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I have a tank that is in the middle of crashing. What do I do with the rock and coral? Do I take it out? Leave it in? How do I stop the crash? I’ve moved several pieces that made it through the first couple days. My fish are all okay but all corals are dying. Sps is all gone. My gsp actually hasn’t opened in over a week. I still have zoas and some lps in there but I believe they are on their way out too. I’m out of room in other tanks to move corals out.
So here’s what happened. I installed the new kamoer waterchange pump. I went camping for the weekend. I set the pump to only do manual water changes while I was gone. I had to start them through the app. When I did this I turned the ato off without knowing it. I got home to a tank with no heat because the return pump quit working when it ran out of water. I use continuous duty pump to drip Kalk in. So when I started the return pump back up it pumped a days worth of kalk in 2 minutes. My ph was 8.8. Alk was 11.5. Tank temp was 71. The sps had mostly died before I got home. Now I’ve done 3 30% water changes. Some zoas started opening yesterday. Now I have more lps starting to die. Do I need to take all the rock with the dying coral out? How do I stop the crash? I really would like to leave a couple pieces in. I have hopes that some will make it. Am I dreaming? Will anything survive or do some corals just take longer to die? I had temp, ph, and Alk swings all at one time. Nitrate and phosphate are good but that doesn’t seem to matter. If anyone has experience please share.
So here’s what happened. I installed the new kamoer waterchange pump. I went camping for the weekend. I set the pump to only do manual water changes while I was gone. I had to start them through the app. When I did this I turned the ato off without knowing it. I got home to a tank with no heat because the return pump quit working when it ran out of water. I use continuous duty pump to drip Kalk in. So when I started the return pump back up it pumped a days worth of kalk in 2 minutes. My ph was 8.8. Alk was 11.5. Tank temp was 71. The sps had mostly died before I got home. Now I’ve done 3 30% water changes. Some zoas started opening yesterday. Now I have more lps starting to die. Do I need to take all the rock with the dying coral out? How do I stop the crash? I really would like to leave a couple pieces in. I have hopes that some will make it. Am I dreaming? Will anything survive or do some corals just take longer to die? I had temp, ph, and Alk swings all at one time. Nitrate and phosphate are good but that doesn’t seem to matter. If anyone has experience please share.