Mark's 150 gallon

I wanna see those Triton results! Very interesting changes that seem to correspond to the dosing you did..if I had to guess a missing element it would be potassium or zinc, but not iron or iodine. I'm glad your sample was taken before the remediation efforts so it will show what the cause was(hopefully)
 
Hey Mark,
That is a heck of a nice tester frag buddy! Looks like the corals are coming back, I hope so, you have been through way too much lately. I am looking forward to the triton results as well. As always, take it light and try and enjoy :)
Cheers!
 
mhucasey said:
I wanna see those Triton results! Very interesting changes that seem to correspond to the dosing you did..if I had to guess a missing element it would be potassium or zinc, but not iron or iodine. I'm glad your sample was taken before the remediation efforts so it will show what the cause was(hopefully)
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Hopefully, but I don't hold out a lot of hope.

plyle02 said:
Hey Mark,
That is a heck of a nice tester frag buddy! Looks like the corals are coming back, I hope so, you have been through way too much lately. I am looking forward to the triton results as well. As always, take it light and try and enjoy :)
Cheers!
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Thanks Perry.

I just want this back.
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Acros, Stylos, Caps, Pocis, encrusting montis, digitatas, just about every coral has suffered a loss since November of last year just after a blew that disc in my back.

This picture actually shows the start of the issue. My big purple Duncan colony is closed up, soon to be dead, and I had moved my purple Poci down to the right side due to some unexplained dieback. Poof.
 
PO4 is up to .1 now, increased reactor flow but GFO may already be exhausted?

Cap looks better, but is it because GFO is exhausted.

I need to use exhausted in another sentence. Done.
 
Wow Mark.
That sounds like a nightmare man. Lets hope that tester frag will improve, and your tank problem goes away. Pains us to see a fellow reefee go through this.
 
milsaltnewbie07 said:
Wow Mark.
That sounds like a nightmare man. Lets hope that tester frag will improve, and your tank problem goes away. Pains us to see a fellow reefee go through this.
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It's ok, remember I have my small tank to hold my attention while this one craps out on me. :)

So the tester frag shows no changes after 24 hours, I got that going for me. Unfortunately a new problem has surfaced, looks like someone is chewing on the tips of the valida????

 
I hope your corals get better soon. I would not dose so many chemicals without looking at test results. Why don't you stop using GFO until your corals recover? I do not think stripping nutrients at this juncture helps.
 
reefmutt said:
Let's hope those very nice testers do ok!
I wouldn't worry about the valida...... Yet.. :)
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Yea, could be the Foxface or Coral Beauty, or aliens!

DiscusHeckel said:
I hope your corals get better soon. I would not dose so many chemicals without looking at test results. Why don't you stop using GFO until your corals recover? I do not think stripping nutrients at this juncture helps.
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Thanks Bulent.

I tried not stripping GFO, it rose to near .2 and slimer started to quickly decline. I'm not changing it but also not removing it for now.

Finished a 20 gallon water change this morning, readying for another tomorrow. Red Sea blue bucket, 8.2 KH. Red cap continues to improve, could be any number of things. The green birdsnest is extra fluffy this morning, I see this as a pretty good positive indicator. Teal stag now has 3 growing tips, but base is still troubled.

Now that things appear to be improving I'm not dosing anything else until Triton comes back.
 
markalot said:
Now that things appear to be improving I'm not dosing anything else until Triton comes back.
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This is good news! Even just a little improvement is encouraging, I hope it continues for you. When do you think you'll get your Triton results back?
 
My little 40 gallon is having an immense hair algae outbreak. Frags look good but a little pale so I tested NO3 and PO4

NO3 = 0, crystal clear (salifert)
PO4 .17 (hanna)

Obviously no corals are suffering from the high PO4 but hair algae gone wild. I dosed a little CaNO3, just the second time I've had to add Nitrate to the little tank. Topoff is times Kalk with 45ml vinegar / gallon. Usage is only about a gallon a week, putting Vinegar dosing about 6.5ml daily. With such a low bioload this seems to be enough to deplete nitrates.

This is how I'd like this big tank to work, but it seems I can't get NO3 down without overdosing vinegar and ending up with white snot everywhere.
 
Tester frag has not died yet. :spin3:


Made a new frag rack out of black egg crate, a sleek sport model. I was careful this time to make sure the mag float wording was right side up when I finished. :lmao:
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That test frag is a pretty acro !!!!! Mine is more standard :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

Rack looks great too !!

Best
Danuel
 
nemodan said:
That test frag is a pretty acro !!!!! Mine is more standard :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

Rack looks great too !!

Best
Danuel
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LOL, thanks. The lady at the LFS felt sorry for me when I told her my tank drama and not only saved a big piece of the slimer I gave her but offered the frag for a discount. :D

Tank is looking much much better under blue light now. I suspect most of my problems might have been lack of water changes combined with poor export leading to a buildup of some things and depletion of others. I've got another 30 gallons of saltwater warming up tonight for another change tomorrow.
 
Water changes are good Matt , but just be careful with the Alk levels.

I am saying this because this is something I am feeling disoriented. Let me explain. Around the start of 2015 I assembled my fuge / matrix system and systematically I was doing around 15% WC every weekend. During almost a year I NEVER measured alk in my Reef Crystal freshly prepared water. Since my change to AF and return to RC , with my Alk issues, I started to measured the Alk in the freshly done Reef Crystal water. Guess what..... I realized that is always around 9 dkh. Could it be this box I am using ? (I asked to myself) . But I started to search internet and found that my measurements were correct. RC salt has ~ that Alk levels when disolved, or more. I started to measured the tank before and after the WC and saw an increase in ~ 0.7 dkh in the DT after some hours of the WC. The WC is done in the fuge, and the full mix with old water is slow. The fuge gets the peak, but all the corals and a few SPS I have there are doing great.

Bottom line, before I was not paying attention to that detail and the tank was flourishing. But now that the corals are all stressed I try to be careful with the WC to avoid a new alk peak.

Sorry for the long post. I just wanted to share this that has been jumping in my head these last weeks.

Best
Daniel
 
nemodan said:
Water changes are good Matt , but just be careful with the Alk levels.

I am saying this because this is something I am feeling disoriented. Let me explain. Around the start of 2015 I assembled my fuge / matrix system and systematically I was doing around 15% WC every weekend. During almost a year I NEVER measured alk in my Reef Crystal freshly prepared water. Since my change to AF and return to RC , with my Alk issues, I started to measured the Alk in the freshly done Reef Crystal water. Guess what..... I realized that is always around 9 dkh. Could it be this box I am using ? (I asked to myself) . But I started to search internet and found that my measurements were correct. RC salt has ~ that Alk levels when disolved, or more. I started to measured the tank before and after the WC and saw an increase in ~ 0.7 dkh in the DT after some hours of the WC. The WC is done in the fuge, and the full mix with old water is slow. The fuge gets the peak, but all the corals and a few SPS I have there are doing great.

Bottom line, before I was not paying attention to that detail and the tank was flourishing. But now that the corals are all stressed I try to be careful with the WC to avoid a new alk peak.

Sorry for the long post. I just wanted to share this that has been jumping in my head these last weeks.

Best
Daniel
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Thanks Daniel, good advice. I use Red Sea Blue Bucket because it is suppose to mix to 8KH, however it's been climbing as noted by a few reefers, especially in Australia for some reason.

I did another 20 gallon change this morning using RSBB, 8.5 KH (higher than previous bucket I might add).

Tank is 7.6KH
PO4 .08
NO3 5

Things are now turning around, it's clearly evident in a few pieces. The green birdsnest is super puffy, I forgot how much polyp extension these can have. Good test coral. Red cap has decent polyp extension and is slowly regaining a red base. I'm going to mix up some more water and plan for another 20 gallon change Tuesday.

I do hope the Triton test results don't indicate any contamination.

Happy Easter for those that celebrate. I think my wife is insisting on hiding eggs even though the kids are teenagers now. :)
 
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