Nano's 18th Go At It...Err

[nanoreefer22]

So a couple of things happened this week...

I fixed my HOB filter to skim the surface of the water, so woooo for no more surface crap.

I got a Tunze 9002 for the tank and got it all hooked up and such. So it's skimming away doing it's thing. Sits nicely in the corner of the tank and once everything grows in you won't even notice it's there.

The clowns are chugging away, definitely gotten a lot better at swimming. THey have to with the vortech and all.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

who cares :lol2: lets see some pics....

 

[Tonyscoots84]

:irked:

 

[noelskii]

^ let's see some water! :tired:


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[Quang]

yeah!

 

[nanoreefer22]

I'll show you some water!

I wish I had something to show for this tank so far but everything is starting to take a turn for the worst (as expected with me)

Some sort of unknown microbial or fungus type stuff is/was growing over my SPS and no dipping or amount of water changes seemed to make a difference or even slow the stuff down. I've sadly had to toss some things, frag some frags and now I hope that I got that stuff out of the system. I won't be sure til I start seeing some good signs again.

Funny thing is it only affected millis, slimers, and stylophora. Everything else seems unaffected and is growing well. Everything is pretty brown now due to repeated dipping When things regain color and the tank is worth showing, I'll post up.

Rough times in nano's world.

 

[Quang]

Sorry to hear that

 

[nanoreefer22]

Thanks Q. I'm going to take a little time, make sure things are back on track hopefully in a month or so if I don't see any signs of this stuff I can start re-stocking the tank.

Fingers crossed

 

[Tonyscoots84]

hey kris sorry to hear about all this. how about a pretty big water change. my guess is that the fungus or whatever it was is still living in the tank. i wonder what you can do to eliminate that bacteria/fungus :scratch:

 

[nanoreefer22]

T,

I've been doing sizable water changes using ESV salt. Every Saturday I do about 2gallons, figure the tank only has 5.5 gallons of water after sand and rock. Since I've been dipping, I've been doing larger water changes, closer to 50% every saturday with a .75 gallon water change midweek. Temp/salinty are matched too.

It was suggested that antibiotics might help, but what would that come in the form of? I was wondering if something like Red Slime remover or somethign that treats cyano would help, since it kills the bacteria.

 

[Quang]

How's the flow in your tank?

 

[nanoreefer22]

Best way to describe it is, "more than awesome"

 

[nanoreefer22]

All this stress is making me want to go BIGGER! Not horribly bigger, but maybe a 16 x 16 x 12high tank. Errrrrr

Thinking of starting over from scratch, with the new tank and then transferring everything over if the fungus stuff doesn't get affect it by then. Hmmm

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Go for it

 

[Quang]

:splitspin

 

[ctxmonitor]

wow, sorry to hear about that.. you have pic of what it look like? the fungus?

 

[NL146]

#19?

 

[nanoreefer22]

Hahaha Tom I'll get you a link to the other thread. Everyones stumped.

I thought about it over night and #19 isn't happening, at least not yet. I'm gonna stick with this since it's small and easy to maintain. Once I get past this problem, i hope for smooth sailing.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Captain kris u sailor you :biggrin:

 

[Quang]

any chance it's something the corals are secreting?