Juano's 75 Gallons "The Re-Build"

[Juano908]

Sorry to hear. Happened to me in my 29 gallon once. Frustrating how quick it can happen.

Yeah, so sad to see beautiful colonies taking so long to grow and die in only one day..

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[Juano908]

You gave me pink birdsnest, rasta zooanthids, green nepthia, some random blue acro, red branching mili, and purple mili. They are all safe and doing well, lemme know when you get back on the upswing i'll start fragging.

Thanks bud, you are doing a great job with your tank.

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[art13]

Sorry to hear that, it's one of the reasons my kalk is hooked up to a doser though, instead of the top off. I really don't like leaving anything to chance, i dose about 600ml of fully saturated kalk and use 2 part for the difference, if you still want to dose some kalk this might be an option for you.

 

[Juano908]

Sorry to hear that, it's one of the reasons my kalk is hooked up to a doser though, instead of the top off. I really don't like leaving anything to chance, i dose about 600ml of fully saturated kalk and use 2 part for the difference, if you still want to dose some kalk this might be an option for you.

Thanks man, I'd like to use some kalk to help increase my pH, the dosing pump saonds like a good way to do that.

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[Juano908]

Well SPS keeps STNing, I have no idea of what the problem is,....tank has been fishless for 1 month already due to Ich outbreaks....Alk is steady between 7.5 and 7.8 dkh (Hanna) Cal 480 (Red Sea), phos 0(Hanna), Nitrate 0 (API)....skimmer running for about 10 hours daily....no GFO or Carbon running.......I don't know what to do to stop my corals from dying.....

It's my tank water too clean for being fishless?.....should I put the fish back in the tank and deal with the Ich in a different way?

Any input will be appreciated.....

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[art13]

put something in to feed the coral possibly, could be water is too clean and they are starving with no fish in the tank, also, double check your refractometer was calibrated correctly. I've had that salinity issue in the past before.

 

[art13]

also, do yourself a favor, get a second test for alk, i have both hanna and salifert, and make sure my readings are close (they won't be the same), to verify one is reading correctly. Always good to have a backup.

 

[Juano908]

I just calibrated my refractometer and also test alk with Red Sea, not a really big difference.
Thanks for the heads up.

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[art13]

i would take a stab at possibly water too clean then, stop dosing any calcium until that comes down to 440 as well. I would double check that reading as i've seen red sea be off from other test kits, it's the reason i switched to salifert for calcium. don't really need to put back the fish if they need meds, just feed the tank, like you were ghost feeding a new tank, also maybe something like reef roids or some other coral food to put in the tank a couple times a week.

 

[Juano908]

i would take a stab at possibly water too clean then, stop dosing any calcium until that comes down to 440 as well. I would double check that reading as i've seen red sea be off from other test kits, it's the reason i switched to salifert for calcium. don't really need to put back the fish if they need meds, just feed the tank, like you were ghost feeding a new tank, also maybe something like reef roids or some other coral food to put in the tank a couple times a week.

Will do, thanks again.

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[dan_k]

Anything you could be over looking?
Did you add any equipment or change anything at all
Lighting
Pump
Plumbing
Sump
Any metal touching water...hose clamp
Anything that has changed since the sps problem
I can see the po4 being to low but I would look at other things as well

 

[Juano908]

Anything you could be over looking?
Did you add any equipment or change anything at all
Lighting
Pump
Plumbing
Sump
Any metal touching water...hose clamp
Anything that has changed since the sps problem
I can see the po4 being to low but I would look at other things as well

Not really, everything started when I switched from 2 part dosing to kalk.

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[iTzJu]

one of your parameters is off, also get some amino acids of sorts to help feed your corals. I would do some aggressive water changes. where did you get your kalk from?

 

[saltkreep88]

How do you dose the kalk? Ato or doser?

 

[Juano908]

one of your parameters is off, also get some amino acids of sorts to help feed your corals. I would do some aggressive water changes. where did you get your kalk from?

I ordered the ME Amino Polyps Extender couple days ago and did a 50% WC yesterday, I got the Kalk from BRS.

How do you dose the kalk? Ato or doser?

ATO but I stopped using Kalk like 3 weeks ago.

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[Juano908]

Tank is back on track, stopped the kalk and now back to 2 part dosing, finally found my lights sweet spot settings, cut back on the amount of water on water changes and started dosing NO3 and ME Amino Polyps Extender and so far that is bringing it.


I'm so happy cause I was about to pull the trigger and drain it.

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[njtiger24 aquariums]

looks good @Juano908

 

[Mark_C]

Holy cow! Tank looks great. What are you using to keep that sandbed clean?

 

[Juano908]

Holy cow! Tank looks great. What are you using to keep that sandbed clean?

Thanks Mark, sand bed was just cleaned before I took the pic.

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[redfishbluefish]

Looks great Juan!