Davidhuntz1555
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Hello,
I'm new to this forum and was hoping for some help. I have been keeping coral for 7 years now dealing with mostly softies and lps. I am currently in college and was keeping a 30 gallon IM Lagoon tank which was beautiful, but over the summer I purchased a 210 gallon oceanic aquarium. I set it up in August and in September the nitrogen cycle had completed, so I started slowly adding in livestock.
I eventually moved all the livestock from my 30 gallon into the 210 and everything was growing beautifully. Around the end of September, after purchasing a faulty red sea test kit, I overdosed the tank with calcium, magnesium, and trace elements associated with dosing calcium. The magnesium was the worst affected, raising to about 5000 ppm without realizing it. I went back to college for a week and when I came home almost all my coral was dead. I immediately did a 50% water change and got the all of the levels straight by the beginning of October.
Since then I have not been able to grow any corals, with the few zooanthid and torch corals only slightly open during the day. I have been doing 10% water changes every week since the beginning of October and they dont seem to do anything. I really need some help troubleshooting because im at my witts end
I'm new to this forum and was hoping for some help. I have been keeping coral for 7 years now dealing with mostly softies and lps. I am currently in college and was keeping a 30 gallon IM Lagoon tank which was beautiful, but over the summer I purchased a 210 gallon oceanic aquarium. I set it up in August and in September the nitrogen cycle had completed, so I started slowly adding in livestock.
I eventually moved all the livestock from my 30 gallon into the 210 and everything was growing beautifully. Around the end of September, after purchasing a faulty red sea test kit, I overdosed the tank with calcium, magnesium, and trace elements associated with dosing calcium. The magnesium was the worst affected, raising to about 5000 ppm without realizing it. I went back to college for a week and when I came home almost all my coral was dead. I immediately did a 50% water change and got the all of the levels straight by the beginning of October.
Since then I have not been able to grow any corals, with the few zooanthid and torch corals only slightly open during the day. I have been doing 10% water changes every week since the beginning of October and they dont seem to do anything. I really need some help troubleshooting because im at my witts end
