Help SPS corals dying slowly

anthonys51 said:
My advice is stop being a chemist. Don't chase numbers. Corals like stable environments. Unless you see your corals dying I wouldn't be dosing or adding nitrates Anytime you dose anything you run the risk of over dosing. Stop dosing kno3. If your nitrates rise. Step you your water changes. You want to do things slow and natural first. Only thing I ever do to my tank besides dose 2 part is run Gfo. But I run one cup of Gfo and change it once a week in my 575 gallons system. I don't want phosphates that go up and down quickly Your corals won't die if your phosphates go up to .15. But they will die if it goes up to .15 down to .03 then back to .16. Same with nitrates. The swing will kill them faster then 25ppm will

Also when you dose 2 part you are dosing the same amount everyday right. You don't skip 3 days then dose 100ml do you ?


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2 part is on doser, so no.
 
Ok good. Hopefully you will stop dosing kno3 too and never dose nopox again. Nopox should only be dosed as a last resort. If 20 percent water changes once a week can't lower nitrates. Then try nopox. But start with good old fashion water changes first


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Are you dosing sugar, vodka or vinegar at all?
How about iodine?
If you are I would stop dosing anything but ALK and CA and see if anything improves also have someone else check your salinity with another refractometer or floating hydrometer.

My monti's looked like your pics on page one once when my salinity hit 1.028-1.030. My calibration fluid was off.
 
UTCReefer said:
Are you dosing sugar, vodka or vinegar at all?
How about iodine?
If you are I would stop dosing anything but ALK and CA and see if anything improves also have someone else check your salinity with another refractometer or floating hydrometer.

My monti's looked like your pics on page one once when my salinity hit 1.028-1.030. My calibration fluid was off.
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I do not dose any of that stuff except CA and ALK and NoPox but I stopped dose nopox.
I have two refractometers, and I have calibration solution. So i am sure salinity is not the issue but I guess I can check it anyway.

Right now I don't dose anything except CA and ALK and corals are still dying. I have left just a handful. :headwalls:
 
OK So far nothing changed. Corals keep dying slowly.

Here is what I noticed. The corals always start dying from a bottom up. So the skeleton turns black, then gets covered with algae and then tissue just separates from the skeleton.

Here is I also noticed some fuzz on my hummerhead skeleton. It will be also dead in a month.

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Ok read the whole thread lol whew. I'm surprised not a single person has had you check the doser. Check that it's dosing what you think it is for the time you think it is. I would never put nopox on a dosing pump. I agree with the stable environment. Stop dosing anything. Like nothing, back to basics. In a noob tank nothing grows sure, but nothing dies.

Also it has been mentioned a couple of times but I don't think you addressed it. Did you check for rust? All your magnets, every one of them. From pumps to motors. Let us know

If it followed your move and you used all fresh new water it's gotta be something physical (if you stopped dosing everything that is).
 
I'm thinking it's either your dosing crashing your tank, or it's an issue with your rodi. Just a hunch, but I've been around long enough to have good ones every now and then lol. Good luck.
 
...or like someone above mentioned...you're leeching something into your tank (I.e. Magnet cleaner cover busted, etc).
 
And one more thing, it's not the vermetid snails causing that kindof damage. Yes, they can cause issues..but not the massive systemic problems you're facing. Deal with those with epoxy and/or pliers later.
 
chevegan said:
Also it has been mentioned a couple of times but I don't think you addressed it. Did you check for rust? All your magnets, every one of them. From pumps to motors. Let us know

If it followed your move and you used all fresh new water it's gotta be something physical (if you stopped dosing everything that is).
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I did check everything and couldn't find any rust. All my fans are 1 year old, I took all the extras out of the water. I don't have any clips or magnets in the water except 4 fans and 2 heaters and DC pump.
 
If the number for strontium is correct, your tank is closer to natural sea levels than their set point:

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-05/rhf/index.htm

I'm also assuming that they meant mg/L, but either way, the level in your tank is fine. All of the numbers for your system are fine.

I'm not sure what approaches you've tried, since the thread is long, but have you tried adding a PolyFilter? It can be useful in some cases, particularly when copper is present.
 
bertoni said:
If the number for strontium is correct, your tank is closer to natural sea levels than their set point:

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-05/rhf/index.htm

I'm also assuming that they meant mg/L, but either way, the level in your tank is fine. All of the numbers for your system are fine.

I'm not sure what approaches you've tried, since the thread is long, but have you tried adding a PolyFilter? It can be useful in some cases, particularly when copper is present.
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Yes I used Poly filter and it turned out white. I posted couple pages ago.
 
Do corals care about salinity lvl if alk, Ca and Mg are in the normal range?

Let say if you keep your water at 1.020 but dosing those three elements to keep at normal lvls will corals care?
 
At some point, as you lower SG, the corals will fail to grow well and eventually die. I'm not sure how much data there is on the topic. I am not sure that it's a question that interests marine scientists.
 
I think my problem with salinity, I have two bottles with calibration solution for my refractometer and I checked with both and both shows very different numbers. I was using one bottle for long time and now I am not sure which one is correct. I need to find a way to calibrate my refractometer.
 
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