Good advice so I can be in the hobby for a long time. I wanna have that 10ys old tank that is just as amazing as the persons, whose advise I am seeking, has.
SO, I'm watchen Utube, tryen to figure out what the heck I have done (long term) to my recently 3yr anniversary of the tank install, when low and behold, an equipment failure that went unnoticed by me due to a little lax husbandry.. Good Grief to even say that in a public place where people know their stuff, just makes me wanna vomit... lol but I digress...
Nevertheless, In early January 2019, I nuked the dang thing. Then trying to overcompensate and use a technique I wasn't familiar with, Kalk and dosing it through the auto top off, you wanna care to guess what I did??? that's right, I went ahead and threw the MOAB in there and nuked the dang thing again... CHrist!!!
I have to make fun at it to keep from cryen, so my apologies if I hurt your butt with my bluntness, but dang it hurt... I was completing 40% water changes every 3 to 5 days for about 4 months. Im not kidding. I could not drop the Alkalinity. My guess it was leeching through the substrate.
I didn't lose any fish through the spike. I lost some of them during a freaking power outage when I went out of town for 3 days... Grief! and that happened about a month before the disaster, when my A--X Doser turned belly up...
I have lost a lot of coral, and I'm still tryen to save what's left of the Zoe patches that are still hanging on, as well as some candy cane. Gargonian is looking pretty rough, as well as some other softies. I keep hoping that the lone remaining torch will recover. I see signs of life in it, just not the polyp extension I'd hope for.
Water parameters are now finally in tolerable range.
just one question. If I keep water parameters within parameters, will the coral recover, or will I need to just remove the struggling pieces and just start over again.
I really don't want to do that, start over again, as I want to be a responsible pet owner. Plus this stuff is expensive.. plus, I'm still seeing coral receding even with the parameters being back in line.
the tank is a 175g bow front, 40g sump, 2" sand bed, 200 lbs. live rock.
I'm running close to about 165g water volume. 17 fish, including a snowflake eel, and two Skeletor eels. Super cool are the Skeletor twins, they have been in the tank for about 6 weeks now and are starting to explore the display more.
Anyway, I can talk fishy with the best of them as I really do enjoy the hardest and most expensive pet one could ever have...
I'm looking forward to being a part of this aquarium community. I have learned a lot over the past 3 years as this is not my first go at it. I had a 45g cube for about 3yr, about 15 years ago. So, learning from then, I brought to now, but sometimes, I could just use some really good advice sometimes, from someone who loves the hobby as much as I do, and that is not tryen to sell me some stuff to make it right. I godda buy stuff, I godda buy stuff. it's like learning the value of sugar.. and that the kinda information I can learn from you, oh mighty keeper of a +10yr old tank... lol
SO seriously, will my coral patch, Duncans, and other shrooms and softies fully recover?
SO, I'm watchen Utube, tryen to figure out what the heck I have done (long term) to my recently 3yr anniversary of the tank install, when low and behold, an equipment failure that went unnoticed by me due to a little lax husbandry.. Good Grief to even say that in a public place where people know their stuff, just makes me wanna vomit... lol but I digress...
Nevertheless, In early January 2019, I nuked the dang thing. Then trying to overcompensate and use a technique I wasn't familiar with, Kalk and dosing it through the auto top off, you wanna care to guess what I did??? that's right, I went ahead and threw the MOAB in there and nuked the dang thing again... CHrist!!!
I have to make fun at it to keep from cryen, so my apologies if I hurt your butt with my bluntness, but dang it hurt... I was completing 40% water changes every 3 to 5 days for about 4 months. Im not kidding. I could not drop the Alkalinity. My guess it was leeching through the substrate.
I didn't lose any fish through the spike. I lost some of them during a freaking power outage when I went out of town for 3 days... Grief! and that happened about a month before the disaster, when my A--X Doser turned belly up...
I have lost a lot of coral, and I'm still tryen to save what's left of the Zoe patches that are still hanging on, as well as some candy cane. Gargonian is looking pretty rough, as well as some other softies. I keep hoping that the lone remaining torch will recover. I see signs of life in it, just not the polyp extension I'd hope for.
Water parameters are now finally in tolerable range.
just one question. If I keep water parameters within parameters, will the coral recover, or will I need to just remove the struggling pieces and just start over again.
I really don't want to do that, start over again, as I want to be a responsible pet owner. Plus this stuff is expensive.. plus, I'm still seeing coral receding even with the parameters being back in line.
the tank is a 175g bow front, 40g sump, 2" sand bed, 200 lbs. live rock.
I'm running close to about 165g water volume. 17 fish, including a snowflake eel, and two Skeletor eels. Super cool are the Skeletor twins, they have been in the tank for about 6 weeks now and are starting to explore the display more.
Anyway, I can talk fishy with the best of them as I really do enjoy the hardest and most expensive pet one could ever have...
I'm looking forward to being a part of this aquarium community. I have learned a lot over the past 3 years as this is not my first go at it. I had a 45g cube for about 3yr, about 15 years ago. So, learning from then, I brought to now, but sometimes, I could just use some really good advice sometimes, from someone who loves the hobby as much as I do, and that is not tryen to sell me some stuff to make it right. I godda buy stuff, I godda buy stuff. it's like learning the value of sugar.. and that the kinda information I can learn from you, oh mighty keeper of a +10yr old tank... lol
SO seriously, will my coral patch, Duncans, and other shrooms and softies fully recover?
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