About 8 months ago my tank was going along great. I had just started introducing sps, everything was growing well and all was good. Then something happened, a series of minor equipment issues, plus overconfidence started leading to problems with my sps. Long story short, my salinity crept up (using two part, and a refractometer miscalibration), my magnesium went too low, and my alkalinity was too low because a dosing pump went bad. I corrected all of these things over about a two week period. Despite that, over the next few weeks I experienced basically what I think of as a slow crash. Despite correcting my water issues and being much more diligent with water changes basically all my sps died over the next 3 months.
Now having lost all my sps (luckily most were little more than frags), a few very small pieces of more fragile lps, I feel very humbled, but have gone from utter frustration and almost quitting this hobby, to new determination not to screw up again. The remaining lps, and softies in the tank look great again, and all my water issues appear to be gone (do not have the newest values memorized, but they are spot on).
Now that the personal history lesson is though, and hopefully a warning to other newer reefers, How will I know if my system is ready to support new sps again? Like I said, all the water issues are resolved, and my tank now seems very stable. Can, I dive back into sps?
Now having lost all my sps (luckily most were little more than frags), a few very small pieces of more fragile lps, I feel very humbled, but have gone from utter frustration and almost quitting this hobby, to new determination not to screw up again. The remaining lps, and softies in the tank look great again, and all my water issues appear to be gone (do not have the newest values memorized, but they are spot on).
Now that the personal history lesson is though, and hopefully a warning to other newer reefers, How will I know if my system is ready to support new sps again? Like I said, all the water issues are resolved, and my tank now seems very stable. Can, I dive back into sps?
