Leaving the hobby

Hugo,

Sorry to hear about this but after seeing the pics you sent recently I can understand why. I sent you an email. I'll be around if when you decide to get back into the hobby again if you want to replace some of your corals. Are you shutting down the monster in the garage also?

Dave
 
Hugo,

Sorry to see you go, I hope you will come back some day. what brand of salt have you been using?

Loc



snipersps said:
Thank you everybody for all you support, I hopolly I cank back one day but for now is over for me. I got some emails asking me why I tooked tha decicion and Im going to explain why.
My problems with my water stard around one year ago I found Cooper on my tank why? how? I found a baterry on my frag tank, who the baterry was on my tank? I really don't know maybe one of my friends hate me and they put it on my tank so from there my frustation starded I stard losing a little of everything all my lps stard mealting and my sps too but the sps stard dying only from the tips like Alkaliniti burner but just the tips stard mealting like the sps so I make a lot of water changes and testing every other day my water and all my water parameters was ok but the problem was still there at tha time a lost most of my nices ones corals so around may 2010 I tooked some of my corals to some of my friends house so they can take care for me 3 months latter my quality water get stable so I bring them back to my house and I re stack my tank with new frags and colonies but latter I got the same problem like before with my water the corals stard mealting again I did againg a lot of water changes and testing my water with diferents brands tes kits and everithing was ok cal 450 mag 1500 kh 8-9.5 salinity o.25 so I keep my tank like tha just tryiag to battle with tha problem some weeks they was ok and some ones really bad well at the end of December I took some vacation and when I come back I found my kh really low and I founded corals deat so tooked a decicion to transfer wath I had let a live to my frag tank this one wasn't conect to my display tank but every day I was losing corals just they rtn one by one over nigth until I lost all my sps now idont have any sps I lost also a lot of chalices and favias honestly I feal really bad cause I coundt find wath was the problem so I decide to take a break also I know some peoples have on they tank the same problem with the water like me and they can't find wath it is
thank you
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snipersps said:
loc01 said:
Hugo,

Sorry to see you go, I hope you will come back some day. what brand of salt have you been using?

Tropic marine for 8 years, you think the Salt was the problem?
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It's hard to say, I've been using TM for many years as well, but I just switched, problem as you described, burning tip like alkalinity burn,tip melting, slowly STN colony to colonies.

Loc
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loc01 said:
snipersps said:
It's hard to say, I've been using TM for many years as well, but I just switched, problem as you described, burning tip like alkalinity burn,tip melting, slowly STN colony to colonies.

Loc
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I'm having the same problems also. At first I thought it was high alk. I have since lowered my alk and my sps are still stn very slowly. some sps are ok, some are just melting away . I'm also using TMP salt. Bought a new bucket couple weeks ago, alk tested at 5. Contacted tmp and they said they were going to send me a new bucket of salt. been a week now, still waiting on that bucket.
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Are they using the same Tropic Marine salt? I got into the same this problem lately when I was using Tropic Marine salt. I think they change new formula to prevent sticking salt together.
Btw, sorry to hear you leaving Hugo... Hope you come back!
 
Wow sorry to hear compadre..............and have dif felt this way more than once. I hope to take a rest see you when you come back.
 
Sorry to see you go. But can't wait to see your tank when you come back. I had the same issue for most of last year and I could never figure it out either. Then someone mentioned chloramines in our tap water, so I checked the DPW and sure enought they switched from chlorine over to chloramines last year. A normal RODI system won't remove the chloramines and they don't show up on TDS. So I upgraded my rodi filters and did many, many water changes. Now everything seems to be fine again. If you are getting water from the LADWP then I bet its the chloramines.
Jeff
 
mike810 said:
loc01 said:
I'm having the same problems also. At first I thought it was high alk. I have since lowered my alk and my sps are still stn very slowly. some sps are ok, some are just melting away . I'm also using TMP salt. Bought a new bucket couple weeks ago, alk tested at 5. Contacted tmp and they said they were going to send me a new bucket of salt. been a week now, still waiting on that bucket.
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My bucket was a new fomular one, I tested alk was 4.2ppm, at first I thought the salt particles were settled, I handed the rest bucket to my friend and he mixed the whole thing and it also measured 4.2ppm, 2 weeks later, his huge monticap(kept for year) rtn then stn then gone, his lps won't open, he also switched salt.

Loc
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Wow im speechless Hugo You were one of my mentors very sad to see you go. But ill make sure you will be back
 
WOW I never thought I would see the day you left But as G stated earlier its just a break and I hope you get past this and find the love of the hobby you had before this bad year.


thanks for the help over the past few years.
 
Defense said:
Are they using the same Tropic Marine salt? I got into the same this problem lately when I was using Tropic Marine salt. I think they change new formula to prevent sticking salt together.
Btw, sorry to hear you leaving Hugo... Hope you come back!
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So the salt is been the problem cause now I know a lot of people have the same problem and there are using also tropic marine salt wow this is really bad



Wath sup Jose who is your tank doing?
 
jabel said:
Sorry to see you go. But can't wait to see your tank when you come back. I had the same issue for most of last year and I could never figure it out either. Then someone mentioned chloramines in our tap water, so I checked the DPW and sure enought they switched from chlorine over to chloramines last year. A normal RODI system won't remove the chloramines and they don't show up on TDS. So I upgraded my rodi filters and did many, many water changes. Now everything seems to be fine again. If you are getting water from the LADWP then I bet its the chloramines.
Jeff
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So how you check your water? Did you send water sample to a company? Can you explain me more about this
 
Hugo sorry to hear of your problems,if it is any consolation,it seems as if a lot of people are having issues,water or otherwise.I have lost 2 huge Monti caps in the past 2 months and the third is on its way.I have been checking parameters more than I ever did in the past.The problem in this hobby is bad stuff seems to happen very fast and to rectify it takes forever.I have been using D&D salt for quite a while now.I am not sure that we should blame the salt just yet....We all use different salt and the problem appears not to be isolated.As Socal is such a huge market would it not be possible to put some pressure on the salt manufacturers through their distributors like Marine Depot etc to check into this a little deeper,at least so that we can eliminate one possible cause at a time and scientifically get some answers.Just a thought.
 
Hey Hugo, sorry to see you go your tank has definitely been an inspiration throughout the years.
I also hope you figure out what's going on with your tank and maybe that will change your mind, BTW I agree that it may be the water.
 
loc01 said:
mike810 said:
My bucket was a new fomular one, I tested alk was 4.2ppm, at first I thought the salt particles were settled, I handed the rest bucket to my friend and he mixed the whole thing and it also measured 4.2ppm, 2 weeks later, his huge monticap(kept for year) rtn then stn then gone, his lps won't open, he also switched salt.

Loc
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Wow
you know wath they first corals I stard loosing was all my montiporas them sps and some lps
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