So quick back story everything was in a 10 gallon and we were in a trailer until our house was finished. I moved the 10 gallon over everything went smoothly as if nothing happened. Ffm was maybe a weekend after that we bought too much we then setup the 20 gallon and moved everything from the 10 gallon into it. So within two days I added about 10 gallons to top off still nothing happened smooth sailing everything was minty fresh!!! I started tinkering again honestly I did two things at once when I normally only do one at a time observe and then continue if all is well. Wednesday I turned the lights up another 5% and raised the alk 0.4dkh from 8.9 to 9.3 with two doses one am and one pm to split it up and be less drastic. At the same time I tested my ph for giggles and it was 7.7 not good lowest I’ve ever seen it in my tank. I attributed it to our house being spray foam insulated so it’s quite sealed up and being winter the windows are closed. The next two days I didn’t get any alk consumption which was odd but didn’t think much of it maybe adjusting or something. Saturday morning things looked off but I had a wake that day and when I returned things looked even worse. So I went straight to raising the ph maybe the corals are suffocating ran the line outside hooked it all up got it upto 8.15 now happy days. But not for my corals still, nutrients seemed a tad low for my tank so dosed reef roids and fed the fish heavy I dose Red Sea coral ab+ everyday so hopefully they help where they can. Throughout those few days alk stayed at 9.3dkh ca 450 mg 1380-1400ppm nitrates down to 5ppm (most will say fine but low for me my corals seem to like dirty water). Sunday even worse I woke up and it looked like a parasite or infection I dipped in iodine to stop the spread or kill it. It was my wife’s birthday so we had plans to go out first thing of course I dipped things and did a quick test first lol. Again everything in check ph upto 8.15 alk had some consumption down at 9.1 the rest the same low nutrients still so fed reef roids again to dirty it up. Yesterday I had to make some water to top off what I took to dip the corals the previous day. For whatever reason I thought yesterday was the day to recalibrate my hanna salinity checker and low and behold it was off. The salinity before calibration was 1.026 and after 1.024.
Needless to say I’ve had my hands full with everything going on and I forgot to recalibrate. I’m trying to minimize the amount of coral loss but not sure if they can recover. There’s somethings that are wide open and unaffected then there’s others that are completely closed up some melting flesh some showing skeleton but none are completely gone. To be quite honest I’ve spent so much on corals that I feel like I can’t give up when maybe they still have a chance?
Also would low salinity cause this or should I still be looking for something else?
Thanks
Stephen
The last full tank shot I had was 3/5 the day after ffm the other was just now
Needless to say I’ve had my hands full with everything going on and I forgot to recalibrate. I’m trying to minimize the amount of coral loss but not sure if they can recover. There’s somethings that are wide open and unaffected then there’s others that are completely closed up some melting flesh some showing skeleton but none are completely gone. To be quite honest I’ve spent so much on corals that I feel like I can’t give up when maybe they still have a chance?
Also would low salinity cause this or should I still be looking for something else?
Thanks
Stephen
The last full tank shot I had was 3/5 the day after ffm the other was just now