It's a sad day

MightyMouse85 · Jul 24, 2017

The elegance coral that I got 2 months ago died today. It has been in bad shape for a few weeks. I bought 120lbs of live rock and I had a nitrate spike in the 80-100 range. Went back to weekly water changes and dosing nopox. Now in the 10-20 range and dropping. This coral has gone from looking like death to looking alive again over and over for 3 weeks. It finally crashed today. I'm very sad. On the bright side, my sponge and Duncan are looking great. Well the sponge hasn't grown any but not dying lol.

TheLadyCrash · Jul 24, 2017

It's always a horrible feeling to lose a fish or a coral. Best to figure out what went wrong, how to prevent it in the future, and get back on the saddle. :(

thaitopher · Jul 24, 2017

MightyMouse85 said:
The elegance coral that I got 2 months ago died today. It has been in bad shape for a few weeks. I bought 120lbs of live rock and I had a nitrate spike in the 80-100 range. Went back to weekly water changes and dosing nopox. Now in the 10-20 range and dropping. This coral has gone from looking like death to looking alive again over and over for 3 weeks. It finally crashed today. I'm very sad. On the bright side, my sponge and Duncan are looking great. Well the sponge hasn't grown any but not dying lol.

Wow, adding that much LR can Definitely cause a spike. How big is your tank?