scubasteve020
Active Member
I have a 30 gallon long tank with a eshops rs100 sump, Corals we’re doing great till this week, I was having low phosphates at 0 ppm used the Hannah checker ultra low range phosphate checker, And my nitrates spiked from 2ppm to 10ppm. I dose carbon and I am slowly removing some of the gfo to bring up the phosphates a bit. Nitrates did go back down to 3ppm over the past few days still 0 phosphates. I don’t think this has caused some of the bleaching of my coral my coral. I noticed some bleaching on my montipora and cyphastrea, and I noticed brown spots on a chalice and on an scab I hope it’s not brown jelly disease but from pictures I looked up it seems a little different. Maybe it’s a algae.
second issue had an apstasia problem so I used Kalkwasser to kill them I injected the apstaisa , my alkalinity did not spike and my ph only went from 8 to 8.10. My one torch seemed to try inject some of the kalkwasser paste mix and has clossed up the one head just seems irrated but I know it will bounce back in a day or two. Just confused why only certain corals seem to be doing bad but majority are ok. My candy cane coral has slowly been shrinking in the past month but I think that’s due to the apstasia that keeps growing all over its skeleton. I can’t get shrimp cause my blue spotted puffer would eat it lol and no the puffer has never harmed any of my coral he’s a good boy haha. my tank is about a year old now by the way.
salinity is good
Alkalinity is at an 8
Phosphates 0
Nitrates 3-4
Ph 8
Magnesium 1300
Calcium 400
no temp swings
second issue had an apstasia problem so I used Kalkwasser to kill them I injected the apstaisa , my alkalinity did not spike and my ph only went from 8 to 8.10. My one torch seemed to try inject some of the kalkwasser paste mix and has clossed up the one head just seems irrated but I know it will bounce back in a day or two. Just confused why only certain corals seem to be doing bad but majority are ok. My candy cane coral has slowly been shrinking in the past month but I think that’s due to the apstasia that keeps growing all over its skeleton. I can’t get shrimp cause my blue spotted puffer would eat it lol and no the puffer has never harmed any of my coral he’s a good boy haha. my tank is about a year old now by the way.
salinity is good
Alkalinity is at an 8
Phosphates 0
Nitrates 3-4
Ph 8
Magnesium 1300
Calcium 400
no temp swings
