Just had a rock randomly die

[High Plains Reefer]

I was checking the tank after therapy and noticed a good sized rock that all the blue cloves have died and the bottom of my blue stylo was bone any Idea what could be going on a few months ago I had another rock that all the blue cloves on it would randomly die too but it has not done that for a while everything else in the tank looks great lots of P.e. nems all extended fish eating ect I haven't tested in a while so I guess i should run some tests i do po4 weekley and kh every few days tho

 

[SkyDiv3r17]

Yeah definitely do all your testing.. Show us a pic of what they look like.

 

[zombie]

Was the bottom of the stylo touching the colony of cloves?

You might be an engineer if...You have no life, and you can PROVE it mathematically.

 

[High Plains Reefer]

ok here goes

salinity 1.023
ph 8.0
kh 7.7
ammonia 1.0-2.0
nitrate 0
po4 0
temp 77

the stylo colony was glued to the rock

What it looked like yesterday sort of
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What it looks like now

 

[ReefCheif]

Ammonia seems a bit high! I'd run some carbon, and of course a water change or 3

 

[High Plains Reefer]

sure its high because of the die off pry not the cause tho

 

[High Plains Reefer]

poured some nite out 2 in there gonna do some w/c's

 

[SynDen]

sal a bit on the low side too, dont know if that would cause that kind of die of though, but somewhere to start

 

[High Plains Reefer]

yea I know it is a little low I run 1.024 anyway so its not that bad

 

[zombie]

This is my theory. The stylo was fighting with the cloves if nothing else was affected since they are on the same rock. Local die off of the cloves caused an increased local concentration of ammonia near the other cloves. The high local ammonia level, stress, and a bloom of bacteria/creatures eating the rotting cloves killed off more of the cloves.

You might be an engineer if...You have no life, and you can PROVE it mathematically.

 

[High Plains Reefer]

that most likely didn't happen the area we are dealing with is right in front of a power head so I really doubt there was a lack of flow large enough to kill a rock the size of a football

 

[zombie]

I didnt say lack of flow.

You might be an engineer if...You have no life, and you can PROVE it mathematically.

 

[High Plains Reefer]

Yes but wouldnt you need a lack of flow to cause the levels to hit the point of killing stuff. I checked the ammonia yesterday and it was down to .5 wow niteout 2 works wonders no w/c just added a bottle of niteout yesterday morning I added another today too.

 

[Off The Deep End]

How close are your nem's to the clove polyps? Maybe they are extending out and hitting the cloves... or moving over them?

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