Mille not doing well suddenly.

[troutbum17]

Hey all. Looking for some help trying to diagnose an issue I’ve noticed pop up the last 24 hours with a Mille that I’ve had about 10 months now. Long story short, my upkeep during the past year has been hit or miss. That said, I’ve been a lot more vigilant the past 2 months. I dose 2 part and was doing this by hand up until a month ago when I purchased a couple of x1 mircros. In the process of trying to nail my daily dose values I seem to have slightly elevated my Alk. Also I seemingly made a salinity mistake when making a water change on Saturday raising salinity fro:1.025 to 1.027. Test values below. I have a couple other across and sps in the tank that seem unphased at the moment (which is unusual because other acros have historically shown distress befor this Mille. So far, I’ve immediately dropped all dosing schedules and pulled tank water to have my ato bring salinity to 1.025. I also added new carbon which hadn’t been updated in about a month. Any other thoughts you have would be super helpful!

saliniity 1.025 typical, just tested 1.027 (last water change Saturday 20%)
Alk 7.3 typical, 9.5 now
Cal 380 (typical)
Phos 0.1 (typical)
Nitrate 5-8
Mag - 1400

 

[troutbum17]

This is what it looked like Saturday just before the water change

 

[NoohpyT]

Looks like it's just ticked off from a swing, had this happened when my dosing pump wasn't calibrated properly and my alk jumped from 9 to 12 in the span of an hour

just keep things stable and it will bounce back

 

[troutbum17]

quick update - looks like it's mostly back to "normal today". thanks for talking me off a ledge. @NoohpyT

 

[NoohpyT]

quick update - looks like it's mostly back to "normal today". thanks for talking me off a ledge. @NoohpyT

You're welcome!

just keep things stable and it will fully recover, I've had SPS corals come back from what I thought was STN and it being deemed dead