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My candlite concert is the worst, followed by sunset monti, bonsai and red planet. Then my unknown teal acro... The rest have very little pe or major color loss. Lps are very deflated and Duncan hasn't opened.
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It looks like I may be at fault for the decline of my acros :oops::mad::( I have been getting sick since the night before the power went out. The day the power went out I began sneezing, watery eyes, stuffy foggy head... you know how it is. I messed up big-time on something that I knew better on. After I did the 54g wc, I tested the water for all parameters. It tested great. The next day and day after I'm thinking that the power outage was causing minor issues I was seeing then it got worse and worse. I didn't test the water again because I knew I put fresh carbon in the reactors and did a large wc, even ph was great. I didn't even think (brain fog) - I did not check my doser! I didn't see ph drop so no mind came to it. Tested alk a couple of hours ago and it's 5.2 :eek: Apparently air was in the out lines on the doser and it stopped dosing. Had to be like this from the start. I have never had this doser do this and it has always come back on and never not dosed. I could really kick myself - more than you know as I watch all my colonies stn from the bottom up...........
 
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Auggghh!

And now you've got to rein in the panic and natural desire to double down . . .

Fingers crossed for you from here.

~Bruce
Yes because I can't raise it up quickly I have to raise it up very slowly meanwhile some of my acro's are not going to make it. :(
 
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:( that's terrible. Sorry to hear
Thank you.

Yeah I am sure if I wasn't so sick I would have thought about it. Just goes to show, don't assume alk is ok just because your ph is.... Better yet, don't assume anything. My corals sure did soak it up FAST though. I did the wc on the 5th (PM wednesday) and alk was 9.5. So in less than 6 days it went from that to 5.2. - things went south 3 days ago. I figure if I double up every other dose that will bring it up without any further stress.
 
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Current parameters:
Sg 1.026
PH 8.31
Temp 76 .3 (morning temp - it's normal)
Alk 6.1
Ca 490
Mg 1320
NO3 10

My LPS are perking up a bit and am seeing just a little better PE on some that had none. Slimers and milli are showing better PE also. Everyone else I am sure will take a while. My main objective will be alk and then getting the doser right again.
 
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BTW went to the dr. this morning. I am now on antibiotics as I have walking pneumonia and not the flu as I thought. ugh I better get better fast cuz I have to take a fast trip on tuesday by car and fly back on thursday next week. My daughter and her husband are transferring from Hawaii to VA and she is flying here to get her car. Of course I can't let her drive alone.... Their cars won't arrive for another month so it is necessary. Sure hope I am up to it by then.
 

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Sorry to hear this, hoping your tank has a swift recovery. Your tank uses Alk at about the same rate as mine and I try to consistently check it every third day. As recent as yesterday, I increased my daily dosage because it had dropped a point in one week
 
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Sorry to hear this, hoping your tank has a swift recovery. Your tank uses Alk at about the same rate as mine and I try to consistently check it every third day. As recent as yesterday, I increased my daily dosage because it had dropped a point in one week
Thank you :) Yes it has been using a lot of alk since putting that 5g buckets worth of green slimer in the tank. At first it didn't concern me but now I think there is such a thing as having too much slimer per ratio of wv.
I hope you and your tank improve soon, Jackie! :)
Thank you! The tank seems to be settling and i am much better now. Still a little stuff and tire easily but definitely on the road to recovery :)
 

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So I'm getting a slimer what can u tell me about it?
 
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just returned home from my 3 day trip to DC.... First thing I do is take the dog out then check my tanks. Some of the corals that were stn are gone or nearly gone. a few others are showing the beginning signs of rtn that were not before as well. I am not a happy camper. The tank had been stabilized so I am at a loss here. Even my big green slimer is showing signs of stn at the base now. All parameters are perfect so why is this still ocurring?! :(
 

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It stinks but a lot of times acros take some time to start to fade when it comes to alk issues. I know a few members on here had this happen, some of happened right away others as much as 6 months removed had issues.
 
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It stinks but a lot of times acros take some time to start to fade when it comes to alk issues. I know a few members on here had this happen, some of happened right away others as much as 6 months removed had issues.
My all my corals were growing fantastic until the outage... I know it unbalanced the alk ... but the whole tank looks awful. But if I frag these pieces they don't stn yet the main Colony does... makes no sense to me
 
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I feel like I'm missing something important aside from the main parameters being good. Like something else is not right but I don't know what...
 

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