At wits end

corihill92 · Jan 3, 2020

I've been in the hobby for 10 years and have never had this many issues.

I moved last September, I took the opportunity to upgrade my old 180 into a brand new 215, I let it run for a few weeks with new live sand and some rock, it cycled.

After the full move I put all my livestock and rock into it and things slowly went downhill. My lps is slowly dwindling away. I've lost a torch, several heads of frogspawn and a hammer. My spongodes is alive but white for the past month.

My softies seem to be ok except my mushrooms seem to move occassionally. The fish seem fine.

My parameter are
Nitrates 0
Nitrites 0
Ammonia 0
Ph 8
Alk 7.7
Mg 1360
Calcium 420
Temp is 78
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I'm losing my cool, help!

The Aquatic Arsenal · Jan 3, 2020

I see you have phosphate in your system, so that doesn't help explain things. I am assuming you made changes to your lighting to account for the different dimensions of the 215 gallon tank. You also mentioned you moved. I am guessing that your source water is different as well. Maybe something making it through your RODI unit? I guess there could be some inconsistencies in your salt mix possibly?

JCOLE · Jan 3, 2020

Your ICP is showing a high level of Aluminum. Maybe from Tap water?

Uncle99 · Jan 3, 2020

Your nutrients seem quite low in comparison to mine.
Mine are Nitrate 5-10ppm and Phosphate at .20
Sure your not starving them?

Auquanut · Jan 3, 2020

You've been around in the hobby longer than me. This is just a personal opinion, but the tank has only been running for four months since the move. In my less than expert opinion, I think the tank just hasn't found it's happy spot quite yet. Don't throw in the towel. Other than slowly raising nitrates a little bit and just trying to keep things balanced, I would just give it a little more time. You know it's worth the effort.

corihill92 · Jan 3, 2020

h2oh2o said:
Your ICP is showing a high level of Aluminum. Maybe from Tap water?

I thought about that too. The only thing I could think of that would leach Al would be my marine pure blocks. I read they leach after while so I did remove those. Im sending in another test soon

corihill92 · Jan 3, 2020

Auquanut said:
You've been around in the hobby longer than me. This is just a personal opinion, but the tank has only been running for four months since the move. In my less than expert opinion, I think the tank just hasn't found it's happy spot quite yet. Don't throw in the towel. Other than slowly raising nitrates a little bit and just trying to keep things balanced, I would just give it a little more time. You know it's worth the effort.

There is always that. I'm just getting frustrated at this point