Mid September I switched from dosing Red Sea ABC to All for reef I mix it myself . It took about 3 weeks to get to the right amount for the tank supplement alk& cal till got to the stable # . My alk and cal have been the same for a little more than a month . Very Happy with the product !
Bad night came home from work ate relaxed for a little bit checked the tank ugh!
All 7 of my birdsnest frags almost all tissue gone the mother colony flesh gone from tips some worse then other . Check Params alk , cal,mag all the same as last week . Phosphate was running high the past 3 weeks .29 waiting on chemi pure elite which is suppose to be here friday. It was .46 tonight mixed up water did a 5gal change re tested down to .36 . last night did my normal water change and was vacuuming the sand bed did a little bigger area then normal must of released a pocket of something . Will test again tomorrow and maybe another water change
All 7 of my birdsnest frags almost all tissue gone the mother colony flesh gone from tips some worse then other . Check Params alk , cal,mag all the same as last week . Phosphate was running high the past 3 weeks .29 waiting on chemi pure elite which is suppose to be here friday. It was .46 tonight mixed up water did a 5gal change re tested down to .36 . last night did my normal water change and was vacuuming the sand bed did a little bigger area then normal must of released a pocket of something . Will test again tomorrow and maybe another water change
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Everything seemed the same this morning no further tissue loss fingers crossed for when I get home from work.
I know chemi pure is not the answer to the problem just a band aid until I find the cause .
Normally the tank phos runs at .09 to .15 which I have no issues other then some hair algae. I believe the issue started early in November was working a lot of crazy hours and someone other then me was feeding the tank . It could be I have a dead snail or snails that I have not found combined with the possible food issue that started the climb . Time will tell
I know chemi pure is not the answer to the problem just a band aid until I find the cause .
Normally the tank phos runs at .09 to .15 which I have no issues other then some hair algae. I believe the issue started early in November was working a lot of crazy hours and someone other then me was feeding the tank . It could be I have a dead snail or snails that I have not found combined with the possible food issue that started the climb . Time will tell
I believe I figured out what caused my rtn as I just had a similar one after this water change . I removed an area of zoas off my rock work after I was finished taking water out of the tank which I did the last time I had the rtn issue . Yesterday the same thing tips of birds nest rtn not to the extent as last time . So it is my thoughts it was this not a phos spike . The phos spike was due to the run event ?
Wednesday I started a experiment to see if dosing amino would have an impact on my tank. I decide to go with Tropic Marin Amino-Organic I will post pics later of tank now and try to keep updating pics as it goes .
3/27/22
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A little update on my cube .
My experience with dosing amino did not seem to change anything in a good or bad way so for now I stopped that . The PC superman and strawberry wine acros did well for a while then slowly declined and finally died not sure why exactly was STN . I lost the springer dotty back to a faulty outlet that the heater was plugged into . I setup a frag tank recently and about a week ago purchased a small sixtline wrasse which is in qt eating well and looking healthy . Will be changing salt mix shortly just ran out fo my bucket of Red Sea blue bucket going to be going to AccuraSea1 from 2 little fish . The reason for the switch is was not getting constant Alk in new water from settling even though I stirred up the salt after I bought .
My experience with dosing amino did not seem to change anything in a good or bad way so for now I stopped that . The PC superman and strawberry wine acros did well for a while then slowly declined and finally died not sure why exactly was STN . I lost the springer dotty back to a faulty outlet that the heater was plugged into . I setup a frag tank recently and about a week ago purchased a small sixtline wrasse which is in qt eating well and looking healthy . Will be changing salt mix shortly just ran out fo my bucket of Red Sea blue bucket going to be going to AccuraSea1 from 2 little fish . The reason for the switch is was not getting constant Alk in new water from settling even though I stirred up the salt after I bought .
Reefbuds
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Awsome man looking good. What do you keep your nutes at? Specifically nitrate and phosphates but just in general
Reefbuds
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Oh wow . Nitrates not bad at all but those phosphates are nuts. Was just wondering, everything looks nice and happy, especially those acans.
First impression of the new salt mixed clean . Was a little off as the packages are measured for 4.5 gal of water I think I messed up on that as salinity was off by a little bit . But for the most part so far so good. I also added six line wrasse to the tank which has been in qt for 2 weeks and showed no signs of issue and was eating very well and very active in the qt tank .
A small update the salt mix is working out really good numbers are as started on packaging . the six line wrasse ended up jumping in the middle of the night and ended up dying
. Will be in the near future getting another when Lfs has in stock.
. Will be in the near future getting another when Lfs has in stock.Similar threads
