Do you know when you'll get in the ATI, T5 fixture?
Just picked this up at the time didn't have it
Working on getting it shipped out tomorow
JMO...
To that one guy Who said I have mutiple lps I have a lps coral a torch that's it all the rest are sps
The montis did die over night but everything else has taken over a month and a half to die
It is happening from the base up
Snails well I don't know
To the people who said I tried to many things and caused more problems I did not
My tank was black u could not see the other end of it I was leaving for vacation and I did four water changes where the new water matches the old water parameter wise
Got my tank clean and prayed
I went away for TWO WEEKS and to my surprise everything doubled in size
Montis died
My light blew I replaced both of them
Then slowly rtn
I let it go for close to two maby even three weeks before I did anything else and that other thing else was a triton test
After results came back I shut off phosphate reactor and carbon since then I haven't done anything besides clean my pumps
So to say I shocked my corals by doing to much I fully disagree I mean thanks for the brain storming but I don't believe that the only thing I could have done less is leave my tank black
What I don't get is that it took well over a month if it was the carbons fault that's crazy to me
What about this infection u guys speak of?
I'm done with reefbrite
Hum nothing about iodine I sent an email out to someone at triton asking and he never got back to me
Yes they have thanks for this making sense
Was the tds of ur water zero when this was all happening? Mine is set up like urs was and my house pipes are "rusty". But wouldn't tds be over 0?Hi Justin
I had similar issues as you that started in Sept 2016 in a 135 gallon SPS system. All my montipora died in short order, all my coralline algae died, many of my invertebrates died (shrimp, hermits, snails) and I lost about 50 % of my acros. The remaining acros lost their color and PE. My alk consumption went from 130 ml a day of alk to about 40 ml a day I tried just about everything, looking for faulty pumps, leaky heaters, rust etc. over a 4 month period.
(A triton test indicated I had a small amount of tin and Aluminum in my system, less than 10 of each)
I ended up doing two things which "seemed" to fix my issue almost overnight.
#1 I looked at the water valve where my RODI was hooked up (cold water valve that also feeds my washing machine). I unscrewed the valve from my home's plumbing and closely inspected it. I noticed that it had been corroding inside. I replaced the valve with a higher quality valve and reattached my RODI. This was the 2nd time this valve had corroded and been replaced.
# 2 I looked for rust again. My search ended with my two little fishies Veggie Mag. I pulled the plastic backing off the in tank half of the Veggie mag, and found the magnet inside to be very corroded. I removed the veggie mag from the system.
After these discoveries I replaced all my stored RODI and did weekly 20 gallon water changes (135 gallon system) I dosed with pantha lith a few times to the tank, about 6 hours before the water changes.
Within a week everything was looking much better, alk consumption steadily increased and my acros' color improved with better with PE.
Funny thing, after I had calculated that I had replaced my water volume with weekly 20 gallon water changes (7 weeks worth), I sent in another triton test. The results indicated that I still had the same amount of tin/Al in the system.
Hopefully this helps in your search for a cause.
Jason
Well the thing with life is it always get i in the way
That's weird so u were like me where everything test out ok but there was in fact a problem.
