Nuebies 75G New Clowns!

Looking really good. All the corals are colorful and healthy looking.

 

Thanks! It's been hard the last few weeks with my knee.
I had a few losses which was a big bummer. Parameters were good so I don't know what went wrong.. I had replaced some GFO and that's what I'm thinking but im not 100%

 

Sounds like a likely suspect.

Looks like you are getting a lot of coralline to the rock work.

 

Yes it's coming in great. Starting to get some on the back glass too. It all bleached when I added my new light but is coming back good now.

It was weird. I changed my GFO. 48 hours later my tang died. Within 12 hours of that my Royal gramma was gasping for air then the clown

So far all the inverts, Randall goby, lawnmower blenny, and cuc are fine. It's been a couple days since all that went down. None of them showed signs of ich so I don't know what to think. Just sad

 

Did you let the gfo reactor dump water into a bucket before you let it cycle water?

 

I hook my diy reactor up to my rodi for a bit and shake it up to get all the dust out before i hook it to my tank. The old gfo wasnt but a few weeks old so I assumed I wouldnt shock the tank

 

Come to think of it I rinsed it before I even put it in the reactor. Im still not 100% sure thats what happened. Just cant think of anything else

 

I reworked my sump a week before that too. I really need to redo my plumbing but it works for now

 

Hmm.. What I normally do is put the gfo in the reactor, take the return line from the reactor out and put it in a 5 gallon bucket and let it run for about 2 gallons just so all the dust is out, same for carbon. Really odd I don't think there is any shock factor as gfo absorbs phosphates. Was this gfo freshly opened for that change? If so maybe a bad batch of gfo?

 

Picked up a couple new clowns yesterday. A Misbar and False Perc. Also added a Torch and hammer coral. Little guys but id rather spent 15 bucks each and watch them grow than 140e..

Hard to get a still shot, they are all over the place