jml1149
06/17/2016, 09:16 PM
Hello All-
My 29g euphyllia tank is slowly crashing and I'm at a loss. I've seen brown jelly before, but this is different. It's like the corals are dying, and then disintegrating. They don't retract into their skeletons, they just die. I had an initial phase of this and lost 4 colonies of corals I've had for years. I started changing water like a crazy person, 5g every other day in a 33g system, and it seemed to subside.
But now again today another hammer frag is showing the same signs. Picture in next post. Parameters are as follows:
Salinity: 1.024 calibrated refractometer
Alk: 8.05 dKh - Hannah
Ca: 440 - Red Sea
Mag: 1450 - Red Sea
Phos: 0.06 Hannah Phos Checker, but reads the same for RODI water with new filters. Probably a bad unit or bad reagent.
Kessil A160 lights have been used all along. Kalk in topoff.
Any suggestions appreciated greatly, its tough to watch these things die.
My 29g euphyllia tank is slowly crashing and I'm at a loss. I've seen brown jelly before, but this is different. It's like the corals are dying, and then disintegrating. They don't retract into their skeletons, they just die. I had an initial phase of this and lost 4 colonies of corals I've had for years. I started changing water like a crazy person, 5g every other day in a 33g system, and it seemed to subside.
But now again today another hammer frag is showing the same signs. Picture in next post. Parameters are as follows:
Salinity: 1.024 calibrated refractometer
Alk: 8.05 dKh - Hannah
Ca: 440 - Red Sea
Mag: 1450 - Red Sea
Phos: 0.06 Hannah Phos Checker, but reads the same for RODI water with new filters. Probably a bad unit or bad reagent.
Kessil A160 lights have been used all along. Kalk in topoff.
Any suggestions appreciated greatly, its tough to watch these things die.