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Over the last two weeks I have lost, one by one a large blue milli colony, a very large blue turiki colony, the tips are browning and growing algae on my football size purple nana and I have lost two other bali corals. All have been in my tank or a previous tank for 6+ years. Everything else in the tank is looking great. My tank is testing as follows:
Phosphorus: 20 ppb - .06 ppm phosphate
Alkalinity: 7.6 "โ 7.8
Calcium: 430
Mag: 1250
Salinity 1.026
System: 675 gal main display with 2x Xp 5000 cone skimmers, 4000ml of EcoBak in a custom reactor, 3 400 watt 14k Ushio, 6 Tunze pumps on Apex making the wave ect
They only three thinks that happen before this starts is I replaced my 7 month old Ushio 14k 400 watt bulbs with the same bulbs. I did a 100 gallon water change, 1/8th of the system volume with Instant Ocean salt ( same salt I have been using for moths however the boxes were wet because they probably sat in mop water (could be the problem) and I add some GFO to my system but forgot to rinse it well and a lot of fines when into the system. I am afraid I'm going to kill $10,000 worth of SPS over the next few weeks and I cannot stop it.
I will take pics of the coral tonight but the flesh is literally peeling away from the center of the coral out and brown algae is growing on many of the tips. I cannot see any bugs but that is the only other thing that I can think of. Some people have had problems with flat worms and redbugs in this area in the past.
I am replacing my lignite carbon with bituminous carbon tonight thinking that if the cleaning lady got something in the water that the bituminous would take it out quicker.
If anyone has any ideas, please give them to me no matter the cost.
Over the last two weeks I have lost, one by one a large blue milli colony, a very large blue turiki colony, the tips are browning and growing algae on my football size purple nana and I have lost two other bali corals. All have been in my tank or a previous tank for 6+ years. Everything else in the tank is looking great. My tank is testing as follows:
Phosphorus: 20 ppb - .06 ppm phosphate
Alkalinity: 7.6 "โ 7.8
Calcium: 430
Mag: 1250
Salinity 1.026
System: 675 gal main display with 2x Xp 5000 cone skimmers, 4000ml of EcoBak in a custom reactor, 3 400 watt 14k Ushio, 6 Tunze pumps on Apex making the wave ect
They only three thinks that happen before this starts is I replaced my 7 month old Ushio 14k 400 watt bulbs with the same bulbs. I did a 100 gallon water change, 1/8th of the system volume with Instant Ocean salt ( same salt I have been using for moths however the boxes were wet because they probably sat in mop water (could be the problem) and I add some GFO to my system but forgot to rinse it well and a lot of fines when into the system. I am afraid I'm going to kill $10,000 worth of SPS over the next few weeks and I cannot stop it.
I will take pics of the coral tonight but the flesh is literally peeling away from the center of the coral out and brown algae is growing on many of the tips. I cannot see any bugs but that is the only other thing that I can think of. Some people have had problems with flat worms and redbugs in this area in the past.
I am replacing my lignite carbon with bituminous carbon tonight thinking that if the cleaning lady got something in the water that the bituminous would take it out quicker.
If anyone has any ideas, please give them to me no matter the cost.
