Bubba's SPS Journey

[bubbaque]

Where did u go Bubba?

Trying to recover from my tank crashing. About a week after I installed the sulfur denitrator a couple corals started to get pale. Following that I started to get stn and burnt tips. My nutrients never bottomed and the lowest I got with no3 was roughly 2.5 - 5ppm nitrate. I let this go on for the month of January and the first week of February until last week when I decided to remove the denitrator. The tank has stabilized now but I have a long road to recovery.

I am not sure what about the denitrator could of caused it and really maybe what caused it was just a change in the system by installing it. Possibly if I let it go on for long enough the system would of adjusted and all would of been well again but I couldn't just sit back and watch corals down hill for any longer. Now is my up hill battle with trying to get corals to color up again.

 

[Epic Aquaculture]

Trying to recover from my tank crashing. About a week after I installed the sulfur denitrator a couple corals started to get pale. Following that I started to get stn and burnt tips. My nutrients never bottomed and the lowest I got with no3 was roughly 2.5 - 5ppm nitrate. I let this go on for the month of January and the first week of February until last week when I decided to remove the denitrator. The tank has stabilized now but I have a long road to recovery.

I am not sure what about the denitrator could of caused it and really maybe what caused it was just a change in the system by installing it. Possibly if I let it go on for long enough the system would of adjusted and all would of been well again but I couldn't just sit back and watch corals down hill for any longer. Now is my up hill battle with trying to get corals to color up again.

So sorry to hear this Bubba, good luck with the recovery.

 

[nickkohrn]

Sorry, Bubba. I’m sure your sad-looking corals are still more beautiful than many happy-looking corals.

 

[bubbaque]

So sorry to hear this Bubba, good luck with the recovery.

Thank you.

Sorry, Bubba. I’m sure your sad-looking corals are still more beautiful than many happy-looking corals.

I wish that were true but thank you.

 

[Renton777]

Bummer to hear. But I am certain that given a little time you will have things back to looking gorgeous!

 

[YHSublime]

Now is the time to start updating with all the other non sps stuff in the downtime!

 

[Perry]

Hey buddy,
I am truly sorry to hear of these issues, I am sure you will be on track in short order. I used to consider myself a specialist at sps, I now have zero confidence, and am trying to get that umph needed to push through. You my friend are a specialist, and have a great track record, and all, I mean all folks who endeavor this side of the hobby have setbacks, losses, and in some cases, crashes. I wish you all the best on your recovery my friend!
Cheers

 

[jolt]

Dang buddy!

 

[Wrangy]

Duuddee :( Sorry to hear about the troubles man but as you can see, we all have 100% faith in you and your abilities! It'll be bangin' again in no time! :D <3

 

[justingraham]

Trying to recover from my tank crashing. About a week after I installed the sulfur denitrator a couple corals started to get pale. Following that I started to get stn and burnt tips. My nutrients never bottomed and the lowest I got with no3 was roughly 2.5 - 5ppm nitrate. I let this go on for the month of January and the first week of February until last week when I decided to remove the denitrator. The tank has stabilized now but I have a long road to recovery.

I am not sure what about the denitrator could of caused it and really maybe what caused it was just a change in the system by installing it. Possibly if I let it go on for long enough the system would of adjusted and all would of been well again but I couldn't just sit back and watch corals down hill for any longer. Now is my up hill battle with trying to get corals to color up again.

Dang
What was ur alk at?

 

[justingraham]

also watch out
I think I hear all the you can’t run a brand new sps tank without live rock people coming Out of the wood work

U going to get the new G-5’s?

 

[bubbaque]

Dang
What was ur alk at?

also watch out
I think I hear all the you can’t run a brand new sps tank without live rock people coming Out of the wood work

U going to get the new G-5’s?

Alk stays around 9. This definitely didn’t have anything to do with live rock. Tank looked great before I installed the denitrater and has stabilized since removing It. Plus I removed the sand at the same time which probably didn’t help. I think it just changed the biology of the tank that the sps were use to.

No I’m not getting the new gen 5’s. I have enough fixtures now that spread is good and I don’t have hot spots so the new led layout won’t help me much. I have seen how well the gen 4’s work and have no complaints.

 

[bubbaque]

Here is a blue light filter pic to show the tanks still alive but will be some time before it gets any closeups haha.

 

[Wrangy]

Here is a blue light filter pic to show the tanks still alive but will be some time before it gets any closeups haha.

Pretty sure you're lying to us about the issues ;) haha joking aside everything still looks in reasonable health man :)

 

[tripdad]

Sorry to hear about the setback, hopefully everything recovers quickly.

 

[MrWheelock]

Dang, dude I'm sorry to hear about your issues with the denitrator :( you'll have it back to bubba standards in no time

 

[WWIII]

Sucks to see/hear about the setback Bubba. I’m sure I missed it but why you think your nutrient levels were a little higher to start with? Seems like a lot of new tanks have higher measurable nutrients for the first year or so. You’re not running gfo or refugium are you?

You had this thing rockin and rolling! With the growth rate you get you’ll have it shaped back up in no time! Glad it’s on the rebound. Still looks incredible as a whole!

 

[motortrendz]

Wow. Crazy. Sorry to hear. Did you loose any completely?
I went though the same thong when I added a bigger sump to my system. But I lost about 12-13 small colonies. Everything else was fine and didnt even flinch. But the acros wanted no part of it.

Glad you got it balanced out and I'm sure itll bounce back pretty quickly.

 

[justingraham]

Alk stays around 9. This definitely didn’t have anything to do with live rock. Tank looked great before I installed the denitrater and has stabilized since removing It. Plus I removed the sand at the same time which probably didn’t help. I think it just changed the biology of the tank that the sps were use to.

No I’m not getting the new gen 5’s. I have enough fixtures now that spread is good and I don’t have hot spots so the new led layout won’t help me much. I have seen how well the gen 4’s work and have no complaints.

When I over dossed vibrant because I can’t read and bottomed out my N and P I had burnt tips with 7.5 alk
You running at nine and everything used to higher levels could have caused it in my opinion
But u move on and learn I’m sure in a month or two ur tank will be 20x better then mine
I was kidding about the live rock but it seems to be the answer to every question now on R2R that or u need to dose zeovit to get bacteria up the answer is never the hobbyist can’t read a test kit and only looks at the tank once a month it’s live rock and zeovit.
Any who ur fts looks great I’m picking up a reef savvy tank in a week sps pirates old 3x4 foot one can’t wait to mess up the eco system I have again

 

[bubbaque]

Sucks to see/hear about the setback Bubba. I’m sure I missed it but why you think your nutrient levels were a little higher to start with? Seems like a lot of new tanks have higher measurable nutrients for the first year or so. You’re not running gfo or refugium are you?

You had this thing rockin and rolling! With the growth rate you get you’ll have it shaped back up in no time! Glad it’s on the rebound. Still looks incredible as a whole!

I had high nutrients for about the first 4 months with nitrate up to 50 ppm. I added a refugium and they were around 10 ppm for the month prior to adding the denitrator but I was feeding less and my chaeto started to grow weird stuff. I didn't like my chaeto looking disgusting so I figured without it my nitrates would be high again so I installed the denitrator to handle it.

Wow. Crazy. Sorry to hear. Did you loose any completely?
I went though the same thong when I added a bigger sump to my system. But I lost about 12-13 small colonies. Everything else was fine and didnt even flinch. But the acros wanted no part of it.

Glad you got it balanced out and I'm sure itll bounce back pretty quickly.

Yes I lost about 6 corals completely. Unfortunately it was ones I really like also, like my Homewrecker, lro heartthrob, TSA circus freak, and my new CC pink highlighter and TSA Rainbow fusion is about half gone but now has stabilized.

I did pick up a couple new frags a couple days after I took the denitrator off and they are doing well with good color and great pe.

When I over dossed vibrant because I can’t read and bottomed out my N and P I had burnt tips with 7.5 alk
You running at nine and everything used to higher levels could have caused it in my opinion
But u move on and learn I’m sure in a month or two ur tank will be 20x better then mine
I was kidding about the live rock but it seems to be the answer to every question now on R2R that or u need to dose zeovit to get bacteria up the answer is never the hobbyist can’t read a test kit and only looks at the tank once a month it’s live rock and zeovit.
Any who ur fts looks great I’m picking up a reef savvy tank in a week sps pirates old 3x4 foot one can’t wait to mess up the eco system I have again

I seen that thread about dosing all the zeovit bacteria stuff. That stuff is absolutely not needed and will probably do more harm than good. I had to stop looking at that thread as I was seeing too many people jumping into dosing that stuff and wasting their money.