290G Peninsula Tank

[Gools]

If you looking to get rid of some of those cuttings let me know!

[mseepman]

What do you need Nigel?

[Gools]

Always looking for frags! What I need though is to pick you brain! Haven't had the greatest luck this year either! We'll have to get together soon!

[mseepman]

That works for me. Not sure my brain has the answers.

For example...I am always always low on ALK...I've been bumping my doser regularly over the last year but still fighting to hit 6 dkh. About 2 weeks ago I changed the head on the doser channel for ALK as the old one had some seepage coming out. Then about a week ago I noticed some strange behavior on a few corals...and it continued to get worse. Had a couple outright die on me. It almost looked like burnt tips and then overall burn on some pieces. Today I retested my ALK twice and I'm at 10.5dkh. Holy Crap!! I had done some recent big water changes and when testing the new Reef Crystals, the ALK was up at 11 but I thought it could only help me since I'm always so low. I didn't think about the fact that the new doser head would function much better and because my doser works on time and speed i was putting a lot more in than before.

Tested my CA which is always high and was down to around 300...so what a mess. Working on some slow corrections now.

[Myka]

Yikes! I hope it works out ok for you.

[mseepman]

So my tank continues to endure strife....Although most seem to center around ALK issues, my Phosphate has climbed to. 06 and after buying another new test kit, I am registering. 25 nitrates. Gonna start biopellets this week. Just working on whether I can find the fittings needed to plumb right into skimmer. Been looking around for a recirculating reactor but will use phosban 150 for the interim.

Taken two ice cream buckets of dead sps in the last two weeks. Crying shame.

[Ginu]

Ouch Mark, I went through the same thing with my sps... total loss for me...

Also cant remember how you run return/overflow, but I suggest not plumbing anything to the return as it will fluctuate overflow box due to many factors which slow down the main pump, mainly gunk buildup...

[Skimmerking]

Looking good Markus

[mseepman]

Thanks, sadly its not really looking good. Sitting at about 80% Sps loss right now...just can't figure out what is wrong. Watching all parameters and they are normal. PO4 is a little high at (.06) Checked equipment for failures....replaced some just for the heck of it. Changed GFO and changed carbon brands just in case. Scrubbed my water change station down completely. Changed Di and prefilter on rodi.
Last resort has been doing 100G water changes every day...trying to change something for the positive.

Fish are happy but dead corals bring algae and cyano. I can't remove them fast enough.

Corals develop large white 'spots' and then return in all directions from each spot with a few days.

[Ginu]

What is your NO3 running at? Also do you dip the sps to see if anything "strange" happens to come off them?