Excuse the long post but I don’t understand what happened, I’ve been reefing for almost 2 years now. I research for hours daily to better my chances in this hobby. I have a waterbox frag 165.6 that’s been up for about 6 months now, I let it cycle for over a month before adding coral. A week ago I got a bad case of Dino’s, I tried every natural way to stop it. Turning off skimmer, taking out filter socks, siphoning out into a filter sock every other day and a small UV sterilizer in the main display while trying to get my nutrients up. It is slowly dissipating but yesterday I woke up to some of my SPS completely bleached. I quickly did a 15 gallon water change. This morning almost all my acros, SPS, millepora, gonis, large plate coral and frogspawn wall are all bleached or semi bleached. I would say over a thousand dollars worth of coral dying right before my eyes in the last 2 days. I’m depressed and so disappointed because I couldn’t fix i feel like giving up. I’ve worked hours daily to make the perfect environment for these corals. They were growing so well for months before this last week. Everything was encrusting and growing outward very well. I have another waterbox frag tank jam packed with corals, SPS, LPS with never having a problem so I don’t consider myself to be a beginner but I still am no expert. This tank is in the basement. What can I do? The only corals that aren’t affected are the zoas, monticap, Long Tentacle Anemone and stylos and two of the millepora frags. But everything seems closed up and not thriving like it used to. Fish are fine. I am semi new to the acro world and know they can be very finicky and stability is key but that’s what I’ve been doing. I check the water quality daily and the only thing wrong is I can’t get nitrates up.
Alk: 8
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 1
Phosphate: 0.4
Salinity: 0.025
Temp: 77
PH: 8.3
Mag 1450
Calcium: 500
I keep two windows open next to the tank for gas exchange. Are the corals doomed? I’ll attach a quick video of the tank so you can see what I’m working with but the video doesn’t show the bleaching on video very well but it’s definitely happening extremely quick. Since writing this half of a frag just turned white. Any advice or experiences I would really appreciate.
Alk: 8
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 1
Phosphate: 0.4
Salinity: 0.025
Temp: 77
PH: 8.3
Mag 1450
Calcium: 500
I keep two windows open next to the tank for gas exchange. Are the corals doomed? I’ll attach a quick video of the tank so you can see what I’m working with but the video doesn’t show the bleaching on video very well but it’s definitely happening extremely quick. Since writing this half of a frag just turned white. Any advice or experiences I would really appreciate.