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[jfuka78]

Will gfo cause this? Just recently I noticed this on my sunset, the only thing I can think of was I changed out my gfo and doubled my normal amount do to high phosphate, Hanna said.5 two days later bacinto .04. I hope this is not aefw

 

[dviper150]

I have heard of GFO causing burnt tips but I am not familiar with gfo myself.

Have you tried using Lanthanum Chloride for phosphates? I am not familiar with GFO but LC brings down phosphates in a couple of hrs or less. I dose it periodically and works great.

 

[acasp4]

SPS are sensitive to rapid water quality changes so maybe??? Seems unlikely though.

 

[DragonWarriorPo]

I have heard of GFO causing burnt tips but I am not familiar with gfo myself.

Have you tried using Lanthanum Chloride for phosphates? I am not familiar with GFO but LC brings down phosphates in a couple of hrs or less. I dose it periodically and works great.

Where do u get Lanthanum?

 

[dviper150]

Where do u get Lanthanum?

Amazon

 

[ghostman]

The GFO certainly could do that, as could an Alk swing. It does t look like AEFW to me, just burnt tips. I hope it pulls through, it's a beautiful coral!!

 

[reeferlover]

Well can't ever really be 100% certain about things like that. But! Imo its very very likely. If you run gfo at all times you should test biweekly, again Imo because if phosphate start to rise you change it. If u have that high phosphates add gfo and bring down the phosphate levels that quickly you shock you sps big time. I did that same thing. I had higher then I really wanted phos and I added gfo and I lost 3 sps. Basically they lightened up polyps started pulling in less and less and then bam walked in after work and they looked just like urs. And honestly I just toss them when they get rtn. They rarely survive. If the colony is big enough and u can frag far enough away from the sluffing.

 

[fishgeeksrus]

Bleached tips usually indicate high ALK

 

[Tank2379]

Bleached tips usually indicate high ALK

+1 I would check your Alk first before blaming th GFO if you been running the same amount of GFO and have been changing it frequently I don't see this being an issue.

 

[mandarinfanatic]

Bleached tips usually indicate high ALK

at what level would you classify alk as being too high? would cal and mg be low at the time? the reason i am asking is i had kh at 13.5 but cal was 460 and mg 1400 and no problem. View attachment 216049
at 13.5 kh
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[lysy85reef]

from .5 to .04 is to big of a dropp in phosphates sps dont like that i will blame gfo for pulling to much in too short period of time but if it was .05 to .04 thats not gfo its causing this

 

[mandarinfanatic]

wouldnt the gfo pull the kh level down and thus mess the ph up?

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[badazztealcobra]

+1 I would check your Alk first before blaming th GFO if you been running the same amount of GFO and have been changing it frequently I don't see this being an issue.

I would normally agree, except he said he doubled the amount of GFO in his setup. I don't think it would've been the GFO but its not out of the realm of possibility.....

Remember OP, nothing good in the hobby happens fast, I think if all your corals looked great I wouldn't have been so worried about the phosphate levels and might have slowly added to it, but doubling it and sucking it from .5 to .04 might have been too fast a swing.

Double check all the other numbers and post those up as well ???

 

[mandarinfanatic]

ps if you are running carbon continually it will cause your birdsnests to discolour as the trace elements it requires get pulled from water. carbon shouldnt be used all the time and it is part of your seachem seagel.

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[lysy85reef]

carbon pulls toxins out of the water ,corals losing colors means low or no phosphates in water column, in what period of time that happend, im running gfo i where at. 14 right now im at .1 after 3 weeks of running it so im going slowly with that last time i doubled the amount of gfo in my 120 g reef within 2 days almost all of my sps had burned tips and im running carbon all the time

 

[lysy85reef]

and one more thing if your phosphates are in stable .04 you dont wanna pull more out of the water softies , lps dont like lower , try to overfeeding your tank for a week or two and see the diffrence try to ballance your system if you pulling alot nutriens you have to add alot if you not feeding much dot strip the tank from nutriens that corals use

 

[ecupcar]

I have heard of GFO doing just that if you are using too much. I would back it down some.

I have not had this occur, but have always run on the low side of GFO.