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Your nitrates are under .05 or your phosphate? Good parameters for phosphate and nitrate is 3ppm-15ppm nitrate and .03-.1 phosphate. Coral need nitrate and phosphate to grow. I aslo looked up your treatment to see that you are battling and I came across this thread that I think you should take a look at https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/please-stop-ciprofloxacin-dips-and-other-antibiotics.955634/So I did 5 days of treatment with the Cipro. The medicine came 3-4 days late and I ended up losing the one torch I did not want to lose. My hammers and frogspawn do look better but not at the level from before. The chaeto is really doing wonders with my nitrates and I am under 0.05ppm. So, I think I will work on just keeping my parameters at acceptable levels. Will not add any more coral until I see these rebound and start growing.
Thanks, everyone for the advice!
I may have my decimals in the wrong place lol. Nitrates are under 5ppm.Your nitrates are under .05 or your phosphate? Good parameters for phosphate and nitrate is 3ppm-15ppm nitrate and .03-.1 phosphate. Coral need nitrate and phosphate to grow. I aslo looked up your treatment to see that you are battling and I came across this thread that I think you should take a look at https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/please-stop-ciprofloxacin-dips-and-other-antibiotics.955634/
I’ve battled brown jelly before but I’ve never had great success treating it. I’ve tried freshwater dips and peroxide dips and coral RX as well as some other coral medication that supposedly treated it. My best advice for it is to get any coral out of the tank that have it since it’s so contagious. If any of that slime gets on another coral, that coral will probably develop it. And then treat the affected pieces outside the tank. For me, peroxide and freshwater dips seemed to have the most promise for recovery but having one head frags at the time, there wasn’t much I could do once i saw it
Check your po4 numbers also.So I did 5 days of treatment with the Cipro. The medicine came 3-4 days late and I ended up losing the one torch I did not want to lose. My hammers and frogspawn do look better but not at the level from before. The chaeto is really doing wonders with my nitrates and I am under 0.05ppm. So, I think I will work on just keeping my parameters at acceptable levels. Will not add any more coral until I see these rebound and start growing.
Thanks, everyone for the advice!
Hmm. How long were the corals open before all this happened? If it’s not parameters, something else you might want to check for is making sure no electrical current is in the tank from like a heater or pump that’s broke, if you have a multimeter, you could set it to 120 AC then put the black probe on a piece of metal and dip the red side in the tank and that should show if there’s stray voltage. What do you dose to the tank?I may have my decimals in the wrong place lol. Nitrates are under 5ppm.
I am not even sure if its brown jelly. I don't see any signs of it. My coral just simply started retracting and stayed that way for a month or so and one by one started dying. I contributed that to the nitrate spike TDS at .6 and having a hard time getting balance back to my tank. Another poster mentioned all those in combination likely contributed to more sensitive coral, my torches and younger hammer, and bacterial infections that they could not recover from.
I think this post meant to say black probe to ground. You are measuring potential of the two.Hmm. How long were the corals open before all this happened? If it’s not parameters, something else you might want to check for is making sure no electrical current is in the tank from like a heater or pump that’s broke, if you have a multimeter, you could set it to 120 AC then put the black probe on a piece of metal and dip the red side in the tank and that should show if there’s stray voltage. What do you dose to the tank?
I think this post meant to say black probe to ground. You are measuring potential of the two.
Not if it was on top of plastic.A piece of metal would be a ground