SBB-Mid Summer Blowout Coral Sale!

[ReeferZ1227]

You know I’ve been battling turf algae for a while and it’s finally clearing up after 3-4 months of it and water was definitely been slightly cloudy recently. Regular water changes sill during all that. ORP no idea

Hows po4 looked? With those potential blooms and algae harvesting did ya bottom er out?

 

[andrewj1212]

Hows po4 looked? With those potential blooms and algae harvesting did ya bottom er out?

.03 yesterday

 

[billyocean]

A bottom out of p04 won't kill anything fast

 

[AKL1950]

Hands had been in the tank a lot the last few days, not sure if maybe I had something on them at one point? Who knows. Probably some water changes/carbon and give it some time to come back around

I’ve heard that sometimes it can just be stress. Maybe in just one coral. In that I mean one entity, usually a coral, will get stressed for whatever reason. Its response is to go defensive and put out defensive chemical toxins. The corals around it sense danger and start putting out their own toxins. This permiates throughout the tank and causes a chemical toxin crash. It could be your parameters and tank biome are fine, but something triggered coral chemical warfare.

 

[andrewj1212]

I’ve heard that sometimes it can just be stress. Maybe in just one coral. In that I mean one entity, usually a coral, will get stressed for whatever reason. Its response is to go defensive and put out defensive chemical toxins. The corals around it sense danger and start putting out their own toxins. This permiates throughout the tank and causes a chemical toxin crash. It could be your parameters and tank biome are fine, but something triggered coral chemical warfare.

I don’t run carbon, think ~if~ that was the reason it could have helped?

 

[billyocean]

I’ve heard that sometimes it can just be stress. Maybe in just one coral. In that I mean one entity, usually a coral, will get stressed for whatever reason. Its response is to go defensive and put out defensive chemical toxins. The corals around it sense danger and start putting out their own toxins. This permiates throughout the tank and causes a chemical toxin crash. It could be your parameters and tank biome are fine, but something triggered coral chemical warfare.

In acros that's usually only if they are touching and loose skin fluffs off to another one...but in this case it was a tank wide event so not that.

 

[billyocean]

It's a tank wide event. So it's one of 3 things..toxins (from whatever....even fabreeze or a scented candle or plug in), major chemistry swing, or bacteria bloom. If it was a bac/algae bloom that hit o2 really hard i would suspect dead fish too. The fact that other corals are ok leads me to believe something in the chemistry as acros are more sensitive to this than all your other coral.

 

[andrewj1212]

It's a tank wide event. So it's one of 3 things..toxins (from whatever....even fabreeze or a scented candle or plug in), major chemistry swing, or bacteria bloom. If it was a bac/algae bloom that hit o2 really hard i would suspect dead fish too. The fact that other corals are ok leads me to believe something in the chemistry as acros are more sensitive to this than all your other coral.

Tank definitely has a good haze going on this morning, Uv sterilizers help with this but I turned mine off. That’s at least a decent guess

 

[AKL1950]

In acros that's usually only if they are touching and loose skin fluffs off to another one...but in this case it was a tank wide event so not that.

Maybe so, but I’ve heard of this before. In the ocean, not so much a problem, but in an enclosed small ecosystem, chemical warfare tank wide can be a disaster.

 

[billyocean]

Maybe so, but I’ve heard of this before. In the ocean, not so much a problem, but in an enclosed small ecosystem, chemical warfare tank wide can be a disaster.

It can be...but usually that's leathers with terpene that's harsh on acros. It's not a tank wide acro on acro crime scene

 

[ReeferZ1227]

A bottom out of p04 won't kill anything fast

Maybe? Deoends on duration.

Tank definitely has a good haze going on this morning, Uv sterilizers help with this but I turned mine off. That’s at least a decent guess

How stuffed was the tank? Last ICP looked good?

 

[ReeferZ1227]

I don’t run carbon, think ~if~ that was the reason it could have helped?

I disagree with this notion. I habe corals burning each other everyday from snails pushing frags together and colonies growing into each other. I hardly skim and don't run carbon at all. I think ICP will tell the tale of the tape or they're starving, but i expect youd be able tonidentify starving SPS with your level of experience.

 

[billyocean]

Maybe? Deoends on duration.

How stuffed was the tank? Last ICP looked good?

That's why I said it won't kill anything fast. Nothing in life dies from starvation immediately.

 

[ReeferZ1227]

That's why I said it won't kill anything fast. Nothing in life dies from starvation immediately.

I feel like ive pulled a few skeletons out relatively around the same time po4 bottomed.

Another interesting one is flouride. My valida had that shaded recession for over 6 months. Corrected so many different things, it wasnt until i corrected flouride that itnappears to have stopped, and PE is 24/7 for all corap for the first time.

Anecdotally I think flouride may be a critical component of SPS, even moreso that it appears to have an equal to or greater rate of consumption than magnesium in a heavily stocked tank.

 

[RichWise73]

That's why I said it won't kill anything fast. Nothing in life dies from starvation immediately.

Tell that to a cat at 5:00 AM. lol

 

[ReeferZ1227]

Tell that to a cat at 5:00 AM. lol

Autofeeders are life changing

 

[RichWise73]

Autofeeders are life changing

We tried one with our old cat. She quickly figured out how to "unlock" the feeding mechanism with her claw. She was very food motivated.

 

[ReeferZ1227]

We tried one with our old cat. She quickly figured out how to "unlock" the feeding mechanism with her claw. She was very food motivated.

My original one had that issue. She would always be clawing up there and getting a few more kibble, then it would jam and not feed, and shed make that very known lol.

This one is dang near full proof:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B09BJDNZJ5?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

 

[ReeferZ1227]

Maybe so, but I’ve heard of this before. In the ocean, not so much a problem, but in an enclosed small ecosystem, chemical warfare tank wide can be a disaster.

Not harping on it, but didnyou see shanes insta at RAP? Looked like he dumped a yeti cooler full of sticks into a frag tank to setup lol.

 

[billyocean]

Tell that to a cat at 5:00 AM. lol

Nothing a flying object won't fix.