First, thanks for replying,
The tank is a 75 gal RR tank set up in January this year. It was loaded with 100lbs of live rock and 60 lbs of live sand. I also have a 30 gal sump with fuge with LR and microalgae As said prior, new to reefing but had a salt water fish only tank years ago so I know what I am doing in that respect. My tank has shrooms, frogspawn, hammers, zoos, plates, palys, some small acros and monti's. It is lit with a Reefbreeders LED for about 6 weeks now at 40% that started at 30%, before had a crappy Marineland RR LED that did not cut it. I have a Reef Octopus skimmer, full apex running BRS dosing pumps dosing calcium and alk at 1 minute per hour for 10 hours each alternating. I am also running biopellets (pearls) at this time. I do have carbon in a Mag 350 all the time also. All my water is from RODI unit and I do 10 gal weekly water changes.
Parameters are:
cal-470
alk-10.08
mag-1500
nitrate-under 5
ammonia-0
ph-8.07
temp-varies bet 78.6 and 80
phosphate 0
salinity 1.026
I have been losing LPS corals to this brown jelly one by one over the past 2 months, they recede one day, brown jell next day or so and then gone. I still have some heads of each. some have even died while others on the same multi head piece survive and look great.
I also have lost 5 plates, 2 long and 3 short tentacles. I just this weekend found a gorilla crab in the live rock and got him out of there. I went night hunting a few weeks ago per my LFS to look for worms and did find a few. A large bristle about a 1/4" thick that I cannot catch with any traps, another what I beleave is a peanut worm and another that I cannot identify, brown, segmented, very thin, could not see its head area, hope it is not the dreaded eunice worm. My plate look like they were ripped apart that I suspect was the crab.
I have not dipped any injured corals at this time but did just buy Loguls to try if I get another on way out. Is it wise to dose the entire tank with Loguls? Is the brown goo in the tank and need to be eradicated?
If I am doing something wrong that you can see please let me know.
Thanks,
Ron
