Macdaddynick1
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Before I can tell you guys the immeasurable level of frustration I am feeling right now. Here is a little background.
Chapter 1: I used to consider myself to be pretty good at keeping corals. I use to have a tank stacked full of SPS which I grew from frags. Anything I put into my tank would just grow. At one point I found out that my tank has flatworms, I think I've had over 100 colonies at that point. Well, that didn't stop me, my SPS still grew substantially even with the flatworms. One day however, my tank just started crashing. For the life of me I could not figure out what it was. I decided to do an ICP test and check what was going on with it. Well NOTHING was going on with it. The parameters were great and stuff was just dying. The beautiful retracted skin of the SPS was receding deep inside of the skeleton. I watched and admired on how hours and days of my life that I spend on this tank were dying before me. Eventually I though my problems were caused the lack of nitrates. Long story short, stuff died ... the end.
Chapter 2: My tank was bare for a few months, as I had no intentions of restocking it until recently. Meanwhile, Dinos hit my tank. Well I didn't freak out. I just put on a UV on my tank, started feeding a lot and dosed nitrates. Long story short, I beat Dinos. I decided to try to keep my nitrates above absolute 0 to avoid another crash. Well after the Dinos algae started growing everywhere, (honestly forgot the name of it). After looking for a solution for quite a while I finally picked up a few halloween urchins. The urchins took care of the algae in no time. Great!... well not really.
Chapter 3: Since there was no more regular algae to compete with, here comes the Bryopsis. Here's where there fun really begins. t this point I have some of my collection back. I dose NO3 to keep it slightly above 0 for my corals, but it causes the bryopsis to go crazy and grow in days, my nitrates drop to 0 again. I spent every weekend taking 99% of it out, tank looks great. I dose nitrates to get them above 0, here comes more bryopsis. A few days ago my calcium reactor pump stopped working, I didn't catch it until it was at about 6.5 (usually that is not a big deal for my corals, and I raised it a bit, polyps were still out and corals looked OK. ).
Being tired of constantly fighting Bryopsis I decided to do some research on flucanizole. I read that wonderful Flucanizole/Bryopsis post, ALL 280 pages of it. Finally after hours of reading, I decided to dose 7 pills into my tank. As I was preparing my mixture, I was thinking to myself, all of the corals are going to die, they will definitely die, I should probably just live with Bryopsis. Well I decided to dose it anyways, and yet again, all of my corals are dying. Bryopsis looks good though. I was genuinely considering tipping my tank over when I got back from work. Anyways, this post probably has no other use than for me to vent to you guys.
Thank you for reading.
Chapter 1: I used to consider myself to be pretty good at keeping corals. I use to have a tank stacked full of SPS which I grew from frags. Anything I put into my tank would just grow. At one point I found out that my tank has flatworms, I think I've had over 100 colonies at that point. Well, that didn't stop me, my SPS still grew substantially even with the flatworms. One day however, my tank just started crashing. For the life of me I could not figure out what it was. I decided to do an ICP test and check what was going on with it. Well NOTHING was going on with it. The parameters were great and stuff was just dying. The beautiful retracted skin of the SPS was receding deep inside of the skeleton. I watched and admired on how hours and days of my life that I spend on this tank were dying before me. Eventually I though my problems were caused the lack of nitrates. Long story short, stuff died ... the end.
Chapter 2: My tank was bare for a few months, as I had no intentions of restocking it until recently. Meanwhile, Dinos hit my tank. Well I didn't freak out. I just put on a UV on my tank, started feeding a lot and dosed nitrates. Long story short, I beat Dinos. I decided to try to keep my nitrates above absolute 0 to avoid another crash. Well after the Dinos algae started growing everywhere, (honestly forgot the name of it). After looking for a solution for quite a while I finally picked up a few halloween urchins. The urchins took care of the algae in no time. Great!... well not really.
Chapter 3: Since there was no more regular algae to compete with, here comes the Bryopsis. Here's where there fun really begins. t this point I have some of my collection back. I dose NO3 to keep it slightly above 0 for my corals, but it causes the bryopsis to go crazy and grow in days, my nitrates drop to 0 again. I spent every weekend taking 99% of it out, tank looks great. I dose nitrates to get them above 0, here comes more bryopsis. A few days ago my calcium reactor pump stopped working, I didn't catch it until it was at about 6.5 (usually that is not a big deal for my corals, and I raised it a bit, polyps were still out and corals looked OK. ).
Being tired of constantly fighting Bryopsis I decided to do some research on flucanizole. I read that wonderful Flucanizole/Bryopsis post, ALL 280 pages of it. Finally after hours of reading, I decided to dose 7 pills into my tank. As I was preparing my mixture, I was thinking to myself, all of the corals are going to die, they will definitely die, I should probably just live with Bryopsis. Well I decided to dose it anyways, and yet again, all of my corals are dying. Bryopsis looks good though. I was genuinely considering tipping my tank over when I got back from work. Anyways, this post probably has no other use than for me to vent to you guys.
Thank you for reading.
