Polyp Bailout!

[Shtiff1]

Anytime I'm having problems with my tank I go back to basics and start over.

If it was me I'd stop dosing vodka and everything and start over. Test like crazy until you find out how much your tank needs to be dosed. Do you have sps or clams? If your tank isn't hard coral heavy you may not need to be dosing much, especially using RSCP salt which is high in alk and cal anyway. Any reason you started dosing vodka to begin with?

Sounds like a plan. No sps or clams. I find if i don't dose my readings will drop. Started vodka to get nitrates down from 15 to 2

 

[Shtiff1]

I manually dose once a day, would a doser be better?

 

[ritter6788]

I manually dose once a day, would a doser be better?

A doser is better because you'll get less of a daily swing. Many people dose manually without issues though. If you are getting a daily drop in parameters then keep up your dosing. I would cut the vodka for now at least until you figure out what the problem is. The more variables you can take out of the equation the better right now.

 

[b_rad_G]

I am having a hard time figuring.....if you lost 4 corals there had to be some kind of ammonia spike. Who knows how or why the first one went but I'm betting it caused some ammonia.

Also what's the brown fungus or infection LPs get? I think its dominant in duncan....can't think of what its called right now.

 

[Pete polyp]

I am having a hard time figuring.....if you lost 4 corals there had to be some kind of ammonia spike. Who knows how or why the first one went but I'm betting it caused some ammonia.

Also what's the brown fungus or infection LPs get? I think its dominant in duncan....can't think of what its called right now.

Brown jelly disease

 

[Shtiff1]

I am having a hard time figuring.....if you lost 4 corals there had to be some kind of ammonia spike. Who knows how or why the first one went but I'm betting it caused some ammonia.

Also what's the brown fungus or infection LPs get? I think its dominant in duncan....can't think of what its called right now.

All test are done one to two times a week with Red Sea test kits. None of the corals had or have anything on them.

 

[Shtiff1]

A doser is better because you'll get less of a daily swing. Many people dose manually without issues though. If you are getting a daily drop in parameters then keep up your dosing. I would cut the vodka for now at least until you figure out what the problem is. The more variables you can take out of the equation the better right now.

I will cut the vodka out and see what happens.