fishlette
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ive been having issues for a few days with both my SW tanks. it started with the 4ft tank on saturday. i noticed my jardinii was looking a little wilted and usually this happens when the nitrates start to creep up. so i did as i usually would and did a 25% water change. i tested the water before changing it and stats were:
amm 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 5ppm, ph 8.3, sg 1.024, phosphates 0, calcium 440, copper 0 and ppm KH 179.
usually after a water change, if there has been any issues, everyone starts perking up. sadly this didnt happen. at first at was just my jardinii, one of my soft trees, my gorgonian and my medium sized hammer.
on sunday, no one looked any better so i started looking around for critters that could have died in there and are releasing some toxin into the water. everyone i know of are all accounted for. i still did another 10% water change in an effort to try and rid whatever is in the water if indeed it is anything
yesterday morning no one was looking any better. now most of my corals were half retracted and limp. i went into my bedroom to get the refractometer and everyone in my nano was looking the same. the bubble tip anemone was all curled up and looked like a half chewed mintie and the carpet anemone looks like he is sitting down rather than standing up on his usually long, thick stem. i tested the water in the nano and the stats were the same as the big tank except for nitrates which read 0 as i had only done a water change the day before when i did the 4ft tank.
this morning, every single coral i own from ricordeas and fluffie morphs to jardiniis and gorgonians. i have tested the water in both tanks and they both had the same stats: amm 0, nitrite 0, nitrates 0, ph 8.3, phos 0, copper 0, and ppm KH 179 for the 4ft and 196.9 for the nano.
tank systems - the 4ft runs on a 100L sump returning at 3400lph. a macro aqua as-300p protein skimmer and an 800lph internal power head. nano is 20g and runs on an aqua clear 110 and a home made 400lph skimmer. both run t5 lighting and arent heated as the rooms are climate controlled. both tanks are pretty stable at around 25C. i used to mix my own water but now i use natural sea water.
the only new things that have been added to the tanks are: a couple of trachophyllias (one in each tank) and a blood shrimp in the nano tank. i use daily additions of calcium, trace elements, strontium and iodine. i used chlormon by aquasonic in the nano tank. and finally, i injected an aptasia in the nano the other night and missed him a little and some went into the tank. but that was only the nano tank and after the probs had already started with the big tank. plus, i have different nets and buckets etc for each tank to prevent cross contamination if anything is happening in either tank.
both tanks get a mixture of food: brine shrimp, mysis shrimp, mega angel food, marine dinners, marine green dinners, spectrum marine flake and pellets, spirulina flakes, cyclop-eeze and a little nori.
i am at a loss as to what is happening with my corals. all the fish and shrimps etc are fine. any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
amm 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 5ppm, ph 8.3, sg 1.024, phosphates 0, calcium 440, copper 0 and ppm KH 179.
usually after a water change, if there has been any issues, everyone starts perking up. sadly this didnt happen. at first at was just my jardinii, one of my soft trees, my gorgonian and my medium sized hammer.
on sunday, no one looked any better so i started looking around for critters that could have died in there and are releasing some toxin into the water. everyone i know of are all accounted for. i still did another 10% water change in an effort to try and rid whatever is in the water if indeed it is anything
yesterday morning no one was looking any better. now most of my corals were half retracted and limp. i went into my bedroom to get the refractometer and everyone in my nano was looking the same. the bubble tip anemone was all curled up and looked like a half chewed mintie and the carpet anemone looks like he is sitting down rather than standing up on his usually long, thick stem. i tested the water in the nano and the stats were the same as the big tank except for nitrates which read 0 as i had only done a water change the day before when i did the 4ft tank.
this morning, every single coral i own from ricordeas and fluffie morphs to jardiniis and gorgonians.
i have tested the water in both tanks and they both had the same stats: amm 0, nitrite 0, nitrates 0, ph 8.3, phos 0, copper 0, and ppm KH 179 for the 4ft and 196.9 for the nano.tank systems - the 4ft runs on a 100L sump returning at 3400lph. a macro aqua as-300p protein skimmer and an 800lph internal power head. nano is 20g and runs on an aqua clear 110 and a home made 400lph skimmer. both run t5 lighting and arent heated as the rooms are climate controlled. both tanks are pretty stable at around 25C. i used to mix my own water but now i use natural sea water.
the only new things that have been added to the tanks are: a couple of trachophyllias (one in each tank) and a blood shrimp in the nano tank. i use daily additions of calcium, trace elements, strontium and iodine. i used chlormon by aquasonic in the nano tank. and finally, i injected an aptasia in the nano the other night and missed him a little and some went into the tank. but that was only the nano tank and after the probs had already started with the big tank. plus, i have different nets and buckets etc for each tank to prevent cross contamination if anything is happening in either tank.
both tanks get a mixture of food: brine shrimp, mysis shrimp, mega angel food, marine dinners, marine green dinners, spectrum marine flake and pellets, spirulina flakes, cyclop-eeze and a little nori.
i am at a loss as to what is happening with my corals. all the fish and shrimps etc are fine. any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
so my common sense did prevail 
