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I've shut off the T5s for now. I'm going to leave them off for a while and see how things react.
My Mag is around 1380 now. Is that still to low? That's the upper end of the green zone in the Triton results.
My tank is in my finished basement, usually I'm the only one down there watching TV, so there's not much carbon dioxide in the room.
Should I buffer the alk down?
The OP has asked several times but I havent seen it answered yet.
Yes, your alk is too high. Dont buffer it down, just allow it to fall on its own. Aim for 7.5. Make sure you're using a salt mix that has normal alk (7-8) or reduce its alkalinity before water changes.
The alk isnt causing your nuisance algae problems (thats the dry rock), but high alk kills corals in my experience.
Part of the challenge is my Alk is always "high". When I test it's always in the 9.1 - 10.6 dkh range.
I've always used the HW Reefer mix.
Statement from the BRS website: Upon BRS analysis - hw-Marinemix Reefer contained Calcium at 445-450 ppm, Alk of 9.0 dKH, Magnesium at 1380 ppm.
Maybe I need to try a different salt to get it down lower than 9.. Hesitant to make any more changes right now though.
Aquaman102, I am going thru the exact same thing as you symptoms are identical corals loosing heads Zoas melt and Chalice corals recede the tissue. I have also gone thru cyno followed by dinos. I have taken almost identical actions so far with no luck my rust colored dinos on the sand have turned bright green I am wondering if they are still dinos or something else.
For what it is worth my alk is 8.1 and Mg is 1440. I have three Kessils running at 55% over the four foot tank. I have concluded that the dinos are releasing toxins so I started aggressive carbon seems to have helped or at least slowed down the deaths. I am using a reactor and changing the carbon weekly. However as Dr. Fauci would say the evidence is entirely anecdotal, and death at this point is slowed no recovery.
I was curious did your dinos turn green? Mine were confined to the sand mostly and rust colored under a Microscope they were dino shaped.
I will never do a dry rock tank again...
Aquaman102, I am going thru the exact same thing as you symptoms are identical corals loosing heads Zoas melt and Chalice corals recede the tissue. I have also gone thru cyno followed by dinos. I have taken almost identical actions so far with no luck my rust colored dinos on the sand have turned bright green I am wondering if they are still dinos or something else.
For what it is worth my alk is 8.1 and Mg is 1440. I have three Kessils running at 55% over the four foot tank. I have concluded that the dinos are releasing toxins so I started aggressive carbon seems to have helped or at least slowed down the deaths. I am using a reactor and changing the carbon weekly. However as Dr. Fauci would say the evidence is entirely anecdotal, and death at this point is slowed no recovery.
I was curious did your dinos turn green? Mine were confined to the sand mostly and rust colored under a Microscope they were dino shaped.
I will never do a dry rock tank again...
Aquaman102, I am going thru the exact same thing as you symptoms are identical corals loosing heads Zoas melt and Chalice corals recede the tissue. I have also gone thru cyno followed by dinos. I have taken almost identical actions so far with no luck my rust colored dinos on the sand have turned bright green I am wondering if they are still dinos or something else.
For what it is worth my alk is 8.1 and Mg is 1440. I have three Kessils running at 55% over the four foot tank. I have concluded that the dinos are releasing toxins so I started aggressive carbon seems to have helped or at least slowed down the deaths. I am using a reactor and changing the carbon weekly. However as Dr. Fauci would say the evidence is entirely anecdotal, and death at this point is slowed no recovery.
I was curious did your dinos turn green? Mine were confined to the sand mostly and rust colored under a Microscope they were dino shaped.
I will never do a dry rock tank again...
I have been researching green dinos the last couple of days without finds any reference to it. So thanks again.Well if no Dinos are green I am encouraged. I do have a toy scope I will give it a go tomorrow. See if I can figure it out thanks for the thread.
Well my joy was short lived got out the microscope today. ScottB ws right I have some kind of green algae growing and the dinos are still there everywhere. Got some good views of the dinos perfect circles almost and orange sparkles on them. They actively swim. Corals still dying even with really good water parameters.
I going to replumb the UV directly to the return line and see what happens. With better nutrients the mushrooms are expanding anything with a skelton dies though. Aquaman hope your doing better. Good Luck.