Please help with tank crash

[lilfish717]

Sounds like brown jelly disease, I haven’t dealt with it first hand.

Well I looked it up and seen a video. The video showing the brown glob floating on the dying acan. This is exactly what appeared to happened to all my scolys and my torch. I will post It for someone to Id later when I get access to a camera.

 

[Jon Fishman]

Sounds like brown jelly disease, I haven’t dealt with it first hand.

Probably this, but also sounds like tap-water = Nem death = tank crash. A dead nem will cause some problems.....

 

[maroun.c]

I would run couple larger water changes a week to deal with the high nutrients and what's being released by dying corals. Change ur carbon every 3 days. Sending a water sample for icp might help pinpoint some parameters that have gone wrong.
Might be best to check if lfs can host ur corals till u get things sorted.

 

[lilfish717]

I have a sump and 2 skimmers on the way also which should help with nutrients. Sump won't be here till about a month so that gives me some timing to figure out what I'm going to do about an overflow, or drilling.

 

[Jon Fishman]

I may have missed it, but do you have pictures of the tank? How big? What sump did you get? You may be best-off doing a hang-on-back overflow. Upgrading is the nature of the beast and you probably don’t want to tear down the tank to drill it

 

[BryanD]

Ammonia to high, salinity to high, alkalinity to high. Temperature isn't your problem. And a 4 month old tank shouldn't have much alive in it. You've lost stuff that shouldn't be in a 4 month old tank yet.

 

[Dburr1014]

I just don't understand how these were just about my params the whole time and never had any big problems. Besides being able to keep chalices. Most corals were fine.

There is a breaking point.
1.026 good
1.027 okay
1.028 tolerable for a bit
1.029 nope, can't sustain.

 

[rolyguy7]

There is a breaking point.
1.026 good
1.027 okay
1.028 tolerable for a bit
1.029 nope, can't sustain.

Right on the money. Your parameters were slowly shifting from good to bad. This didn’t happen over night. Once you hit the bad threshold, things started to head south. That’s why you don’t want to get close to bad thresholds. You want to say in the middle.

 

[BeejReef]

It's challenging with all the youtube videos talking about faster growth with higher alkalinity, higher ph, higher PAR, but only with higher nutrients too!

I'm sure all those things are probably true, but it's for seasoned professionals. Our 4 mo old tanks are like little kids. They're just not ready to play professional sports yet, even if they understand how.

Sorry for your losses :(. Back on your horse cowboy :cool: Sounds like you've got a good setup.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Start with salinity. . . do a major water change and add NO alk, CA, etc to get these numbers down. Wait a few days and re-test. Salinity range should be 1.025-1.026

 

[mkwarner77]

Hey @Hemmdog I'm curious and maybe you'd know this. Almost all of my corals that died have these big pockets of air and brownish slimy algae of the skeleton of them. None of my corals that died before have this. Do you know what this would be from?

I had a similar issue 2 yrs ago. turned out to be a dino bloom. Lost my monti from that 1