SaltISlife
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So i just lost all my chalices.. I had a space invaider (the green one with a orange eye) a pink booobies, a WWC Dr evil chalice, and a Alien inferno chalice.
It started like a week ago, the Dr Evil started to receed, losing flesh like STN, then over 3-4 days it was 70% gone, then it started on my pink booobies, and now after 2 days its 80% gone, my Alien inferno last night started to show the same symptoms, and today its 10% dead. Im sure itll keep going tonight.
The only two chalices I have left is the plating Hollywood stunner, showing 0 sign, and the space invaider or Mummy eye chalice i believe it has both of those names. The space invaider, showed signs at the beggining a week ago but it healed. However one of its eyes looks like it melted away i think.. I have a feeling its going too.
The tank is 135 gallon 6 ft, has near 100 corals, mixed reef. I have 4 bubble corals, 17 types of acro's, about 20 types of zoanthids, 6 types of torch corals, 4 colors of goniporas, about 7 monitporas encrusting or plating, a orange setosa, i have 5 types of cyphastreas, only two leathers a cabbage leather and a neon green tree looking leather i forgot its name. and a few others
The param were 1330 mag, calcium was at 440, salinity 1.026, temp is 78-80f, alk is 8 on average, ph is always 7.8-8.0 I cant get it any higher and i dont try as the tank has been fine like this for 2 years. Flow hasnt changed, no stray voltage. Phosphates were .25, nitrates were very high in the 70ppm range. Thats onething i can think of that might have caused this. As ive been feeding my fish alot the last 2 months, more than my denitrate can keep up with. Normally though my tank is in the 30-40ppm range.
I did run out of the liquid calcium and liquid alk from seachems part 1 and 2 dosing, so i switched to seachems powdered versions, and ive been using that stuff for the last 2-3 weeks. So im wondering if it was that. But i dont see how. My calcium was 380, and i did raise it back to 420 but i did it over 4 days time, i didnt overdose and alk never changed but that was 2 weeks ago. I just dont know what could cause and continue to keep them from melting. I do dose Kents products, 3 bottles the essential elements, the strontium and molybenum "spelling" and coral vite. I also dose Iodine from fluval. I dose 5ml iodine, and 15ml of the other stuff. Ive been dosing those for 2 1/2 months now.
This is the only thing i did differently, because normally my tank would need a 30-50% water change after only 2 weeks, due to the amount of corals i have in the tank, they were sucking something or multiple things up that you cant normally test for. As my hawkins and some sensitive sps would start melting after 2 weeks. Water changes in the 10-15% range werent enough so thats why i had to do big ones. After dosing the 4 bottles i mentioned, none of my corals melted and i went 2 1/2 months with no water changes. Again though NO corals are showing any issues.
But then a week ago as i said my chalices just started melting. I did a 85 gallon water change 3 days ago, the tank with the sand and rocks has only about 100 gallons of water being 135 gallons. So 85g was a near complete water change. None of my corals were affected, but the chalices continue to decline. And the inferno started yesturday.. So if this were a water issue, that huge water change should have stopped it, but chalices that werent affected and now being affected.. So i dunno,
Do these corals have like infections they can get that spread ? These chalices were all on the same rock, all but the hollywood stunner who is the only one not affected. I tried dipping them and cutting the bad parts off, but it doesnt help
This sucks, its like chalices are the hardest corals for me to keep, ive seen this happen before to the pink booobies, and the Dr evil.. but they stopped and recovered. They have done this twice in the past actually, and this was before i dosed those 4 bottles and just did water changes often. So thats why i dont think the dosing had anything to do with it. I can keep every single coral out there, i even can take dying or failing corals from other tanks and they recover/color and explode in my tank. But chalices... just grow slow, or melt and recover, and now there just melting completetly
It started like a week ago, the Dr Evil started to receed, losing flesh like STN, then over 3-4 days it was 70% gone, then it started on my pink booobies, and now after 2 days its 80% gone, my Alien inferno last night started to show the same symptoms, and today its 10% dead. Im sure itll keep going tonight.
The only two chalices I have left is the plating Hollywood stunner, showing 0 sign, and the space invaider or Mummy eye chalice i believe it has both of those names. The space invaider, showed signs at the beggining a week ago but it healed. However one of its eyes looks like it melted away i think.. I have a feeling its going too.
The tank is 135 gallon 6 ft, has near 100 corals, mixed reef. I have 4 bubble corals, 17 types of acro's, about 20 types of zoanthids, 6 types of torch corals, 4 colors of goniporas, about 7 monitporas encrusting or plating, a orange setosa, i have 5 types of cyphastreas, only two leathers a cabbage leather and a neon green tree looking leather i forgot its name. and a few others
The param were 1330 mag, calcium was at 440, salinity 1.026, temp is 78-80f, alk is 8 on average, ph is always 7.8-8.0 I cant get it any higher and i dont try as the tank has been fine like this for 2 years. Flow hasnt changed, no stray voltage. Phosphates were .25, nitrates were very high in the 70ppm range. Thats onething i can think of that might have caused this. As ive been feeding my fish alot the last 2 months, more than my denitrate can keep up with. Normally though my tank is in the 30-40ppm range.
I did run out of the liquid calcium and liquid alk from seachems part 1 and 2 dosing, so i switched to seachems powdered versions, and ive been using that stuff for the last 2-3 weeks. So im wondering if it was that. But i dont see how. My calcium was 380, and i did raise it back to 420 but i did it over 4 days time, i didnt overdose and alk never changed but that was 2 weeks ago. I just dont know what could cause and continue to keep them from melting. I do dose Kents products, 3 bottles the essential elements, the strontium and molybenum "spelling" and coral vite. I also dose Iodine from fluval. I dose 5ml iodine, and 15ml of the other stuff. Ive been dosing those for 2 1/2 months now.
This is the only thing i did differently, because normally my tank would need a 30-50% water change after only 2 weeks, due to the amount of corals i have in the tank, they were sucking something or multiple things up that you cant normally test for. As my hawkins and some sensitive sps would start melting after 2 weeks. Water changes in the 10-15% range werent enough so thats why i had to do big ones. After dosing the 4 bottles i mentioned, none of my corals melted and i went 2 1/2 months with no water changes. Again though NO corals are showing any issues.
But then a week ago as i said my chalices just started melting. I did a 85 gallon water change 3 days ago, the tank with the sand and rocks has only about 100 gallons of water being 135 gallons. So 85g was a near complete water change. None of my corals were affected, but the chalices continue to decline. And the inferno started yesturday.. So if this were a water issue, that huge water change should have stopped it, but chalices that werent affected and now being affected.. So i dunno,
Do these corals have like infections they can get that spread ? These chalices were all on the same rock, all but the hollywood stunner who is the only one not affected. I tried dipping them and cutting the bad parts off, but it doesnt help
This sucks, its like chalices are the hardest corals for me to keep, ive seen this happen before to the pink booobies, and the Dr evil.. but they stopped and recovered. They have done this twice in the past actually, and this was before i dosed those 4 bottles and just did water changes often. So thats why i dont think the dosing had anything to do with it. I can keep every single coral out there, i even can take dying or failing corals from other tanks and they recover/color and explode in my tank. But chalices... just grow slow, or melt and recover, and now there just melting completetly
Please dont mix up oxygen into this, typically air is mostly nitrogen anyway so maybe the co2 displaced nitrogen, oxygen and other trace gases but the contributing factor is co2 in some way. 
