tannerd
02/05/2010, 10:05 PM
What would make an acan, scolymia and wellsophilia release their flesh from its skeleton??
(let me add all within a week of eachother) Also, my large table top acro is dying and my hammer is dead. My two chalice frags are defleshing, my platygyra is dead, my monti cap and my encrusting montipora are dying. My large goniapora conlony is completely dead also.
But all of my mushrooms: Fuzzy, RIcordia, florida, yuma, scarlet red discosomas and big spotted mushrooms are doing great they actually seem to be growing. But that's not all that's doing fine, my torch is good, derosa clams fine, my palys are doing great and reproducing, my zoanthids are growing, I have two small colonies of acros and three frags that are doing fine too.
What we don't understand is how is it effecting so many different types of coral but not all of each species it kills.
Water parameters were perfect, so I wasn't testing as often, it had probably been 3 weeks since i had tested last and below is what it test now.
salinity 1.025 (Refractometer)
temp always 76.5 (Probe)
PH reading from freshly calibrated probe is 8.25 (Neptune Systems)
PH 8.8 (api)
nitrite 0 (api)
ammonia 0 (api)
nitrate 15 this is the first time it has been over 0 (api)
calcium 400 (salifert)
magnesium 1200 this is the first time it has been below 1300 (salifert)
phosphate 0 (api)
DKH 8.8 (salifert)
My tank is 90 gallons with a 40 gallon fuge
i do 25 gallon a week water changes with tropic marin salt
i have already started to dose my mag to get it back up to 1300
and about the ph probe when i first installed it about two weeks ago the probe read 8.7-8.8
i didnt know if it was correct or not so i bought some calibration solution and followed the instructions and calibrated the probe. after calibration it read 7.7 so i started to dose my tank with buffer and now it reads what is shown above. Is there any oppinion about which result to trust more? My API PH test kit which is reading 8.8, or my newly calibrated Neptune systems PH probe which is reading 8.25?
so if you have any ideas or solutions please pass them my way because im tired of watching my beautiful reef die and i cant seem to figure out why.
(let me add all within a week of eachother) Also, my large table top acro is dying and my hammer is dead. My two chalice frags are defleshing, my platygyra is dead, my monti cap and my encrusting montipora are dying. My large goniapora conlony is completely dead also.
But all of my mushrooms: Fuzzy, RIcordia, florida, yuma, scarlet red discosomas and big spotted mushrooms are doing great they actually seem to be growing. But that's not all that's doing fine, my torch is good, derosa clams fine, my palys are doing great and reproducing, my zoanthids are growing, I have two small colonies of acros and three frags that are doing fine too.
What we don't understand is how is it effecting so many different types of coral but not all of each species it kills.
Water parameters were perfect, so I wasn't testing as often, it had probably been 3 weeks since i had tested last and below is what it test now.
salinity 1.025 (Refractometer)
temp always 76.5 (Probe)
PH reading from freshly calibrated probe is 8.25 (Neptune Systems)
PH 8.8 (api)
nitrite 0 (api)
ammonia 0 (api)
nitrate 15 this is the first time it has been over 0 (api)
calcium 400 (salifert)
magnesium 1200 this is the first time it has been below 1300 (salifert)
phosphate 0 (api)
DKH 8.8 (salifert)
My tank is 90 gallons with a 40 gallon fuge
i do 25 gallon a week water changes with tropic marin salt
i have already started to dose my mag to get it back up to 1300
and about the ph probe when i first installed it about two weeks ago the probe read 8.7-8.8
i didnt know if it was correct or not so i bought some calibration solution and followed the instructions and calibrated the probe. after calibration it read 7.7 so i started to dose my tank with buffer and now it reads what is shown above. Is there any oppinion about which result to trust more? My API PH test kit which is reading 8.8, or my newly calibrated Neptune systems PH probe which is reading 8.25?
so if you have any ideas or solutions please pass them my way because im tired of watching my beautiful reef die and i cant seem to figure out why.