I am throwing in the towel. (12/10/14)

when it rains it pours sometimes. hopefully all your kinks get worked out and you don't throw that towel in.

 

Stay with us. Don't let it get you down.

 

I'm here for now. I'm too stubborn to give up.

Sure does.

 

I added the UV around 5 pm. We'll see how it does.

I ran my ATO pump in a vinegar cycle all night. See if that fixes things.

 

I edited it. It did not say "not" at first.

 

I would set up a temporary tank. Move all your livestock. Nuke the rock, get new sand and restart your cycle. This is a tough situation.

 

I may have to do so if the UV doesn't do the trick.

Anyone else have thoughts on this?

 

Sounds plausible if the uv doesn't work. Could there be an issue with the salt? I'm just throwing that out there kevin, not that you need to figure out another problem. If saving the livestock means starting from scratch then by all means do it.

 

The difficulty that will be involved with starting over is that my rocks are covered in mushrooms, zoas, montipora and several encrusted SPS.

Although, the salt increase, amoung other issues, seems to be causing 2 or 3 of my SPS to STN.

 

I don't think starting over is needed. What I would do is immediately simplify everything.

Take all reactors offline (I think you did this).

Topoff manually every evening, dose manually, verify all test kits are accurate.

If you are working with sketchy test kits then go to smaller daily water changes and no dosing until you can get some reliable kits.

In my experience cloudy water is usually precipitation related, though I suppose it could be bacterial. I'm limited to 3 years experience with a 40 and now a 150 gallon reef and haven't experienced any of these issues so take my advice for what it's worth.

Did you answer how deep your sandbed is? How fine of grain sand? Could something be blowing around?