MarlinHooker
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Slowly but surely most of my corals are dying off ....
I've had my tank up and running for about 4 yrs without any real issues and things have been thriving & growing.
Over the last several months corals which have been thriving & growing (for several years in some cases) have all begun to slowly have tissue recession & die
I've lost all 3 of my large multi layer monti cap corals, 2 multi heads of torches, both colonies of trumpets, several long tentacle plate corals & most recently my prized lobo which I've had for over 3 years.
Some things, like 2 colonies of acans are still doing well as are 2 very large frogspawn & 1 large hammer colony. My green hairy mushrooms, palys & purple shrooms are doing well and also a medium size digi cap colony
I've also had a dozen fish & 1 snowflake that have been totally unaffected throughout this.
System equipment: 4 AI Sols (2 blue/2 white), 2 MP40s, 300g PS, CaRX, Phosphate reactor, Genesis auto water changing system, 5 stage RO/DI system, 50 gal sump with 200 micro filter sock attached to sump input from each overflow, gold Reeflo Dart running everything
I dose the Red Sea equivalent of vodlka dosing 3x/week, feed 1 frozen shrimp cube daily, oyster feast & Rodi feast 3x/week, 1 piece seaweed daily & shrimp for the eel 3-4x/week
My system parameters have always been stable & I checked them again last night:
SG 1.025
Alk 9.74
Ca 440
Mg 1110
Nitrate .25 ppm
Phosphate 0
Ammonia N/A
The only big change I've made in the system in the last year was the addition of the genesis system which changes out 1 gal every 12 hrs 24/7
I also vacuum the sand bed 1x/2 weeks. lately there as been a small amount of red algae showing up which I siphon off & then change out the filter socks
I'm at a total loss as to the cause and/or what to do about it. I don't dare add anything new to the tank at this point ....
Anyone feel free to chime in, no idea is too crazy at this point ...
I've had my tank up and running for about 4 yrs without any real issues and things have been thriving & growing.
Over the last several months corals which have been thriving & growing (for several years in some cases) have all begun to slowly have tissue recession & die
I've lost all 3 of my large multi layer monti cap corals, 2 multi heads of torches, both colonies of trumpets, several long tentacle plate corals & most recently my prized lobo which I've had for over 3 years.
Some things, like 2 colonies of acans are still doing well as are 2 very large frogspawn & 1 large hammer colony. My green hairy mushrooms, palys & purple shrooms are doing well and also a medium size digi cap colony
I've also had a dozen fish & 1 snowflake that have been totally unaffected throughout this.
System equipment: 4 AI Sols (2 blue/2 white), 2 MP40s, 300g PS, CaRX, Phosphate reactor, Genesis auto water changing system, 5 stage RO/DI system, 50 gal sump with 200 micro filter sock attached to sump input from each overflow, gold Reeflo Dart running everything
I dose the Red Sea equivalent of vodlka dosing 3x/week, feed 1 frozen shrimp cube daily, oyster feast & Rodi feast 3x/week, 1 piece seaweed daily & shrimp for the eel 3-4x/week
My system parameters have always been stable & I checked them again last night:
SG 1.025
Alk 9.74
Ca 440
Mg 1110
Nitrate .25 ppm
Phosphate 0
Ammonia N/A
The only big change I've made in the system in the last year was the addition of the genesis system which changes out 1 gal every 12 hrs 24/7
I also vacuum the sand bed 1x/2 weeks. lately there as been a small amount of red algae showing up which I siphon off & then change out the filter socks
I'm at a total loss as to the cause and/or what to do about it. I don't dare add anything new to the tank at this point ....
Anyone feel free to chime in, no idea is too crazy at this point ...
.... probably shouldn't explain it that way to my wife who is only interested in the fish ...
