Lubeck’s 32 gal SPS (mostly) build

[lubeck]

I’m on my second week of carbon dosing. Corals look good. Tank looks “cleaner”.

A few updates. My mandarin goby past away a few weeks ago. Even with a fuge and buying 10000 pods every six weeks it wasn’t enough to keep the goby fed. Lesson learned.

I also lost my peppermint shrimp the last few days. I think the cleaner shrimp took it out.

I haven’t decided if I’m going to restock or not.

Th peaks/valleys with the PO is me dosing phos ban.

 

[Reef Psychology]

I’m on my second week of carbon dosing. Corals look good. Tank looks “cleaner”.

A few updates. My mandarin goby past past a few weeks ago. Even with a fuge and buying 10000 pods every six weeks it wasn’t enough to keep the goby fed. Lesson learned.

I also lost my peppermint shrimp the last few days. I think the cleaner shrimp took it out.

I haven’t decided if I’m going to restock or not.

Th peaks with the PO is me dosing phos ban.

Was the mandarin from biota/ora or was it wild caught?

 

[lubeck]

Was the mandarin from biota/ora or was it wild caught?

Good question. I’m not really sure. I know I had it in the tank for more than 2 yrs.

RIP Mandy

 

[Fasthandsslowmind]

Man, this has to be the most impressive biocube I've seen. Well done.

 

[lubeck]

Man, this has to be the most impressive biocube I've seen. Well done.

Appreciate it!

 

[lubeck]

Finished my third week of carbon dosing. Coral color has improved significantly, especially for the yellow wild acro. Happy with results so far. I will need to continue to dose phos ban twice per week to keep PO4 around 0.1.

 

[lubeck]

Unfortunately there is something wrong with the parameters in the tank. Most of my sps have started browning out and most zoa and mushrooms have been closed for the last few days.

The only thing I did differently is add 6 drops of zeofood plus each day this week

Another theory, a few days after the above post I lost the cap of my Mp10 inside the rock cave and tried to blow it out stirring up sand that hasn’t been moved in over a year. Some of the corals immediately started expelling algae.

My alk is about a 1dkh higher than normal. See the slimmer below. It’s tips were white growth tips now turned brown.

 

[reef’r]

Let us know when you get it figured out

 

[lubeck]

I’m traveling today and my wife says the tank is cloudy and stinks!!! Yikes. So sad the tank was rolling for a solid year and now this. I’m having to do an emergency water change now.

 

[lubeck]

Did a small water change tonight. The tank is crashing will get pics in the morning. Wish I knew what happened

 

[lubeck]

I stopped dosing as of Monday all items. I turned off alk cal and mag on Tuesday as there is no consumption other than kalk.

Here is some chunks of slimmer that was removed yesterday

 

[lubeck]

Did a 60% water change today and removed some dead corals. The gold hammer had over 30 heads.

 

[JustAnotherNanoTank]

Great thread. Following along. Awesome tank!

 

[Ocean_Queenie]

Good question. I’m not really sure. I know I had it in the tank for more than 2 yrs.

RIP Mandy

So sorry, I just lost my clown grouper a few hours ago, it’s so sad!

 

[lubeck]

Well I think the die off has stopped over the last week. Lost about 35% of the tank mostly sps. I still don’t know the cause but would say it was from my carbon dosing regiment, spawning of bristle works or something toxic from outside air.

I’ve started dosing carbon again but at 50% what I was doing before. I’ve also stated dosing zeofood plus but only half the dose and only twice a week.

I’ve seen a little PE in a couple sps but otherwise coloring and PE is nonexistent. I’ve lost all my ricordia but luckily my jawbreaker’s survived and have slowly started to open.


I’m guessing the tank will be back on track by august. The silver lining is I now have room to buy more corals I’m going to wait another month before stocking anything.

 

[lubeck]

This is what the tank looked like before the crash. Best it’s ever been. And that’s with 3-4 weeks of carbon dosing.

Color and growth was amazing