Mini crash?

[Bfragale]

So I’ve noticed my frog spawn looks “limp” and mouth is slightly open about a week ago. Did water change and I tested everything. Alk a little low, but no more then my normal weekly swing. (Went from 8 to 7.6 in 7 days) I dose weekly in Friday’s when I test. But everything else looks good (test results posted below) will be testing again today after work. Will post those results as well.

over the last week I have notice a few other things decline:

tourch mouth slightly open but otherwise looks good.

another torch looked deflated and next day was brown jelly and head fell completely off and it’s dead.

a tiny hammer- just looking sad.

but bubble coral, and 3 other hammer/touches and looking fine.

today I came and I see half of my digitata is RTN..

only recent changes: I added t5 supplemental lights a few weeks ago, but I have the leds on acclimation mode. So not up to high par yet, but for sure higher then before. But these Corals are fairly low and moderate flow. And they have been looking good and growing for a while. Oldest is about 9 months in my tank and most recent about 3-4 months in my tank. The digitata got brighter and was looking great until today? And the part that’s not RTN looks good still?

I have a ground probe- (but didn’t test with anything recently) does having the probe eliminate stray voltage? So should I test this?

I was dosing vibrant but stopped about the time I noticed thefew corals looking sad.

I sent offfor ICP test kit- kit should be here Monday. I have checked pumps and stuff to see if there is something rusting but can’t physically find anything. I run 2 MP40’s with new wet sides (6 months old give or take) return pump was not about 1 year old. Skimmer pump looks good too.

I run carbon- will be changing it today as well.
And all my other corals are looking good. not sure if I should be doing anything else between not and ICP test received and send and results received.

also wasn’t sure where to post this. Under coral discussions there was no topic that covered mixed corals- so I posted under LPS since I have more affected LPS and the digi is also RTN now ...

Anything I could or should be checking now?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Alk a little low and mag a little high.

Mag - 1300 target and alk - 8 -8.5

For hammer. . . best at lower third of tank under moderate light and water flow and feed 2-3X per week
Pic would help to see if anything unusual

 

[Bfragale]

The digi was in bad shape when I got it. Got it for free from another reefer a few months ago. It was mostly dead when I got it, but since it hit my watwr it’s been slowly coming back. I was just showing my wife how much the orange polyps were open more then I’ve seen and how good it was looking. And today this:

the frog spawn is looking the worse. (I already took out and disposed of the Tourch that died)

this tourch has been I’m my tank at lease 9 months. Maybe longer. It’s grown a lot, looks like splitting into 4 heads- andit looks good except if you can catcha glimpse of the mouth between tentacles the mouth looks slightly open. Sorry couldn’t get a shot- but took a photo so you Alcantar see it otherwise looks ok.

here’s some of the other stuff that’s looking ok too:

alittlw better shot of “limp” frog spawn (or octo?) it’s seems more affecting the one side

Here’s a wide shot so you can see placement. But they all have been in same location with no changes to flow for a long time and until recently have been thriving.

While sitting here I could a shot of my big tourch mouth:

(Sorry about blues- can’t find my lens filter...)

 

[xxkenny90xx]

Is Po4 always .2??

You said you have a ground probe, are you also using a gfci outlet?

 

[Bfragale]

Duncan’s doing fine, leathers doing fine, zoas and palys looking great, mushrooms lookin good.

I think due to lighting I’ve never had great success with sps. Only tried a few- pociporra (spelling?) that’s doing great. - have one acro- never did great- almost died when I got it. Lost all color turned brown for a long time, now it’s just green but noticed since I added t5 it’s looking better. Tried green skimmer and it STN in a few weeks.
The digi was in bad shape but was looking better and better each day until now. Red (pink ish) monti been doing ok as well.

everything else is lps or softies and other then the ones I mentioned are all looking normal and good.

 

[Bfragale]

Is Po4 always .2??

You said you have a ground probe, are you also using a gfci outlet?

I was told since the line has GFCI this specific outlet did t need it, so not on this outlet no. Should I have one there?

I had high po4 for a long time. (I’m talking 1.-1.4) and very low nitrates. I’ve lease 6 months been slowly working on getting those in check but no major problems with high levels. Do po4 has been muchhigher but been hovering around the .18- .21 for last few months- same as no3- been pretty consistent over last few months at 25.
I run refugium 12 hr lights on daily and gfo reactor 24/7. Skimmer 24/7.

I tried phosphate E. Over did it and Dinos came shortly there after. So let it rise back up, and started vibrant after 3 day black out. It’s still there but I only see very little compared to before, and not sure why but seems less and less shows up. Not sure if any of that is related but probably lol.

 

[Bfragale]

One thing that also may or may not be the issue: clowns JUST started pairing with anemone. I’ve never seen them try any other coral, but I guess that’s a factor if they are trying to make the coral host it and annoying it. But that doesn’t explain the digi, of the torch that turned to brown jelly over night either. But figured I should add that as well.

 

[Bfragale]

My tank is in my office. I do have volt meter but not here. I think I’m going to bring it tomorrow and check. Hopefully ICP kit gets here Monday and I can get samples in the mail same day. They say 4-6 day turn around. But we will see

this is first ICP test ever. So it should shed some insight.Just don’t know what to do now except watch it decline Until I get results that hopefully can pin point something out of wack. just a little bummed atm, hate to see things not doing well and not know how to fix it.

 

[xxkenny90xx]

I was told since the line has GFCI this specific outlet did t need it, so not on this outlet no. Should I have one there?

I had high po4 for a long time. (I’m talking 1.-1.4) and very low nitrates. I’ve lease 6 months been slowly working on getting those in check but no major problems with high levels. Do po4 has been muchhigher but been hovering around the .18- .21 for last few months- same as no3- been pretty consistent over last few months at 25.
I run refugium 12 hr lights on daily and gfo reactor 24/7. Skimmer 24/7.

I tried phosphate E. Over did it and Dinos came shortly there after. So let it rise back up, and started vibrant after 3 day black out. It’s still there but I only see very little compared to before, and not sure why but seems less and less shows up. Not sure if any of that is related but probably lol.

I'm not sure what that means that the line is protected. If your gfci protected then the ground probe is great. If no gfci then the ground probe is actually harmful (if there is a voltage issue. Better get to the bottom of that one. An easy fix is a gfci power strip.

.2 Po4 is pretty high. Some corals may not like it. But the main thing is that it's stable and that your not lowering it too fast

 

[Bfragale]

Well just found this:
i guess last time I switched gfo and carbon I put the line from pump in sump on backwards leaving the short line with valve in the sump instead of out of water at the reactors screw is rusting...

Could this little screw do this?

In any case I eliminated it today.

what canI use to remove rust? Would carbon be good enough or should I pick up something else?

 

[Bfragale]

Here’s my water test from tonight:

I’m doing 10-15 gallons about every week-2weeks water change. 90 gal system. Using Red Sea black bucket. I haven’t dosed cal or mag in a few months and cal stays around 420 ish and mag around 1350. I’m pretty good about weekly water changes but do miss some weeks. The weeks I’m on time I do ten gallons. And the weeks where I skipped I usually do 15 gal.

but I’m dosing alk weekly. I lose about 1 dkh a week. Seems odd to me that cal and mag never seem to move much and never really needed dosed. I do use kelkwasser in my auto top off -( 8 tea spoons for about 4.5 gallons) And I use that up in top off on about 5 days. Give or take a day.

I’ve always struggled to keep PH up. Was always stead at 7.8 for a long time. Then ran skimmer Air line to outside and it’s been consistently 8. Can’t seem to get it over 8.

Really hoping that screw I found was the issue.

what can I do to remove metals? Will carbon be enough? Also if that’s the issue, and now it’s removed- how soon should I see improvement?
I’m still going to send off the ICP test as soon as I receive the kit.

also dosed today - alk to bring from 7.6 to 8- and in a few days I’ll testaand dose again to get it a little closer to 8.5.

I have a doser I got used but have not set it up yet. Maybe it’s time I start a dose of alk so I don’t have 1dkh weekly swings.

 

[xxkenny90xx]

1.028 salinity??