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04-30-2009, 08:45 PM
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This is the first spring that I HAVEN'T lost anything.
And now that I've said that.....well you know the inevitable 
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04-30-2009, 09:02 PM
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I've been having a strange case of losing Zoas. Sps - all fine, LPS - All fine (not true, I had two new chalice frags wither and die, but they were new, so it may just be a coincidence), only Zoas. I have two tanks, and all the death has started on one half of one tank (the other half, all the Zoas are fine)! Strange thing is two Zoa frags have grown like crazy in that area. Moving failing pieces to the other tank has helped with some, but not others. I'm thinking a flow or algae issue.
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04-30-2009, 09:35 PM
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I lost my first acro in about 2 years this month, RTN'd over 2 days. One of the bottlebrush species......ironically the piece the the most hardy of the bunch of this species I have. Everything else looks great...
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04-30-2009, 09:48 PM
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Every year in dec I get an outbreak of cyano, every year I do massive water changes in an attempt to get rid of it and then more massive water changes because my corals are dying. This year I figured because the cyano appeared to arrive in cycles I wouldn't do anything about it and see if it would go away on its own (which it did, in the same time frame as when I was doing water changes yet  )So far no coral losses and tank looks great and I have only done 1 10% water change since christmas
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04-30-2009, 10:19 PM
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I've resorted to the "don't fix if its not broken" mentality. I don't try anything new anymore, don't buy any new meds/salt/additives. I've had my share of sps dying and now i'm just lps guy.
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04-30-2009, 10:44 PM
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I could never understand why people switch salts only to get crappy things that happen to thier tanks, this D&D, RBS, KENTs, RC, I have been using IO for 7 years and still all it good.
I truely feel the ALK is the biggest pest in the reef trade, your ALk goes down fast for some reason and then back up due to some Weird mishap with out you knowing it. May be its inbetween testing or a Water change. but sorts it self out again... when you test lord knows. I get upset when I loose a snail for gods sake
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05-01-2009, 12:35 AM
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A week, or two ago, I lost a new colony, a mille, and half of a much older colony, a deep water pieces that I've had for almost a year.
I was using IO, which I loath with a passion, at the time of the RTN (mille) and STN (deep water). I ended up unplugging both my reactors, Ca and Kalk., and it stopped. I've tracked my parameters for years with an excel spreadsheet and every year around this time I have RTN/STN. The only consistent factor year after year is the water. Always run through RO/DI, however its always occured just after a warm spot.
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05-01-2009, 01:11 AM
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If all this happens in the spring could it be the extra chemicals or maybe they are uping the dosage of chemicals the water company puts in the water? Usually they do this in the spring because of the excess run off in the mountains coming down in the streams and rivers.
Just a thought here.
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