sjfishguy
03/13/2008, 02:11 PM
Starting the end of Jan, I started to notice that my tenius was getting burnt tips. Nothing really changed in my tank, didn't really know why. Then I started to lose color on some other corals, couldn't figure it out. My superman bleached out. Did some water changes with 1.025 salinity water, and things didnt improve. My tank was at 1.025, as it always is. Then I added a new skunk cleaner shrimp and it was dead when I woke up the next day. I wrote it off as another shrimp killing it. Then I was acclimating a new acro and thought I would check my salinity, 1.025. And then I thought to myself, I haven't calibrated my refractometer in a while. So I got the calibration fluid out and WOAH was it off. I was running my tank at 1.021 for who knows how long! So over the course of a few days I raised it back up to 1.025.
The tenius has almost totally healed up, colors are starting to look great again, and things are really looking good again. Its been two weeks since the problem and things look drastically better. Funny thing is I didn't lose a single coral and things still looked pretty colorful, just not as good as they usually did. So for all of you that are having problems with burnt tips and loss of color, etc. maybe its as simple as checking your refractomer. I know I will be calibrating mine monthly from now on just to be safe.
The tenius has almost totally healed up, colors are starting to look great again, and things are really looking good again. Its been two weeks since the problem and things look drastically better. Funny thing is I didn't lose a single coral and things still looked pretty colorful, just not as good as they usually did. So for all of you that are having problems with burnt tips and loss of color, etc. maybe its as simple as checking your refractomer. I know I will be calibrating mine monthly from now on just to be safe.