Coraline algae die off

rogergolf66

rogergolf66

im an addict lol
Just started yesterday day with the coral. Today I noticed the Coraline algae die of the fish feeder.

Parameters are always posted under all my posts. Everything is stable.

Any ideas what could cause this by growth has been outstanding for last 4 months and color is great too.


Hard to tell in pick but that is all bleach white on the feeder box
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Ok cleaned all my storage barrels. Threw away all water I had made. Changed all my filters and making new water. Barrels had some black round things in it like bug poop or something. So hopefully that's all it was cause everything has been going great. If that was it hope I caught it soon enough
 
I have only gotten coralline die off when the nutrient levels get too low. Are you stripping too far with GFO or a carbon source?
 
I've seen coraline die off with the following:

1. High nutrients
2. Low nutrients
3. Exposure to air
4. Low magnesium
5. Light bulb change....too much light
 
80TE=discocarp;22603611]Is it just the feeder? Was the feeder exposed to air for any length of time?[/QUOTE]

Yes I forgot took pictures for an hour so had the return off during that time but don't explain the sps dieing rtn.

No alk spike. Temp did rise to 80.5 But That Shouldn't Be To high.
 
Roger,from what i can see the rest of the coral looks pretty healthy so maybe a crab did the damage.
Some of the times i had similar necrosis,i found a crab.
The rest of the times it was related to my parameters.

All the other corals are fine?
 
glaukos said:
Roger,from what i can see the rest of the coral looks pretty healthy so maybe a crab did the damage.
Some of the times i had similar necrosis,i found a crab.
The rest of the times it was related to my parameters.

All the other corals are fine?
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Well that whole coral is dead now. All skin gone. I have a blue tort that's bleaching from base up too but slowly.
 
That alk is pretty low at 7.6 dkh. I noticed a coraline explosion when I kept it steady at around 9 dkh, so I'd look to raise that first. If not I'd look at your water supply or maybe something to do with that big calcium reactor you just got???
 
I don't like my alk above 8.2 with ULNS it's not good to have high alk it will burn the tips of the coral. I have kept my alk between 7.5 and 8.0 for almost a year now. I think it was water supply. I don't trust the TDS meters. I dialed in the new calcium reactor with no alk, or cal swings the mag did jump from 1310 to 1360 so time will tEll if that caused any problems. Any other ideas.
 
I'd say the water, or just running a super low nutrient system. That big fox face you got should dirty up the water a bit, but I have noticed that having to clean of a system can cause random corals to go.
 
I drained my tank for about 30 minutes to move it to another room, I lost all the coraline on the glass. I think I might drain my tank more often lol.
 
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