Mini Crash. Help needed.
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unless we ran out I believe we have some. I normally 1 to blame alkalinity swings when coral start dying, especially SPS
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There was a few last time I was in there.
TDS is reading 0 on the output. No algae what so ever. Have not tested for phosphates in a long time but I would expect algae if that were a problem.
Another rid bit. May be unrelated. Had big aptasia problem for several months. Added a Aptasia eating file fish but saw little improvement. I had been doing good rounds of AptasiaX but it would come back in a week. After adding the file I did one more round of AptasiaX and nothing came back. I figured the file was getting the little ones but just not touching the big ones. That was about the time the backslide started but I have not used any aptasiaX in maybe 5 or 6 weeks.
Both clams are looking great.
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Well, you definetely deserver to get paid forward. Keep us posted, Man!!!
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like jeff said always mix your salt before use. i completely forgot about that but at seachems factory they had said thet they will take the begining and ends of a batch of salinity and run it through the mixer again just to make sure that any of the stuff that has settled gets put back into the mix before they do their batch analysis
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I would:
retest mag knowing that it might not be the issue as we have had many a reefer with mag that high for short periods of time (4-6 weeks) getting rid of Bryopsis.
Switch to IO or Rc and do some massive (biggest you can) water changes weekly for a few months.
Change Carbon & GFO weekly.
retest mag knowing that it might not be the issue as we have had many a reefer with mag that high for short periods of time (4-6 weeks) getting rid of Bryopsis.
Switch to IO or Rc and do some massive (biggest you can) water changes weekly for a few months.
Change Carbon & GFO weekly.
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i think it would be a good idea to run gfo even if it is just for a little while because if im not mistaken it also helps pull out silicates and hevay metals as does phosgaurd. not sure if mag would qualify as a 'heavy" metal but its worth looking into
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sorry rich cant help ya there all of my little knowlage on gfo comes from reading bottles long ago. but anyway its my bed time i gotta be up early for work. ill check back in the morning. good luck
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SPS 90% rule need extremely low phates <0.03
don't keep sps if you don't want the hassel or expense.
this is old, but still ok....
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-11/rhf/">http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-11/rhf/</a>
lol, teaching masters:
[IMG]http://www.atlantareefclub.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14768">http://www.atlantareefclub.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14768</a>
don't keep sps if you don't want the hassel or expense.
this is old, but still ok....
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-11/rhf/">http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-11/rhf/</a>
lol, teaching masters:
[IMG]http://www.atlantareefclub.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14768">http://www.atlantareefclub.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14768</a>
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