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So for the last month and a half I have had slow stn death
On July 15th ish i tumbled my carbon to much and it turned my water black. This was two days before my vacation I did four ten gallon water changes prayed for the best and when I came back corals were fine and growing.
Until August 14th when all my montis died over night.
August 16th halide light blew out.
From here on out slow but surely my corals started stn ing. I haven't done much to try and stop them from dying. I turned off my p04 media and carbon and disconnected my air line from my skimmer and let things go
August 29th new halide bulb blew out again
Sent out a triton test on sept 6th and all looks fine to me.
Yesterday I pulled out half of my dead coral skeletons o and my both my halide bulbs blew again.
I test alk every night at 20:10 so there hasn't been a swing of any kind that I saw unless it happened while I was on vacation
Calcium 470 everytime I check it
Magnesium around 1350 everytime I check it
Nitrates around 24
Phosphates around .03
Also my snails have stopped moving within the last two days and my coralline algea seems to be dying on everything that's plastic I don't know if it's because I just cleaned everything in my tank or what but my params are above every day at 20:10
Salinity 35 with a Hannah electronic and my refractometer that's calibrated with tlf
Rodi water had a tds of 0
I wanna say my lights have been the problem but I don't know in fact I have no idea what's wrong ESP since everything was growing with great pe with every param being the same and then the last month and a half they stn to death
The only thing that has changed is my light bulb problem and the carbon mishap
So is it possible that the carbon caused all this? @GoVols and @hybridazn have told me that they have seen it nuke a tank before
And if it was the carbon it could kill them a month after it happened? That's insane to me.
I don't know but I'm mad I lost almost every coral in my tank and there is no reason for it that I can find some will say hey ur nitrates are to high to my reply is the corals we're growing and had great pe while it was at 36 then when I tried to lower it is when the stn really took off. So to me nitrates won't kill corals I won't have the best color but won't kill them like my tank is now.
Any help would be great
I'm just at a loss And really mad
Justin
On July 15th ish i tumbled my carbon to much and it turned my water black. This was two days before my vacation I did four ten gallon water changes prayed for the best and when I came back corals were fine and growing.
Until August 14th when all my montis died over night.
August 16th halide light blew out.
From here on out slow but surely my corals started stn ing. I haven't done much to try and stop them from dying. I turned off my p04 media and carbon and disconnected my air line from my skimmer and let things go
August 29th new halide bulb blew out again
Sent out a triton test on sept 6th and all looks fine to me.
Yesterday I pulled out half of my dead coral skeletons o and my both my halide bulbs blew again.
I test alk every night at 20:10 so there hasn't been a swing of any kind that I saw unless it happened while I was on vacation
Calcium 470 everytime I check it
Magnesium around 1350 everytime I check it
Nitrates around 24
Phosphates around .03
Also my snails have stopped moving within the last two days and my coralline algea seems to be dying on everything that's plastic I don't know if it's because I just cleaned everything in my tank or what but my params are above every day at 20:10
Salinity 35 with a Hannah electronic and my refractometer that's calibrated with tlf
Rodi water had a tds of 0
I wanna say my lights have been the problem but I don't know in fact I have no idea what's wrong ESP since everything was growing with great pe with every param being the same and then the last month and a half they stn to death
The only thing that has changed is my light bulb problem and the carbon mishap
So is it possible that the carbon caused all this? @GoVols and @hybridazn have told me that they have seen it nuke a tank before
And if it was the carbon it could kill them a month after it happened? That's insane to me.
I don't know but I'm mad I lost almost every coral in my tank and there is no reason for it that I can find some will say hey ur nitrates are to high to my reply is the corals we're growing and had great pe while it was at 36 then when I tried to lower it is when the stn really took off. So to me nitrates won't kill corals I won't have the best color but won't kill them like my tank is now.
Any help would be great
I'm just at a loss And really mad
Justin
