Billldg
My Gem Tang Is Watching You
I'm not giving up permanently, just for a while. Having issues with my tank and just had to throw away roughly a 1000 dollars worth of corals frags with more to come I'm sure.
This is why.
I have been battling low nitrates and phosphates for a while, like 0 ppm low. I have been dosing Neophos at 10 mil a day with no reading on my Hanna checker. In the past few months I have been upgrading my equipment getting ready for sps corals, always had lps in the tank and they were growing at a great speed. I installed a LED/T5 hybrid and within a few weeks I had an explosion of Dinos, as in overnight. I tried to blow off the rocks and suck it up and continued dosing Neophos. Figuring I was carbon deficient I doubled my tank feeding to try and raise my nitrates and help the phosphate. I did a thorough cleaning and I had to break up a lot of sand that was turning into concrete and a 25 percent water change. After this all my corals retracted which has happened before. I did water changes every week, roughly a 25 percent. 3 weeks later the frags looked worse and tissue started to recede. I tested parameters again and they finally looked the best they have had in a long time and corals are still dying. I also started to dose Dino X, don't know if its working or not, I no longer have bubbles in the algae but still have red hair type algae on the rock and sand bed and coral frags which is killing them. Just order a ICP test and will send it off when I get it to see if something else is going on, but more than likely I will loose the rest of my frags waiting which is still a lot of money. I would have removed them and put them in a QT but the only tanks I have had copper in them as they are my fish QT tanks. The prospect of having to tear down my tank and start over may be in the future but will deflate me greatly as it was a pain to get this far. So I may be signing off for a while as this is stinging a lot. Here are the last parameters takin. I was in the process of dialing in my Apex DOS which is why the cal and alk are a little low. The high feeding helped raise the nitrates and phosphates, but the phosphates are within the margin of error so it still could be 0 ppm.
No2 0 Red Sea
No3 10 Red Sea
PH 8.04 Apex
Ammonia 0 Red Sea
Phosphate .02 Hanna Checker
Cal 390 Red Sea
Alk 7.6 Hanna Checker
Mag 1460 Red Sea
This is why.
I have been battling low nitrates and phosphates for a while, like 0 ppm low. I have been dosing Neophos at 10 mil a day with no reading on my Hanna checker. In the past few months I have been upgrading my equipment getting ready for sps corals, always had lps in the tank and they were growing at a great speed. I installed a LED/T5 hybrid and within a few weeks I had an explosion of Dinos, as in overnight. I tried to blow off the rocks and suck it up and continued dosing Neophos. Figuring I was carbon deficient I doubled my tank feeding to try and raise my nitrates and help the phosphate. I did a thorough cleaning and I had to break up a lot of sand that was turning into concrete and a 25 percent water change. After this all my corals retracted which has happened before. I did water changes every week, roughly a 25 percent. 3 weeks later the frags looked worse and tissue started to recede. I tested parameters again and they finally looked the best they have had in a long time and corals are still dying. I also started to dose Dino X, don't know if its working or not, I no longer have bubbles in the algae but still have red hair type algae on the rock and sand bed and coral frags which is killing them. Just order a ICP test and will send it off when I get it to see if something else is going on, but more than likely I will loose the rest of my frags waiting which is still a lot of money. I would have removed them and put them in a QT but the only tanks I have had copper in them as they are my fish QT tanks. The prospect of having to tear down my tank and start over may be in the future but will deflate me greatly as it was a pain to get this far. So I may be signing off for a while as this is stinging a lot. Here are the last parameters takin. I was in the process of dialing in my Apex DOS which is why the cal and alk are a little low. The high feeding helped raise the nitrates and phosphates, but the phosphates are within the margin of error so it still could be 0 ppm.
No2 0 Red Sea
No3 10 Red Sea
PH 8.04 Apex
Ammonia 0 Red Sea
Phosphate .02 Hanna Checker
Cal 390 Red Sea
Alk 7.6 Hanna Checker
Mag 1460 Red Sea
