Ahmed Talib
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need urgent help to discover brown jelly disease
Brown Jelly Discovery Help
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Ahmed Talib
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Thanks for the reply. 3 to 4 months in the tank
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Ahmed Talib
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What is bail, and why is it out? Is that a disease? Or water flow issues
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Not BJD but polyp bailout and often due to:need urgent help to discover brown jelly disease
Immature or new tank
High phosphate level
Too much flow
Inadequate light intensity
Low calcium
High water temperature
Low salinity
These coral need moderate to medium water flow , but too strong where the tentacles are bent over the skeleton and risk being torn off. They also need a stable environment as newer tanks have too many chemistry changes which can stress them. Calcium no less than 380-400 is essential for skeletal health and medium light needed for production of their energy source known as zooxanthellae.
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Ahmed Talib
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All parameter looks ok, but from one week, I see nitrites went up .25ppm or.20ppm I use Pro Reef Salt Bucket Tropic Marin. and one more thing my RODI water TDS is reading 3 maybe that's the issue. Water temp is high in Texas 80F now in tank
What are all your parameters? Saying they are ok, may not be so.
Sorry to see it's not going to make it.
Sorry to see it's not going to make it.
Matt Bravo
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I’m not trying to sound like a jerk, but “ok” can’t help much. I can’t help much if I don’t know what you’re dealing with. At least post mag alk and calc
Matt Bravo
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I don’t think its too young he mentioned the coral being in the tank for 3 months
Oh yes, sorry. Misread that. I edited my statement.
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Ahmed Talib
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haha no jerk at all. I just checked the Alk It's 5.7
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Ahmed Talib
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Alk is 5.7 cal 420ppm, and nitrite is .30ppm. Water temp 80 to 79F.That is what I am seeing. Please help. What should I do change the water?
Matt Bravo
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Get alk up to 9, there shouldn’t be any nitrite in the the tank. Also what’s your mag looking like? Most LPS definitely appreciate higher mag
Edit: alk doesn’t have to specifically be 9 that’s my bad. Ensure it’s between 8-12 which are the most common levels
Edit: alk doesn’t have to specifically be 9 that’s my bad. Ensure it’s between 8-12 which are the most common levels
Lemons
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For course of action i say do a 20% water change today and then wait 2 days and do another 20% that should hopefully bring you back to semi normal alk levels, nitrite is meh to corals they generally dont care about the nitrogen cycle.. if anything they like ammonia more then nitrate.
But the first step is to get that alk somewhere in the ball park of 7-11 dkh, normally i dont suggest chaning the dkh more then 0.8 in a two day period but since yours is already in timbucktoo id just be worried about getting back on the map
But the first step is to get that alk somewhere in the ball park of 7-11 dkh, normally i dont suggest chaning the dkh more then 0.8 in a two day period but since yours is already in timbucktoo id just be worried about getting back on the map
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Ahmed Talib
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Just check Meg it 1220. what should I do to make Alk higher water change? How much water change? Add crush corals?
