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I think the thread title says it all or mostly all of it... I am wondering if anyone has ever had their SPS start to Stn or Rtn after starting to dose spectracide.
Long story short... 10 days ago I started dozing 1ppm per day of NO3 using Spectracide in my top off water, and I have seen the exact opposite of what every post I read says... how dosing Spectracide does miracles (that might be a slight exaggeration). My SPS, or what is left of them, have taken a beating.
10 days ago when I started dozing I was a 0 nitrate (Red Sea pro). After two days of dozing 1ppm a day I was up to some where between 0 and 0.25 ppm and 0.018 Po4. After 4 days I was at 0.75 and after 10 days (stopped dosing 2 days ago) I am at around 1.5 ppm Nitrate and 0.034ppm phospate. The issue is however I have lost a number of frags already and the frags that I have left aren’t looking to good. I have had several frags RTN out of no where (there one day gone the next). Through out this time my alk has been running between 7.0 and 7.5 (was raising all from 7.0 to 7.5 over several days).
I am at a lose for what is going on. First signs of trouble where when my piece of red planet lost all it flesh over night. The night befor it’s polys we’re out and happy next morning bone white. Next my montis started showing they were unhappy. One of my green montis (not sure exactly what it is) started going Grey. At first it was speckeled and the lost most of its color on top and the polys retracted. Same with other montis... they kinda looked dusty if that makes sense. Today I lost a tennius piece... last night polys tonight bare.
I just did a battery of testing and everything looks normal.
Alk 7.5
Ca 380 (lower but not crazy)
Nitrate 1.5
Phosphate 0.034
Potassium 390
Ammonia 0
I tested ammonia since I pulled Half of my biopellets out of my reactor 4 days ago and I wanted to make sure that didnt cause a mini cycle. I know dosing nitrates and running a pellet reactor are counter intuitive, and that’s the reason I was going to slowly take it off line. I think it was what stripped my tank of the nitrates to begin with.
So that is where I am. Scratching my head watching my tank spiral down the proverbial drain.
So I guess there are two question...
the first is I am wondering if any one else has seen anything similar to this.... I wonder if I got a bad batch of Spectracide with something contaminating it.
Second, if this was you what would you do next. I think a couple water changes are in order or sure. But beyond that I am at a loss.
Added info: tank has been running for about a year and I might with radions.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
Long story short... 10 days ago I started dozing 1ppm per day of NO3 using Spectracide in my top off water, and I have seen the exact opposite of what every post I read says... how dosing Spectracide does miracles (that might be a slight exaggeration). My SPS, or what is left of them, have taken a beating.
10 days ago when I started dozing I was a 0 nitrate (Red Sea pro). After two days of dozing 1ppm a day I was up to some where between 0 and 0.25 ppm and 0.018 Po4. After 4 days I was at 0.75 and after 10 days (stopped dosing 2 days ago) I am at around 1.5 ppm Nitrate and 0.034ppm phospate. The issue is however I have lost a number of frags already and the frags that I have left aren’t looking to good. I have had several frags RTN out of no where (there one day gone the next). Through out this time my alk has been running between 7.0 and 7.5 (was raising all from 7.0 to 7.5 over several days).
I am at a lose for what is going on. First signs of trouble where when my piece of red planet lost all it flesh over night. The night befor it’s polys we’re out and happy next morning bone white. Next my montis started showing they were unhappy. One of my green montis (not sure exactly what it is) started going Grey. At first it was speckeled and the lost most of its color on top and the polys retracted. Same with other montis... they kinda looked dusty if that makes sense. Today I lost a tennius piece... last night polys tonight bare.
I just did a battery of testing and everything looks normal.
Alk 7.5
Ca 380 (lower but not crazy)
Nitrate 1.5
Phosphate 0.034
Potassium 390
Ammonia 0
I tested ammonia since I pulled Half of my biopellets out of my reactor 4 days ago and I wanted to make sure that didnt cause a mini cycle. I know dosing nitrates and running a pellet reactor are counter intuitive, and that’s the reason I was going to slowly take it off line. I think it was what stripped my tank of the nitrates to begin with.
So that is where I am. Scratching my head watching my tank spiral down the proverbial drain.
So I guess there are two question...
the first is I am wondering if any one else has seen anything similar to this.... I wonder if I got a bad batch of Spectracide with something contaminating it.
Second, if this was you what would you do next. I think a couple water changes are in order or sure. But beyond that I am at a loss.
Added info: tank has been running for about a year and I might with radions.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.