The frustration and coming to an end is the fact that i wanted sps. I have spent alot of money on them and they are all just dying. The softies were fine with the higher nitrates.
The skimmer i did figure out. I have gotten about 1/2 a cup in a couple days. So that is doing its job.The last straw was hte confusa that we got. It was great(Snappy can comment on that one...lol) And slowly it lost all its colour and now it is receding from top down.And thats how they have all gone. But yet the acroporas are all coloured up and pretty
The sand was rinsed and rinsed and rinsed some more. And it is only about 2 inches. Not nearly as deep as the one we used to have.Have tested the ammonia about a week ago and there was nothing.
And Delphinus is right. You just get sick of the water changes and still can' get it to drop. When it seems like everything you do is right and this is what happens. I was going to add the denitrator but from the sounds of it that doesn't work either. As the same with the deep sand bed...
Beats me. Just sucks to watch all the corals die and there seems to be nothing you can do about it.