Help keeping Coral Alive Please

[bull shark]

How did you treat the ich outbreak in your tank?

 

[3dees]

any reason your dosing? I have mostly softies and a few lps in my 120 gal. and don't dose anything. I only run some carbon once in a while. maybe try doing regular wc's and leave it alone.

 

[matty_bee]

Ich treated by moving fish to new tank. This was happening way before that. This has always happened.
I have carbon in the tank as we speak. I have been using it on and off. Will find some polyfill =)
I'm dosing trace as i thought maybe there's something they are missing. I never used to dose it and had this problem so thoght I woild try that it didn't make a difference so now it's just few and far inbetween with a bit of trace put in. I've been trying everything. I used to leave it with regular 2 week water changes of 10‰ stoll the same issue. It's very weird. New lid will be installed tonigjt anyway with just hanging lights and will see how we go I guess. Thanks for all the ideas everyone!

 

[matty_bee]

Just had a google. is poly filter, filter wool? I use that already in my discus tank and pretty sure i have a decent amount on hand so that would be good

 

[Mock]

You are doing things that even seasoned keepers do not do in a tank that has no coral in it.

Go back to water changes, change out the whole volume over a couple days. Test, test and re test and then get someone else to test for you.

Check everything, no you wont feel stray voltage if you have it.

You are fixing to have to turn over every rock to see if you do not even have some coral eating monster hidden in your tank that is devouring everything at night when you sleep.

This is definitely odd.

I was thinking light acclimation but now, I am not so sure.

 

[matty_bee]

I'm just trying everything to be honest. As I jsut dont know where to turn. Reason for all teh different things im trying. These are over the space of 4 or 5 months BTW. testing each thing for a couple weeks after buying a couple more frags for cheap and just seeing what outcome I got as the standard wasnt working for me.

Tank has been apart twice with half the rock out and all teh others turned over. Nothing stray in teh tank i have seen.

Yeah I introduce corals slowly and have tried teh same types of corals at differetn levels in the tank wit the same results.

The strangest part is fish are not effected by whatever it is.

I will get some salt when i can ( its about $150 US worth where i live for the amount i will need ) so hopefully next week will be able to afford some

It's really odd :S and I'm at such a huge loss to what to do haha.

I'm hoping so much that its something to do with the polyurethane I've used and its leeching copper into the tank or something as I read some polyurethanes can do that. I just want an answer haha. which would explain why my corals die and fish live

 

[matty_bee]

So I took the sump completely apart to find something had completly rusted in the tank. I assume this has made my iron go through the roof? Maybe a screw fell in. Who knows. But I'm hoping this is the cause. Now how do I fix it? Will running carbon and filter wool pull it out of the water? Or will I need to perform big water changes? I hope this is my problem so bad haha

 

[Dkuhlmann]

So I took the sump completely apart to find something had completly rusted in the tank. I assume this has made my iron go through the roof? Maybe a screw fell in. Who knows. But I'm hoping this is the cause. Now how do I fix it? Will running carbon and filter wool pull it out of the water? Or will I need to perform big water changes? I hope this is my problem so bad haha

Glad you found it, I'd do both run carbon and do several big water changes every two or three days to 100% of water volume

 

[matty_bee]

What i hope is the issue lol. Got some red Sea salt today as well. And a new Eheim Heater. I'm changing everything up. Setting up a seahorse tank as well in a new tank so it will be a good test as well =)