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So after using EcoBalance (1/4 dose) from Dr.Tim my SPS frag tank decided to take a nose dive. The SPS didn't RTN per say. It took until about the end of day 2 to see negative effects. Setosa, Walt Disney, Orange Passions, PC Rainbow, all my tenius, slowly began to peel away or had this brown jelly encompass them, and it proceeded like that for multiple days. At this point what is left alive is some completely white bleached Rainbow Montis and a few other random pieces. Softies, LPS, etc. are completely uneffected in my other system, but SPS is cooked like a boat.
Monitoring alk, phos, nitrates, etc. the only change I had was the phosphates going from .10 to .25 which I then reduced back down with Lanthanum Chloride, but i've never had an issue with SPS even at .25.... nor have I seen SPS get encompassed by a brown jelly.
My system is stable currently at:
Alk 7.8
Nitrates 8
Phos .15
No detectable ammonia or nitrite which I did whip out an API test kit just to confirm since it's all i've got for those two, not something I would regularly test for, but it came back negative.....
At this point it's my 5th dose of Ecobalance and although the SPS has totally cooked itself at this point, what remains seems to be holding onto life or perhaps slowly recovering. I'm curious if anyone would know why SPS responded so negatively to the Ecobalance dose? I've been sticking with the 1/4 recommended dosage for 5 weeks now and just would love to know what in the heck happened that my SPS bombed itself in such a way when as far as detectable stuff nothing changed.... Could it be some kind of bacteria die off, replacement, something I need to just suck up and deal with the losses for things to get perfect in the long term?
Thanks for any advice!
Monitoring alk, phos, nitrates, etc. the only change I had was the phosphates going from .10 to .25 which I then reduced back down with Lanthanum Chloride, but i've never had an issue with SPS even at .25.... nor have I seen SPS get encompassed by a brown jelly.
My system is stable currently at:
Alk 7.8
Nitrates 8
Phos .15
No detectable ammonia or nitrite which I did whip out an API test kit just to confirm since it's all i've got for those two, not something I would regularly test for, but it came back negative.....
At this point it's my 5th dose of Ecobalance and although the SPS has totally cooked itself at this point, what remains seems to be holding onto life or perhaps slowly recovering. I'm curious if anyone would know why SPS responded so negatively to the Ecobalance dose? I've been sticking with the 1/4 recommended dosage for 5 weeks now and just would love to know what in the heck happened that my SPS bombed itself in such a way when as far as detectable stuff nothing changed.... Could it be some kind of bacteria die off, replacement, something I need to just suck up and deal with the losses for things to get perfect in the long term?
Thanks for any advice!