Can't stop the losses

[globaldesigns]

Jason, sorry to hear about your troubles...

I don't know what to suggest, as your parameters seem good. How old are your bulbs for lighting?

[Snaz]

Tested for Copper? Reaching here but maybe an errant bolt or other metallic bit is leaching Cu into the system?

[Aquattro]

The first thing that I read here is that you've done a lot to try and stop it. Maybe too much change too quickly?
I suffered the same type of losses a few years back, due to what I believe was vibrio. I treated with an antibiotic and losses did stop. For me though, it was fairly simple to tell, since anytime I scratched my arm working in the tank, I'd get a nasty infection.

[Jason McK]

Thanks all.

Brad, I haven't exerienced anything like vibrio, I had remembered you having that problem and searched your solution a couple of months ago.
I was leaning toward a change in the CA I'm using in my dosing system but can not find anything negative about it online and TomR is using it without any negative results.

But I agree, I think I brewed up the perfect Storm for this crash, Too much too Soon

J

[Doug]

Crap Jason. I was just looking at your totm thread again to see if anything popped up. Nothing though. All those beautiful acros.

First, I thought taking a tank of something like Zeo or the others, had to be done slowly? Could that now be adding to the original problem.

Second, whenever a tank is stunning, Zeo or again, whichever other prodcuts one uses, gets the credit. Could there possibly be something in the regiment that could cause these problems, perhaps if one of the additives was a bad batch or something? I dont know, like the others, just throwing things out.

[Jason McK]

I thought, when I pulled off the Zeovit reactor I would see a noticeable decline in the tank. But nothing accelerated in it's downward trend. So I concluded that the Zeo pull did not effect the tank too harshly.
But that is just the theory

J

[Samw]

You don't use Instant Ocean do you? I believe I had a bad batch of Instant Ocean recently (about 2-3 months ago). My powerhead turned white when mixing it. The newly mixed water stayed cloudy after mixing for a day. My mixing tank had a film of white residue that won't dissolve. I used the water anyways for my water changes. Not surprisingly, I lost a few corals and many declined after that. I stopped using that batch and I bought a new bag of Instant Ocean which mixed fine and my corals have recovered.

[Jason McK]

Nope I'm using reefers Best. But at this point I'm not sure why I'm using such an expensive salts for what is esentially a fish only system

J

[fkshiu]

Perhaps you can try a mini-reboot to the system. Take a few pieces of LR and a couple of coral and put them into a completely separate and brand new 10 gallon system, for example, and see what happens.