warning!

[Bblinks]

What size is the tank and what kind of carbon did you use? You said after the water change everything went downhills, now I would hold off on the water change for now and check if any airborne chemical was used near the tank or the water changing station. Also how's the tank temperature?

[darkreef]

Same carbon I used since I started up.

Temp 79.3

Salinity 1.029

So that went up +. 0004 Oops

[eli@fijireefrock.com]

Did you have any un- knowledgeable visitors who love to extra feed the fish or spray clean the area around your tank?
Maybe with Calgary heat within the last week got to your tank..

[darkreef]

I run a apex, so I know it's not temperature shifts
... Maybe it's screwing up my head and leading to errors in my maintenance.

[kien]

What is marine conditioner ? Do you mean tap water dechlorinator or is there actually some product called "marine conditioner" ?

[Ron99]

Salinity is a bit high. When did you last calibrate your refractometer and how? Temperature might be a little high too. But it seems there is something in your water or salt since you say you did a water change and everything reacted negatively instantly. I'd say that's your culprit and carbon alone will likely not do the trick.

[scherzo]

By Marine Conditioner do you mean this?

Do you use this often?

[Slyguy00]

You have been pretty vauge about your water you use and the details of your system. Sounds to me like the water you added wasnt good. Do you use tap water or ro? Salinity is deff to high as well, that would do it.

[kamloops_reefer]

perhaps something else is present, i.e. soap on your hands, grease, copper???

[Samw]

One of the biggest mistakes I made once was that I had a tiny bit of Windex in a kitchen sink where I put down my net. I then used the net in my 5 gallon nano without rinsing the net first. Within hours, the nano crashed and I lost all of the corals in it.