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Looking good! Is that Carib sea Life Rock? I have a hard time with pictures too. I think its the purpley/blue rock with the blue in the lighting that makes it tricky.
Nice sneakers in the background.
Looks like you are on your way to a great tank. Like the choices too
How is the baby ?
What a sweet heart! Congrats MC he/she is perfect.My wife gave birth on the 5th of this month.
So I'm at a total loss with my tank right now. Back in October or so I picked up 5 sps frags from my LFS. At the time I was dosing BRS two part for alk and calc demand. All those sticks were doing great, growing, great color, and polyp extension. Then at the end of November I switched to the full AquaForest line, which was always my plan. After a week all of my sps died. I thought that I had an alk spike, and low nutrients were my issue. No signs of any pests, or disease just paling corals and STN. So I figured out my dosing, got some new test kits, a dosing pump, and got all of my levels dialed in to where I want them. Every thing perfect. I got some corals for Christmas from Cultivated Reef, and a gift card to Battle Corals along with some cash. Last weekend I got 12 frags between the two vendors. They looked great for a day after I put them in the tank. Then this last week slowly, I've seen polyp retraction fading color, and have already all but lost two frags to STN. The exact symptoms I experienced in November. The rest are not looking all that good. My parameters test great, I have no stray electrical current, no pests, etc. I am at a loss and all I can think of is that this all started when I switched over to the AquaForest Balling components. There has to be a chemical imbalance that I am unable to test for from component 3 which are the mineral salts. I should probably get some Triton Tests and see what is off. I am strongly considering dumping most of the AquaForest products as it's just killing all the sps I put in the tank.
Parameters
Temp 78-79
PH 8.2
Salinity 1.025
Alk 7.6 (bringing it up to 8dkh to see if that has any positive effects. Increasing it with BRS two part)
Calc 460
Mag 1340
Nitrate 2-3
Phosphate 0.037
I've also been reading on the tanks based on AquaForest thread that somebody has been testing freshly mixed salt water and has been getting readings on mag in the 1600s. I'm starting to loose a little faith in their products. Anybody have any ideas/recommendations of what to do. I'm bummed, frustrated and out of ideas.
I am having a similar issue, but different at the same time. I had a BIG alk spike 2 months ago and 29 of my SPS died. Someone told me on here(can't remember who it was though) that even though a coral is still alive it is still stressed and can later die. Well I had that, I fragged my WD bc the main colony was dying. Thought I could save it, it seemed to be doing better, then out of nowhere it started dying. Also I have a cheap red monti cap that went through the spike also and it has been slowly dying for the last month. I have kept it in the tank, just in case it might come back, but I am thinking that I might just take it completely out today when I get off of work.
Are you using the probiotic or reef salt?
Also a lot of the 1600 reading are at a salinity of 1.026 when the test sheet in the bucket is done at 1.024. Honestly I have never had that issue with the 5 buckets of reef salt and the 4 buckets of probiotic salt I have gone through. I do roll the bucket before I use it, to make sure everything is mixed properly (don't know if it help, but only takes a minute or so to do). I mix my water to 1.025-1.026. My reef is starting to come back from my alk spike, slowly but surely, at least things are looking stable.
Did you change salt mix ? Also do you have anemones ?