Reef flux

[beardown51]

So I did the reef flux after doing a 30% water change yesterday as I was instructed by LFS and I came home today to my snails being closed up my pin cushion sea urchin scrunched up not happy, my six line wrasse was swimming like a zombie walks idk how else to explain it and my huge cleaner shrimp in laying down on the rocks like it’s about to die. I called my LFS and was like what should I do. The said put the flow coming up from the sump as close to the top of the water as I can and then either get a power head close to the top so it bubbles up the tank. It is stripping the oxygen out of the water and they need oxygen. So I said is this how it is going to kill the gha and bubble algae? He said no but the chemical is use strips the oxygen in the process. The fish are swimming fine now but the shrimp and snails still not. But thought this might be a good bit of info for anyone who is interested in using it. I wish they would have warned me of this before hand.

 

[56longroof]

Sorry for your trouble. But,anytime you want to try something like this do alot of homework first. Going in with knowledge will save you a ton of stress and issues later.

 

[beardown51]

Sorry for your trouble. But,anytime you want to try something like this do alot of homework first. Going in with knowledge will save you a ton of stress and issues later.

Thanks and I know I should but thought I could trust the guy who has been extremely helpful and knowledgeable up to this point. He usually warns me of things ahead of time so I thought it was going to be pretty simple. I guess this teaches me nothing is without consequences in this hobby

 

[56longroof]

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Thanks and I know I should but thought I could trust the guy who has been extremely helpful and knowledgeable up to this point. He usually warns me of things ahead of time so I thought it was going to be pretty simple. I guess this teaches me nothing is without consequences in this hobby

Learned the hard way years ago about listening to my LFS. Now I research everything to death and then some.

 

[grumpy-crab]

Thats alot of gha. Whats your parameters? Also whats your lighting and lighting schedule? Are you dosing anything?

 

[beardown51]

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Learned the hard way years ago about listening to my LFS. Now I research everything to death and then some.

Yeah I will be doing that as well now. Thanks so much!

 

[beardown51]

Thats alot of gha. Whats your parameters? Also whats your lighting and lighting schedule? Are you dosing anything?

Before water change and new test kit it was telling me zero nitrates all the time and I kept dosing to raise them. Bad idea it went crazy now I know why test kit was api trash. Lighting is nicar 2 lamp 100w right now I’m doing low white lights as gha LOVES blue spectrum more than white apparently. My lighting schedule is usually slow ramp up with blue in 8 am to 11am half up white to 6pm where it slowly ramps down from white to blue again off at 10pm. It’s a 60 gallon with 8 gallon in a 15 gallon sump

 

[grumpy-crab]

Thats alot of gha. Whats your parameters? Also whats your lighting and lighting schedule? Are you dosing anything?

Before water change and new test kit it was telling me zero nitrates all the time and I kept dosing to raise them. Bad idea it went crazy now I know why test kit was api trash. Lighting is nicar 2 lamp 100w right now I’m doing low white lights as gha LOVES blue spectrum more than white apparently. My lighting schedule is usually slow ramp up with blue in 8 am to 11am half up white to 6pm where it slowly ramps down from white to blue again off at 10pm. It’s a 60 gallon with 8 gallon in a 15 gallon sump

That much gha and phosphate still at .25 i would guess its naturally alot higher sense the gha is consuming alot right now. What are you feeding? Some foods are known to be high in phosphate.

You could change your lighting schedule. Start blue ramping 8-9 then start white ramping 10-11 whites for only 4 or 5 hours before ramping back to only blues you can have a longer blue cycle in the evening say 3-4 hours before raming back down. If not necessary for corals then i would back the max intensity % down till under control.

Test your food... let some food sit in water for a few hours then test for phosphate to see it thays the problem

 

[grumpy-crab]

@Gumbies R Us any more advise or tag someone/s?

 

[beardown51]

That much gha and phosphate still at .25 i would guess its naturally alot higher sense the gha is consuming alot right now. What are you feeding? Some foods are known to be high in phosphate.

You could change your lighting schedule. Start blue ramping 8-9 then start white ramping 10-11 whites for only 4 or 5 hours before ramping back to only blues you can have a longer blue cycle in the evening say 3-4 hours before raming back down. If not necessary for corals then i would back the max intensity % down till under control.

Test your food... let some food sit in water for a few hours then test for phosphate to see it thays the problem

Thank you very much I will test the food. I feed frozen brine shrimp and daphnia for the Mandarin dragonette I stopped using the frozen coral food because it says it has phosphate in it

 

[56longroof]

Thank you very much I will test the food. I feed frozen brine shrimp and daphnia for the Mandarin dragonette I stopped using the frozen coral food because it says it has phosphate in it

You can try Benepets or BRS Reef Chili to feed corals.

 

[56longroof]

So I did the reef flux after doing a 30% water change yesterday as I was instructed by LFS and I came home today to my snails being closed up my pin cushion sea urchin scrunched up not happy, my six line wrasse was swimming like a zombie walks idk how else to explain it and my huge cleaner shrimp in laying down on the rocks like it’s about to die. I called my LFS and was like what should I do. The said put the flow coming up from the sump as close to the top of the water as I can and then either get a power head close to the top so it bubbles up the tank. It is stripping the oxygen out of the water and they need oxygen. So I said is this how it is going to kill the gha and bubble algae? He said no but the chemical is use strips the oxygen in the process. The fish are swimming fine now but the shrimp and snails still not. But thought this might be a good bit of info for anyone who is interested in using it. I wish they would have warned me of this before hand.

Are you running a skimmer? When I treated my tank with Reeflux for a bryopsis outbreak I took the collection cup off the skimmer but let it keep running. Helps keep O2 and ph up.

 

[grumpy-crab]

How the food test? It could also be your water or live rock

 

[beardown51]

Are you running a skimmer? When I treated my tank with Reeflux for a bryopsis outbreak I took the collection cup off the skimmer but let it keep running. Helps keep O2 and ph up.

I turned it off as it told me to do. I wish I would’ve thought of that. Lost my wrasse sadly it was a 6 line and I named it revolver

 

[beardown51]

You can try Benepets or BRS Reef Chili to feed corals.

I screenshot it for later thank you for the suggestion