Hello, lemme give some context and tell my mistakes and see if someone can help me.
I started my reef tank around 8 months ago, and everything was going well, corals looking happy and most of the rocks covered with coraline, until around 2 months ago when dinos showed up, even though my No3 was 10 and Po4 0.05. It looked like an brown spider web with smalls bubbles on the tips that covered the corals and some rocks. Since then I clean the corals and the rocks everyday, to remove it , which probably irritate the corals. I then increased the feeding, started to add phyto and copepods. It now turned in what i believe to be cyano, some spots have this reddish mat with some strings coming from it, but different from the first issue.
This period also coincide with the addition of a new light, the smat farm G5 95w, which I set to 40% power and was increasing it slowly. When it was around 80% power, I made the stupid decision to increase the power by higher amount and had it setted to 100%. Not that later all my coraline started to die and get white, so I set it back to 75% and never changed again (it was when the dinos started).
Honestly, all the corals are looking rough, dying slowly. All the LPS are losing tissue from the base, kenya tree and monti cap looks bleached, turbinaria and stylophora have a very shy polyp extension and the zoanthus frags that used to be big and round looks only partally open and crooked. The only one not so bad is a montipora forest fire.
So last week I did a 60% water change and collected the water for a ICP test by Reef Zlements and got the results today.
The tank has 100L.
I dose 5 ml of all for reef every day and do a 20% water change every 15 days.
On my tests I had:
Salinity 1.026 (35ppt)
DKH 8.6
Calcium 420
Magnesium 1300
Nitrate 2
phosphate 0.02
PH 8.1
Temperature 26ºC
And here is the ICP result:
Two things I notice is salinity is lower than expected and zinc high.
Macros seems most of it to be on the green zone and the traces all at the low red zone.
MACROS
TRACES
Pollutants
Thank you.
I started my reef tank around 8 months ago, and everything was going well, corals looking happy and most of the rocks covered with coraline, until around 2 months ago when dinos showed up, even though my No3 was 10 and Po4 0.05. It looked like an brown spider web with smalls bubbles on the tips that covered the corals and some rocks. Since then I clean the corals and the rocks everyday, to remove it , which probably irritate the corals. I then increased the feeding, started to add phyto and copepods. It now turned in what i believe to be cyano, some spots have this reddish mat with some strings coming from it, but different from the first issue.
This period also coincide with the addition of a new light, the smat farm G5 95w, which I set to 40% power and was increasing it slowly. When it was around 80% power, I made the stupid decision to increase the power by higher amount and had it setted to 100%. Not that later all my coraline started to die and get white, so I set it back to 75% and never changed again (it was when the dinos started).
Honestly, all the corals are looking rough, dying slowly. All the LPS are losing tissue from the base, kenya tree and monti cap looks bleached, turbinaria and stylophora have a very shy polyp extension and the zoanthus frags that used to be big and round looks only partally open and crooked. The only one not so bad is a montipora forest fire.
So last week I did a 60% water change and collected the water for a ICP test by Reef Zlements and got the results today.
The tank has 100L.
I dose 5 ml of all for reef every day and do a 20% water change every 15 days.
On my tests I had:
Salinity 1.026 (35ppt)
DKH 8.6
Calcium 420
Magnesium 1300
Nitrate 2
phosphate 0.02
PH 8.1
Temperature 26ºC
And here is the ICP result:
Two things I notice is salinity is lower than expected and zinc high.
Macros seems most of it to be on the green zone and the traces all at the low red zone.
MACROS
TRACES
Pollutants
Thank you.