HighestOlive
New member
Well It has finally happened to me as well. The long and short of it is this, I recently hooked up a kalk reactor in line with my auto top off system. And let's just say it raised my pH a a tad.... to I would say in the ballpark of 10, and this all happened when I was out to work for the day. And to add insult to injury my pH meter is busted to I had to scramble to find I replacement which I did 5 hours later.
Well I now have the pH back down into the normal range, and have pulled the kalk reactor out of line. As a result of even most of my corals are suffering greatly (on the bright side, my fish, shimp, clams, snails, and hermits appear to be doing just fine).
As for the corals this caused a massive bleaching event. Causing the water to have a brown/green tint to it from the amount of zooxanthellae that is now present in the water column. I have been skimming around the clock to try and remove as much of this as I can and clear up the water, and the skimmer is doing a good job of pulling it out.
From what i have read some times it is hard to tell the difference between a coral bleaching and actual tissue recession. Most of the corals still have polyps present, though they are retracted (some are even showing signs of extention again).
I am just looking for people input and seeing if they have ever had a similar event take place. What was the out come? Any advice on how to continue helping the tank recover?
Thanks.
Well I now have the pH back down into the normal range, and have pulled the kalk reactor out of line. As a result of even most of my corals are suffering greatly (on the bright side, my fish, shimp, clams, snails, and hermits appear to be doing just fine).
As for the corals this caused a massive bleaching event. Causing the water to have a brown/green tint to it from the amount of zooxanthellae that is now present in the water column. I have been skimming around the clock to try and remove as much of this as I can and clear up the water, and the skimmer is doing a good job of pulling it out.
From what i have read some times it is hard to tell the difference between a coral bleaching and actual tissue recession. Most of the corals still have polyps present, though they are retracted (some are even showing signs of extention again).
I am just looking for people input and seeing if they have ever had a similar event take place. What was the out come? Any advice on how to continue helping the tank recover?
Thanks.
