Hello everyone,
A couple things have happened over the last couple days that could have led up to my corals looking pale. My corals looked good yesterday and now this.
My parameters are
Alk - 9.1
Calcium - 482
Magnesium - 1280
Nitrate - 0
Phosphate - 0.20
Salinity - 1.026
I was dosing 2-part for the last week but stopped because I need to wait for my tank to stabilize. Letting my tank drop down to around 8.3. Currently dropping .10 dkh everyday.
Phosphates were in the upper 30's-40's last week. I started using Phosguard on my tank Wednesday night and now they are down to .20.
A couple things that might be a cause that happened last night.
1- could be the phosguard?
2- I made a DIY Aiptasia zapper wand to clear out some aiptasia. I made it quick and wasnt thinking. I stripped two wires for the - and +. I was using the tip of the + wire to zap the Aiptasia. I did it about 15 times. Didnt think until I was done that it was COPPER wire. Could this affect the coral?
3 - during my zapping I briefly touched some palys which I think caused them to release some palytoxin in the water. If so can this cause issues with corals?
I cannot bring up my nitrates for anything. I dose loudwolf sodium nitrate about 1-2ppm everynight and it is still reading 0. I have a fuge with Chaeto and mangroves that might be slowing the nitrates?
A couple things have happened over the last couple days that could have led up to my corals looking pale. My corals looked good yesterday and now this.
My parameters are
Alk - 9.1
Calcium - 482
Magnesium - 1280
Nitrate - 0
Phosphate - 0.20
Salinity - 1.026
I was dosing 2-part for the last week but stopped because I need to wait for my tank to stabilize. Letting my tank drop down to around 8.3. Currently dropping .10 dkh everyday.
Phosphates were in the upper 30's-40's last week. I started using Phosguard on my tank Wednesday night and now they are down to .20.
A couple things that might be a cause that happened last night.
1- could be the phosguard?
2- I made a DIY Aiptasia zapper wand to clear out some aiptasia. I made it quick and wasnt thinking. I stripped two wires for the - and +. I was using the tip of the + wire to zap the Aiptasia. I did it about 15 times. Didnt think until I was done that it was COPPER wire. Could this affect the coral?
3 - during my zapping I briefly touched some palys which I think caused them to release some palytoxin in the water. If so can this cause issues with corals?
I cannot bring up my nitrates for anything. I dose loudwolf sodium nitrate about 1-2ppm everynight and it is still reading 0. I have a fuge with Chaeto and mangroves that might be slowing the nitrates?