welp where to start...haven't updated in a long time and a lot has changed.
around april/may my filters on my RO went bad and caused a nitrate spike in my tank cause things to kinda go wrong and this is where it all basically started. Started batttling cyano and i knew it was cause of the nitrate spike.
welp fast forward to august ish... i guess i had a lapse in judgement and decided that since the entire month of july the ac was on causing low PH so i dosed extra alk to keep the ph stable..well i guess i over saturated the water.
my mag was super low, ph super high and calcium super low...things were not looking good in my tank to say the least..ph hovering around 8.6-8.7.....
few sps dead later i cracked down and got my levels stable and now the sps are happier.....
but the tank swings and sub par water conditions had a toll on my powder brown tang who got some sort of ich which he succumbed too. After that it was downhill most of the rest of the fish caught what he had....
fish dead in the past week 1/2
-powder brown tang
-perc
-b/w occy
-swallow tail angel
-starry blenny
-potters angel
im not getting out of the hobby but if the rest of the fish perish than i might consider it for a while till i own my own place....though the odds of me getting out are slim...alteast my coral look better and i didn't loose all of them lol
and the cyano finally went away so 2 wins for me... but a lot of big losses
im gonna wait a month or so untill i think about adding a new fish back to the system....
but i might go wrasse heavy.. 2-3 more leopards and a few fairy wrasses.
i would post pics but, im a shamed of the tank right now and its not how i want it, gotta trim some dead coral too.
How would a bad ro filter cause a No3 spike? Really sorry about your losses EMU~poor lil fishes. Having lost several at a time myself I remained fishless for more then 2 months..I feel your pain
thanks everyone but i suppose the good news is the remaining fish are still healthy and alive, no signs of any declining health in them. Im gonna try my best to wait till the end of the month to get a couple new fish for the tank.
i would have some updated pics but my corals are in recovery mode so im kinda ashamed of that.
only 4 sps were hit hard but sadly they were my biggest pieces. 2 digis, still some healthy flesh so should recover. a green slimer, was able to save a frag but its only a frag compared to the mini colony it was growing into. there are still a few patches of healthy tissue left... so for fun im gonna keep it in my display to see what comes of it. Than a nice growing colony of a stag, lost about half of it, though still have a nice chunk left, i made two frags and cut a lot of the dead tissue away as there was a lot.....here's a pic of what was clipped off.....
lost a little tissue on this one but with the PE im getting now, it should recover in a couple weeks
i plan on putting this birdnest in my tank some where... interesting story behind this one.....
the colony in all its glory
than something happened..started getting really bad RTN
only frag that i saved... put it in my nano
started growing well in my nano so i took it out... and now its a nice lil chunk again....
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