Trying to get a good overview.
2 months or so during some neglect from house buying madness etc, started getting build up of I thought diatom, but maybe some other kind of easily blown away brown algae on sand/rocks. Started losing random zoa's and acan frags and a few other things. But others like nems doing fine/great. Eventually cut back feedings etc. Finally got things tested at Great White and 1.03 phosphate. Over the course of 2-3 weeks I knocked it down to .13 phosphate and 20-30 nitrates (Weekly 25% water changes followed by Phosguard then GFO)
Now a few things seem ****ed from the fast drop coral wise. Anemones not so happy. My fumanchu randomly seemed to go blind and refused to eat for a week until it died. Was usually on selcon krill on stick.
Now last night my dwarf lion was eating. Found him this evening wedged somewhat under some rocks he usually hung out at dead. No sign of trauma or anything obvious. Nothing stuck in throat.
I'm at a loss for what's going on. I've been avoiding disturbing stuff or trying to get rid of all the algae or what I'm worried is actually some other pest growth. (Dont want to scrape and end up just re-releasing ton of phos/nitrate) The sudden chain of fish deaths is odd. Newest additions from a few weeks ago, Rock Wrasse hasnt shown sign of aggression to anything other than maybe Tang and the engineer is far too small.
Pretty sure not a copper issue as all my inverts are fine. So I'm kinda befuddled. Adding some carbon back into a reactor to try and help skim out any possible contaminants.
2 months or so during some neglect from house buying madness etc, started getting build up of I thought diatom, but maybe some other kind of easily blown away brown algae on sand/rocks. Started losing random zoa's and acan frags and a few other things. But others like nems doing fine/great. Eventually cut back feedings etc. Finally got things tested at Great White and 1.03 phosphate. Over the course of 2-3 weeks I knocked it down to .13 phosphate and 20-30 nitrates (Weekly 25% water changes followed by Phosguard then GFO)
Now a few things seem ****ed from the fast drop coral wise. Anemones not so happy. My fumanchu randomly seemed to go blind and refused to eat for a week until it died. Was usually on selcon krill on stick.
Now last night my dwarf lion was eating. Found him this evening wedged somewhat under some rocks he usually hung out at dead. No sign of trauma or anything obvious. Nothing stuck in throat.
I'm at a loss for what's going on. I've been avoiding disturbing stuff or trying to get rid of all the algae or what I'm worried is actually some other pest growth. (Dont want to scrape and end up just re-releasing ton of phos/nitrate) The sudden chain of fish deaths is odd. Newest additions from a few weeks ago, Rock Wrasse hasnt shown sign of aggression to anything other than maybe Tang and the engineer is far too small.
Pretty sure not a copper issue as all my inverts are fine. So I'm kinda befuddled. Adding some carbon back into a reactor to try and help skim out any possible contaminants.