Crab's is about ready to throw in the towel.

[EmptyWallet]

Firstly you can't go anywhere until you hit a 100,000 reaction score. I'm sure its been said to death already but hook up with a local reefer/reefing buddy and pull your favourite corals out to save them. If you can't do that, setup a fresh QT tank and use LFS salt water to fill it (in case your RODI or salt mix is the root problem) to buy you some time

 

[Crabs McJones]

I had problems after moving from Racine, where they don't use chloramines, to Milwaukee Co. which does. I can't prove that the chloramines were a contributing factor but the timeline fit. Things started to improve after I changed to using carbon blocks designed to remove the chloramines. Now I test to make sure the carbon blocks aren't at the end of thier life and letting chloramines through.

If it were me I wouldnt even bother with talking to the city or county I would just test. It's cheap and easy

I never realized you were that close to me!

 

[Crabs McJones]

Firstly you can't go anywhere until you hit a 100,000 reaction score. I'm sure its been said to death already but hook up with a local reefer/reefing buddy and pull your favourite corals out to save them. If you can't do that, setup a fresh QT tank and use LFS salt water to fill it (in case your RODI or salt mix is the root problem) to buy you some time

Lol! At least I'll have gotten them legitimately yes I'm looking at you @HotRocks ;Shifty

 

[tautog83]

Should check out my post of corals going down it took me 3 months to get 5 or 6 people to reply ..lol I must not be as cool as you . Anyways I was having similar problems , but no algae or cyano. I ditched red sea blue bucket and switched to tropic marin pro via a couple big water changes and seeing improvements. It was weird because it only affected sps, hammers and torches were fine . I would lose the tips then it would slowly die . This is after , stable alk, great icp results , good par numbers..it was frustrating. I ran a small uv for a couple weeks because eh just didnt know what to.do . It sounds like you're have similar problems. If your icp comes back good , try switching salt( I was using blue bucket too, is it the issue probably not ) , do a big 50% water change and run a uv

 

[Zerobytes]

I can't provide anything useful as far as solving your issues but offer up moral support!

 

[FishyDave]

We moved in March 30th, the tank was up and fully operational within a day. The corals and everything was looking amazing up until a few weeks ago. Great color, great growth.

Have you recently painted any rooms, remodeled anything or brought new furniture into the house that could be off gassing?

 

[Realposition]

Thats another weird thing, I have CRAZY polyp extension (usually an indication the corals are happy from what i've read) but still loosing tissue.
This is my culture shock acropora, taken this afternoon while I was home on lunch break

Crazy PE but you can see the STN on the tips starting.

Unfortunately polyp extension isn't really a great indicator of Coral health. I've had polyps out on acros while tissue was just falling off. I haven't seen it asked yet, any bio media like marinepure? I had an issue with high aluminum. Everything was growing fine then one day I started losing tissue even while polyps were fully extended. Some acros were affected and some were totally fine. I ended up doing a bunch of 30% water changes while I waited for an icp to come back. By the time I got the test results the bleeding had stopped and things were getting back to normal but the test did show high aluminum. Could have been a coincidence but that was the only thing that was out of line.

 

[CindyKz]

I never realized you were that close to me!

Yep! Very little experience here but if I can help in any way lmk

 

[Crabs McJones]

Have you recently painted any rooms, remodeled anything or brought new furniture into the house that could be off gassing?

We did repaint my daughters room. But it's way on the other side of the house. It was earlier in the summer so all the windows were open. So I dont think anything with that wound do it. Plus with the amount of water I've changed, whatever may have been in there has been taken out. No new furnature. Thanks for the suggestions though

 

[minus9]

Hang in there crabs, I'm going through something similar and I'm following to see if something sparks a thought?

 

[sfin52]

What type of sand are you using. If it's black take a magnet over it. If it picks any up you know you got metal in it. May be the problem.

 

[Crabs McJones]

What type of sand are you using. If it's black take a magnet over it. If it picks any up you know you got metal in it. May be the problem.

White sand. Dry sand

 

[vetteguy53081]

We did repaint my daughters room. But it's way on the other side of the house. It was earlier in the summer so all the windows were open. So I dont think anything with that wound do it. Plus with the amount of water I've changed, whatever may have been in there has been taken out. No new furnature. Thanks for the suggestions though

As many are trying to offer possibilities, take a look at your clamps to see if any rust- could be leaching oxides, iron and brass content causing heavy metal counts which ICP will pinpoint. Also many municipalities are with cooler weather starting to add flouride and chloramine to water. I would do a TDS ON WATER and also check ph at the tap

 

[Crabs McJones]

As many are trying to offer possibilities, take a look at your clamps to see if any rust- could be leaching oxides, iron and brass content causing heavy metal counts which ICP will pinpoint. Also many municipalities are with cooler weather starting to add flouride and chloramine to water. I would do a TDS ON WATER and also check ph at the tap

No clamps. RO/DI has been consistently putting put 0 tds water.

 

[Rick.45cal]

Will you post a picture of the damage on the montis? I’m sorry this is happening to your tank.

 

[Crabs McJones]

Will you post a picture of the damage on the montis? I’m sorry this is happening to your tank.

 

[tripdad]

Do not rely on 0 TDS, test that water and be sure. When I struggle with a project, be it a car, machine, computer or reef, I stop and go back to the basics. I know it sounds too simple but usually works. Assume nothing, verify everything, twice. Good luck.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Ouch. Looks like Kalk issue

 

[Tamberav]

Sorry for your troubles...I moved to another apartment and my SPS not happy even though I was careful...sucks big time to lose stuff. Sounds like you are near me...I am in Wauwatosa WI.

 

[nritter69]

Crabs I'm wondering if u have some extreme source of nitrates entering the water. 10 on nitrates is good but not if u have both cyanobacteria and long hair algae both of those eat nitrates like crazy. If u had only 1 of those nuisances you should be reading 0 nitrates but the fact that you have both cyanobacteria an long hair algae and your still reading 10 on nitrates even after all those water changes is somewhat disturbing you really should have 0 nitrates