Candy cane deteriorated overnight

[fsas89]

What is up with this? Overnight the top is like brittle and all the coloring is “melting” off…

it looks like it got eaten and skin sucked off :( I’m really upset and not sure why this happened and overnight…. It was colorful yesterday.

 

[Reefer_punk]

What are your parameters?

 

[fsas89]

What are your parameters?

nitrite is 0.03, nitrate 15, amonia 0.03, my salinity was way down at 30ppm ive never had my salinity off so that was a surprise to me. my ammonia and nitrites have been up cuz I was battling dino 2 weeks ago and had no water changes, dosing nitrate and pho heavy and microbacter7/tims waste away. the system is still playing catch up. could it be ammonia and salinty level that fast?

 

[Reefer_punk]

I don't know microbacter. But candycanes can't handle salinity swings at all. Did alk or calcium dropped too?

 

[attiland]

I don't know microbacter. But candycanes can't handle salinity swings at all. Did alk or calcium dropped too?

Also phosphate / calcium/ magnesium is not mentioned. I think a lot of things can be off with salinity swings.

 

[Reefer_punk]

Also phosphate / calcium/ magnesium is not mentioned. I think a lot of things can be off with salinity swings.

That is why I asked

 

[LuizW13]

I don't know microbacter. But candycanes can't handle salinity swings at all. Did alk or calcium dropped too?

MicroBacter is a bacteria product by Brightwell here in the states. I like your Instagram content btw :D

 

[Reefer_punk]

MicroBacter is a bacteria product by Brightwell here in the states. I like your Instagram content btw :D

Ah I see, that definitely wouldn't be the problem, so it must be salinity swings and everything else that happily played along

And thank you!!

 

[Salted]

dosing nitrate and pho heavy.... and microbacter7/tims waste away.

These are working against one another. Both mb7 & dr tims are nitrare/phos reducers.