PghReef
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Dec 2, 2017
- Messages
- 930
- Reaction score
- 738
- Location
- Pittsburgh
- What state or country do you live in
- Pennsylvania
So my tank has been up for almost a year now. This was my second time setting it up and the 1st time was mostly succesful with some learning curves. Took it down after a move and kid and mini crash that was due to my neglect after buying a fixer upper house and not maintaining it as I should've. Set it up again last winter hoping to repeat my success and it's been anything but.
Everything started out ok, some typical uglies and a good CUC took care or that. Rock was all previously cycled in a tote so had almost no cycle and added fish within a few weeks and corals soon after. For 6 months corals grew, pods reproduced like crazy, water was clear, all looked to me maturing well. Then I had some nasty gha like algae start to creep up and tried h2o2, fluconazole, vibrant, etc. Also tried to feed some aminos and roids and the tank went south. Corals stopped growing some died back or off. I stopped doing anything special hoping if I let it be and stabalize itll work its way out. The past 4 months have gone up and down where things start to look better than suddenly it's worse then before with more coral death and now I have what I believe to be dinos. Currently doing a blackout as I cant stand to look in the tank. I also dealt with a period of cloudy water for weeks which finally cleared up and battling film on the glass that needed cleaned 5 times a day. I didnt deal with any of this with my last build.
My parameters have all tested solid the past month with ca staying between 450 and 470 and all 7.2 and 7.8. Nitrates stable at 2.5 to 5 and phosphates 5 to 10ppb. Recalibrated and triple checked my refractometer and its 1.026 and temp 76 to 77. No swings, nothing out of standard normal parameters.
My fish are all healthy, active, eating. My snails out every night and not dying off in mass. Pods crawling on rocks, sand, and glass. Corals look terrible. I've even added some new ones to see I'd the problem was my old ones were stressed to a point of no return or slow recovery, but even they look good for a couple days then stop showing PE and start declining. I see no pest what so ever.
My thoughts are some sort of toxicity, but wouldve my snails die off? Also WC and fresh carbon dont help.
Some kind of coral virus or bacterial infection that spreads and cant be stopped?
An overly imbalance that cant be tested for?
I do use rodi and my TDS reads 0. Problems did start when I replaced my filters resin, and membrane but I also did a lot or other stuff round that time. It is all BRS materials and I highly doubt something in my rodi system is causing all my issues. I'm thinking of setting up a new tank with some true LR pieces and base rock instead of all dry and blowing this build to pieces.
Everything started out ok, some typical uglies and a good CUC took care or that. Rock was all previously cycled in a tote so had almost no cycle and added fish within a few weeks and corals soon after. For 6 months corals grew, pods reproduced like crazy, water was clear, all looked to me maturing well. Then I had some nasty gha like algae start to creep up and tried h2o2, fluconazole, vibrant, etc. Also tried to feed some aminos and roids and the tank went south. Corals stopped growing some died back or off. I stopped doing anything special hoping if I let it be and stabalize itll work its way out. The past 4 months have gone up and down where things start to look better than suddenly it's worse then before with more coral death and now I have what I believe to be dinos. Currently doing a blackout as I cant stand to look in the tank. I also dealt with a period of cloudy water for weeks which finally cleared up and battling film on the glass that needed cleaned 5 times a day. I didnt deal with any of this with my last build.
My parameters have all tested solid the past month with ca staying between 450 and 470 and all 7.2 and 7.8. Nitrates stable at 2.5 to 5 and phosphates 5 to 10ppb. Recalibrated and triple checked my refractometer and its 1.026 and temp 76 to 77. No swings, nothing out of standard normal parameters.
My fish are all healthy, active, eating. My snails out every night and not dying off in mass. Pods crawling on rocks, sand, and glass. Corals look terrible. I've even added some new ones to see I'd the problem was my old ones were stressed to a point of no return or slow recovery, but even they look good for a couple days then stop showing PE and start declining. I see no pest what so ever.
My thoughts are some sort of toxicity, but wouldve my snails die off? Also WC and fresh carbon dont help.
Some kind of coral virus or bacterial infection that spreads and cant be stopped?
An overly imbalance that cant be tested for?
I do use rodi and my TDS reads 0. Problems did start when I replaced my filters resin, and membrane but I also did a lot or other stuff round that time. It is all BRS materials and I highly doubt something in my rodi system is causing all my issues. I'm thinking of setting up a new tank with some true LR pieces and base rock instead of all dry and blowing this build to pieces.
