I dont have too many SPS, but almost all of what i had for sps, died off suddenly. Even my purple stylo when seemed indestructible. that was actually the first one to go. then my spitfire laptastrea started bleaching out, and i thought it was a goner, until it finally stopped, and now its gaining back the ground it lost, and has the best polyp extension ive ever seen it have.
Ive had some of my zoas melt away. some colonies completely, where others are doing better than they ever have. in fact, i had a frag that ive had for over a year that only ever had 2 heads on it. up until a month or so ago, its at 5 heads. other softies havent had any changes.
My LPS hasnt had any changes either.
All of this started happening after a couple things. one of them was a move. bought a house, and moved my tank over of course. new sand, used most of the old water, and all of the recommendations that you will find on these forums, for a tank move.
everything was still good at that point up until many months later, when the LFS changed ownership, and they no longer sell RODI, so i started using my RODI setup again and made my own. THis is roughly when i started to see issues, so i had a Triton test done to see if maybe it was the water. i have listed my results below.
A couple of the issues i can fix, but mostly have questions on what readings might be the culprit. One that pops up for me every time i look it up online is the potassium. i dont dose potassium, and really dont dose anything other than 2 part calcium and alk from seachem. i do dose NP bacto balance, which i suspect might be the culprit for the potassium, but im not sure if it contains potassium, or would be a reason for it. The only other outside thing i put in the tank is food. i do a slight amount of flake in the morning, and then frozen in the afteroon.
Thoughts on the results, and my SPS die off?
Ive had some of my zoas melt away. some colonies completely, where others are doing better than they ever have. in fact, i had a frag that ive had for over a year that only ever had 2 heads on it. up until a month or so ago, its at 5 heads. other softies havent had any changes.
My LPS hasnt had any changes either.
All of this started happening after a couple things. one of them was a move. bought a house, and moved my tank over of course. new sand, used most of the old water, and all of the recommendations that you will find on these forums, for a tank move.
everything was still good at that point up until many months later, when the LFS changed ownership, and they no longer sell RODI, so i started using my RODI setup again and made my own. THis is roughly when i started to see issues, so i had a Triton test done to see if maybe it was the water. i have listed my results below.
A couple of the issues i can fix, but mostly have questions on what readings might be the culprit. One that pops up for me every time i look it up online is the potassium. i dont dose potassium, and really dont dose anything other than 2 part calcium and alk from seachem. i do dose NP bacto balance, which i suspect might be the culprit for the potassium, but im not sure if it contains potassium, or would be a reason for it. The only other outside thing i put in the tank is food. i do a slight amount of flake in the morning, and then frozen in the afteroon.
Thoughts on the results, and my SPS die off?