My reef is dying

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

What level of nickel was detected? Icp companies frequently convince reefers that the sky is falling when their results are not a problem.

 

[klavmaister]

 

[klavmaister]

but everything has been ok for several weeks after the test results, it was around 24 hours ago that things suddenly took a turn for the worse, and seriously fast today thank god for home office and big water changes. this went quickly

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

You mentioned nickel in the first post but do not show nickel results. The tungsten, tin and chloride results you have shown are not likely killing corals.

 

[klavmaister]

I ment tin, sorry

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Tin is a hard element to pin down due to the many chemical forms that may be present with different toxicity, but many folks show values similar to yours without apparent problems.

It may be coming from plastics, where it is used as a heat stabilizer.

 

[BigMonkeyBrain]

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New Caledonia is a tropical island due east of Australia and is one of the world’s largest producers of Nickel ore. There are many reefs around New Caledonia which some that are downstream of nickel…

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[klavmaister]

A buddy alsow say, i think you have dinos. But if dinos kill corals, how to I solve it? Activ caebon? And then kill it

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I’m not a dino expert, but I’m not seeing dinos specifically.

Is the brown stuff slimy and snotty with bubbles in it?

 

[BigMonkeyBrain]

Got my hands on some Activ carbon now, going for a 50% waterchange

Good. I would wait a few days for a change.

 

[sfin52]

Hmmm. it can be dino, I've had cyano not too long ago. How do you handle this? didn't think Dino's algae killed corals. typically, I'm going on vacation tomorrow morning.

The dinos once there's very little nutrients they can go predator and release toxins to kill off competitors.
The toxins is what will kill live stock. To further downfall of the coral there's no nutrients for the Zooxanthellae (also a species of dinoflagellates) this furthering the spiral down.

 

[sfin52]

Hard to tell the trumpet may have bjd but it's hard to tell

 

[thedon986]

You said you recently HAD cyano? Did you use a chemical to kill it? If so, that is probably where the dinos came from, they assumed the vacuum left.

 

[KQuillan]

I went through the same thing recently. Kept siphoning, water changes, added pods. I lost a few really nice pieces myself. Keep fighting back.

 

[BigMonkeyBrain]

You said you recently HAD cyano? Did you use a chemical to kill it? If so, that is probably where the dinos came from, they assumed the vacuum left.

Maybe - I have not seen this myself. If you are feeding the zero or low PO4 and NO3 should not be a problem, they have to be made and used.

 

[thedon986]

Maybe - I have not seen this myself. If you are feeding the zero or low PO4 and NO3 should not be a problem, they have to be made and used.

I have areas of dinos that popped up in nitrate 20+ phosphate .2+ conditions confirmed under microscope. Zero nutrients are the most common causes but other shifts can bring them out. This is some diatoms mixed in since I started dosing sodium silicate about a week ago. The only change in my system in the last two months was switching carbon dosing from night to day and also started All for Reef. No water changes, parameters stable and nutrients high.

 

[BigMonkeyBrain]

I have areas of dinos that popped up in nitrate 20+ phosphate .2+ conditions confirmed under microscope. Zero nutrients are the most common causes but other shifts can bring them out. This is some diatoms mixed in since I started dosing sodium silicate about a week ago. The only change in my system in the last two months was switching carbon dosing from night to day and also started All for Reef. No water changes, parameters stable and nutrients high.

I have had zero PO4 and NO3 in my frag tank for nine months. I have three fish and had three soft corals before the addition of twenty new frags. I feed my tank well and now have checked with new Hanna's, still zero. I have green turf algae.

I have added a couple of drops of F2 fert I use to feed my algae tanks and I get diatoms for a day or two.

 

[thedon986]

I have had zero PO4 and NO3 in my frag tank for nine months. I have three fish and had three soft corals before the addition of twenty new frags. I feed my tank well and now have checked with new Hanna's, still zero. I have green turf algae.

I have added a couple of drops of F2 fert I use to feed my algae tanks and I get diatoms for a day or two.

Yep, stability often matters more than numbers.

 

[InactiveAcct]

Since it’s affecting multiple types of coral, guessing not a predator. Probably toxin or chemistry, if it were me I’d be doing a ton of water changes and running carbon, striving for 100% turnover in a week. Curious if your nitrate and phosphate is bottomed out.

 

[Dburr1014]

Tin is a by-product of pvc piping.

Thread 'Tin Leaching from Common Plastic Tubing and a Very Inert Tubing that I Found' https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/t...-and-a-very-inert-tubing-that-i-found.793590/