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dasstheboss

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  1. Hello, Does anyone here have recommendations on apartments that allow medium to large aquariums? (120-180 gallons). My current residence limits to 20 gallons and it's not enough water for me! I work in downtown Indy so looking for somewhere around there. - Das
  2. Got the test kits today and found the reason: my alkalinity was TOO HIGH. It was off the range of the Hanna meter (above 300ppm). My phoshate was 115ppb which is very good. I'm going to do a full water change and be careful dosing from now onwards.
  3. Just did large water changes today - 2x 5G changes. Will do daily water changes until I get things back to normal. At this point, I just want my softies alive. They're whole colonies as opposed to SPS frags.
  4. No, the only thing I added was Chemi-Pure elite which made things worse when I took it out. My algae is starting to break apart and clog my plumbing even. They're brittle and starting to look bleached out. By algae I mean caulerpa and red titan algae. Anyone know the cause of this? A few more days and I think my corals are goners. SPS are bleaching one colony per day and softies are all shriveled.
  5. It's narrowed down to Alk or PO4. If it's PO4, I have no idea what the source would be. There must have been a massive leeching somewhere.
  6. Thanks Luke. I added baking soda yesterday and this morning when I left for work, the Actinics were one and one lone GSP polyp was out. Weird thing is my birdsnest and other acros seem happy - unbleached but no PE.
  7. Yes it was added recently. I got it with the hopes it might fix the problem but it got worse. The weird part is there are some acros still alive but softies are shriveled up. Even the xenia is doing poorly. Actually, it's chemi pure elite, not phosban. I took it out to see if that fixes it tomorrow.
  8. Actually, I just ordered the Hanna checker for Alk and PO4. Hopefully one of them is the culprit - I'll know by Friday. I've already lost about $200 worth of corals, don't want to lose the softies also. My ph, salinity, and temp have been stable for a long time. Mag at 1300 as well. The calcium and alkalinity must be culprit, or po4. If calcium gets too high, it should just precipitate out so no issues there. So really just po4 or alkalinity. For there to be that much po4 added in such a short period to cause my tank to crash, it must be something in the water or something big source.
  9. Chances are it's alkalinity but my test kit today didn't work correctly. I'll have to check it again when possible. I'm going to add some baking soda tonight to try and fix it. Also, I don't have a phosphate checker but will get one tomorrow. If it was a phosphate issue, what could be the source? I haven't changed anything. I use both a refractometer and apex to monitor salinity.
  10. The tank is on auto top off. I have the Apex system so all the params are stable: 36 76 and 8.22 The lighting is reef breeders led system and filtration is an aquamaxx skimmer. I run phosban and now even my softies are acting up. All the corals are shriveled up and no polyp extension. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk
  11. Hello All, My tank was fine the first few months it was set-up but recently I've been getting RTN on my acroporas and some of the softies in the other tank won't expand completely. I doubt it's something within the system since nothing has been added and no fish are missing. Are any of you dealing with WQ issues from the storm? My RO/DI unit should take it out but my tank is doing worse since changing water it seems. I'm dumbfounded as to what can be causing it. I don't have test kits for Nitrogen or Phosphate and won't be able to get them until the weekend.
  12. Heya I should be there. Might have a +1 Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk
  13. Yeah thanks - hopefully SPS garden on one side and a lagoon reef on the other!
  14. Got live rock today and some corals/fish: Royal Gramma Yellow Watchman Goby Large Colt leather Pom Pom Xenia Here are the updated pics, along with the plumbing modification I spoke of:
  15. Some new pictures with both tanks plumbed in. I might come up with a safer solution than having tubing going behind my sofa.
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