Something's Gone Awry

Discussion in 'ASAP' started by ReefSparky, Sep 4, 2008.

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  1. ReefSparky

    ReefSparky Super Moderator

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    Maybe a week, gazog.
     
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  3. geekdafied

    geekdafied 3reef Sponsor

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    Wheres a pic of your tank and sump?

    Do you have kids?
     
  4. ReefSparky

    ReefSparky Super Moderator

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    Pics of tank and sump can be found here. Also, here's my build thread.

    No children. No foreign objects in tank. No dying/decaying matter either. :confused:
     
  5. Reefdiver72

    Reefdiver72 Feather Duster

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    all my xenia melted when I added carbon and rwaphos to my filtration system so I dont run anything but lots of live rock and sponge in my sump and dont have many issues anymore
     
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    I meant pics of it now. Something is either being overlooked or needs to be retested for.

    If it was stray current, you wouldnt have any snails living if you have any and you will see the fish twitch when it happens.
     
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    rohaphos can cause dramatic PH drops when you first add it.
     
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    I still think that he got a bad batch of salt mix. Luna
     
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    If he did we'd be hearing about it from other sources. When they mix up batches, its not done by the 5g bucket, its down by the tons. So more then one bucket would be messed, it would be hundreds of buckets.
     
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    coral pro by red sea had a bad batch a while back but it just turned your water dirty looking.
     
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    Pics as of tonight. Here are my corals. Perhaps my purple mushroom is looking better, but nothing else is. My frogspawn hasn't lost any color, but it's withdrawn. The bubble is very withdrawn too. The hammer is my newest coral. All its color is there, but it's very withdrawn. The yellow polyp was always indestructable, and now is stringy and browning. I can see algae beginning to grow on it. The pic of the hammer shows some stringy algae on the left side of the skeleton. The green shroom rock is covered in algae. I've tried to photograph some of the algae on the sand too. The algae has just started in the last 4 or 5 days.

    The phosphate reactor isn't back in place yet. I moved it out of the way today when I cleaned out my sump completely. I cleaned the glass and the bottom surfaces of the 'fuge side, as it was about 1/4" deep in detritus. As I mentioned, I disposed of the old chaeto, which started to become brittle and whitish. I replaced it with new chaeto I purchased today.

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