dlambs
New Member
Hey guys! My name is Davis, and I have a 20g Peninsula from Innovative marine. My 20g has been setup for two months but was a direct transfer from my 14g peninsula that had been running for 9 months prior to the move. total live rock age was about 11 months in my system. at the time in my previous system before the move, I maintained levels of
10 Nitrate
0 nitrite
0 ammonia
.07 phosphate
8.3ish DKH
440 calcium
1450 magnesium
HARDWARE:
Innovative marine 20g peninsula
ehiem jager heater on INKBIRD controller
Jebao SLW20 pump
Mighty jet Return pump with RFG (*BOTH PUMPS RUN AT 50% MIGHTYJET ON PULSE AND SLW ON RANDOMIZED)
GIESSMAN 24x4 T5HO with 2 reefbrite strips all blue
3ATI BLUE +
1ATI CORAL+
GFO FOR PHOSPHATES
CARBON once Per month for a week to help with clarity.
At the time, I Kept a single clownfish and a Midas Blenny. The reality of my Nitrate and Phosphate was that the tap water and my RO water had a decent amount of phosphates in it despite filtering and 0 TDS, so i would run a small amount of GFO in a bag and had to dose nitrate to keep them up. I would dose ATI nitrate, 2ml per day. I had a couple torches that looked absolutely amazing, full and happy PE and great color. the rest of my coral ventures were all SPS. i waited till the 6 month mark to try SPS and started with a forest fire digitata that took off like a freight train. once i knew things were stable enough for that, i continued on my path and gathered a few nice acropora from friends. Pink floyd, a pearl berry, and a green stag to start. Pink floyd took some time, i finally got it to encrust and color up amazingly. The green stag never grew surprisingly but the color got better and better. the pearl berry seemed to not like where it was, and just got slightly more pale but seemed to be encrusting ok on the plug. fast forward a few months after things retaining stability, I added a ORA chips, Walt Disney, Stylo, PC rainbow, and a few others. They all colored up very well, walt disney began encrusting pretty much immedietly and was doing outstanding he was acting as my barometer for the tanks well being. I knew my temprature was fluctuating poorly when he didnt PE as much.
the biggest struggle i had in this system at 14g was temp and phosphates. Once I got the phosphates managed, temp was all that was left. I put an inkbird controller on and that took care of the temp problem.
Fast forward to the tank shift. I spent a whole day making sure, testing, testing again, acclimating, testing both tanks, and the acclimation water. I wanted it to be as foolproof as possible. Got everything shifted, moved to the sandbed because i was switching from an AI prime to 4 bulb t5 and two reefbrite strips since my focus was ACRO. I started with them on the sand, slowly moved them up while only using the 2 blue plus bulbs at the time to keep from shocking everything. I wanted to maintain lower PAR till everything settled in. Par was the same all over the tank in the higher area as it was in the peak area under the prime. my par at half level in my tank was about 470 under the t5 and reefbrites. because i was only using the two Blue+ bulbs, I thought i had things acclimating well. within a week, i saw more encrusting and excitement from my corals. both the fish had found their homes and the whole tank seemed to be settling in.
three weeks goes by, I test my Phosphate, and i keep getting super low readings on my Hanna. This makes me want to change my battery on the reader and when i retest, I found my Phosphates to be .38. OUCH. I could tell something was off because i was getting a good bit of algea growing on my glass and frag plugs. to manage this, I dosed PHOSPHATE RX. 1 drop per day to slowly reduce the levels. once i got the level down to below .1, i threw in a new bag of GFO. and it seemed to be maintaining things. This whole time, i have been using ALL FOR REEF to maintain my elements in a single daily dose. works great every night.
i go on vacation for a week, leave the tank to a friend, come back, everything is still great! I test and the whole system seems to be doing outstanding.
weeks go by, i take an overnight trip to atlanta for work, get back, and every day since I have gotten back, atleast one acropora has stripped completely. i Retest my tank as of today. 4/5/2021 readings are as follows
nitrate 5ppm
phosphate .12
DKH 9.9
Calcium 460
Mag 1550
ammonia 0
nitrite 0
Temp 78.8
I did find that over the 48 hours i was gone, my TP LINK power strip failed and left all the lights on for atleast 24 hours straight. i have since lost.
ASD RAINBOW MILLE
ORANGE PASSION
BAHAMA MAMA MILLE
HAWKINS ECHINATA
GREEN STAG (Started to STN)
WALT DISNEY(started to STN)
ORA CHIPS
my torches look very unhappy, and so do my hammers. acans look great and so do my rockflower anemones. fish are happy and fat. everything that isnt an LPS looks crispy. no burnt tips but major fading in color on my monitpora and stylo. notmuch PE on the stylo now.
I have attempted to do a witchhazel did and dose to see if that can save the few that are left or maybe prolong this long enough to fix and treat.
what is most interesting to me is that most of the RTN/STN corals are flaking flesh off but there skeleton is green or brown like its covered in algea rather than white like normal. Makes me think there is somthing bacterial going on. I am severly dissapointed and disheartened. I wouldnt have put acros in if I wasnt confident in my tank and knowledge of the whole system, and after 9 years in the hobby, id like to say i am pretty versed. this is really hard to watch and super saddening. I hope to figure it out soon and if anyone has any knowledge that would be awesome.
10 Nitrate
0 nitrite
0 ammonia
.07 phosphate
8.3ish DKH
440 calcium
1450 magnesium
HARDWARE:
Innovative marine 20g peninsula
ehiem jager heater on INKBIRD controller
Jebao SLW20 pump
Mighty jet Return pump with RFG (*BOTH PUMPS RUN AT 50% MIGHTYJET ON PULSE AND SLW ON RANDOMIZED)
GIESSMAN 24x4 T5HO with 2 reefbrite strips all blue
3ATI BLUE +
1ATI CORAL+
GFO FOR PHOSPHATES
CARBON once Per month for a week to help with clarity.
At the time, I Kept a single clownfish and a Midas Blenny. The reality of my Nitrate and Phosphate was that the tap water and my RO water had a decent amount of phosphates in it despite filtering and 0 TDS, so i would run a small amount of GFO in a bag and had to dose nitrate to keep them up. I would dose ATI nitrate, 2ml per day. I had a couple torches that looked absolutely amazing, full and happy PE and great color. the rest of my coral ventures were all SPS. i waited till the 6 month mark to try SPS and started with a forest fire digitata that took off like a freight train. once i knew things were stable enough for that, i continued on my path and gathered a few nice acropora from friends. Pink floyd, a pearl berry, and a green stag to start. Pink floyd took some time, i finally got it to encrust and color up amazingly. The green stag never grew surprisingly but the color got better and better. the pearl berry seemed to not like where it was, and just got slightly more pale but seemed to be encrusting ok on the plug. fast forward a few months after things retaining stability, I added a ORA chips, Walt Disney, Stylo, PC rainbow, and a few others. They all colored up very well, walt disney began encrusting pretty much immedietly and was doing outstanding he was acting as my barometer for the tanks well being. I knew my temprature was fluctuating poorly when he didnt PE as much.
the biggest struggle i had in this system at 14g was temp and phosphates. Once I got the phosphates managed, temp was all that was left. I put an inkbird controller on and that took care of the temp problem.
Fast forward to the tank shift. I spent a whole day making sure, testing, testing again, acclimating, testing both tanks, and the acclimation water. I wanted it to be as foolproof as possible. Got everything shifted, moved to the sandbed because i was switching from an AI prime to 4 bulb t5 and two reefbrite strips since my focus was ACRO. I started with them on the sand, slowly moved them up while only using the 2 blue plus bulbs at the time to keep from shocking everything. I wanted to maintain lower PAR till everything settled in. Par was the same all over the tank in the higher area as it was in the peak area under the prime. my par at half level in my tank was about 470 under the t5 and reefbrites. because i was only using the two Blue+ bulbs, I thought i had things acclimating well. within a week, i saw more encrusting and excitement from my corals. both the fish had found their homes and the whole tank seemed to be settling in.
three weeks goes by, I test my Phosphate, and i keep getting super low readings on my Hanna. This makes me want to change my battery on the reader and when i retest, I found my Phosphates to be .38. OUCH. I could tell something was off because i was getting a good bit of algea growing on my glass and frag plugs. to manage this, I dosed PHOSPHATE RX. 1 drop per day to slowly reduce the levels. once i got the level down to below .1, i threw in a new bag of GFO. and it seemed to be maintaining things. This whole time, i have been using ALL FOR REEF to maintain my elements in a single daily dose. works great every night.
i go on vacation for a week, leave the tank to a friend, come back, everything is still great! I test and the whole system seems to be doing outstanding.
weeks go by, i take an overnight trip to atlanta for work, get back, and every day since I have gotten back, atleast one acropora has stripped completely. i Retest my tank as of today. 4/5/2021 readings are as follows
nitrate 5ppm
phosphate .12
DKH 9.9
Calcium 460
Mag 1550
ammonia 0
nitrite 0
Temp 78.8
I did find that over the 48 hours i was gone, my TP LINK power strip failed and left all the lights on for atleast 24 hours straight. i have since lost.
ASD RAINBOW MILLE
ORANGE PASSION
BAHAMA MAMA MILLE
HAWKINS ECHINATA
GREEN STAG (Started to STN)
WALT DISNEY(started to STN)
ORA CHIPS
my torches look very unhappy, and so do my hammers. acans look great and so do my rockflower anemones. fish are happy and fat. everything that isnt an LPS looks crispy. no burnt tips but major fading in color on my monitpora and stylo. notmuch PE on the stylo now.
I have attempted to do a witchhazel did and dose to see if that can save the few that are left or maybe prolong this long enough to fix and treat.
what is most interesting to me is that most of the RTN/STN corals are flaking flesh off but there skeleton is green or brown like its covered in algea rather than white like normal. Makes me think there is somthing bacterial going on. I am severly dissapointed and disheartened. I wouldnt have put acros in if I wasnt confident in my tank and knowledge of the whole system, and after 9 years in the hobby, id like to say i am pretty versed. this is really hard to watch and super saddening. I hope to figure it out soon and if anyone has any knowledge that would be awesome.
