crash

I belive my tank is going to completely crash.
woke this morning to one of my frags completely dead. my new aussies arent looking so hot along with a few others. I  have tested and retested everything and im just at a loss.
what a shame.

 

Sorry, I'm not familiar with the details here, whats going on?

 

Change some water, check & make sure your heater or pumps are putting anything in the water, run some carbon

Good Luck & let us know if we can help

 

gonna put some carbon in today. just did a water change on friday.am at my wits end here. I dunno i may end up having to sell it all if this goes south.

 

Is the water chemistry messed up, or is this related to your other post about your new MH lights? What are your water parameters right now?

 

If you need to stick you corals in an established tank while you sort out the details, I wil be around my Rock Island office that there is a little bit of room.

 

i may take you up on that whats your office?

 

bob ive checked and rechecked my water, no amonia nitrates are coming up 0 ph at 8.2 or so. calcium is at 500 no phospahtes and no nitrites. my salinity is ready .025

 

What kind of instrument are you using to measure your salinity?  Also, which brand of salt are you using?

 

Posted By slovan on 03/24/2010 12:49 PM
What kind of instrument are you using to measure your salinity?  Also, which brand of salt are you using?
yes, I have seen the hydrometer float guages off by .07 before

 

I have Tree of Life Chiropractic in the District of RI. I have a 47g that has been up for 4 years with dual 175w MH and plenty of current/flow

 

i get my water premixed from AE and yeah its a floaty gauge. is it normal for zoas to have long stalks? i mean some of em or looking like eye stalks off a crab.

 

I would love to believe that everyone mixes their salt to the right SG. You should verify your SG with someone local just to make sure it is correct. Having calcium at 500ppm seems high for most salts so this leads me to suspect your SG is higher than 1.025 or 1.026; unless you are dosing calcium.

 

I do dose calcium 2 times a week.

 

What is your alkalinity?

 

i dont have a test for that. or mag.

 

mthomp, I'm not familiar with where you live but I would take some water into one of the local fish stores asap to have it tested. If you were close to Des Moines I would be happy to bring some test kits over to help test. My thoughts would either be your salinity is way off especailly since youre using a hydrometer or that one of your test kits might not be any good and your tests aren't accurate. Just try doing another BIG water change today and hopefully that will help them live longer at least.

 

It might be a good idea to take some water into AE and have them do a test on pretty much everything....or, maybe to another club member near you.

 

yeah im going to go to AE today if i can, if not tomorrow for sure. i appreciate everyones feedback, only person i know who lives close to me is joe from AE but i dont feel comfortable bothering people like that.

 

I guess I haven't noticed on your other threads....is it only the corals struggling? ...are the fish/inverts doing ok?