Hey all
I am losing my entire SPS collection. I have 240g tank which I started a year ago and from that point I have constant issues with my reef. Whatever SPS I add it eventually bleaches or covers brown dust/thing and dies. My tank looks like a graveyard. All of my corals I have from local hobbyists and I always dip them in Revive .
I am struggling with Dino for more than 6 months and my strain has been identified as that one which there is no simple solution to kill and as for now:
* I stopped changing water
* adding phyto from algae barn daily
* dosing silica to introduce diatom to overgrown dino
* dosing mb7 weekly
* reduced light to mostly blue
* was dosing phospate to keep 0.10 since dino is consuming phosphate
My params are mostly stable and in a good range. I have phosphate spike from time to time like from .10 to .20 but beside that all looks good from parameters point of view.
alk 8.5
ph 7.7-8.0
temp 79.5-80 (summer)
phosphate .015
nitrate 15
calcium 420
mg 1250
My other soft/lps/anemones are thriving, only sps die.
Please advice what can be the reason and what I can do to block that.
I am losing my entire SPS collection. I have 240g tank which I started a year ago and from that point I have constant issues with my reef. Whatever SPS I add it eventually bleaches or covers brown dust/thing and dies. My tank looks like a graveyard. All of my corals I have from local hobbyists and I always dip them in Revive .
I am struggling with Dino for more than 6 months and my strain has been identified as that one which there is no simple solution to kill and as for now:
* I stopped changing water
* adding phyto from algae barn daily
* dosing silica to introduce diatom to overgrown dino
* dosing mb7 weekly
* reduced light to mostly blue
* was dosing phospate to keep 0.10 since dino is consuming phosphate
My params are mostly stable and in a good range. I have phosphate spike from time to time like from .10 to .20 but beside that all looks good from parameters point of view.
alk 8.5
ph 7.7-8.0
temp 79.5-80 (summer)
phosphate .015
nitrate 15
calcium 420
mg 1250
My other soft/lps/anemones are thriving, only sps die.
Please advice what can be the reason and what I can do to block that.