help with sps

[1guydude]

So my sps has really taken a hit here. Even my ridge coral and some other r starting to look bad.
Ive recently added a pellet reactor and dont know if ive started a mini cycle or if the water just cleared up and cooked my corals. Over a month im adding 200ml to about 90g....so under shooting and adding lil bit every week and a half.

Is their a diff between bleaching at the tips and bleaching from bottom up?

I also had a piece on ecrusted hydronphora that just came up like a mat :0 no bueno.

Ive been working on eliminating gh , cleaning the detritus off my bb and thinking about bombing for my red flat worms....

My tank is 1.026, 79-80, and 0 everythings....last time i checked alk it was low like 7.

Swc 150skimmer OBD pellet reactor and a fuge and a turf scrubber lol...
-D

 

[Herefishyfishy]

I find more coral die offs from dosing and other "extras" than anything else.
Go back to simple straight saltwater changes and keep things as level as possible with no outside changes for a few week to a couple months.

 

[blk822822]

Read up on STN and RTN.......I got it on my sps and lost most of them. Never found a cause.

 

[senji]

i got stn that wiped out all my birds nests and infected my acros but stoped almost instantly with a coral rx pro dip.

 

[1guydude]

Huh. I tried the wc method with two 10-15g wcs in two weeks...im thinking of doing a cpl larger ones like 20-30g back to back. Ive got a 55g drum.

Im not one for adding things like solutions or reef foods. I like to leave it b and top it off.

I dont wanna dip my all my coral but not a bad idea. I could dip em all and put em in my other tank well i bomb and wc the other.... idk.
I like the feedback thanks!

 

[mercenary-grunt]

adding pellets does cause a slight cycle. so you need to add pellets slowly.

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[NC2WA]

1guy, like merchant said, added reactor media added extra bacteria to the tank that can cause a min cycle..added 1/3 of the total mat to the reactor, wait a month add another 1/3, then add the final amt. My guess is you have extra bacteria/ammonia in the tank that only water changes can help.

 

[mojoreef]

When you add pellets your just adding a carbon source, not something that is going to cause a rtn or stn. You go slow because if you have alot of nutrients in your tank you can create a bacterial bloom. With the bloom you will get a lot of bacteria using up oxygen while they reduce. You can see this by the water going kind of milky.

Rtn and stn can be attributed to some kind of stress or combination of stresses. So you can kind of group the stresses into a few catagories. One is a preditor, so check for that. Another is some kind of parameter swings, so check Ph, temp and so to see if your swinging a little to much. The third is mostly to do wth lighting shock. One other that gets over looked to is the softie factor, sometimes if you have a mixed reef and you add new corals, the existing so ties sense it and begin laying down a defence screen, so with most so ties is toxins, ls and similar its usually sending out stingers.


Mike

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[tamarindthai]

rapid changed form water chemistry to make it what you like ,,sometime it does not mean your coral specialy sps like it,they are will be healthy and grow if you can give them what they really like ,remembered they are the animals,
deluted the water chemisrty and go back to the basic,,JMO