240 gal reef tank has crashed.

[110reef]

Waaaayyyyy too much light... wayyyyyy toooo muchhhhhh lighhhhtttt....

I disagree.... I have 3X400 W 14K metal halides and 4X110 watt 424 VHO's on my 240 gallon tank. Nothing is bleaching or dying in my tank...

Plus why would it be fine for a year then suddenly turn bad?

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Wow how do you guys do it? By lps are you including acan and blasto type corals? Also how high are your lights and what reflectors? My lumenmax elite reflectors will fry lps!

 

[mbattles22]

I am experiencing tank, more specifically SPS problems myself....I totally empathize with him. I bet he is checking parameters while crying!

 

[johnanddawn]

my guess is maybe he went to work.... give the guy a break
and i also agree he has more light then he needs but that doesn't mean its tooooooo mucccccch
- there are many ways to do reef and if it was fine for a year then something is going on...

 

[110reef]

Wow how do you guys do it? By lps are you including acan and blasto type corals? Also how high are your lights and what reflectors? My lumenmax elite reflectors will fry lps!

Rev -

I have el-cheapo mogul spider type reflectors, and the effectiveness of them is further reduced by salt spray, so I may not be beaming 400W in a very concentrated way. Mine are about 6" above the water, and my tank is 2' deep. I have 1 acan, it is relatively new to me, but it is down on the bottom sand bed. The color seems to be good, but it seems to be withdrawn. It may benefit from being moved to a shadier area - I may have to do that. Otherwise, my lps are frogspawns, hammers, torches, bubbles. Softy-wise I have mushrooms, ricordeas, and leathers. I did have zoas before my Moorish Idol took a liking to them. All seem to do fine.

 

[FISH PROS]

he was also running a coral life skimmer we all know that thing will barely handle a 75 gal yet alone a 240 i really wonder what his prams were

 

[Reefer831]

Waaaayyyyy too much light... wayyyyyy toooo muchhhhhh lighhhhtttt....

+1 It might be getting hot because of summer time heat, also try moving the lights higher from the tank.

 

[Mr E Wrasse]

+1 It might be getting hot because of summer time heat, also try moving the lights higher from the tank.

yea what is the water temp??

 

[inactive]

I disagree.... I have 3X400 W 14K metal halides and 4X110 watt 424 VHO's on my 240 gallon tank. Nothing is bleaching or dying in my tank...

Plus why would it be fine for a year then suddenly turn bad?

Dude, tanks are like the opposite sex... what make be perfect for one may totally not work with the other.

 

[UrbanReef]

tank

I hope he figures this out. Problems like this make me nervous that my tank could just go at any second...

I agree too much light, but why after a year would this happen?

 

[ron garnett]

No, no, no, this is not a joke! I was expecting to get responses through my email. When I checked and saw no responses I thought maybe no one was interested. I'm new at this forum thing. I do have a serious problem with my tank and I appreciate all that's been offered. My 400's might be overkill for my size tank but, all was doing well for almost a year.
My temp has been between 78 and 81 degrees. I placed my LPS at the bottom of my tank to protect them from the light but, it didn't seem to help. I'm currently doing water changes of 50 gallons at a time to gradually change out all of my old water. I don't have a calcium reactor but I'm using b-ionic and dosing 4 oz every day.

 

[ron garnett]

No acans or blastos, just closed brains. My lights are about 12" above the tank.

 

[ron garnett]

I use Instant Ocean and have been happy with it in the past. In fact, I did my initial start-up with it.

 

[ron garnett]

My purple mushrooms have bleached out but, my red mushrooms are doing just fine. I've sheltered both from the light as much as possible.

 

[inactive]

Think about it this way, If I go stand in 111 degree weather.. I won't show ill signs right away... but I may die in 3 days. Nah mean?

 

[Troylee]

have you checked your salinity with a refract??? or double check with another??? i had some softies melt away one time when my salinity had rose to high.......

 

[Gazog]

Think about it this way, If I go stand in 111 degree weather.. I won't show ill signs right away... but I may die in 3 days. Nah mean?

I totally agree with you, but we are talking a year later. I feel he would have know a long time ago that there was a
problem if it was the lighting.I would really be looking for something other than the lights.

I have 432 watts of T5's over my 75 and when I first switched over to them I had some issues but for the most part
everything got used to it and started to thrive, it took about 2 weeks for the problem to show up but that was all.

We still haven't seen any parameters, what is you Alk, Calc, Mag, and the rest of them at. Have you tested for copper?

Instant ocean isn't bad salt if you talking fish only but for what your dosing in the way of 2 part to make up the difference
you most likely could use a better brand or salt, more adapted to reef usage and come out money ahead, JMO

 

[ron garnett]

No, just using a Seatest hydometer but, it's fairly new.

 

[ron garnett]

What kind of salt are you using?

 

[gparr]

We need to see your parameters, i.e., the actual numbers. 118 ml of B-Ionic doesn't seem to be nearly enough to maintain alk and Ca in a 240-gal tank. I dose 100 ml/day in a 65 to maintain proper parameters.
Gary