Went on vacation and of course something has to go wrong. Heat wave and my idiot brother in law turned off the AC to the house.
Tank was hitting 85-90degrees
When I got home, couldn't get tank temps down for another day until AC kick back in and started functioning properly again. Had to use multiple fans to get the temps down.
Lost a head of my bicolor torch and POTO minion goni is hiding.
Colors of some SPS look stressed.
Just trying to stabilize everything and increase NO3 again.
With the amount of evap, salinity started creeping lower and caught it down to 1.023sg so did a quick water change to bring back upto spec 1.025.
Alk at 9
CA at 440
MG at 1380
NO3 went back down to undetectable! I can't get this damn thing up even if I dose 6 drops of ME Coral Potassium Nitrates. This is on a
Salifert NO3 test kit just recently bought. **Stopped dosing NOPOX awhile ago to try to increase this and decided to try to put an even bigger dent turned off the skimmer for now. I may need to remove skimmer until I start seeing detectable levels or get ahold of a
HANNA NO3 checker to see if it really is that low.**
PO4 is at 18PPB or 0.055PPT
Salinity is back to 1.025
Color was showing back up in a lot of the corals but this didn't help and show stress on a few. Hoping to just turn it back around. After the water change and temps got back down, PE started popping back out so hoping it was just a bump in the road!