Red Sea Reefer 170. First reef tank.
Fishless cycle from late March through late April. Added 2 ocellaris, some softies, and some LPS on 4/28. 9 days later one clown has been hiding a couple days, starts swimming erratically, and dies. Other one seemed ok but not great.
Replaced the dead ocellaris, new guyseemed ok for a couple days, started staying hidden, then went missing last night.
I've done 2 25% water changes in the last week. Water is in the mixing container 24 hours with powerhead, air, and heater before going in tank. I added Seachem Prime in case the tank was cycling again but that didn't get the remaining fish out of hiding.
Parameters:
78F
1.026 sg
0 ammonia
0 nitrite
5-10 nitrate
8.3 pH
1440 Mg
400 Ca
8.7 dKH
Phosphate undedectable
Other signs are a Duncan staying closed all the time and eagle eye Zoa staying mostly closed. Other corals seem fine.
Tank is running a skimmer, carbon/gfo reactor, chaeto reactor, and UV sterilizer.
I found 2 potential issues:
1. Chaeto was dying off. Probably had too much flow and was suffocating against the top of the reactor while the bioload was too small to support it. I removed the dead chaeto.
2. Jebao UV sterilizer turns water in it black when handling it. I assume it's leeching plastic into the water. This isn't a new system so it's not a new sterilizer.
I just stopped the sterilizer and cleaned up the chaeto tonight, after a 25% WC. I'm nervous to add more livestock until I can figure out the issue.
What could be causing my issue that I haven't resized?
Do I need to do a massive WC now to get as much of the leeched plastic as possible out of the tank or is that not likely the cause?
Fishless cycle from late March through late April. Added 2 ocellaris, some softies, and some LPS on 4/28. 9 days later one clown has been hiding a couple days, starts swimming erratically, and dies. Other one seemed ok but not great.
Replaced the dead ocellaris, new guyseemed ok for a couple days, started staying hidden, then went missing last night.
I've done 2 25% water changes in the last week. Water is in the mixing container 24 hours with powerhead, air, and heater before going in tank. I added Seachem Prime in case the tank was cycling again but that didn't get the remaining fish out of hiding.
Parameters:
78F
1.026 sg
0 ammonia
0 nitrite
5-10 nitrate
8.3 pH
1440 Mg
400 Ca
8.7 dKH
Phosphate undedectable
Other signs are a Duncan staying closed all the time and eagle eye Zoa staying mostly closed. Other corals seem fine.
Tank is running a skimmer, carbon/gfo reactor, chaeto reactor, and UV sterilizer.
I found 2 potential issues:
1. Chaeto was dying off. Probably had too much flow and was suffocating against the top of the reactor while the bioload was too small to support it. I removed the dead chaeto.
2. Jebao UV sterilizer turns water in it black when handling it. I assume it's leeching plastic into the water. This isn't a new system so it's not a new sterilizer.
I just stopped the sterilizer and cleaned up the chaeto tonight, after a 25% WC. I'm nervous to add more livestock until I can figure out the issue.
What could be causing my issue that I haven't resized?
Do I need to do a massive WC now to get as much of the leeched plastic as possible out of the tank or is that not likely the cause?
