rocksalt
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Need help gang!
90 Gal reef tank. We have a variety of mushrooms and soft corals. Six fish two shrimp and about 10 snails. Everything was doing great until recently. Now all the mushrooms hardly open up and the soft corals while not as obvious don't look so well. The fish seem ok. No ick or discoloration. Here are the levels:
Phosphates usually about 10 but now are around 6. Everything did great when at 10 although I know that is a bit high.
Nitrates are around 2.5
Nitrites 0
Alkalinity 280
PH 8.4
Salinity 1.023
Temp 80 to 81 consistently.
I use only RO water and have not changed my salt brand. I got behind on my water changes for a month but that was never a problem. The whole system flourished with a 6 week 20% change.
Now all the mushrooms are shriveling up and the soft corals aren't looking so hot either.
What can be wrong? My tank prospered at the aforementioned levels for over a year.
The only real change was I brought up the salinity from 1.020 to 1.023. Still a safe range. I also added another power head for increased flow. Nothing wrong with that.
I have quite a bit of the bad spongy red algae. I forget the name. However in the past I would do a water change and it would dissipate after a week. I don't know if that’s the problems considering I've done two 20% changes in the last four weeks.
Please help! I have hundreds of $$$ in this thing and if it all dies I can’t stand to see my wife cry. Ok, who am I kidding? With all the time and effort I'll be the one boo-hoo-ing.
Thanks!
90 Gal reef tank. We have a variety of mushrooms and soft corals. Six fish two shrimp and about 10 snails. Everything was doing great until recently. Now all the mushrooms hardly open up and the soft corals while not as obvious don't look so well. The fish seem ok. No ick or discoloration. Here are the levels:
Phosphates usually about 10 but now are around 6. Everything did great when at 10 although I know that is a bit high.
Nitrates are around 2.5
Nitrites 0
Alkalinity 280
PH 8.4
Salinity 1.023
Temp 80 to 81 consistently.
I use only RO water and have not changed my salt brand. I got behind on my water changes for a month but that was never a problem. The whole system flourished with a 6 week 20% change.
Now all the mushrooms are shriveling up and the soft corals aren't looking so hot either.
What can be wrong? My tank prospered at the aforementioned levels for over a year.
The only real change was I brought up the salinity from 1.020 to 1.023. Still a safe range. I also added another power head for increased flow. Nothing wrong with that.
I have quite a bit of the bad spongy red algae. I forget the name. However in the past I would do a water change and it would dissipate after a week. I don't know if that’s the problems considering I've done two 20% changes in the last four weeks.
Please help! I have hundreds of $$$ in this thing and if it all dies I can’t stand to see my wife cry. Ok, who am I kidding? With all the time and effort I'll be the one boo-hoo-ing.
Thanks!