Any advice/help would be greatly appreciated. Sorry for the long post but wanted to be as informative as possible.
I am having random corals start to stn/rtn out of nowhere starting from about a week ago. It always starts from the base and moves up toward the tips. It started with a ora red planet, I removed and fragged it, cut well into healthy tissue but the next day it kept rtning from the base to the tips till it was dead. There was a blue/turquoise stag that was next to the red planet and the bases were touching, that was the next one to rtn, starting from the base where it was touching the red planet. Today it was a purple stylo and several other smaller acro frags have started to have stn/rtn on the bases. So far I have lost/started to lose 3 large baseball to vollyball sized colonies and 8 - 1 to 3 inch frags. I will attach some photos.
I have around 15 fish, I dont know if its related but my yellow tang mysteriously died yesterday, the day before he was eating/acting normal, I've had him for years & lived thru several tank upgrades. I feed pretty heavily, mix of mysis/brine and lrs reef frenzy, 2 to 3 half sheets of nori per day.
Everything looks healthy, even the corals that are dying, polyps are out and colors look good, I have been cutting them trying to save anything I can but the rtn continues to progress regardless. I've also dipped in witch hazel at a ratio of 10ml per liter and it does not seem to help. Today I have tried dipping in lugols at a ratio of 30 drops per gallon. I have some amoxicillin on the way and will try that next. I have also dipped in coralrx to check for pests. I have put in a poly filter yesterday and also checked all powerheads/magnets for rust. I had a icp test done a month or two ago and had nothing out of range/issues/heavy metals, I had another one sent out a few days ago when my issues started but have not received the results yet.
Changes I have made
Running a line outdoors to the skimmer air intake, filtered thru activated carbon. I started that about a week ago but I have disconnected that today just in case it may be pulling something in.
Switching brands of lanathium Chloride from brightwell to atm agent green. I have noticed that this brand is cloudy instead of clear but works the same as the brightwell brand, adjusting for dose.
System has been setup for about a year, upgraded to a 180 from a 120 that was running successfully for a couple years.
Parameters are :
180 gallon and 90 gallon sump
Total volume around 200 gallons
Carbon 24/7 in a reactor
Skimmer
36 watt uv
Sulfur denitrator
Temp 79F
Salinity 1.025 refractometer
Ph 8.1-8.3 ph probe
Kh 8.0-8.3 salifert
Cal 400-420ppm salifert
Mag 1200ppm salifert
No3 2-5ppm salifert
Po4 40-50ppb hanna ulr
Potassium 400ppm salifert
Iodide ~0.01 salifert
These parameters have been stable at these levels since upgrading last year.
Things I dose
Seachem iodide 8 drops per day
Reef moonshiners iron supplement 2 drops per day
Reef moonshiners rubidium 10 drops per day
Lanathium Chloride when needed with 5 micron filter socks
Acropower 10ml/day
Red sea energy a/b 15ml each per day
Reef roids 1/2 tsp/day
Brs alk/cal/mag on a doser
Kz flatworm stop
Vibrant 20ml once a week
Carbon dose 1.5 tsp sodium ascorbate (vit c) 2x/day
I started @PSXerholic reef moonshiners about 2 months ago and my tank has never looked better/healthier.
I have also changed out about 80 gallons of water since I started having issues and I dont think it has helped. It is also affecting corals in completely different parts of the tank, minus the 2 that were touching, the stylo was on the far right side of the tank, red planet/stag in the center, frags were in various parts of my rock, on a rack and in a frag section of my sump.
#reefsquad
I am having random corals start to stn/rtn out of nowhere starting from about a week ago. It always starts from the base and moves up toward the tips. It started with a ora red planet, I removed and fragged it, cut well into healthy tissue but the next day it kept rtning from the base to the tips till it was dead. There was a blue/turquoise stag that was next to the red planet and the bases were touching, that was the next one to rtn, starting from the base where it was touching the red planet. Today it was a purple stylo and several other smaller acro frags have started to have stn/rtn on the bases. So far I have lost/started to lose 3 large baseball to vollyball sized colonies and 8 - 1 to 3 inch frags. I will attach some photos.
I have around 15 fish, I dont know if its related but my yellow tang mysteriously died yesterday, the day before he was eating/acting normal, I've had him for years & lived thru several tank upgrades. I feed pretty heavily, mix of mysis/brine and lrs reef frenzy, 2 to 3 half sheets of nori per day.
Everything looks healthy, even the corals that are dying, polyps are out and colors look good, I have been cutting them trying to save anything I can but the rtn continues to progress regardless. I've also dipped in witch hazel at a ratio of 10ml per liter and it does not seem to help. Today I have tried dipping in lugols at a ratio of 30 drops per gallon. I have some amoxicillin on the way and will try that next. I have also dipped in coralrx to check for pests. I have put in a poly filter yesterday and also checked all powerheads/magnets for rust. I had a icp test done a month or two ago and had nothing out of range/issues/heavy metals, I had another one sent out a few days ago when my issues started but have not received the results yet.
Changes I have made
Running a line outdoors to the skimmer air intake, filtered thru activated carbon. I started that about a week ago but I have disconnected that today just in case it may be pulling something in.
Switching brands of lanathium Chloride from brightwell to atm agent green. I have noticed that this brand is cloudy instead of clear but works the same as the brightwell brand, adjusting for dose.
System has been setup for about a year, upgraded to a 180 from a 120 that was running successfully for a couple years.
Parameters are :
180 gallon and 90 gallon sump
Total volume around 200 gallons
Carbon 24/7 in a reactor
Skimmer
36 watt uv
Sulfur denitrator
Temp 79F
Salinity 1.025 refractometer
Ph 8.1-8.3 ph probe
Kh 8.0-8.3 salifert
Cal 400-420ppm salifert
Mag 1200ppm salifert
No3 2-5ppm salifert
Po4 40-50ppb hanna ulr
Potassium 400ppm salifert
Iodide ~0.01 salifert
These parameters have been stable at these levels since upgrading last year.
Things I dose
Seachem iodide 8 drops per day
Reef moonshiners iron supplement 2 drops per day
Reef moonshiners rubidium 10 drops per day
Lanathium Chloride when needed with 5 micron filter socks
Acropower 10ml/day
Red sea energy a/b 15ml each per day
Reef roids 1/2 tsp/day
Brs alk/cal/mag on a doser
Kz flatworm stop
Vibrant 20ml once a week
Carbon dose 1.5 tsp sodium ascorbate (vit c) 2x/day
I started @PSXerholic reef moonshiners about 2 months ago and my tank has never looked better/healthier.
I have also changed out about 80 gallons of water since I started having issues and I dont think it has helped. It is also affecting corals in completely different parts of the tank, minus the 2 that were touching, the stylo was on the far right side of the tank, red planet/stag in the center, frags were in various parts of my rock, on a rack and in a frag section of my sump.
#reefsquad
