Well I am totally lost, posting this hoping that someone has come across it before and can pinpoint what the heck is going on. It has been happening for about 2 months but last week has been bad.
I have lost acans at an alarming rate, everything I have has been dipped and still everything is dying, torches and hammers and zoas are fine, my params are steady and are where they have been for as long as I can remember,
Sal - 1.025
ph - 8.3
kh - 9.6
cal - 450
mag - 1450
am - zero
no2 - zero
no3 - 5-10ppm
po4 - zero ( has never showed anything but this)
temperature is 25.2-25.7 maintained by one of those stc watsits
fish are
1 Yellow tang
2 clowns
1 chalk bass
1 silver belly wrasse
couple of mithrax crabs
1 conch
couple blue legged hermits
couple turbos
couple of trochus
loads of stomatella snails
lighting via IT5080 evergrow,max at 30%
Recently had a successful run with the fluco to rid bryopsis which worked may I add.
I have even got out middle of the night the other night to observe under red lights and other than loads of amphipods ( which I put up for id) nothing unusual.
but today I pulled these out from under some frag discs on the sand, but on a side note nothing like this has flushed out of the acans when dipping
The last photo I can assume is a bristleworm? but what are the others? they looked like bits of fluff at first but I removed them with a turkey baster, they are alive and moving and have lots of little feelers, I will try to upload a short video too.
But this is what I have removed and will end up binning today
this was ok two days ago
To say this is soul destroying is an understatement.
This is the penultimate nail in the coffin now as its taken the enjoyment right out, this is now becoming a chore, and when your hobby becomes a chore it's no longer a hobby.
I have lost acans at an alarming rate, everything I have has been dipped and still everything is dying, torches and hammers and zoas are fine, my params are steady and are where they have been for as long as I can remember,
Sal - 1.025
ph - 8.3
kh - 9.6
cal - 450
mag - 1450
am - zero
no2 - zero
no3 - 5-10ppm
po4 - zero ( has never showed anything but this)
temperature is 25.2-25.7 maintained by one of those stc watsits
fish are
1 Yellow tang
2 clowns
1 chalk bass
1 silver belly wrasse
couple of mithrax crabs
1 conch
couple blue legged hermits
couple turbos
couple of trochus
loads of stomatella snails
lighting via IT5080 evergrow,max at 30%
Recently had a successful run with the fluco to rid bryopsis which worked may I add.
I have even got out middle of the night the other night to observe under red lights and other than loads of amphipods ( which I put up for id) nothing unusual.
but today I pulled these out from under some frag discs on the sand, but on a side note nothing like this has flushed out of the acans when dipping
The last photo I can assume is a bristleworm? but what are the others? they looked like bits of fluff at first but I removed them with a turkey baster, they are alive and moving and have lots of little feelers, I will try to upload a short video too.
But this is what I have removed and will end up binning today
this was ok two days ago
To say this is soul destroying is an understatement.
This is the penultimate nail in the coffin now as its taken the enjoyment right out, this is now becoming a chore, and when your hobby becomes a chore it's no longer a hobby.