Hi All...
It's been a while since I was on here. I'll start by saying that my tank was doing very well at 18 months of age. I battled and defeated cyano 3 months ago but sadly the tank took a downhill turn roughly 6 weeks ago.
First, my corals were closing. I changed the light and tested the water.
PH 8.4
Salinity 1.025
Kh cant remeber but it was in the right range I want to say 8
calcium was 300
Amonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 20
I did 20% water changes until the nitrates read below 5. No change in corals, still closed and loosing heads on both frospawns. Fish were fine, no problems
Then I started loosing all my snails. Parameters were same as above except nitrates had climbed back up to 10. I continued water changes to keep nitrates low
Lost all snails but one or two, and all but two pieces of coral at this point, hair algae was present and I'm thinking I might have a small amount of dinos on the sandbed because I found a turbo snail that was alive and well but had fallen off a rock. I uprighted him and put him on the sand bed on top of a small brown patch. He was dead two days later and never moved.
I cleaned as much hair algae as I could then noticed that my pseudochromis may have been stressed but the clowns were fine. I was headed out the door for vacation with no turning back so I decided to dose 10 mL of Melafix per 25 gal of total water volume knowing I would return 2 days later.
When I came home I found the tank at 90 degrees. All fish and coral were dead (very sad about this). I did not turn on the air conditioner and I believe that was the fatal blow. I did not run it last summer while away and I was fine so I thought I would be ok this time.
The only good news is that My coral banded shrimp, sea urchin, emerald crab, and a handfull of hermits survived. I have changed 40% of the water at this point and only tested for amonia and nitrates.
Amonia 0
Nitrates 15
I want to bring this back and save the remaining inhabitants. I'm at a loss on how I should continue. I need help.
One side note, I did switch to red sea coral pro roughly 6 months ago in order to try and beat cyano. Now that I think about it my tank slowly declined after that. Should I go back to reef crystals?
It's been a while since I was on here. I'll start by saying that my tank was doing very well at 18 months of age. I battled and defeated cyano 3 months ago but sadly the tank took a downhill turn roughly 6 weeks ago.
First, my corals were closing. I changed the light and tested the water.
PH 8.4
Salinity 1.025
Kh cant remeber but it was in the right range I want to say 8
calcium was 300
Amonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 20
I did 20% water changes until the nitrates read below 5. No change in corals, still closed and loosing heads on both frospawns. Fish were fine, no problems
Then I started loosing all my snails. Parameters were same as above except nitrates had climbed back up to 10. I continued water changes to keep nitrates low
Lost all snails but one or two, and all but two pieces of coral at this point, hair algae was present and I'm thinking I might have a small amount of dinos on the sandbed because I found a turbo snail that was alive and well but had fallen off a rock. I uprighted him and put him on the sand bed on top of a small brown patch. He was dead two days later and never moved.
I cleaned as much hair algae as I could then noticed that my pseudochromis may have been stressed but the clowns were fine. I was headed out the door for vacation with no turning back so I decided to dose 10 mL of Melafix per 25 gal of total water volume knowing I would return 2 days later.
When I came home I found the tank at 90 degrees. All fish and coral were dead (very sad about this). I did not turn on the air conditioner and I believe that was the fatal blow. I did not run it last summer while away and I was fine so I thought I would be ok this time.
The only good news is that My coral banded shrimp, sea urchin, emerald crab, and a handfull of hermits survived. I have changed 40% of the water at this point and only tested for amonia and nitrates.
Amonia 0
Nitrates 15
I want to bring this back and save the remaining inhabitants. I'm at a loss on how I should continue. I need help.
One side note, I did switch to red sea coral pro roughly 6 months ago in order to try and beat cyano. Now that I think about it my tank slowly declined after that. Should I go back to reef crystals?
