Liquidnice
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180gal - I have recently suffered a great loss. My 2 green bird's nest and some ORA chips a couple of green acros with red polyps (complete RDO, they are now sitting on my fireplace mantle), and all the purple and orange digitata have RDO from underneath. My slimer and pink bird's nest was also dying from the bottom up. My purple validia, green cap, and orange monti are also suffering, but from the top down. I thought that it was from the temp as well ( mine had spiked up to 84 one day). This all started about June 25th or so. As I was adding more fans to the sump on July 2nd, I saw a shiny blue, red, and yellow thing at the bottom of the tank. It turned out to be a dart –slightly rusted. It had fallen from the dart board sitting right above the sump (not a smart move).
The tank now has 6 fans on top, one on the refugium, and 3 on the sump I have been maintaining 77-79 now. I have done 4 10% water changes and changed the carbon set up as well as placed 6 chemi pure into two filter socks into the main flow. I dumped the phos guard and put carbon in that as well. We also have a calcium reactor and the MSX 200 protein skimmer.
A friend let me know that one of my mega flows were blocked and unblocked the tube allowing the water to flow. My husband has been on det for 7 weeks, I know he's not going to be too happy. But, our friend was explaining that the coral have not been able to breathe for who knows how long. We have been using an old pump (Iwaki 40RLT ), because a day or two before my husband left ours died (of course). Luckily our friend gave us this old one. So, if this is the current prob. What amount of water flow would you recommend for a 180gal, 100 gal sump, 60 gal refugium.
We have 5 Koralia 4s blowing around the tank, and we have been doing this for two years and never had a problem with our corals. This tank is only 6 mo old though. Before he left, it was set up as a wave maker with the aqua control jr thing, but one of the power heads was giving me trouble, so we just turned them all on at the same time. It seems as thought the die off has slowed down but not stopped. Oh also, a weeks or so ago, I woke up to a very dirty bottom floor. My sand has always been pure white. I know this is from all of the nitrates. A friend gave me two sand sifting stars and I got a diamond watchman goby yesterday. Hopefully he will do some work.
Not sure what else to do. Oh, our tank is full of sps, some lps and some zoas. Our cup coral and my yellow leather have also shown signs of stress (holes in the center). I'm at a loss. I also thought that it might be the lighting. Maybe we need new lights. 3 X 250 10K metal halides. 2 are about a 1yr and 6 mo old. Would replacing them stress the corals even more? I'm not sure if it's water flow, temp, metal poisoning, lights. SG 1.022 – 1.023, phosphates 0, nitrites 0, ph 8.2, ma 1130, ca 420, KH 5 (I know that is low – would this be the prob?), ammonia 0, my nitrates are the only thing high 40. Here are some pics. Should I frag the corals that are still dying? Please help…any information would be greatly appreciated. Here are some pics.
Oh, also, on a dead piece of coral I was able to get a close up of these white egg sack kinda things. They are covering my entire tank – snail shells, rock, and dead corals. Any idea what these things are? They do break open.
The tank now has 6 fans on top, one on the refugium, and 3 on the sump I have been maintaining 77-79 now. I have done 4 10% water changes and changed the carbon set up as well as placed 6 chemi pure into two filter socks into the main flow. I dumped the phos guard and put carbon in that as well. We also have a calcium reactor and the MSX 200 protein skimmer.
A friend let me know that one of my mega flows were blocked and unblocked the tube allowing the water to flow. My husband has been on det for 7 weeks, I know he's not going to be too happy. But, our friend was explaining that the coral have not been able to breathe for who knows how long. We have been using an old pump (Iwaki 40RLT ), because a day or two before my husband left ours died (of course). Luckily our friend gave us this old one. So, if this is the current prob. What amount of water flow would you recommend for a 180gal, 100 gal sump, 60 gal refugium.
We have 5 Koralia 4s blowing around the tank, and we have been doing this for two years and never had a problem with our corals. This tank is only 6 mo old though. Before he left, it was set up as a wave maker with the aqua control jr thing, but one of the power heads was giving me trouble, so we just turned them all on at the same time. It seems as thought the die off has slowed down but not stopped. Oh also, a weeks or so ago, I woke up to a very dirty bottom floor. My sand has always been pure white. I know this is from all of the nitrates. A friend gave me two sand sifting stars and I got a diamond watchman goby yesterday. Hopefully he will do some work.
Not sure what else to do. Oh, our tank is full of sps, some lps and some zoas. Our cup coral and my yellow leather have also shown signs of stress (holes in the center). I'm at a loss. I also thought that it might be the lighting. Maybe we need new lights. 3 X 250 10K metal halides. 2 are about a 1yr and 6 mo old. Would replacing them stress the corals even more? I'm not sure if it's water flow, temp, metal poisoning, lights. SG 1.022 – 1.023, phosphates 0, nitrites 0, ph 8.2, ma 1130, ca 420, KH 5 (I know that is low – would this be the prob?), ammonia 0, my nitrates are the only thing high 40. Here are some pics. Should I frag the corals that are still dying? Please help…any information would be greatly appreciated. Here are some pics.
Oh, also, on a dead piece of coral I was able to get a close up of these white egg sack kinda things. They are covering my entire tank – snail shells, rock, and dead corals. Any idea what these things are? They do break open.
