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Update I thought I'd throw an update out there for those of you that care. I have finally been able to get my water parameters under better control. I won't say it is under control yet but things have certainly improved. One of the first things I did what buy a Pinpoint PH meter which I keep...

I got a small BTA about 6 months ago. At first, I set it on top of my LR and within an hour is had moved to the underside into a small cave/hole in the rock. Fearing the lack of light issues, I turned the rock over. The BTA stayed put. From my understanding, they will try to find a place to...

Nitrates were around 40 after all was said and done. I am planning to continue to do smaller pwc's in order to bring that number down. I tested th ph of my tap water and it was around 7.2. Nitrates from the tap water were off the scale and TDS was about 200ppm.

Things are looking up. Today, I did another 20g water change and added my BTAs back to the tank. They have now opened fully and so has my Kenya tree coral. My finger leather and polyps are also looking much better. My cerith snails are back to laying eggs. It seems that the pwc's and time has...

Here is where things are at right now: It would appear that my nitrate issues are coming from my water source. I have municipal tap water but have always run an API DI filter without any issues. Until this happened I never saw nitrates over 5ppm. I suspect that the DI filter gave out yet was...

Well, it appears to be a ph spike. I don't know how it happened as I had mixed the water and tested the crap out of it. Now my PH is at like 8.8. How do I get it down quickly without re-shocking everything? At this point I fear I'm going to lose all my inverts. Fish seem OK. I still have 5g of...

Temp was dead on as well. Frankly, I don't understand it. I hate this hobby sometimes. It's very depressing. Whenever I have problems in my tank, things still seem to do OK. Then I screw with it and try to make it better and it only seems to get worse.

Well, I am probably NEVER going to do another large water change ever again! After preparing 40g of water, in advance, matching PH, salinity, SG I did a large 40g water change last night. I did such a large change after reading so much about it. I woke up this morning and mmy turbo snails and...

I suppose it could be worse. Do they really make a test that goes that high? I can't imagine anything living in water with that much nitrate in it. Was his fish still alive? I am preparing to do a large water change, in line with the method used to quickly reduce nitrates. It is currently my...

I have no mechanical filter media in my tank. I have run a canister in the past but removed it completely since I added my sump. I have about 90 lbs of fiji LR and 3-4 inches of aragonite substrate. Last time I did a large (20g) water change, I had some bad things happen in my tank, so I'm a...

I rechecked the level just now and while it appears to be lower than before, it is still between 40 and 80. That's all the test kit reads. Such a huge range. I suppose I'm doing 5g water changes every day until it comes down to an acceptable level.

I have been trying to combat a serious rise in Nitrates over the past two days. I have only one thought of what may have caused it, but need some advice. Two days ago I started seeing elevated Nitrates, maybe 10-15. Yesterday that number had climbed to 20 so I did a 10g water change. I currently...

I had a bad feeling that someone might tell me that after I posted those pictures. I have to admit that up until now I have not had any experience with these types of parasites. I see so much how tangs are prone to ich, so I guess I immediately thought that is what it must be. In the event it is...

Sadly, my tang died last night. I guess it was something that I knew was inevitable. It was just a matter of how long it would take. I had her for two weeks before she finally died. I'm just sorry the poor thing suffered so bad. What really bothers me about this whole ordeal is that when a...