My 29g Reef - former AP24.

[Nebthet]

Well, I have some good news and bad new for today.

Yestarday I received my package from J&L Aquatics in Canada. It had my chemi-pure, purpleup, tap water conditioner for my freshwater tank and the Koralia 1 I had ordered.

I put the Koralia into the tank, after rinsing it off of course and wow, the power out of that. My hammer coral was like what the heck?? but got used to it. Unfortunately, the xenia hasnt seemed to like the flow from the koralia either. It was looking real nasty today and has stuff coming off of it like string pieces and small little particles like it was melting apart.

Moving it to a lower flow area didnt seem to help so I have taken it out of my tank right now and put it in a plastic bag with half old water and half new water and switching out a bit. I am letting it float in the back area where it can still get some light but won't impede the flow from the rest of the tank. I also did a little over a 10% water change in the tank itsself just incase it was releasing bad stuff.

Does anyone have any ideas what would cause this? Just a picky coral that didnt like the upgraded flow? or could it be something else.

My parameters both before and after the water change were fine.

Before:
PH: 8.3
Salinity: 1.022
Alkalinity: 4 meq/L
Ammonia: free = 0, total = 0.00 (after the 30min wait)
Nitate: 0.5
Nitrite: 0

After:
PH: 8.3
Salinity: 1.0225
Alkalinity: 4.5 meq/L (9dkh)
Ammonia: free = 0, total = 0.00 (after the 30min wait)
Nitate: 0.2
Nitrite: 0