Tanks dying. Please help icp is in

[Thingsibuild]

All my coral are dying. Softies Lps sps are slowly dying.
Tanks year and couple months old.
Dkh stable at 8
Temp 77
Nitrate 3

any help would be appreciated.

 

[ScottR]

I can’t really weigh in on this because I’m not a chemist and have never done an ICP before. But chlorine is 20,000 ppm. Should it be that high? I’d imagine we’d want our chlorine to be almost as undetectable as possible. You have more chlorine in your water than anything else. Twice as much as sodium. I think that’s a good starting point.

 

[JimWelsh]

I can’t really weigh in on this because I’m not a chemist and have never done an ICP before. But chlorine is 20,000 ppm. Should it be that high? I’d imagine we’d want our chlorine to be almost as undetectable as possible. You have more chlorine in your water than anything else. Twice as much as sodium. I think that’s a good starting point.

That's all the chloride from the NaCl, CaCl2, MgCl2, SrCl2, KCl, etc., that make up the salt mix. Totally normal.

 

[kevin_e]

I can’t really weigh in on this because I’m not a chemist and have never done an ICP before. But chlorine is 20,000 ppm. Should it be that high? I’d imagine we’d want our chlorine to be almost as undetectable as possible. You have more chlorine in your water than anything else. Twice as much as sodium. I think that’s a good starting point.

Chlorine is the most abudant element in the ocean.

 

[Mastiffsrule]

@Crabs McJones, insight?

 

[Thingsibuild]

I'm not seeing anything to crazy. Chlorine is normal

 

[sprinklerdudes]

I am not a chemist, but are you using a filter on your top off water? either a carbon block or a ro di unit? noticed that the sulfur is high as well, kinda like well water in a mining town. Also just a observation, if you start to have a softie coral start a dye off like Kenya tree, or pulsing Xenia, some large colonies of toad stool, they can release a toxin in the water , and start a decline in the tank, water changes and a sock full of activated charcoal / carbon can help, but if you have a group of coral starting to go down hill, sometimes you need to get it out of the tank, and put it in a quarantine tank. / the cause of a tank collapse or one in decline can be many things. I think we could use some more info, last water change, type of water you are using to top off, and maybe a brief overview, of types of coral, and a picture would help.

 

[ScottR]

I had no idea chlorine was the most abundant. I learn something new everyday.

 

[Thingsibuild]

Rodi. But something could be getting thru.
The corals have all different symptoms.
Sps is just slow disappearing. First they release most of their color and dye.
Lps polyp bail out mostly. ive have whole acan tops floating around every once in a while.
Zoas just wither away. Only softies I have.
This started 2 months ago and is slowly killing everything.

 

[kevin_e]

Rodi. But something could be getting thru.
The corals have all different symptoms.
Sps is just slow disappearing. First they release most of their color and dye.
Lps polyp bail out mostly. ive have whole acan tops floating around every once in a while.
Zoas just wither away. Only softies I have.
This started 2 months ago and is slowly killing everything.

Samething is happening to me. Inordered an ICP test myself. It's a mystery.

 

[Thingsibuild]

Carbon isn't helping. Water changes haven't done much. I'm getting new rodi filter in a couple days I guess I'll just start changing all the water.
I just really want to know what it is.

 

[sprinklerdudes]

plenty of flow in the tank? what is the bio load like? a lot of fish / frequent feedings?

 

[kevin_e]

Carbon isn't helping. Water changes haven't done much. I'm getting new rodi filter in a couple days I guess I'll just start changing all the water.
I just really want to know what it is.

Carbon hasn't helped me. Water chnages either. I replaced my sediment and carbon block of ATO. Have and still am getting 0.

 

[Thingsibuild]

Good flow
75g tank 125g ish total system. I have big sump. Lots of live rock. Not to many fish. For a long time I had vary little n03/n04. Now its normal

 

[Gareth elliott]

What started dying first? What softies are you keeping?

As some corals die the toxins in their tissues is released into the water column and will not show on icp testing and the primary components will be carbon and hydrogen.

 

[Thingsibuild]

The acro are doing the best but they're still not doing.
I spot feed reefroid twice week. All normal stuff.
Nothing that would be doing this. Before this the tank was great. I did have a rusty magnet in the tank. I changed lots of water slowly and ran carbon and still dying.

 

[Thingsibuild]

They all kinda started same time. Only soft coral are zoanthid

 

[Thingsibuild]

Only thing I can think of is rodi is tainted, but I have 0 tds

 

[kevin_e]

Whar are your nitrates and phosphates?

 

[Thingsibuild]

I was hoping someone would see something in the icp that's abnormal.