Need help asap

[batt600]

My birds nest is bleaching and my org cap is bleaching as well my xenia is very small but still pulsing my leather toad stoll is not open at all and my yellow polpys are not open as well . All i did was a water change and install a overflow box in my tank I did drop some pennys and quarters in the tank didnt take them out my be thats the problem copper in the system .But my stare polpys is fine and my elagace coral and gonapra are all doing well . All test come up good ph 8.3 am 0 nit 0 nita 0 dkh 11 cal 480 po4 0 all is good what is going on I removed the change that was in the tank and going to do anthore water change.

 

[D1J8Z]

were you making wishes ?

 

[anthony27]

take them out and do a water change, and test the phosphates in the tank

 

[REEF ADDICT]

calcium kinda high there...

 

[batt600]

As soon as I get home ill do the water change and change my carbon

 

[dubs]

you def want to get those penny out if you didn't already

 

[bruma bull]

what size tank and what kinda lights, to strong of a light can do that, and the reading of salinity

 

[batt600]

lighting is 2 250w hqi 15000k and 256w atinic 03 sali is 1.025
I know its not that had the 2 of the sps with that light for 4m .
lighting is 6in from tank.

 

[Dre]

By now you know that some corals are more sensitive than others,Copper in any form in your tank is a no,no.Your calcium is high but mine went over 500 and all my polyps opened up every day ,some leathers were affected by it but opened up when the calcium came down .

 

[batt600]

I usually keep it high in the 500 and all does great even the leathers

 

[Dre]

Water change test, test, test and patience give the tank a chance to bounce back,if all else fails test for copper.

 

[batt600]

Just changed the water will test and test and wait to see what happens thanks.

 

[Dre]

Oh, you might what to have someone else test your water with different test kits.

 

[Master Shake]

calcium at 480 and 500 isn't that high, if you cahnged the bulbs recently that can cause bleaching as well as a spike in temp(up or down). To try to help the bleached corals shade them and lower the temperature to about 75(do it slowly). being sps they are probably not going to make it. feeding corals while bleaching will help largely so they can get their nutrients somehow. for sps use oyster feast from reef nutrition.

 

[batt600]

No i didnt change the bulbs .temp is set to 75 and has a 2 deg swing, untill the chiller kicks on, and i just had feed them the oster feast on tuesday night. should I feed the every day I do it once a week.

 

[CrashGibson]

Once o had a small meltdown like that n my tank n I could not figure out out why. Came down to calibration of my refractometer. My salinity n alk was way to high, hurt my corals n lost my mandarin...boo!


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[batt600]

Ok I did the water change and Its day 2 and things are looking better the birds nest polpys are exstended and getting some color back the same with the orange cap . Everything is coming back slowly , So time will tell.

 

[Dre]

Ok I did the water change and Its day 2 and things are looking better the birds nest polpys are exstended and getting some color back the same with the orange cap . Everything is coming back slowly , So time will tell.

I'm glad to hear that .

 

[Master Shake]

glad that they are looking better and you can feed the reef nutrition every day, just dont go over board with it. i usually just give a small squirt in front of the power head every night a few hours before the lights go out

 

[batt600]

Yeah I give it oyster feast now evey night .like you said before the lights go out. I but in in the sump were the return pump is so it sucks it up to the tank but this stuff kills my skimmer .