sebnuage
Community Member
Hello everyone,
I have been battling some issues for a while ... Well, it seems like I can't work my way through so I'm asking for help.
I will try and give as much details as I think are relevant.
I have a tall tank 18X18 inchs square by 30 inches tall.
The tank is 1year old but All the life rock and most corals were in the evo for 3 years before I switched.
Have a settling tank below wich is my old evo 13.5g
I do a 10% water change weekly.
parameters I try to keep.
Calcium , (around 500) (doser + test weekly)
Magnesium (previsously around 1200, nowadays 1600) (doser + test weekly)
I also dose Iodine (doser + test weekly)
KH My goal is 10 but I had problems. (right now 9.0)
Phosphate (withing nothing to a very small) (tested weekly)
Nitrates (nothing to a very small amount) (tested weekly)
Salinity 1.025 (osmolator + test weekly) ( I use commercial reversed osmosis water)
Temp 78 F (around 25 C)
I have in there some activated charcoal once in a while.
I feed corals 2-3 times a week with reef roids.
Feed fish once every day (used to do it twice a day but reduced it because it was too much in my opinion)
I dose some phytoplankton once in a while
I have had some battles I think I recovered from, here are some ...
a year ago I battled (successfully red flat worm INVASION) ...
Algea problems (Green hair algae + bryopsis)
-Tried manual removal
-Tried a treatment. ruby reef rally pro.
-Added a tomini tang (did not help much)
I figured I had a way too small protein skimmer. It was the stock fluvall evo 13.5 gallons skimmer.
changed it for a Seapora Storm hang-on protein skimmer
I alway tried to maintain the tank with the smallest filtration possible and to be honest it always worked out.
Greying montipora
This guy is like a sensor for me.
When the tank is not right , it shows right away (right now he's in trouble)
I tried raising the KH I had 8 DKH on my red sea test kit. Raised it to 9 over some weeks.
I started to see crazy things hapenning... Mushrooms elongated, Very fast sps growing, fish disapearing + fast breathing, shrimps disapearing....
Finally found out the problem was the DKH, I suspected the red sea test kit.
Bought a salifer test kit to check... salifer shows 15dkh + ...........
big water change drop level to 11 over 2 days ... no more loss ...
I still have a tomini tang with sores on the back of the eyes + the pressure line infect (he was like that when I bought him)
It went worse with the KH elevated but he is back sme as when I bought him
Right now , the DKH is around 9 wich is +0.5 the level found in the salt I buy.
So lately many things went south and i'm still having the montipora greying out problem...
I lost a couple corals to FTS and STN , I think it's over now but I suspect if I don't play it well I might lose some sps very soon.
All my LPS look fine, (acan is not so nice but babys are budding anyway)
2 long polyps torchs are not extended ( I tried reducing water flow ) (recessing slowly)
1 small polyps torch is now midsized ....
This is the reason I continu adding some charcoal, I suspect maybe a war between Soft and hard corals ?????
Did I say I have no more shrimp in my aquarium ?
Even my pistol shrimp wich lived in what one could call , the pits of my aquarium ... it did many tunnels and infrastructure under there...
I have a hammer head wich was ALWAY nice , it is right now half inflated like it is sick.
I have a dendronephtya wich lives great so I think there is enough food in there...
Also have a photosynthetic gorgona wich is great.
All hermit crabs and emerald crabs looks healthy.
All snails are healthy
I added some copepods after seeing the shrimps die, I suspect they were all dead too...
I'm scared taking another step and I think I really need help
Hope i'm not missing out on anything...probably am.
Sorry for the bad english
have a great day
I have been battling some issues for a while ... Well, it seems like I can't work my way through so I'm asking for help.
I will try and give as much details as I think are relevant.
I have a tall tank 18X18 inchs square by 30 inches tall.
The tank is 1year old but All the life rock and most corals were in the evo for 3 years before I switched.
Have a settling tank below wich is my old evo 13.5g
I do a 10% water change weekly.
parameters I try to keep.
Calcium , (around 500) (doser + test weekly)
Magnesium (previsously around 1200, nowadays 1600) (doser + test weekly)
I also dose Iodine (doser + test weekly)
KH My goal is 10 but I had problems. (right now 9.0)
Phosphate (withing nothing to a very small) (tested weekly)
Nitrates (nothing to a very small amount) (tested weekly)
Salinity 1.025 (osmolator + test weekly) ( I use commercial reversed osmosis water)
Temp 78 F (around 25 C)
I have in there some activated charcoal once in a while.
I feed corals 2-3 times a week with reef roids.
Feed fish once every day (used to do it twice a day but reduced it because it was too much in my opinion)
I dose some phytoplankton once in a while
I have had some battles I think I recovered from, here are some ...
a year ago I battled (successfully red flat worm INVASION) ...
Algea problems (Green hair algae + bryopsis)
-Tried manual removal
-Tried a treatment. ruby reef rally pro.
-Added a tomini tang (did not help much)
I figured I had a way too small protein skimmer. It was the stock fluvall evo 13.5 gallons skimmer.
changed it for a Seapora Storm hang-on protein skimmer
I alway tried to maintain the tank with the smallest filtration possible and to be honest it always worked out.
Greying montipora
This guy is like a sensor for me.
When the tank is not right , it shows right away (right now he's in trouble)
I tried raising the KH I had 8 DKH on my red sea test kit. Raised it to 9 over some weeks.
I started to see crazy things hapenning... Mushrooms elongated, Very fast sps growing, fish disapearing + fast breathing, shrimps disapearing....
Finally found out the problem was the DKH, I suspected the red sea test kit.
Bought a salifer test kit to check... salifer shows 15dkh + ...........
big water change drop level to 11 over 2 days ... no more loss ...
I still have a tomini tang with sores on the back of the eyes + the pressure line infect (he was like that when I bought him)
It went worse with the KH elevated but he is back sme as when I bought him
Right now , the DKH is around 9 wich is +0.5 the level found in the salt I buy.
So lately many things went south and i'm still having the montipora greying out problem...
I lost a couple corals to FTS and STN , I think it's over now but I suspect if I don't play it well I might lose some sps very soon.
All my LPS look fine, (acan is not so nice but babys are budding anyway)
2 long polyps torchs are not extended ( I tried reducing water flow ) (recessing slowly)
1 small polyps torch is now midsized ....
This is the reason I continu adding some charcoal, I suspect maybe a war between Soft and hard corals ?????
Did I say I have no more shrimp in my aquarium ?
Even my pistol shrimp wich lived in what one could call , the pits of my aquarium ... it did many tunnels and infrastructure under there...
I have a hammer head wich was ALWAY nice , it is right now half inflated like it is sick.
I have a dendronephtya wich lives great so I think there is enough food in there...
Also have a photosynthetic gorgona wich is great.
All hermit crabs and emerald crabs looks healthy.
All snails are healthy
I added some copepods after seeing the shrimps die, I suspect they were all dead too...
I'm scared taking another step and I think I really need help
Hope i'm not missing out on anything...probably am.
Sorry for the bad english
have a great day
