Whoa holy cloudy water batman

[Pan]

Originally Posted by TheReefGeek

Where do you live? Lets try to keep these animals alive. Maybe a fellow reefer from your city (wherever that is!) can lend you some salt, and/or keep your animals alive for you in their sump/fuge.

I would have expected your Ph to be out of whack if it was precipitated calcium.

Anyone else have any ideas?

I live in edmonton...about 8 blocks from the university....so far the crabs
Electric blue and emerald seem okay....my urchin is doing it's urchin thing...the clowns are gasping like mad....

if anyone could help me out that would be great....umm...i don't have any buckets or anything to trasnfer livestock though...


i just did another alk and ph test alk is way high....ph is way low.....below 7.4 i would guess from the test
i have buffers but i've never needed to use them....only occasionally iodine and occasionally purple up....
so is this a precip..whater storm? water smells wierd...i can't place it. what do i do now?
i've done three alk and ph tests one showed okay...then the other two didn't....bloody hell..er heck....anyone want to come over and see a tank slowly dying and figure out what to do?

[TheReefGeek]

When this happened, was it the first use of this batch of salt? Or had you used it before without problems?

If you want to come pickup some stuff to help you out (5g tank, powerhead, heater, 5g pail of RODI water, and salt)

I will be home around 6:15pm tonight, leaving again at 8:30pm.

You could also call the LFS you got most of your stuff from, and see if they will take any of it for you.

I would say the tests saying your alk and Ph are off are correct! Sounds like a salt problem if you are not buffering with anything, what brand of salt are you using? There is a post here about bad Kent salt here, I haven't read it, but check it out.

[Pan]

Originally Posted by TheReefGeek

When this happened, was it the first use of this batch of salt? Or had you used it before without problems?

If you want to come pickup some stuff to help you out (5g tank, powerhead, heater, 5g pail of RODI water, and salt)

I will be home around 6:15pm tonight, leaving again at 8:30pm.

You could also call the LFS you got most of your stuff from, and see if they will take any of it for you.

It is hard to say without seeing the tank, any chance of some pics?

no it wasn't the first batch of salt used...it was the second time i used it....
i would love to come over and borow those items if it would be okay....hopefully i can salvage somethings....should i put everything in there?
any chance you could come over...i hate to ask but maybe seeing the tank first hand might give you some clues...
yep i'll snap a few pics right away..,..

[TheReefGeek]

You said you dont have a bucket, but you have to have something that would work to transfer your animals.

Large bowls, sandwich bags?

I could fit your stuff in my fuge until you can afford to buy new salt and correct this problem.

You could also try your alk and Ph tests a few more times, try to average the results, and then use the buffers you said you have.

[TheReefGeek]

You seem to like editing your posts right after I read them!

I can't make it over tonight unfortunately. But you can come between 6:15 and 8:30 for those items, no problem.

Take a few more alk and Ph tests and add the buffers accordingly, and your stuff might pull through, but do it quickly.

[Pan]

Originally Posted by TheReefGeek

You seem to like editing your posts right after I read them!

I can't make it over tonight unfortunately. But you can come between 6:15 and 8:30 for those items, no problem.

Take a few more alk and Ph tests and add the buffers accordingly, and your stuff might pull through, but do it quickly.

can you pm me instructions how to get to you?

[Pan]

here are some pictures...
i hope that worked

[TheReefGeek]

I would use the buffers ASAP.

PM sent with directions.

[Pan]

Originally Posted by TheReefGeek

I would use the buffers ASAP.

PM sent with directions.

what did the pictures look like to you?

[TheReefGeek]

Tough to tell what the water looked like, but your coral is definately dieing off quickly, which would be consistant with a rapid change in Ph and/or alkalinity.