What’s the best way of troubleshooting Chemistry issues (Or dying coral...) ?
I might be over thinking things at the moment.. but the tank for the last 8 months or so has been happy with little / no interference..just the usual routine checks and top ups..
ive not done anything in haste at the moment, i have just slowly observed if it’s a singular coral that’s a problem, or if it’s a reoccurring one..
my question is a two part one ..I seem to have hit a bump in the road when it comes down to trying to work out what’s going wrong.
My tank was looking great and growth was good in the early months of last 2020; but somethings happened between the autumn time and now and I can’t work out for the life of me what’s happening !
The start of it was a massive aiptasia issue, (which to cut a long story short caused lost of stinging and tissue recession and sulking coral.
I drafted in a kliens butterfly fish to eradicate my aiptasia problem.
In order to prevent the corals getting eaten too by the kliens, i dismounted them ( frags/ small colonies) and placed them in a segregated zone partitioning the right half of the tank..
Even before moving them around, I have stated to see corals shrink, lose colour, lose heads etc...
ive not changed much in terms of chemistry, the light levels remain the same.. flow the same.. supplements the same...
feeding admittedly went down a bit because it was encouraging aiptasia to breed and I was trying to avoid their spread.
(so nutrients may have sloped a bit..)
so far observations and current casualties:-
euphillyia circa 25 heads heads shrunken and deteriorating lost about 6-8 heads at the moment
war coral stripping but very slow
acans shrunken (in & some died)
blastoMussa-some shrunk but some no ok and no change..
sps dull no polyps and tissue recession
Zoas - some are bright and unaffected, others limp and colours have gone..
montis -seem ok
chalices- shrunken skeleton showing and some stripping.
tank testing
cal 445 -500
mag 1290 -1350
dkh 8.6
po4 0.045-0.09
no3 normally 50ppm now 25ppm
k potassium 400ppm
recently added a Clarisea roller filter.. done some 5 -10% water changes
added some carbon vertex rox 0.8 (50ml to the sump)
in the sump I seem to be getting cyano, used to be black, now maroon/green..
hoping someone can give me a few thoughts to consider.. I’m stood thinking at a million miles an hour.. but going nowhere..!
thanks. Guys, girls..
I might be over thinking things at the moment.. but the tank for the last 8 months or so has been happy with little / no interference..just the usual routine checks and top ups..
ive not done anything in haste at the moment, i have just slowly observed if it’s a singular coral that’s a problem, or if it’s a reoccurring one..
my question is a two part one ..I seem to have hit a bump in the road when it comes down to trying to work out what’s going wrong.
My tank was looking great and growth was good in the early months of last 2020; but somethings happened between the autumn time and now and I can’t work out for the life of me what’s happening !
The start of it was a massive aiptasia issue, (which to cut a long story short caused lost of stinging and tissue recession and sulking coral.
I drafted in a kliens butterfly fish to eradicate my aiptasia problem.
In order to prevent the corals getting eaten too by the kliens, i dismounted them ( frags/ small colonies) and placed them in a segregated zone partitioning the right half of the tank..
Even before moving them around, I have stated to see corals shrink, lose colour, lose heads etc...
ive not changed much in terms of chemistry, the light levels remain the same.. flow the same.. supplements the same...
feeding admittedly went down a bit because it was encouraging aiptasia to breed and I was trying to avoid their spread.
(so nutrients may have sloped a bit..)
so far observations and current casualties:-
euphillyia circa 25 heads heads shrunken and deteriorating lost about 6-8 heads at the moment
war coral stripping but very slow
acans shrunken (in & some died)
blastoMussa-some shrunk but some no ok and no change..
sps dull no polyps and tissue recession
Zoas - some are bright and unaffected, others limp and colours have gone..
montis -seem ok
chalices- shrunken skeleton showing and some stripping.
tank testing
cal 445 -500
mag 1290 -1350
dkh 8.6
po4 0.045-0.09
no3 normally 50ppm now 25ppm
k potassium 400ppm
recently added a Clarisea roller filter.. done some 5 -10% water changes
added some carbon vertex rox 0.8 (50ml to the sump)
in the sump I seem to be getting cyano, used to be black, now maroon/green..
hoping someone can give me a few thoughts to consider.. I’m stood thinking at a million miles an hour.. but going nowhere..!
thanks. Guys, girls..