Montipora help!!

[ruidos99]

What's you internal PH level in the reactor?

6.2 to 6.4 I know its low, but it does not turn de media to mulch, it takes a looot of time for me to refil the reacto, once a year or so

 

[Diesel]

6.2 to 6.4 I know its low, but it does not turn de media to mulch, it takes a looot of time for me to refil the reacto, once a year or so

I know ARM can be a pain.
Next time use TLF reborn media if that's available.
That should melt by a PH from 6.5 already.

 

[ruidos99]

I know ARM can be a pain.
Next time use TLF reborn media if that's available.
That should melt by a PH from 6.5 already.

funny and thank god you tell me to use TLF, Ill get 50 lbs of the stuff tomorrow[emoji106][emoji322][emoji322][emoji322] its BRS day!!!

do you think I should change the media in the reactor tomorrow or let the arm media melt...?

 

[Diesel]

I would change it ASAP.
The sooner you get a grip on your ALK, CAL and MAG balance the faster you can figure out what the problem was or is that causes your monti's to STN.
I also would go a head and frag your monti's and get rid of the dead tissue ASAP, in that case you can dip your pieces to see if you don't have a pest for real, in your case Monti eating nudi's.

 

[ruidos99]

I would change it ASAP.
The sooner you get a grip on your ALK, CAL and MAG balance the faster you can figure out what the problem was or is that causes your monti's to STN.
I also would go a head and frag your monti's and get rid of the dead tissue ASAP, in that case you can dip your pieces to see if you don't have a pest for real, in your case Monti eating nudi's.

ok ill change it tomorrow!!

well the monties are all incrusted, and the green one it 7 years old.. so its like 26*30*40 inches... its one biiiig cookie [emoji514]

 

[ruidos99]

ill remove the dead layers tomorrow

 

[Diesel]

Well up to you but if they encrust they will encrust faster over rock than over dead coral tissue.

 

[CodyRVA]

I keep getting hung up on the change in flow because I almost killed a plating monti in my system by literally shifting a powerhead an inch or two too far in the wrong direction. Didn't "look" like it was getting any more flow, but when I moved it back, it started to recover within a few days. Could be a chemistry issue, just seems odd that its randomly affecting some and not others. Just my two cents

 

[reefwiser]

This image looks like a shading issue that you see with plating monti's

I am I correct that you are doing 2 part,Kalk and a CalRx on this tank. Boy that is a lot to juggle. Is the CalRx not keeping up with the demands of the tank? I would get one that would and stop the 2 part and kalk.

 

[ruidos99]

This image looks like a shading issue that you see with plating monti's

I am I correct that you are doing 2 part,Kalk and a CalRx on this tank. Boy that is a lot to juggle. Is the CalRx not keeping up with the demands of the tank? I would get one that would and stop the 2 part and kalk.

hi, yes kalk,and 2 part are a pain! Iam running the biggest geos reef cal reactor... I think the media is worthless, ill change it today and see

 

[ryan265]

Watch your temp closely. Mine did the same thing and figured out my heaters weren't "tuned in" properly

 

[ruidos99]

Watch your temp closely. Mine did the same thing and figured out my heaters weren't "tuned in" properly

Hi, i run 2 500w heates and a fan controlled by and apex. How can I tune the temp probes?
thankx

 

[ruidos99]

ok so I just changed the cal media, the arm media looks kinda intact!! and look like rock not coral.... the new TLF media is coral skeletons... hope this helps!

 

[Diesel]

Awesome my friend.
Keep us updated on the situation.

 

[ruidos99]

well.... my cal is now 449, and mu alk is sky high at 14!!! had to remove the 2 part and the kalk!, also reduced the calcium reactor effluent speed and had to bump the cal reactor ph from 6.5-6.6 to 6.65-6.75.... what the heck!!!! was my arm
media real bad!!!! OMG this is just incredible!!!