Help! Dissolving hammers

[reeferfoxx]

Ugh.... That would make sense. I usually keep it around 400, nothing fancy but I dose purple tech daily or every couple days. That being said, it has been around 300 before. Maybe it has been there too long or something. I put my tank on autopilot recently (not completely but we just had our first kid a few months ago).

The OP stated he dosed Kents purple tech. This provides "Provides specific concentrations of calcium, magnesium, strontium, trace minerals and carbonates required by coralline algae and stony corals."

I will take negative point that I asked why check mag when the generalization was he put his tank on autopilot and that, well to me, his parameters are off.

Actually I said CHECK it, I bet it's low. Same as you "speculating" that CPE is stripping his water too clean, which has minimal amounts of GFO in it anyway, so if run passively won't do much.

What are you trying to prove?

The OP stated his chemipure had been in his tank for 3 months. Chemipure elite states that it is only good for 90 days. Just like other forms of activated carbon or GFO, it could be leeching bad things back into the water.

 

[domination2580]

Ive seen media take out to much impurities out of water lights stayed at same tensity and because it got to clean to fast the coral couldnt acclimate fast enough to the new amount of light coming through the water column and bleached and died. But lets all settle down and leave it alone. Like mentioned we are here to help

 

[SeaDweller]

The OP stated he dosed Kents purple tech. This provides "Provides specific concentrations of calcium, magnesium, strontium, trace minerals and carbonates required by coralline algae and stony corals."

I will take negative point that I asked why check mag when the generalization was he put his tank on autopilot and that, well to me, his parameters are off.

The OP stated his chemipure had been in his tank for 3 months. Chemipure elite states that it is only good for 90 days. Just like other forms of activated carbon or GFO, it could be leeching bad things back into the water.

Look, no ones arguing.

Put it this way, my last crash was over a year ago. When I finally decided to check mag it was about 1000. After a large water change. Who knows what it was before that before the change? Doesn't matter if you're supplementing anything, but if your baseline parameters are off to begin with, adding supplements will maintain it at THAT level, if that.

Anyway, this hobby isn't rocket science contrary to what many believe. To be successful, one needs to always always CHECK THE BIG THREE!!! There's no getting around that. Now YOURE speculating his levels are normal since he's dosing that stuff.


anyway, I'll keep running my systems how I do and I'm sure yours is just as successful.

 

[domination2580]

Look, no ones arguing.

Put it this way, my last crash was over a year ago. When I finally decided to check mag it was about 1000. After a large water change. Who knows what it was before that before the change? Doesn't matter if you're supplementing anything, but if your baseline parameters are off to begin with, adding supplements will maintain it at THAT level, if that.

Anyway, this hobby isn't rocket science contrary to what many believe. To be successful, one needs to always always CHECK THE BIG THREE!!! There's no getting around that. Now YOURE speculating his levels are normal since he's dosing that stuff.


anyway, I'll keep running my systems how I do and I'm sure yours is just as successful.

The big three are a must.

 

[reeferfoxx]

Look, no ones arguing.

Put it this way, my last crash was over a year ago. When I finally decided to check mag it was about 1000. After a large water change. Who knows what it was before that before the change? Doesn't matter if you're supplementing anything, but if your baseline parameters are off to begin with, adding supplements will maintain it at THAT level, if that.

Anyway, this hobby isn't rocket science contrary to what many believe. To be successful, one needs to always always CHECK THE BIG THREE!!! There's no getting around that. Now YOURE speculating his levels are normal since he's dosing that stuff.


anyway, I'll keep running my systems how I do and I'm sure yours is just as successful.

It's nice to see you are actually giving some real insight to experiences you have had. Now if you could give some real advice for the OP that would be great too. Otherwise you are poking fingers and it's not warranted. I never speculated his levels are normal. The OP showed us, provided his test kits, his parameters are not normal. Am I the only one actually reading here?

Would you argue with me too if I said API test kits aren't that reliable?

 

[Tahoe61]

Valid and possible reasons have been presented. Let the op decide what is relevant. It's entirely possible there is more than one stressor at work here.

Please refrain from making it personal, openly critiquing other members advice in manner that creates drama. It's alright to question another members opinion, it's not alright to flame the post. The only member that can decide what is truly relevant to their unique situation is original poster.

 

[domination2580]

Valid and possible reasons have been presented. Let the op decide what is relevant. It's entirely possible there is more than one stressor at work here.

Please refrain from making it personal, openly critiquing other members advice in manner that creates drama. It's alright to question another members opinion, it's not alright to flame the post. The only member that can decide what is truly relevant to their unique situation is original poster.

Agree 100%

 

[bsfmaximus]

Thanks all. I appreciate all of the different experiences and ideas. I am going to sheepishly admit, I did not know the importance of checking the big three. I'm actually surprised and embarrassed at the same time, I spent a lot of time researching this hobby and have asked a lot of questions online and at the lfs. Anyways, always room to learn and grow and my tank will be much healthier moving forward. Sorry to have some losses but happy to learn. I have some new test kits to buy.
All that being said, are my leathers and hammers toast? Obviously they've been through the mill but is there any chance of either coming back or should I get them out of the tank?

 

[domination2580]

Thanks all. I appreciate all of the different experiences and ideas. I am going to sheepishly admit, I did not know the importance of checking the big three. I'm actually surprised and embarrassed at the same time, I spent a lot of time researching this hobby and have asked a lot of questions online and at the lfs. Anyways, always room to learn and grow and my tank will be much healthier moving forward. Sorry to have some losses but happy to learn. I have some new test kits to buy.
All that being said, are my leathers and hammers toast? Obviously they've been through the mill but is there any chance of either coming back or should I get them out of the tank?

I would leave them in. Hammers have incredible ways to come back. Get water parameters up to snuff and keep it steady. Most importantly give it time. Yeah if they die, they will create ammonia but the bacteria should handle it easily. No harm trying to get them to recover.

 

[SeaDweller]

Thanks all. I appreciate all of the different experiences and ideas. I am going to sheepishly admit, I did not know the importance of checking the big three. I'm actually surprised and embarrassed at the same time, I spent a lot of time researching this hobby and have asked a lot of questions online and at the lfs. Anyways, always room to learn and grow and my tank will be much healthier moving forward. Sorry to have some losses but happy to learn. I have some new test kits to buy.
All that being said, are my leathers and hammers toast? Obviously they've been through the mill but is there any chance of either coming back or should I get them out of the tank?

Lol apparently you shouldn't listen to anyone but one particular person here, cuz "none of us are suggesting the appropriate approach" to your problem.

This hobby is a lot of trial and a lot more error; you can only get better by failing. Since you're not testing the most crucial aspects when it comes to keeping coral then you must.

Maybe it's second nature to me since my 8' reef has nothing but 95% acros and when something is OFF, I test all three immediately and I make it a chore to test alk weekly.

Your GSP... If you read my posts you'd see that for me it's a good indication of something going awry in my tank. It's my "canary" in the mine. Since you have some of the same things, I suggest you test a little more. You have plenty of info presented, so I'm sure a few more tests don't hurt. And hey, if your Mg is good, then great! Look for other sources (rusted magnet, stray voltage).

Nothing gives a reefer more headaches then only seeing objective cues; and when it comes to things like SPS it's even more of a headache. When you learn to curb things before it gets worse then you're gonna be as successful as the next person.

Lol some people man...