StunnaShadez
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sorry to see this. how about copper?
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12536818#post12536818 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by shred5
I would have someone else test your water with different kits. Very well could be you got a bad test kit or one went bad.
Another thing is I might look at contamination from something maybe even through the air... Try some polyfilters they are about the best thing to remove contaminates esp cooper. They even turn different colors to help you know what it might be.
Dave
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12537923#post12537923 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Serioussnaps
Would be redundant....GFO removes heavy metals itself.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12536818#post12536818 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by shred5
I would have someone else test your water with different kits. Very well could be you got a bad test kit or one went bad.
Another thing is I might look at contamination from something maybe even through the air... Try some polyfilters they are about the best thing to remove contaminates esp cooper. They even turn different colors to help you know what it might be.
Dave
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12537888#post12537888 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Serioussnaps
When using a Granular Ferric/Ferrous Oxide you must monitor alkalinity very closley. Your test at 10 was an instance. I would be willing to bet you caused ALK Swings with it. When you first start using it ALK will plummet and you must adjust appropriately. It levels off over time, but initially you must be vigiliant. This is my belief as to what happened to your corals.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12537979#post12537979 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by CW from the OC
Yes, I had similar, though not as bad, problems in my tank recently. Turned out it was my refractometer, when calibrated with RO/DI and distilled, was reading 1026.4 when the tank was only 1022. The corals will seem ok (but not thriving), then a fluctuation in alk comes along, and pushes them over the edge.
If it were me, I'd do the following:
1. Get the Pinpoint calibration fluid for my refractometer and confirm calibration. It wouldn't hurt to buy a high-end swing arm as a back up, secondary source.
2. Do 3 or 4 15% water changes in a row, spacing them out every other day.
3. Run carbon in the sump
4. Run poly filters in the sump.
5. Test Alk twice a day, morning and evening, and try to get it rock solid and stable.
6. Have patience, wait it out, and prepare yourself for some of those corals dying anyway.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12538382#post12538382 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Whalehead9
had a similiiar problem when a heater that I had finally died. check that and any other equipment that might have failed.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12538382#post12538382 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by seattownreefer
has your temperature been stable?
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12538733#post12538733 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kau_cinta_ku
1. I do use the pinpoint calibration fluid and as I stated my refractometer was off and my tanks sg. is at 1.022 rather than the 1.0264 like I had thought so I am slowly raising that back up using SW for my top off.
2. I did a 15 gal. water change sun. but will do another tonight.
3. I always run carbon in a reactor and change it out monthly.
4. I am getting polyfilters here in a little bit.
5. alk. I test once a week, however I have been testing it alot more lately using 2 diff. salifert kits and a API test kit and my alk. is always between 9-10 DKH.
6. that is the worse part about all this but I guess it does happen.
does all that seem like where I need to be so far?