Thanks guys for the support and links. I'm starting to "feel" that is some how bacteria related but I'm not really sure. The skimate has a yellowish "mulm" like quality and the first piece started showing signs of RTN after the bacteria bloom had gone away.
I've got the dosers off, and lights are shortened. I'm changing my filter socks twice a day and skimming really wet. I also added a second bag of carbon to the filter socks to go with w/my carbon & rowa reactors. Hoping it will have a larger percent of water pass over it. I've been making a batch of new salt water for what seems like forever (RO/DI is really moving slow for some reason) but hopefully I'll be able to do a water change tomorrow.
Unfortunately it has also started to appear in the frag tank. I had a couple "healthy" looking pieces (that are still doing fine) that I wanted to move out of the DT because I didn't have any frags of them and I may have contaminated the frag tank with or who knows. Whatever is causing the issue I think is larger then my filter socks pours the water in the sump and frag tank is crystal clear while the water is DT is hazy.
I also find it odd I'm getting no algae growth at all. You would think with all the dead stuff I would be seeing some sort of algae bloom at this point. Specially since I used all the old water, rocks etc.
The way things are spreading it seems to be in waves of related corals. First it was my tables, then it was stags, and now things like red dragon, hawkins, turkai and so on. I'm at a loss in the past I've just sort of rode the storm kept things as stable as possible and things and things would sort of pull back together with minimal amount of fragging and gluing...but this isn't the case this time pieces that I frag or glue just keep on letting go it isn't starting at any specific end of the coral so I had to break down and get more aggressive and have started yanking pieces that are letting go and really trimming them very far back in an effort to avoid polluting the water anymore.
I haven't tested ammonia or nitrite there isn't anything I can do about them until my water change is ready. One thing I do notice is that the water "feels" different. I have a lot of cuts on my hands from the move and it's not an electric shock (I've been zapped plenty of times). The only way I can describe it is "acidic/stingy" more so then I've ever noticed and it stays with you long after washing my hands with fresh water. If I still lived in SD I would just get a ton of scripps water and do 100% water changes but I don't have that option available to me anymore.
Unfortunately I'm running out of time and I am going to have to get a lot more aggressive with what I try to save. One of the main reasons I did the swap was because of a looming surgery I have coming up and I knew I wouldn't have the ability to deal with any complex tank issues for some time afterwords nor would I be able to do the swap for at least 6 months. I didn't think the tank would last that long giving the decrease in the stability of the system. I was hoping the larger water volume would help minimize any of the alkalinity swings I had been dealing with in an effort to avoid this very situation. In hindsight what I think I should have done was just replace the frag tank with the new tank and essentially used the new tank as a larger frag tank/way to increase my water volume until I was ready to migrate thing over, but even then I just don't know the exact trigger so it could have happened either way.
