Hoping you can help me understand what happened to my corals. (Still learning) I went to cape code on vacation for 4 days. While gone, two weird things happened.
1) my skimmer started acting up and effectively stoped working.
2) one of my wave pumps hung up and it also stopped spinning. As a result my phosphates went to .17 and my nitrates jumped to 16 and I had small spots of Cyano on the sandbed.
Ph stayed at 8.0 and alk was low but at 7.0 dkh (normally 7.5ish) , Cal 450, mag 1450
I found two corals seemed to dye off quite rapidly. They were happy before leaving.
Could the lower flow or the increase of nitrates have caused the die off ?
Once again your help is appreciated. The loss is unfortunate but a good opportunity to understand how it all works.
1) my skimmer started acting up and effectively stoped working.
2) one of my wave pumps hung up and it also stopped spinning. As a result my phosphates went to .17 and my nitrates jumped to 16 and I had small spots of Cyano on the sandbed.
Ph stayed at 8.0 and alk was low but at 7.0 dkh (normally 7.5ish) , Cal 450, mag 1450
I found two corals seemed to dye off quite rapidly. They were happy before leaving.
Could the lower flow or the increase of nitrates have caused the die off ?
Once again your help is appreciated. The loss is unfortunate but a good opportunity to understand how it all works.