieved my icp test which showed nothing abnormal/out of range, several others corals started to rtn during that time.
I started dipping all affected corals in ampicillin, 500mg/250 ml after reading about others having success with this method. It has completely stopped rtn in its tracks and I have dipped everything else that I could as a preventative measure. I don't want to jinx myself but I think that has fixed whatever was wrong, several frags that never showed much pe before are starting to have their polyps out a noticeable amount. Corals that had rtn stopped and hasn't progressed further. Haven't had anything else start to rtn in the past 24 hours, previously I would have atleast 2 - 3 daily with the whole piece going within 12 - 48 hours depending on size.