nhoffee Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Hi everyone, I have an issue. I have pink birdsnest, frogspawn, and another coral that is in the process of dieing. All my of my preamiters are fine except my Calcium is at 530ish. All my other corals, Rose Bubble Tip Anem, Green Carpet Anem, Clam, and fish are doing really well non-stressed and eat like pigs. Any ideas or help so that I can prevent it in the future. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islandoftiki Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 What are the other parameters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nhoffee Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 Phosphates .02, Alk 9, Mag 1250, Nitrates 2-3, Salt 1.026 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islandoftiki Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I wonder if dropping the salinity down to 1.025 might help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hewey McLovit Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 How are you testing your salinity? refractometer? If so has it been calibrated lately? What you lighting situation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nhoffee Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 Yes I am testing with a refracto. I had to Calibrate the other day because it was saying I have a Salinity of 1.030 and I knew that couldn't be right so I calibrated it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saltfinsax Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 I would try and get you water tested by someone else with different kits. With your Cal that high I would bet your your Alk might be low as well. I think your Mag is low now. It sucks to find out that one of your test kits are off. But the sooner you know the better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nhoffee Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 But what's strange is that nothing else is effected. Any ideas on that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriz2fer Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 OK so you say there bleached or rtn/stn? Bleached usually mean there starved of nutrients or you suddenly increased your lighting to fast. If the tissue is receding slowly like stn then I would make sire your not having any alk swings. If your corals are rtn fast tissue receding then something might have happened that really stressed you coral out. If the coral receding from the base up? The reson your other things are doing fine is there a lot more hardy then the sps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriz2fer Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 double post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriz2fer Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Double post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefboy Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 is your temp fluctuating or ph? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impur Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Yes I am testing with a refracto. I had to Calibrate the other day because it was saying I have a Salinity of 1.030 and I knew that couldn't be right so I calibrated it. Are you using 35ppt calibration fluid or RO water to calibrate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriz2fer Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 I wouldn't worry too much about that small 4* temp. swing. I've seen many great sps tanks with similiar swings. Mine runs 80-84 in the summer and 78-79 in the winter and I've never noticed any problems or differences, there are far more important thing to worry about. I think a natural temp swing like you have is actually better for sps corals, makes them a bit "tougher'. Here's a good read on the subject-http://www.ronshimek.com/salinity_temperature.html****** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefboy Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 I wouldn't worry too much about that small 4* temp. swing. I've seen many great sps tanks with similiar swings. Mine runs 80-84 in the summer and 78-79 in the winter and I've never noticed any problems or differences' date=' there are far more important thing to worry about. I think a natural temp swing like you have is actually better for sps corals, makes them a bit "tougher'. Here's a good read on the subject-http://www.ronshimek.com/salinity_temperature.html******[/quote'] actually depends on the fluctuation if its gradual yes if its happening quickly no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefboy Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 and im assuming your talking via pm to kriz as I see no post on temp or ph and I also didnt see a Cal level eithier all these could be part of the problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefboy Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 and a piece of info, all corals become tougher in home aquaria or they don't survive some adapt better then others and some don't if your buying cultured corals they more likely to handle these fluctuations as the grew in and have adapted to captive systems but if buying wild they probably wont so the more stable u can keep your system the better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nhoffee Posted January 19, 2012 Author Share Posted January 19, 2012 Well I was talking with my LFS And he suggested that it might be RTN or STN since it was being bleached from the bottom up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nhoffee Posted January 19, 2012 Author Share Posted January 19, 2012 My ph is about 8.32 during the day and drops to 8.1 during the night. I have a refug on order to help stablize that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefboy Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 and whats your Cal level? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimberlee Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 I would try and get you water tested by someone else with different kits. With your Cal that high I would bet your your Alk might be low as well. I think your Mag is low now. It sucks to find out that one of your test kits are off. But the sooner you know the better. +1 on the test maybe being wrong. I went through this recently w/ my tank. It wasn't that my test were bad, I had just stopped using them. Turned out my AKL was 6 and that's why the sps weren't doing well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EFFICIENT REEFER Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 are you running biopellets? i just had this happen to me after 4 months of biopellets. just took off line. after reading other post about them and bleaching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefboy Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 curious what was the cause of bleaching using bio pellets? have a link? or was it kind of the same thing folks delt with dosing vodka? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriz2fer Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 Probably strip the nutrients too fast, stressing out the corals. It's happens even with gfo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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