I seem to have burnt the tips of my SPS - Chemiclean?

[Charlie’s Frags]

Geez louise

I got lucky that a) I heard the doser still running and b) had a frag tank that I could throw all my important pieces in. But I had to leave many sps in the 40 dkh while I was at work.

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

Geez louise

What do you use to manage your no3/po4?

 

[BiGGiePauls33]

No3, water changes. Po4 gfo. I only have a 29g biocube filled with SPS currently. Have a 40b with 40 sump/fuge, but need lights, controller, and dosing equips.

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

No3, water changes. Po4 gfo. I only have a 29g biocube filled with SPS currently. Have a 40b with 40 sump/fuge, but need lights, controller, and dosing equips.

Did you recently change your gfo to drop po4?

 

[BiGGiePauls33]

Did you recently change your gfo to drop po4?

I ran it for like a day to a day and a half. It was like .27 lol. Stopped dosing reefroids and acropower a lot.

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

I ran it for like a day to a day and a half. It was like .27 lol. Stopped dosing reefroids and acropower a lot.

That’s probably what caused the burnt tips. That’s a dramatic drop in a very short period of time. I’m not a fan of gfo and will never use it again with sps. My tank is smaller like yours, so if my po4 was alarmingly high, and I mean way higher than 0.27, I will just do massive water changes. Did everything look ok before the gfo?

 

[BiGGiePauls33]

That’s probably what caused the burnt tips. That’s a dramatic drop in a very short period of time. I’m not a fan of gfo and will never use it again with sps. My tank is smaller like yours, so if my po4 was alarmingly high, and I mean way higher than 0.27, I will just do massive water changes. Did everything look ok before the gfo?

I didn't have burnt tips.

 

[BiGGiePauls33]

That’s probably what caused the burnt tips. That’s a dramatic drop in a very short period of time. I’m not a fan of gfo and will never use it again with sps. My tank is smaller like yours, so if my po4 was alarmingly high, and I mean way higher than 0.27, I will just do massive water changes. Did everything look ok before the gfo?

That was the OP, lol.

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

That was the OP, lol.

Hahah
Sorry bud. It’s been a long day and my mind is another world right now.

 

[BiGGiePauls33]

Hahah
Sorry bud. It’s been a long day and my mind is another world right now.

All good bud.

 

[Punchanello]

Now 100% sure it had nothing to do with the chemiclean and everything to do with the bulb change. According to ATI -

How To Replace

1. New bulbs typically produce twice as much PAR (output) as old bulbs. To avoid shock to your corals it is always best to spread out a bulb change over a period of several weeks (Reef tank golden rule: nothing good happens fast).
2. Change out just 1 or 2 bulbs per week. Doing so will allow your corals to more easily acclimate to the new, brighter bulbs.

I did follow instruction number two but even so, changing one bulb (even one a week as I did) would be a 25% increase in par instantly. I imagine that's enough to fry tips.